The US sucks...the UK sucks...Canada is starting to look mighty tempting these days. Any Canadians want to share their thoughts on personal rights there?
I haven't bought a new CD in 5 years. I buy them used or I download the MP3s, but either way, the recording industry isn't going to make a dime off of me. I support the artists by going to shows and buying T-shirts.
Being a "japanese-speaker", its horrid to see anime flicks in their native japanese, then see them mutilated by GOD AWFUL dubbing actors and completely inacurate translations.
Exactly. I refuse to watch the dubbed versions of Tenchi Muyou ever since seing the first one. The English "Tenchi" sounds like Grover from Sesame Street.
Gee, just 4 or 5 stories down is the "PM on DVD" thing. If you can't stand to be without your anime on DVD, at least have the decency to fuck MPAA members (like Disney) by purchasing bootleg DVD copies from China.
FBI experts acknowledge that Carnivore's monitoring can be stymied with computer data such as e-mail that is scrambled using powerful encryption technology. Those messages still can be captured, but law officers trying to read the contents are "at the mercy of how well it was encrypted," Mr. Thomas said.
If I "buy" a software license from MS and I need to change my hardware config, the "recovery disk" is useless, right? In that case, I would feel perfectly justified in going to a warez site and downloading the OEM image of windoze 2xxx for archival purposes of my system.
Besides which, MS is going to be too busy appealing the breakup over the next few years to worry about licensing violations.
No problem at all. I'm saying I've been doing this for 15 years now, and I have yet to get a virus, even though I'm not particularly careful. It's because I don't open executable attachments and I don't enable macros when I have to read something in Word. The ILOVEYOU trojan never hit me; if it had showed up here, I wouldn't have bothered opening the attachment (even before I knew about ILOVEYOU). If it had showed up in my personal mailbox, I'm fairly certain that elm wouldn't have executed it even if I tried.:P
I personally think that malicious virus-writers are the scum of the earth, but 15 years for petty vandalism and taking advantage of human stupidity? The only thing a law like this will do is ensure that the virus kids cover their tracks more carefully. Outlook users who open script attachments will be even more likely to get viruses now that they think harsh penalties will deter anyone.
I have never had a virus here at work(*). This is because I don't run programs from the internet until I scan them, and I certainly don't use Word or Exchange. Attachments to my email are scrapped if they're executables and scanned if they're Word documents. I scan for viruses maybe once a month with an updated version of McAffee, and it has yet to find a virus.
(* I've found viruses on our network drive due to students bringing in their macro virus-infected disks, and I found a virus at home once, but I blame that on the warezed version of Battlechess)
The article was pretty sketchy and seemed to have some errors in it...I want to see the original paper submitted to Nature to see how the guy set up his experiment. Light itself, being massless, would not seem to violate Einstein's theory of relativity if it were to travel faster than c; the theory says that any object that starts out slower than c will never exceed it, but allows for objects that go faster than c: they just aren't allowed to fall below the "speed limit."
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Given France's reputation for rolling over and opening its collective ass for every third-rate conqueror to enter the country, this is just ironic, not to mention hilarious. As a couple of others here have said, it's nice to see France finally standing up against the nazis.
Maybe in 2060 the French will condemn Yahoo for making them the laughingstock of the world (again).
Not that I condone neo-nazi shitheads. But I know people collect war memorabilia, and a few whiny losers from "nous nous rendons!"* land won't change that.
(* "we surrender," at least according to babelfish)
My ISP is offering its users a year extension on NSI contracts if they switch, for $20. This saves me $15 over NSI and my NSI period ends next year. Looks like I'll definitely be dumping the NSI scumbags shortly.
As another poster mentioned, sell all your McTallica CDs on ebay. In the description, explain that the reason you're selling the CDs for a penny each is because you don't need them anymore now that you've started pirating the MP3s, due to the band's lame tactics.
No problem. Everyone should bang together something that looks vaguely like an E-meter [tm, (c), All Rights Reserved] and put it up on ebay as a replica. Replicas are perfectly legal as long as they're marketed as such, and as an added bonus, you wouldn't have to include any of the simple electronics. You might even be able to get away with saying this, based on the truth defense: "works as well as the real thing!"
Remember, if you set your starting bid low enough, it's probably only going to cost you a few cents for the listing.
What I found interesting about the paper is that nowhere did I see the actual number of respondents from the pool who answered in a particular way (I skimmed through the paper, so I could be mistaken). All I saw were the alpha coefficient ratios. These ratios are completely arbitrary and depend on the statistician's idea of what is "significant" for a particular factor. In other words, if they decided that 10% of people responding that video games made them feel more aggressive was a "significant" amount, then they can claim that it is, and the alpha coefficient doesn't reflect the fact that the actual percentage is small. This is what I remember from my stats course, but I'm a theoretical mathematician, not a statistician, so if anyone knows more about stats than me, please feel free to correct me.:)
Fuck the victims. Fuck Columbine. I'm so tired of hearing about itday in and day out--there are many more tragedies happening around the world each and every day, but no one cares. Maybe when more rich white kids are killed, we'll get off Columbine.
I was this close to wearing my black trenchcoat today just to piss people off, but it's too warm. Maybe next year.
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You misspelled "getting in the way." :P
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Exactly. I refuse to watch the dubbed versions of Tenchi Muyou ever since seing the first one. The English "Tenchi" sounds like Grover from Sesame Street.
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"Both players are discman-like in appearance, and play CDR/CDRW's containing MP3 files."
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Translation: We just cracked PGP this week.
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Besides which, MS is going to be too busy appealing the breakup over the next few years to worry about licensing violations.
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I have never had a virus here at work(*). This is because I don't run programs from the internet until I scan them, and I certainly don't use Word or Exchange. Attachments to my email are scrapped if they're executables and scanned if they're Word documents. I scan for viruses maybe once a month with an updated version of McAffee, and it has yet to find a virus.
(* I've found viruses on our network drive due to students bringing in their macro virus-infected disks, and I found a virus at home once, but I blame that on the warezed version of Battlechess)
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No, that's how the original sounds. Lars can't play his way out of a wet paper bag (ObAlt.flameReference).
Incidentally, Lars seems to be endorsing "low-quality" tape piracy, so don't forget to do your part.
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Maybe in 2060 the French will condemn Yahoo for making them the laughingstock of the world (again).
Not that I condone neo-nazi shitheads. But I know people collect war memorabilia, and a few whiny losers from "nous nous rendons!"* land won't change that.
(* "we surrender," at least according to babelfish)
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Metallica died when Cliff did.
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Remember, if you set your starting bid low enough, it's probably only going to cost you a few cents for the listing.
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I was this close to wearing my black trenchcoat today just to piss people off, but it's too warm. Maybe next year.
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