Here is an idea for Canada tax any DVD player capable of playing a burned DVD/CD or the DivX, XviD, MP3 and WMA formats. What percentage of that is not piracy related. Lets tax DVD/CD burners, not just the media. Lets tax hard drives over some arbitrary size while we are at it. All this piracy would really be reduced a ton without the internet, lets put a piracy tax on that. Then tax the ISPs and backbone providers, router makers, ethernet cables, etc..
At one time the FTP protocol was used a lot for piracy, today it is not as common. People download virtually all their torrents, cracks and smaller things through HTTP. Newsgroups are just a vast piracy playground.. tax that? Are you already taxing blank cassette tapes & DAT tapes?
Lets tax any backbone provider that gives access to Sweden, Russia, China, etc and a few other countries. Lets make ISPs block access to known torrent sites, torrent programs, etc. Tax World of Warcraft for using P2P, not really..
It is all arbitrary and quite lame. Tax an iPod which runs the #3 (i believe and climbing) music seller in the world, something to that effect. I am no iPod fan, i wouldn't own one personally and I dont live in Canada, makes it easier to not understand the logic, besides money. Its all about the money!
I prefer my ISP not block anything period. I dont want my ISP determining what ports, what services, websites, etc that I can use. ISPs to me should simply provide me with internet that is all. If they are providing e-mail they can have whatever spam/anti-virus/etc stuff they want on it, since im not using it anyways. I'm not installing their 'software' if they have any. etc. All i want is a ethernet plug that through whatever magical means gets the 'internet to me'. I will take care of the rest.. but i know i am not their 'mainstream' customer.
Blocking port 53 and 80 is a temp measure which will just make them use another port, the next ports they use you wont be able to block. Just off the top of my head I would use a port between 1024 and 5000. I believe that is still the default random ports windows uses, you cant block those ports without stopping a ton of every day internet programs from working. im sure there is other ports, either way, solves nothing and the next versions will be using ports you can not block.
Botnets will just evolve. The ISP blocking things isn't the answer, very often. I would say anti-virus software, firewalls, and really eduction would be a much better mix to cut down on this. ISPs can help stop a major worm or something from spreading here and there depending on the circumstances, but usually they are too late in trying to stop that sort of thing.
Also ISPs can just cut peoples internet off till they fix their PC if it is causing that much of a problem, which they do, but usually only in the case of spam. Road Runner cut off a customer I know after about 6 months of having a 'spam bot' of some sort on his pc. I told the guy about it a few months ago, but his PC still worked so he didn't care till his internet was cut off, still took them long enough, they had reports of his IP several times going back at least 5 months.
Does it still count when i write VOID instead of my name? Or something more legal to that effect? done that a few times.. but i've never disputed a charge claiming it wasn't me, maybe disputed 2 charges in my life..
I worked a little for a P.I. as a computer consultant, I was pretty impressed at the time how much information you can pull up through their databases. The more info you have about a person the better, but with just a first, last name and birthday is usually more than enough to get all their info from a PI database.. I ran the most basic search once on a person i could, ended up with their SSN, last 5 addresses, current vehicles, the fact they had some medical license, all phone numbers, etc all in 3 pages printed out.. I know people here might not think much of that, but too many of every day people dont think twice about giving out their birthday or sending in some of the crap they do to companies who just sell the info.
The PI was running a large check on a person, it was well over 30 pages and they started mapping his immediate family and things of that nature..
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The WTO seems to be the main reason countries bother stopping piracy, when they are extorted enough to do it. But China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc is still on their members list. I dont even know what the WTO does, I dont care, I just wish they would cease to exist.
I expect to see at least in the Senate/House elections a repeat of the '06 elections, justified or not many republicans will loose simply because of the (R) beside their name for the same reason plus the new stuff. I'm not talking president, just house/senate. Might happen there too, but we all saw what happened in '06, i wouldn't expect '08 to be that much different, main factor might be they are no longer voting against Bush, since he will be out of office when the new house/senate takes office, im sure that wont matter to some people though.
I think i am with the majority of of the US in the view that i want the republicans out, mainly Bush, even though I dont trust any of them to do a very good job. I just think the democrats will screw it up less. Almost anyone will be better than the 'retarded ape' we call president now. Putting everything aside, I am embarrassed to have him speak for our country, you never know what is going to come out his mouth next. No offense to any apes reading this.
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." - "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." - etc.. etc.. etc.. etc..
I have 3 cards, only one is signed on the back. Merchants never check or seem to care. I often sign "best buy sucks" or "wal-mart sucks" and it doesnt seem to matter, even when they can see it on their screen.. Or just draw a smiley face or whatever on that touch/pen pad thing... seems a bit pointless and for a few years now signing that way has never ever caused me any problems.
The US medical system is great if you can pay for it. I really do not know much about Cuba besides what i would consider a 'one sided view' presented in SiCKO. But I have been to many EU countries and Canada. Medication sure is cheaper, on top of general universal health care. Downside from what I have seen is waiting lists depending on the country. In New Zealand I knew someone on a waiting list for a few years to get their tonsils removed, but if it would have ever became a serious issue they would have done it right then and just like in the US they could have just paid to have it done then. From what I saw New Zealand was struggling a bit economically. Canada seemed better, as well did Britain, I have never been to France, Germany, or the other EU countries.
The Medicare Part D plan here in the US seemed not help, possibly made things worse. My grandmother has to spend $500 to $1000 a month on medication, that is quite hard on most people of her age. One of my dads good friends went bankrupt paying his late wifes medical bills, then later committed suicide. Talk about 'if you can afford it' if you ever get diagnosed with something expensive enough to ruin most people.
Google seems to slowly get more creepy and evil. They are no there yet, but I personally do not like Yahoo/Google/etc catering to the Chinese government, screwing with search results, etc.
Maybe one day China, Russia, India, etc will have one of these too... We get in a war and start using them.. I'll save a coin to flip to replace the machine.
really tho, i want one of those, sounds like it could make the best RTS there is..
im 27 my little brother is 16, live in a town with ~300 people goes to a high school 15 miles away with ~400 students, the whole county has less than most people would call a small town. Even all of them have ipods and mp3 players, portable dvd players, etc. a very few percentage of them bring around a normal cd player anymore.
There is not much new music i care to listen to, especially main stream popular music. In turn I am not out buying CDs much. He wants everything to work on his ipod, etc.. so he gets mp3s or the ipod format.
there is exceptions to most any rule or situation. Yes some people will still want to have their vinyl for various reasons, a lot of home systems still tried to include a cassette tape deck way past their main stream life, etc.
Times are changing, the new target consumers want to play their songs on these new ipods, as ringtones on their phone, etc. CDs to are not fitting in very well to this market from what I see. We can expect the RIAA to claim the reduce in CDs sales is all about piracy either way, while the whole time itunes is on its way to #2 in music sales.
this in no way means i love ipods or hate them just using the examples i see first hand. I also went to that small school so you can blame my grammar/spelling on them.
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In soviet Russia Time Travel You.
Is this the Lt. Commander Data theory or the Spock theory of time travel?
if you do manage to do this, send me a copy of all the sports results for the next 100 years and history of the stocks, etc.
Seriously.. If this was possible, i can only start to imagine how the wrong people or even the right people could really mess up things with their first little test.
Of course this product seems to provide convenience and has many applications. I just dont see it being that secure, once you take in account of how 'ignorant' the average person is about security. actually it sounds just fine, please start selling them asap, im bored.
I visited apple.com using my firefox browser.. I followed the links and firefox blocked some lame popup they used to start the download, went to IE, downloaded it, installed it, used it for about 2 minutes.. started the un-install, it asked me to close my utorrent on the uninstall for some reason.. no idea why.
The top text field where you put things like http://www.google.com/ i liked how it used it also as a status bar filling up with color as the page loaded.. after turning on the status bar it was giving me more info than im used to with firefox.. I personally didnt like the skin it came with and it seemed slow dragging the browser window around for some reason.. whatever, i will try it again in 6 months maybe. I really wouldnt mind them taking part of the browser market, from what i saw so far, it still needs some work.. (hence the word beta) and this is the first windows release so, its all good, few months from now maybe it will be worth trying again.
I recently changed my recycling policy here in Texas with my computers. Until a month ago it was I upgraded, then my room mate upgraded with my old parts, then the living room emu/movie/etc pc got upgraded, etc with the parts. at the very end the left over stuff was sat 100 yards from back of the house and shot with a 22-250 (rifle).. now we added an extra step where my room mate upgrades another friend;) But we are considering making the chain long enough so the parts finally end up in Russia and in exchange they give us a "bride" or something, haven't worked the details out yet.
To be quite honest I doubt you could even get a T1 installed at this location from Bellsouth...
I have a T1. I live in the middle of the woods, where i am there is no option for cable modem, dsl, etc. The few choices i can think of are 56k modem, ISDN, or some satellite (or some verizon wireless card when it works out here). You can get a T1/T3/etc pretty much anywhere, if it is that far outside the city, you can expect to pay a bit more a month. Mine is through AT&T. But the price of a T1 in the area I am in, being around ~30 miles from a real city, makes the price too high for most people to justify.. ~ more than $400/mo.
I am in the 'Deep South'. Where I am the 2 good cheap choices were/are Road Runner and AT&T DSL (if you are close enough to whatever). I never had any terms of just quitting my contract with RR here, just had to return the equipment, that was one of their selling points vs satellite tv, no contracts. I would recommend people switch to DSL IF they have problems down here and dont have another choice. The slightly higher packages on DSL here was the best internet I ever had at some points. However here we dont have the option to switch to cable company #2, and a T1 is only around 1.54mbit up/down, still a good service but quite expensive compared to dsl/cable. (i have a T1 atm, im out of range for dsl or cable).
What would be cool is if they started offering a T3 or something similar for a reasonable price lol. You can run them to more or less anywhere and distance isnt that big of an issue.
Isn't "crooked lobbyist" redundant?
Yes a bit lol, but throwing that line in there was to clarify who he was to who hadn't heard of him. Jack Abramoff is one of the reasons there is not a casino about 30 miles from where i grew up. He lobbied for it to be built and 'passed' then lobbied for another casino across the state line to stop it and to help them get theirs, since they gave him more money.. lol.
but yes google is much better at this, just find it funny i can use a microsoft website to find a torrent for their own software. Same thing is true about a few other companies. Ira Rothken was my defense attorney on a civil case with microsoft and Disney being 2 of the plaintiffs for a very similar thing. Disney and Microsoft both dropped out the suit from this basic argument about their search engines, still had about 5 more software companies left, but after a while they just dropped the case.
I dont see this ruling standing either if it is appealed, this isnt like getting a wiretap, the cops or whatever do all the work, they don't force the business to do it for them, then just give the logs to the cops when they want, this seems more like a tactic to scare some people and hurt the business of Torentspy.
ya, it reminds me of the basic interface of the first versions of ICQ, ive been using it for some time, works very well. Only issue i have had is Yahoo disconnects me often enough. Installing a few add ons made this thing quite nice. Clients Homepage
Im going to give Ubuntu a try in a few days. I have had a lot of experience with linux as a stand alone server, but no recent experience to speak of for my main desktop pc, unless you include Gentoo on my PS3, the more I see of the recent linux desktop distros the more im wanting to try one.
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Here is an idea for Canada tax any DVD player capable of playing a burned DVD/CD or the DivX, XviD, MP3 and WMA formats. What percentage of that is not piracy related. Lets tax DVD/CD burners, not just the media. Lets tax hard drives over some arbitrary size while we are at it. All this piracy would really be reduced a ton without the internet, lets put a piracy tax on that. Then tax the ISPs and backbone providers, router makers, ethernet cables, etc..
At one time the FTP protocol was used a lot for piracy, today it is not as common. People download virtually all their torrents, cracks and smaller things through HTTP. Newsgroups are just a vast piracy playground.. tax that? Are you already taxing blank cassette tapes & DAT tapes?
Lets tax any backbone provider that gives access to Sweden, Russia, China, etc and a few other countries. Lets make ISPs block access to known torrent sites, torrent programs, etc. Tax World of Warcraft for using P2P, not really..
It is all arbitrary and quite lame. Tax an iPod which runs the #3 (i believe and climbing) music seller in the world, something to that effect. I am no iPod fan, i wouldn't own one personally and I dont live in Canada, makes it easier to not understand the logic, besides money. Its all about the money!
I prefer my ISP not block anything period. I dont want my ISP determining what ports, what services, websites, etc that I can use. ISPs to me should simply provide me with internet that is all. If they are providing e-mail they can have whatever spam/anti-virus/etc stuff they want on it, since im not using it anyways. I'm not installing their 'software' if they have any. etc. All i want is a ethernet plug that through whatever magical means gets the 'internet to me'. I will take care of the rest.. but i know i am not their 'mainstream' customer.
Blocking port 53 and 80 is a temp measure which will just make them use another port, the next ports they use you wont be able to block. Just off the top of my head I would use a port between 1024 and 5000. I believe that is still the default random ports windows uses, you cant block those ports without stopping a ton of every day internet programs from working. im sure there is other ports, either way, solves nothing and the next versions will be using ports you can not block.
Botnets will just evolve. The ISP blocking things isn't the answer, very often. I would say anti-virus software, firewalls, and really eduction would be a much better mix to cut down on this. ISPs can help stop a major worm or something from spreading here and there depending on the circumstances, but usually they are too late in trying to stop that sort of thing.
Also ISPs can just cut peoples internet off till they fix their PC if it is causing that much of a problem, which they do, but usually only in the case of spam. Road Runner cut off a customer I know after about 6 months of having a 'spam bot' of some sort on his pc. I told the guy about it a few months ago, but his PC still worked so he didn't care till his internet was cut off, still took them long enough, they had reports of his IP several times going back at least 5 months.
Does it still count when i write VOID instead of my name? Or something more legal to that effect? done that a few times.. but i've never disputed a charge claiming it wasn't me, maybe disputed 2 charges in my life..
I worked a little for a P.I. as a computer consultant, I was pretty impressed at the time how much information you can pull up through their databases. The more info you have about a person the better, but with just a first, last name and birthday is usually more than enough to get all their info from a PI database.. I ran the most basic search once on a person i could, ended up with their SSN, last 5 addresses, current vehicles, the fact they had some medical license, all phone numbers, etc all in 3 pages printed out.. I know people here might not think much of that, but too many of every day people dont think twice about giving out their birthday or sending in some of the crap they do to companies who just sell the info.
The PI was running a large check on a person, it was well over 30 pages and they started mapping his immediate family and things of that nature..
The WTO seems to be the main reason countries bother stopping piracy, when they are extorted enough to do it. But China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc is still on their members list. I dont even know what the WTO does, I dont care, I just wish they would cease to exist.
I expect to see at least in the Senate/House elections a repeat of the '06 elections, justified or not many republicans will loose simply because of the (R) beside their name for the same reason plus the new stuff. I'm not talking president, just house/senate. Might happen there too, but we all saw what happened in '06, i wouldn't expect '08 to be that much different, main factor might be they are no longer voting against Bush, since he will be out of office when the new house/senate takes office, im sure that wont matter to some people though.
I think i am with the majority of of the US in the view that i want the republicans out, mainly Bush, even though I dont trust any of them to do a very good job. I just think the democrats will screw it up less. Almost anyone will be better than the 'retarded ape' we call president now. Putting everything aside, I am embarrassed to have him speak for our country, you never know what is going to come out his mouth next. No offense to any apes reading this.
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." - "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." - etc.. etc.. etc.. etc..
I have 3 cards, only one is signed on the back. Merchants never check or seem to care. I often sign "best buy sucks" or "wal-mart sucks" and it doesnt seem to matter, even when they can see it on their screen.. Or just draw a smiley face or whatever on that touch/pen pad thing... seems a bit pointless and for a few years now signing that way has never ever caused me any problems.
The US medical system is great if you can pay for it. I really do not know much about Cuba besides what i would consider a 'one sided view' presented in SiCKO. But I have been to many EU countries and Canada. Medication sure is cheaper, on top of general universal health care. Downside from what I have seen is waiting lists depending on the country. In New Zealand I knew someone on a waiting list for a few years to get their tonsils removed, but if it would have ever became a serious issue they would have done it right then and just like in the US they could have just paid to have it done then. From what I saw New Zealand was struggling a bit economically. Canada seemed better, as well did Britain, I have never been to France, Germany, or the other EU countries.
The Medicare Part D plan here in the US seemed not help, possibly made things worse. My grandmother has to spend $500 to $1000 a month on medication, that is quite hard on most people of her age. One of my dads good friends went bankrupt paying his late wifes medical bills, then later committed suicide. Talk about 'if you can afford it' if you ever get diagnosed with something expensive enough to ruin most people.
Google seems to slowly get more creepy and evil. They are no there yet, but I personally do not like Yahoo/Google/etc catering to the Chinese government, screwing with search results, etc.
Maybe one day China, Russia, India, etc will have one of these too... We get in a war and start using them.. I'll save a coin to flip to replace the machine.
really tho, i want one of those, sounds like it could make the best RTS there is..
I have several RSS feeds on my start page.. including CNN, Slashdot, and The Onion.. Some times.. The Onion looks more like the news site..
im 27 my little brother is 16, live in a town with ~300 people goes to a high school 15 miles away with ~400 students, the whole county has less than most people would call a small town. Even all of them have ipods and mp3 players, portable dvd players, etc. a very few percentage of them bring around a normal cd player anymore.
There is not much new music i care to listen to, especially main stream popular music. In turn I am not out buying CDs much. He wants everything to work on his ipod, etc.. so he gets mp3s or the ipod format.
there is exceptions to most any rule or situation. Yes some people will still want to have their vinyl for various reasons, a lot of home systems still tried to include a cassette tape deck way past their main stream life, etc.
Times are changing, the new target consumers want to play their songs on these new ipods, as ringtones on their phone, etc. CDs to are not fitting in very well to this market from what I see. We can expect the RIAA to claim the reduce in CDs sales is all about piracy either way, while the whole time itunes is on its way to #2 in music sales.
this in no way means i love ipods or hate them just using the examples i see first hand. I also went to that small school so you can blame my grammar/spelling on them.
Can I get the investors info?
I have a bridge that...
In soviet Russia Time Travel You.
Is this the Lt. Commander Data theory or the Spock theory of time travel?
if you do manage to do this, send me a copy of all the sports results for the next 100 years and history of the stocks, etc.
Seriously.. If this was possible, i can only start to imagine how the wrong people or even the right people could really mess up things with their first little test.
They're very confused, and they will admit it themselves: that this is a new world, and they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do...
Raise the white flag and surrender? that would be nice.. actually they do seem like a confused rabid dog, might have to put them down..
Of course this product seems to provide convenience and has many applications. I just dont see it being that secure, once you take in account of how 'ignorant' the average person is about security. actually it sounds just fine, please start selling them asap, im bored.
I visited apple.com using my firefox browser.. I followed the links and firefox blocked some lame popup they used to start the download, went to IE, downloaded it, installed it, used it for about 2 minutes.. started the un-install, it asked me to close my utorrent on the uninstall for some reason.. no idea why.
The top text field where you put things like http://www.google.com/ i liked how it used it also as a status bar filling up with color as the page loaded.. after turning on the status bar it was giving me more info than im used to with firefox.. I personally didnt like the skin it came with and it seemed slow dragging the browser window around for some reason.. whatever, i will try it again in 6 months maybe. I really wouldnt mind them taking part of the browser market, from what i saw so far, it still needs some work.. (hence the word beta) and this is the first windows release so, its all good, few months from now maybe it will be worth trying again.
I recently changed my recycling policy here in Texas with my computers. Until a month ago it was I upgraded, then my room mate upgraded with my old parts, then the living room emu/movie/etc pc got upgraded, etc with the parts. at the very end the left over stuff was sat 100 yards from back of the house and shot with a 22-250 (rifle).. ;) But we are considering making the chain long enough so the parts finally end up in Russia and in exchange they give us a "bride" or something, haven't worked the details out yet.
now we added an extra step where my room mate upgrades another friend
To be quite honest I doubt you could even get a T1 installed at this location from Bellsouth...
I have a T1. I live in the middle of the woods, where i am there is no option for cable modem, dsl, etc. The few choices i can think of are 56k modem, ISDN, or some satellite (or some verizon wireless card when it works out here). You can get a T1/T3/etc pretty much anywhere, if it is that far outside the city, you can expect to pay a bit more a month. Mine is through AT&T. But the price of a T1 in the area I am in, being around ~30 miles from a real city, makes the price too high for most people to justify.. ~ more than $400/mo.
I am in the 'Deep South'. Where I am the 2 good cheap choices were/are Road Runner and AT&T DSL (if you are close enough to whatever). I never had any terms of just quitting my contract with RR here, just had to return the equipment, that was one of their selling points vs satellite tv, no contracts. I would recommend people switch to DSL IF they have problems down here and dont have another choice. The slightly higher packages on DSL here was the best internet I ever had at some points. However here we dont have the option to switch to cable company #2, and a T1 is only around 1.54mbit up/down, still a good service but quite expensive compared to dsl/cable. (i have a T1 atm, im out of range for dsl or cable).
What would be cool is if they started offering a T3 or something similar for a reasonable price lol. You can run them to more or less anywhere and distance isnt that big of an issue.
Isn't "crooked lobbyist" redundant? Yes a bit lol, but throwing that line in there was to clarify who he was to who hadn't heard of him. Jack Abramoff is one of the reasons there is not a casino about 30 miles from where i grew up. He lobbied for it to be built and 'passed' then lobbied for another casino across the state line to stop it and to help them get theirs, since they gave him more money.. lol.
Yes google provides a great search as you mentioned, i find it more funny to use these examples.
live.com search engine owned by microsoft search for Windows Vista ISO and Office XP and dvdrip
but yes google is much better at this, just find it funny i can use a microsoft website to find a torrent for their own software. Same thing is true about a few other companies. Ira Rothken was my defense attorney on a civil case with microsoft and Disney being 2 of the plaintiffs for a very similar thing. Disney and Microsoft both dropped out the suit from this basic argument about their search engines, still had about 5 more software companies left, but after a while they just dropped the case.
I dont see this ruling standing either if it is appealed, this isnt like getting a wiretap, the cops or whatever do all the work, they don't force the business to do it for them, then just give the logs to the cops when they want, this seems more like a tactic to scare some people and hurt the business of Torentspy.
ya, it reminds me of the basic interface of the first versions of ICQ, ive been using it for some time, works very well. Only issue i have had is Yahoo disconnects me often enough. Installing a few add ons made this thing quite nice.
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Question: Did you go to your high school prom?
Response: I do not recall.
Question: What do you remember after you got to your ex-wifes apartment?
Response: I do not recall.
Question: Do you recall where you were at any time this month?
Response: I do not recall if i recall.
So its Brain+RW not Brain+R or is it like a CD-R that has flakes missing and scratches?
The Pop-up add made me do it!
Im going to give Ubuntu a try in a few days. I have had a lot of experience with linux as a stand alone server, but no recent experience to speak of for my main desktop pc, unless you include Gentoo on my PS3, the more I see of the recent linux desktop distros the more im wanting to try one.
ya it is a shame, I liked the basic idea of 13th floor a lot better myself.