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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > I think I would go crazy if I had to live in a place where there's a
> > constant racket of music.
> That's the thing, the radio station she listens to is not music, mostly
> news.
Not a lot better...
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> I think I would go crazy if I had to live in a place where there's a
>>> constant racket of music.
>
>> That's the thing, the radio station she listens to is not music, mostly
>> news.
>
> Not a lot better...
Worse, for me. I can ignore music. It's very hard for me to ignore talking.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>> > I think I would go crazy if I had to live in a place where there's a
>> > constant racket of music.
>
>> That's the thing, the radio station she listens to is not music, mostly
>> news.
>
> Not a lot better...
Not at all.
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Tom Austin wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> All this talk of Vista, followed by me installing Steam on my new PC,
>> got me wondering if the Steam activation had ever been cracked (since
>> Vista activation is cracked via backdoors MS intentionally left in
>> which aren't really needed for Steam to work well). So I google
>> around, just out of curiousity, and come across
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rIw1HUfrU
>>
>> Now, how lame is this? Three minutes of video, with music, to convey
>> six sentences of text? Damn, guys, get a geocities web site or
>> something.
>
> i wonder how long it took them to upload their video
>
I wonder how many valid accounts they phished with their video.
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Darren New wrote:
> All this talk of Vista, followed by me installing Steam on my new PC,
> got me wondering if the Steam activation had ever been cracked (since
> Vista activation is cracked via backdoors MS intentionally left in which
> aren't really needed for Steam to work well). So I google around, just
> out of curiousity, and come across
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rIw1HUfrU
>
> Now, how lame is this? Three minutes of video, with music, to convey six
> sentences of text? Damn, guys, get a geocities web site or something.
I'm stunned.
I keep hoping that the kids trying to pirate games would know their
technology. Fact is, they possess no more clue then anyone falling for 419s.
I really needed a good laugh, thanks Darren.
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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> I wonder how many valid accounts they phished with their video.
Reminds me a bit of this:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Go-Phish.aspx
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- Warp
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I wonder how many valid accounts they phished with their video.
You know, I never noticed that. (Of course, I had no intention of
following the instructions so...)
I *did* kind of wonder at the "you can only get five games per one you
own." I thought it was kind of dumb for Valve to have left open to
public email the game authorization mechanism.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:19:54 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Software pirate mentality is one of the worst things that really
> grinds
> my gears. People who pirate software and have this kind of attitude are
> the worst moral scum on earth.
Uh, no, I think you'll find that people who think it's appropriate to
bomb innocent civilians are the worst moral scum on earth.
Let's have some perspective, please.
Jim
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:35:22 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Soon we will live in a world where pirated music and movies are the
> *only* way to get them to work properly without having to spend enormous
> amounts of money on expensive hardware which might still not guarantee
> that you can get them to work properly.
>
> The naive theoretical idea behind DRM is that if you are a honest
> paying
> customer, you don't even notice it's there. Only if you try to copy it
> illegally you will stumble accross its obstacles. In practice it's often
> almost the opposite.
Yep, agreed there. We just picked up a copy of "The Mummy Returns" from
our local secondhand DVD store. It comes with a digital copy on disc 2,
which must be activated by June 8, 2009.
You have to be running Windows XP or Windows Vista in order to actually
view it. Requires WMP10 in order to watch it, and is DRM-encumbered.
Nice idea, but of course using Linux, totally useless to me.
Fortunately, I can use k9copy to rip a copy of the video on disc 1, don't
have to deal with DRM issues or platform lock-in, and I can move the file
to my laptop if I'm taking a trip or view it on my desktop if I like,
rather than being tied to the "only usable on 1 PC" built into the DRM
software.
Jim
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:54:33 +0100, scott wrote:
> Just look what
> happened with Napster when it was shut down, up popped bitTorrent.
IKWYM, but LimeWire popped up; BitTorrent is a transfer protocol, bit
different than Napster or Limewire....
Jim
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