Well, it is bad but it doesn't come a shock to me.
But we have to look at the bigger picture here because this isn't a law you impose just because you feel like it.
The media corporations have money and lots of it and I'm sure they invest quite a bit in networking, making sure current administrations work for you.
What these companies don't (want to) realise is that the world is engulfed in an digital (and others but that is a different story) revolution. Companies that don't keep up with current trends usually don't last long and we will arrive at a point that their money will run out and then it will die out, slowly and painfully.
They have to move with the changes and what the perfect answer is.. I don't know. But now that they still have money and power they have to make their move and they have to do it quickly.
Personally I have absolutely no intention at all to ever pay for a record company again they are an insult to artists around the world.
They often move music/mixing equipment in special cases those can take a beating. This will require some relatively simple modding to be done such as add openings for fans and such. You might still need two people to carry it but should fit into a truck easily or what not.
Not to mention that you can just put a lock on it as well to avoid unauthorized access to the hardware.
Little googling and the first page gave me the cases I was talking about: http://www.skbcases.com/
Just wondering are there any alternatives for last.fm one where it doesn't matter where your from to listen to the radio?
and @damburger,
Bittorrent is not even close to an alternative if I want to download music I don't go to last.fm but if I want to keep track of what I listen and find new bands similar to the ones I listen to then I use last.fm and that is not something BT can provide.
Then they would be broke within a very short time unless its for a very small group of people even streaming one single game will take a huge amount of bandwidth.
The difference is huge,
actually WoW could be played with this service the difference would be you can basically have an pc that is below the minimum requirements of the game and still play it on high end settings and a high resolution without any issues.
That is the whole idea behind this, basically the game is run on a very high end pc then only the video is streamed to you so you move all the cpu, gpu, memory etc requirements to only bandwidth requirement.
Of course this concept will have many issues to overcome one and most important one is to be able to ALWAYS be able to provide enough low latency bandwidth to you in order to keep the game lag free.
What this guy did I've done many times. Sure I didn't steal anything but using this tactic to get the advantage over others is dead easy.
for example... long line in front of a store selling the new Wii "sorry, passing trough - sorry i work here." and 5 minutes later I walked out with my wii while others spend hours waiting.
It just takes a certain aura really when people see you walk by they have to think "he belongs here" you'd be surprised how easily I can cut a line in a attraction park wearing a old repair company jacket I got for a spare time job. Why wait a hour or more if you can just walk past everyone...
I'm pretty sure I could walk in most large companies take almost anything I want and walk out without anyone questioning it. As mentioned above just stick a big sticker "RMA" or "repair" on a 30" monitor and walk outlike you're just doing your job.
I wonder if this falls under social engineering.. I mean you're basically (ab)using the people around you to believe you're someone else.
Of course if you want to be 100% sure a format would work. DO NOT RUN A LOW LEVEL FORMAT! I seen it recommended it's just wrong... Low-level Formatting creates the Tracks and Sectors on a blank hard drive. The drives you buy today are Low-level Formatted at the factory. Low-level Formatting these hard drives yourself is not recommended.
But not everyone can or wants to go trough the trouble of formatting so what can we do next?
My standard way to get spyware of a box:
run crapcleaner this will remove a lot of useless files just make sure you only select the sections you want deleted. Don't use the reg clean unless you know what you're doing.
Next up would be the running the standard anti virus programs I personally use hitmanpro the site is dutch but the program is English it includes most trusted anti-spyware products and runs them all in a row and automatically removes anything and makes up a html page of what it did.
Still not gone?
- If you know the name of the spyware it might be worth googling chances are you find a special removal tool.
- In my case I can spot bad programma's and spyware as a process with the use of HijackThis and sysinternals process explorer. But be sure to google all the processes you don't trust before deleting them. This way of deleting is not recommended for your average computer user (then again you post on slashdot so your probably fine..)
- Some times it's required to boot in to safemode to remove some files
Ok now that you're cleaned you don't want this sort of thing to happen again there are a few common practices:
- Don't be YES man don't just click YES and NEXT on every box that pops-up also instruct any family members to do the same.
- Run as a normal user instead of administrator
- Make sure windows is up to date
- Some browsers such as firefox make it easier to avoid spyware though this requires some plugins. recommended are adblock + gblocklist
"as part of an enhanced pact where Google will move beyond text-based advertising to allow AOL to sell graphical ads to Google's fast-growing ad network."
There they just made the biggest mistake they could have made...
Currently the only advertisement I don't block is from google because they are simple text adds they are also the only advertisements I've ever clicked out of interest on something they offered.
If they are going to add annoying graphical banner adds they will go where the rest of the annoying graphical adds go.. exactly the block list.
I really hope they reconsider this am sure they will lose A lot of revenue if they implant this.
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Well, it is bad but it doesn't come a shock to me. But we have to look at the bigger picture here because this isn't a law you impose just because you feel like it. The media corporations have money and lots of it and I'm sure they invest quite a bit in networking, making sure current administrations work for you. What these companies don't (want to) realise is that the world is engulfed in an digital (and others but that is a different story) revolution. Companies that don't keep up with current trends usually don't last long and we will arrive at a point that their money will run out and then it will die out, slowly and painfully. They have to move with the changes and what the perfect answer is.. I don't know. But now that they still have money and power they have to make their move and they have to do it quickly. Personally I have absolutely no intention at all to ever pay for a record company again they are an insult to artists around the world.
It's not going the wrong way... It's doing exactly what it should be doing in exactly the right way we just haven't found a logic reason for it.
They often move music/mixing equipment in special cases those can take a beating. This will require some relatively simple modding to be done such as add openings for fans and such. You might still need two people to carry it but should fit into a truck easily or what not. Not to mention that you can just put a lock on it as well to avoid unauthorized access to the hardware. Little googling and the first page gave me the cases I was talking about: http://www.skbcases.com/
Time to make some real lunar haze :o
Just wondering are there any alternatives for last.fm one where it doesn't matter where your from to listen to the radio? and @damburger, Bittorrent is not even close to an alternative if I want to download music I don't go to last.fm but if I want to keep track of what I listen and find new bands similar to the ones I listen to then I use last.fm and that is not something BT can provide.
Then they would be broke within a very short time unless its for a very small group of people even streaming one single game will take a huge amount of bandwidth.
The difference is huge, actually WoW could be played with this service the difference would be you can basically have an pc that is below the minimum requirements of the game and still play it on high end settings and a high resolution without any issues. That is the whole idea behind this, basically the game is run on a very high end pc then only the video is streamed to you so you move all the cpu, gpu, memory etc requirements to only bandwidth requirement. Of course this concept will have many issues to overcome one and most important one is to be able to ALWAYS be able to provide enough low latency bandwidth to you in order to keep the game lag free.
What this guy did I've done many times. Sure I didn't steal anything but using this tactic to get the advantage over others is dead easy. for example... long line in front of a store selling the new Wii "sorry, passing trough - sorry i work here." and 5 minutes later I walked out with my wii while others spend hours waiting. It just takes a certain aura really when people see you walk by they have to think "he belongs here" you'd be surprised how easily I can cut a line in a attraction park wearing a old repair company jacket I got for a spare time job. Why wait a hour or more if you can just walk past everyone... I'm pretty sure I could walk in most large companies take almost anything I want and walk out without anyone questioning it. As mentioned above just stick a big sticker "RMA" or "repair" on a 30" monitor and walk outlike you're just doing your job. I wonder if this falls under social engineering.. I mean you're basically (ab)using the people around you to believe you're someone else.
Of course if you want to be 100% sure a format would work. DO NOT RUN A LOW LEVEL FORMAT! I seen it recommended it's just wrong... Low-level Formatting creates the Tracks and Sectors on a blank hard drive. The drives you buy today are Low-level Formatted at the factory. Low-level Formatting these hard drives yourself is not recommended.
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But not everyone can or wants to go trough the trouble of formatting so what can we do next?
My standard way to get spyware of a box:
run crapcleaner this will remove a lot of useless files just make sure you only select the sections you want deleted. Don't use the reg clean unless you know what you're doing.
Next up would be the running the standard anti virus programs I personally use hitmanpro the site is dutch but the program is English it includes most trusted anti-spyware products and runs them all in a row and automatically removes anything and makes up a html page of what it did.
Still not gone?
- If you know the name of the spyware it might be worth googling chances are you find a special removal tool.
- In my case I can spot bad programma's and spyware as a process with the use of HijackThis and sysinternals process explorer. But be sure to google all the processes you don't trust before deleting them. This way of deleting is not recommended for your average computer user (then again you post on slashdot so your probably fine..)
- Some times it's required to boot in to safemode to remove some files
Ok now that you're cleaned you don't want this sort of thing to happen again there are a few common practices:
- Don't be YES man don't just click YES and NEXT on every box that pops-up also instruct any family members to do the same.
- Run as a normal user instead of administrator
- Make sure windows is up to date
- Some browsers such as firefox make it easier to avoid spyware though this requires some plugins. recommended are adblock + gblocklist
Useful links:
google: http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
crapcleaner: http://ccleaner.com/
hitmanPro: http://hitmanpro.nl/
HijackThis: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/
Process explorer: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExpl
Firefox browser: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
gblock list for adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
hope it helps...
"as part of an enhanced pact where Google will move beyond text-based advertising to allow AOL to sell graphical ads to Google's fast-growing ad network." There they just made the biggest mistake they could have made... Currently the only advertisement I don't block is from google because they are simple text adds they are also the only advertisements I've ever clicked out of interest on something they offered. If they are going to add annoying graphical banner adds they will go where the rest of the annoying graphical adds go.. exactly the block list. I really hope they reconsider this am sure they will lose A lot of revenue if they implant this.
I really do hope the security of vista will be better then the internal security at M$...