Posts by g e 3255 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2007
So of course they asked for the details of who this poor guy bought it FROM, right? Or perhaps garage sales are authorised AD distributors these days.
Hope any judge prints that out on a cactus and rams it up AD's arse. Twice.
All I see recently is mobile phone makers bringing out Android handsets.
How do M$ expect to shoehorn Bing into those when Android links so seamlessly into Googleland (and it does it very well - my HTC Magic took my google login info first time I started it and everything Just Worked).
Even though Google wants to run the world as well, at least their stuff works in my experience.
"An interesting aspect is that the Commission does not seem to be concerned about Oracle gaining control over the programming language Java"
Maybe they just agreed with the US authorities and therefore ignored this aspect.
No rocket science or mystery required.
I can't imagine Oracle having any incentive to develop MySQL though, why would they want to enhance a free database platform to directly compete against their main revenue stream. Still there's that fork of MySQL codebase with an odd name I guess...
I *so* want a new Mechwarrior to come out ... on XBox, unfortunately, mind you, as that's (sinfully) my gaming platform here.
I loved that game sooo much (#2 and #3) - it taught me to lagshoot online LOL
Have many fond memories of a guy bitching at me in the clan and challenging to numerous duels which I always kicked his arse at... he'd always pick arctic or desert to duel in... easy stuff...
Arctic=Atlas lasered out to the max, saw his legs off from 1km away while reversing away from rockets which can never *quite* reach you when you do that.
Desert=Firefly maxed out with miniguns literally running circles round the target firing in with all guns grouped, have that leg off!
Ahhh.... those were the days....
</nerd>
I use Linux (Ubuntu Intrepid) exclusively on my laptop to get everything done. The only problems I've encountered are:
No Photoshop. VMWare mends the odd occasion I need it
No Dreamweaver: Sometimes a client demands I use DreamWrecker, VMWare again
Open Office not so keen on docx files: Request a PDF version, Office in VMware would be a waste of disk space.
None of these are show-stoppers by any means. Everything else works fine, e.g. FF3, Thunderbird, Skype, Aptana, Spotify...
People go on about Open Office not cutting the mustard and, while not a heavy spreadsheet user, docx is the only problem I have with it which I believe is exactly WHY MS created that format in the first place, isn't it?
Throwing every case out of court involving an open wifi access point would work far better and way less expensivley.
You don't secure your shit you're obviously authorising access otherwise you WOULD secure it.
How hard can that be... oh hang on.. it's common fkng sense isn't it. We don't do that in this stupid country.
Surely every single download from a newsgroup channel that has spanned more than one chunk can be considered episodicified as it comes in installments and the channel is even dedicated to it.
Anyway you have to applaud trolls like these people as they inevitaby help move the US patent system incrementally toward sanity - you gotta hope, anyway.
I should think the EFF's patent team will be having a good dig around to find prior art anytime about now....
iphones are obviously a liability to networks and Apple unable to secure this.
Ban them until Apple certify under pain of lots of money that they are no longer a danger.
Or just ban the bloody things anyway then the world can Move On.
Maybe just ban Apple and their incessant bloody whinging - they sound like an ex girlfriend of mine. I banned her and it made life much better.
You'd have thought that having an injunction against continued operation would have been at least the second item on the lawsuit wouldn't you.
Which, assuming the MAFIAA aren't inept signals a tacit agreement for the site to continue operating.
Or perhaps they're just utterly stupid.
Surely not...
I'd check my standing legally then hire a fuckoff expensive lawyer with the express intent of claiming massive costs which would be the main thing that would be likely to get the assholes fired rather than the scale of their ineptitude.
Then ask the Daily Mail to do an ECRB check on me which gives them a story and me 20k if it doen't come up clean.
Milk it and give them the maximum pain for their efforts cos if you don't they'll carry on in the same bullshit complacent manner and someone else will end up in the same situation next year/month/week. Hit them in the speedcamera piggy bank. It's all they understand.
1. Long way from impossible unless the FW has been configged by a seriously competent security bod. You only need to get THROUGH the firewall, you don't need control of it. Think DSL modem, not router.
2. Type "nmap -p0 192.168.0.0/24" or similar at your *nix or Cygwin command prompt
3. nmap will give you the manufacturer from MAC address lookup as part of what it does. Seagate don't make printers, Epson don't make NAS (do they?)
4. Do your thing as you have the above sorted.
Before you say 'that's good for a home attack, corps are still more secure' think what logins the home network has for the work VPN that can be gleaned.
Rinse, repeat.
I'm not a hacker and I know this much just from working with the stuff each day...
If the MAFIAA are saying that she uploaded 24 songs and then the people that got them from her uploaded and... etc etc
Well, surely if she uploads 24 tunes that's that. If someone who got them FROM her uploads them that's their infringement, surely, not hers? And presumably she downloaded the files from someone else so it's way more lucrative to go for the person she got them from too. Oh, they don't have a clue who that is.
If you're going to sue her based on that then let's sue Smith & Wesson, Browning, Armalite et al for mass murder, etc
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