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Donovan is being bashed to the point that he probably won’t improve because of it anymore. I’d probably be worse. More burnout, more passive aggressive anger feedback & amplification. If he was in south america, that kind of rubbish-amplifying feedback could cause riots or even murder attempts, and me, I wouldn’t care, as long as it misses me, and keeps them too busy to bother me (riots, cops, etc.. or what isn’t applicable to mobs of fans — anger management walking away). Donovan, he’s probably just being a rebel in a defensive way.

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He’s good enough for MLS and MLS don’t want to can him, so he can stay if he wants to. I don’t think he’ll get much better staying in the USA. But when weighing the LA climate, LA culture, being close to family, and most of all, the Girlfriend/Fiance (which I think will be a long stable marriage b/c of pre-live-in and patience, two-way cross-family relationship), vs further, possible explosive, skill development, but foreign culture, poor to medicore family access, medicore girlfriend access, frozen cold weather, and foreign language. I definitly will choose the same that Landon is if I were in his position.

This looks cool. A 400mhz computer with 256MB on a PCI card. I wonder how it gets to linux?? On-baord flash memory? Looks like a custom BitTorrent client will have to be made just for this card to be able to run BitTorrent off of the card’s CPU. It looks like the card can talk directly to a USB-external hard drive. Looks cool.

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DVD decoders are free in the K-Lite codec Pack. I don’t think its completly legal as their are several name brands to choose from such as ‘intervideo’, ‘cyberlink’, ‘mainconcept’, ‘ligos’, and ‘elecard’. Also the QuickTime Alternative is QuickTime Pro, but I don’t really care. Whats important is a lightweight player that plays ANYTHING, including other proprietary formats. If the Vista’s built-in DVD burning isn’t at least as good as Nero Express, then it probably isn’t really worth anything. The ability to assemble and save simple compilations are plenty enough for me. Vista’s built-in defragger is probably still the same ‘diskeeper lite’ from 2000 and XP. Go get PerfectDisk. Most unsigned cellphone modem, scanner, flash advance, and video/tv capture drivers won’t work. This can be bypassed only via the F8 boot menu and I don’t think it can be defaulted to off.

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Wii might mean ‘taking a leak’ in britain, but it sounds like ‘weeee’ as in having fun in america. Also some asian electronics have similar pattern brand names, such as ‘we! wa!’ portable MP3 players.

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Chips emitting microsopic lasers to communicate with other chips is cool. Need to accomodate for people who never clean the insides of their computers though, which is the majority. Dust can block the lasers or scramble off/ons.

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Lack of good RPGs for the DS or PSP are what kept me from upgrading from my GBA.

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Doesn’t HD-DVD use blue lasers too? Toshiba is selling HD-DVD players at a loss, even at $500. Most console makers sell at a loss also. Sony is probably selling PS3 at a loss. I like Blu-Ray. 15GB vs 25GB (per layer) is a joke. But I’m waiting for the burner prices to drop below $200 and the media prices below $1 (per disk in qtys of 100).

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Hmmm — NIMH is safer, and higher density than LI-Ion, as long as you can accomodate a 12-cell slug (that lasts a really long time) to get the required voltage. Li-Ion needs 3 cells to get the voltage of 12-cells of NIMH, but NIMH has 3.75 times the mah-capacity of LI-Ion cells of the same size, meaning more watt-hours.

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Looks pretty cool. When they get under $25 per GB with cards/units of 4GB or more, I’ll get one.

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Cool technology. Problem: Seagate is an expensive brand. Toshiba is whipping up some of this perpendicular stuff too, and they are cheap. I’m gonna get me a Toshiba if they aren’t too inferior. Seagate already has 750GB perpendicular desktop 3.5″ drives out, but the unit price per GB is way too high compared to the 500GB, and Seagate 500GB drives cost alot more than Western Digital and Hitachi 500GB desktop drives. So i’m looking to Toshiba by far.

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Multi-format burden is better on the player. Quad-format media would be prohibitivly expensive considering that you buy hundreds or thousands of disks vs just a few burners / players.

Asperger’s and High-Functioning Autistic and PDD-NOS largely just need smaller classrooms and structure to support socialization and emotional self-control. Classic Kanner autistic people are not retarded at all once they get over their major sensory integration issues and language and catch up on their learning afterword. Small classrooms and special schools often treat all their special-ed students as learning-disabled (LD), regardless of handicap. AS, HFA and some PDD-NOS kids need mostly social and emotional support more than anything else, and barring major disruptive behavior, can handle par or even superior acedemic standards. I think too many AS and HFA are being pampered into incompetency. PDD-NOS and LFA-HFA transionaries will need extensive speech therapy and modest mortor coordination and sensory integration therapy though. But AS and HFA shouldn’t cost more than double of a regular student – third-to-half sized classes and extra planning for emotional and social handicaps with possible counseling and speech therapy. Mainstream classroom chaperones are very expensive. I think they are a inefficient use of money. Small classrooms that are optimized for social-emotional handicap rather than learning handicap is far more efficient.

Finding a mainstream IQ / standardized testing and educational solution for kinesthetic (touch) dominant individuals will also help lower non-austic LD special-ed costs. I think a lot of low-income kids or kids with poor parenting also end up in special-ed as LD because lots of preeschool or home-schooling is required to meet Kindergarten to 1st grade academic standards these days.

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Dealing with language delay and sensory integration issues in early intervention is the best way to turn a low-functioning kanner ‘infantile’ autistic kid into a high-functioning autistic kid or even to function like an asperger syndrome kid.

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I don’t expect boy scouts to be overly open to cappy-charity beyond a basic sense of belonging at the troop meetings. Include him if he isn’t disruptive due to behavior or incompetence (swearing. If he can’t make the requirements without fudging too much then he doesn’t advance. Regardless, barring disruptive behavior or dangerous incompetancy, one shouldn’t be excluded, ridculed, or rejected. If the troop had to look after him way too much in the past for a particular type of event, then they have the right to exclude him from future events of that type or diffuclty. My guess is that this event required integration into a team doing activities that required a lot team communication. The second article says that this particular troop is a high-discipline, high achievement, high-level troop that cannot accomadate handicap-charity to keep their standards up. Very few college and high-end varsity high school sports teams will even accept handicapped athletes unless there are exploitable special talents and that is no gaurentee. Boy scouts do have a lot of open laid back troops. They usually have a high-achieving subsets of 5-15 kids that go on all the outings and the rest are there just their for fun, maybe a few badges here and their and advance just a few ranks. There are even some troops that only accept modestly handicapped kids (AS, AFA, LD, ADHD, mentally normal blind, deaf, or wheelchairs). So I would recommend finding another troop instead of sueing if you live in a neighborhood with multiple local troops. Aperger and High-Functioning Autistic (This Casey kid is HFA or HF-PDD-NOS and not AS if he had language delay according to the DSM-IV!) definitly will not function in Troop 223. And Boy scouts do not receive goverment funding, so they can do whatever they damn please, so I think they should lose the case. They should either switch troops or go to the boy scouts central bureaucracy, if either are possible. I think they should allow alternative chaperones though, if they know this Casey kid and his AS/HFA.

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“The problem with these kinds of studies is, you never know whether it is cause or effect.”. I think it is more effect. Not all autistic people have gastro (excessive diarhea) problems. It will probably treat the gastro-problem symptom though and possibly reduce some stress. This study got botched up though because of group switching and a high dropout rate.

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Saving 52000 out of 140000, PER YEAR is a lot of savings (in british pounds, not dollars). Most people don’t even make a $100,000 per year at their jobs. Shooting him or letting him rot on the street will save all 140,000 pounds (probably $300,000 – pretty nice house) of it! Thats a lot of my (if it was USA) tax dollars for somebody won’t contribute anything to the world, not even blogging or file sharing! If the family ain’t paying the dough, then they shouldn’t be bitching. I think it costs only $30,000 per year to keep an non-handicapped medium-high security inmate in prison. Normal Special-school Special-ed is under $50,000 (vs Normal mainstream kids $10-20K) i think, and kids at this level can at least use Emule or Blog or make art or something, or work part time in a disability-job.

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My father had me when he was 25. My mother was 23. I think my father has a higher ‘AQ’ (Austistic-Spectrum Quotient) athan my mother though but both are above average, though I am guessing becasue neither have actually taken the test. I scored 41. I think down syndrome and other genetic disorders is linked to older parents too. The study is Isreali and the reference age is 40. It did not mention any measurements of severity. But as far as I know, female autistics tend to be lower functioning, and one theory of autsim is that the more sever low-functioning kanner autis (beyond early intervention age) have an extra chromosome seems to fit the patter of the study a little and that the study is focusing on the low-functioning end of the autsitic specturm.

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My cholesterol is borderline-high, running 210-225 with a little bit low HDL and average LDL. It is close to my father’s cholesterol, but slightly higher because I have a fattier diet (I don’t smoke or drink though, and my BP averages 125/85 to 135/90-95 with a 120/80 min and a 140/100 max). My mother and my sister have sky-high cholesterol levels, 250-280 for my mother (smoker, chronic high-blood pressure (175/100 abouts before the drugs), high-stress mid-adulthood, crappy diet in mid-adulthood, average-good diet now), and over 300 for my sister (alcholic, smoker, medicocre diet, don’t remember BP). I don’t fit the low-cholesterol study pattern.

I almost got into a non-profit warez group. Didn’t make the curry quota so i publicized private group information (mainly the distros) before I got kicked for not making the courier trial-quota (I was operating on a modem, but with a really good ISP). I probably would’ve gotten kicked out anyway because I’m was never too good with secrets and now i have a very bad attitude about them. This EliteTorrent group’s distro obviously was a BitTorrent tracker rather than an FTP server, although their was probably a top-site BitTorrent client to offer a central seed. Oh yeah I downloaded Revenge of the Sith several MONTHS (I actually put in the queue months before release, started it 2 weeks before release as I was too busy with BBC documentaries, and finished it a day or two before release) from Emule before theatrical release, not hours. And Movies are usually on BitTorrent for several days before spreading to Emule. The pirate groups use BitTorrent today. BitTorrent is difficult for me because I have to use sites like the Pirate Bay, with the best stuff requiring extensive politics (underground) and social connections, and secrecy. Emule doesn’t need any of that. Most leaks from warez groups to P2P are from the couriers. They don’t get punished for leaking files (as long as they make their quotas), only for leaking group members, distro locations, etc.. Emule will be affected less than BitTorrent if warez groups become scarce because Emule has a larger source of non-organized, individual, often casual releasers. Though these releasers will very rarely have access to pre-DVD movies and pre-release music and books.

The FBI’s luring techniques are probably lax security techniques on leased servers and these servers are made to appear like corporate space, which attract space/bandwidth hijackers to plant Movies (non-lossy compressed or DVD original images) and warez. This didn’t actually mark them for arrest. It was to mark them for surveillance to get further leads into the rest of the group. Jobing got hacked by one of these groups and they hide their stuff far better than the suicide vest people do (deep directory trees with deceptively normal-like names in temp, ‘my documents’, and ‘program files’ folders vs folders near the root called ‘o-day’ or ‘distro’ or some Arabic name). Since Al-queida uses these measures too (and the warez groups win when they come into conflict because they are better at it), they may fetch a terrorist or two also. I got me some free warez from Jobing’s hijacking. Gregg wanted to keep evidence. I had access to it because the hijacked space was on database server (though it was the IIS server that got hacked b/c it was behind on the patches, but it was on the same box as the database at the time of the hijacking). Most of the warez I got i replaced with more up to date downloads from Emule though. The FBI has a ‘war on terror’ motivation boost to cracking down on warez groups in addition to the RIAA and MPAA bribes, so watch out. Fox leaked out some of the warez groups but it may be deceptive (by the FBI) or just made up by Fox – or it may be genuine classified leak — RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN and BHP. Couriers, crackers, and shell-ops got away free. They went after the content feeders and the group top-level admins. Busting all the couriers alone will fill almost 2 medium security federal prisons the size of Safford or Otisville.

The FBI won’t be able to classify this – A seeder for Raxaco PerfectDisk 8.0.30 was from Cuba he he.. Probably a civilian on contraband computer equipment (Cuban law) on a black-market Internet connection. Also the number of Iranians on Emule have doubled in the past two months, though still a small minority. Every Emule and BitTorrent client will violate trade embargo law (treason/sedition stuff) if the USA or the UN sanctions or Embargoes Iran (Bush really wants to despite the UN resisting and calling the USA’s evidence lies and deceptions), as no P2P client supports ban by country and no developer will want to, and plus most P2P clients don’t even use IP2Country databases, including un-modded Emule and BitTorrent clients.

Aggragate Stats of PermaShares by Directory / Category

Notes:

• The Session Stats are on my current Emule Up-Time of 17 Days + 22 Hours
• For the full list of my file shares, either all, grouped by priority, or a ‘leader board’ format, go look at the page list on the right.
• In the Bible Category, 2 files – Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – New Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) and Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – Old Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) – Make up 4.3GB of the 5.47GB total in the category
• In the Books Category, 2 Files – Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm (ED2K Link) and Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm (ED2K Link) – Make up 810MB of the 1195MB total in the category
• The Books Category is Dominated in only cumulative bytes transferred by former and current PowerShares Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm (ED2K Link) and Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm (ED2K Link) – With 22.11GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred out of 25.91GB.
• The Books Category is dominated in only session bytes transferred by current powershare Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm – With 4.45GB out of 4.68GB Session Bytes Transferred.
• The FileSharing Category has the cumulative stats depressed by replacements by newer versions of the filesharing client and server software.
• The Pictures Category is Dominated in session and cumulative bytes transferred by current PowerShare (it’s in-and-out of PS) Area 51 Groom Lake AFB Pictures 156 Pics – 1959-2005 Aerial & Satellite 5-15 MP – Maps Diagrams Panorama Photos – Top Secret Black Project UFO.rar (ED2K Link) – Which has 1136MB out of 2150MB Session Bytes Transferred and 12.38GB out of 24.04GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred.
• The Pictures Category has 1 Church / Bible related file and the Movies Category has 5 Church / Bible Related Files, all Power-Shared, but with only a modest amount of tranfer volume relative to their categories.
• The Warez Category is Dominated in both session and cumulative bytes transferred by former PowerShare (curently non-PS high) Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 – Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar (ED2K Link) – With 524MB out of 1771MB Session Bytes Transferred and 9.99GB out of 16.78GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred
• The Warez category has some teamwork co-dominance in only session bytes transferred by current powershares Scorched3D Scorch3D Scorch 3D V 40.0 – Scorched Earth with Great 3D Gameplay and Graphics – Installer.rar (ED2K Link), Scorched3D Scorch3D Scorch 3D V 40.0 – Scorched Earth with Great 3D Gameplay and Graphics – Source Code.rar (ED2K Link), and Sci-Fi RPG Mega Star System and Campaign Tool – AstroSynthesis 2.01b Regged Install – GURPS Space 4th 4e Star Wars Trek Babylon D20 Modern Future.rar – With 824MB out of 1771MB Session Bytes Transferred.

Country Breakdown for people in my upload queue requesting a Perma-Share.

I am currently downloading 9 DVDs (Die Hard 1 + 2, Gremlins 1 + 2, GhostBusters 1 + 2, Goonies, Dark Cyrstal, Hackers – 2Discs). The upload queue for permashares is doing very whell despite connection semi-saturations. The DVDs are still mainstream piracy despite being old, but it is still out of BitTorrent’s nich of new release movies and warez. Only Gremlins 2 has over 100 sources. Ghostbusters 1, Gremlins 1, and Dark Crystal have 50-70 sources. The rest are 20-35 sources. The stats are Maximum of the Mornings and Evenings of 9/1/2006 and 9/2/2006

 Algeria             2  - 2 Physics Books
Argentina           5  - 2 Physics Books; 1 RPG Books; 1 GBA ROMs;
1 N64 ROMs; 1 SNES ROMs
Australia           2  - 1 GBA ROMs; 1 Physics Books
Austria             1  - 1 SQL Book
Belgium             2  - 1 GBA ROMs; 1 Physics Books
Brazil              21 - 1 Area51; 1 Other Warez; 2 FileSharing;
3 Physics Books; 2 RPG Books; 1 SQL Books;
1 SQL Conference; 1 Orbiter; 1 Bible; 2 GBA ROMs;
2 N64 ROMs; 2 SNES ROMs; 1 Fan Film; 1 Web Rip
Canada              3  - 1 Other Warez; 1 Orbiter; 1 Warez
Chile               1  - 1 Physics Books
China               3  - 2 SQL Books; 1 Bible
Columbia            2  - 1 Physics Books; 1 GBA ROMs
Czech Republic      1  - 1 RPG Book
Dominican Republic  1  - 1 GBA ROMs
El Salvador         1  - 1 GBA ROMs
Estonia             1  - 1 N64 ROMs
Finland             1  - 1 SNES ROMs
France              19 - 1 Bible; 7 GBA ROMs; 4 N64 ROMs; 2 FanFilms;
2 Orbiter; 2 RPG Books; 1 FileSharing
Germany             8  - 2 Area51; 1 Pictures; 1 Bible; 1 GBA ROMs;
1 Other Warez; 2 FanFilms
Greece              1  - 1 Physics Book
Hong Kong           1  - 1 Abandonware
India               1  - 1 Bible
Indonesia           1  - 1 SQL Book
Islamic Repub Iran  2  - 1 Physics Book; 1 SQL Book
Isreal              5  - 1 FileSharing; 2 GBA ROMs; 1 RPG Book; 1 Pictures
Italy               16 - 2 FileSharing; 3 RPG Books; 1 Physics Books;
3 Orbiter; 4 GBA ROMs; 1 SNES ROMs; 2 FanFilms
Japan               1  - 1 GBA ROMs
Latvia              1  - 1 SQL Book
Luxemburg           1  - 1 RPG Book
Malaysia            2  - 1 Physics Books; 1 FileSharing
Mexico              2  - 1 N64 ROMs; 1 Other
Netherlands         5  - 1 Abandonware; 1 Orbiter; 2 Bible; 1 N64 ROMs
New Zealand         1  - 1 RPG Book
Norway              1  - 1 RPG Book
Not Applicable      5  - 1 Area51; 1 Other Warez; 2 GBA ROMs; 1 Bible
Peru                1  - 1 GBA ROMs
Poland              6  - 1 Physics Books; 2 RPG Books; 3 GBA ROMs
Portugal            6  - 2 FileSharing; 2 GBA ROMs; 1 N64 ROMs; 1 FanFilm
Qatar               1  - 1 Warez
Republic of Korea   12 - 9 Bible; 2 GBA ROMs; 1 Other
Romania             1  - 2 FileSharing
Russian Federation  3  - 1 FanFilms; 1 RPG Books; 1 GBA ROMs
Serbia Montenegro   1  - 1 FanFilm
Singapore           2  - 1 Bible; 1 Other
Slovakia            1  - 1 Physics Books
Slovenia            2  - 1 Physics Books; 1 GBA ROMs
Spain               36 - 1 SQL Book; 2 Physics Books; 12 GBA Roms;
4 SNES ROMs; 1 N64 ROMs; 4 FanFilms; 4 Area51;
5 Orbiter; 2 Other Warez; 3 FileSharing
Sri Lanka           1  - 1 SQL Books
Switzerland         1  - 1 Physics Books
Taiwan              2  - 1 Bible; 1 SQL Book
Thailand            2  - 1 Area51; 1 SQL Book
Turkey              2  - 1 SQL Books; 1 Physics Books
Ukraine             1  - 1 SQL Books
United Kingdom      2  - 1 Physics Book; 1 GBA ROMs
United States       13 - 1 Area51; 1 RPG Books; 1 Orbiter; 4 Bible;
3 GBA ROMs; 2 N64 ROMs; 1 Othe Warez
Uraguay             1  - 1 Other
Venezuela           1  - 1 Area51
Viet Nam            1  - 1 SQL Conference

Pointless against the RIAA and MPAA’s millions. Probably better than no opposition at all though.

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If I was 6-12 years old and had the same income level when I was this age, but bumped it up to now, I’d probably be camcording movies for my own use and possibly release or sharing too, if I could get a cell phone. I audio taped theater movies a few times when I was really young (8-10), because it was a rare treat and some movies, more back then than now, I grew pretty obssessive over.

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“Making copies for your friends, giving it to them to copy…is just as illegal as downloading it. “. Probably just as illegal as selling the copies too. My mother says personal copy-giving is alright and it shouldn’t be illegal, and she’s a fear-driven law-obediance freak. She’d probably give in if it was enforced enough to be busted at least some of the time like actual shoplifting. She could be happy under Hitler rule if the propaganda was largely kept intact. She whined about a national geographic pic she paid $3 to download to her cellphone and couldn’t picture-message because of DRM. She ultimately gave in to agreeing with the law even though it was grudgingly, probably because of my inflammatory rebellious attitude.

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Looks like the RIAA’s outsourced automated evidence collection and outsourced litigation systems need a lot of work still… More dead people being sued. Maybe they will sue an infant next? Credit reports and packaged cusumer reports and packaged background checks can have unusual things on them sometimes…

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Hmm…. Outsource collections agency botches up the research (hey they only have an IP address! but IP->Message board or chat room or online game IP footprint -> Handle -> Real Name is usually the research path). She refuses to the collections agency (which is an immediate flag for the collections agency to go to the next step if they have a law-firm license), offers up all this help, and gets squat for reward, guilty or not. The RIAA tries gag-order her to keep her and others from getting free legal help (side-effect of publishing court documents online), they want to bog her down on red tape and make her anxious so she gives up and gets a judgement against her, which the RIAA will tout wildly on their mainstream media puppets as nasty propaganda. The RIAA may get any money for the judgement though, if any is successfully collected. It has been ’sold’ to the Settlement Support Center, assuming that isn’t a subsidiary of the RIAA or one of its big members. It may be a more complicated outsource agreement where the RIAA only gets the first $2000 of a settlement, but it reverts to a separate payment structure for cases that have to be actually filed in court (A non-small claims case hasn’t gone to court until you get a nice hand delivered summons!). Here’s what you do if a collections agency calls you (whether outsource RIAA lawsuit or some other ‘debt’): Don’t answer the phone if you don’t know the number in the caller ID! The wrong number trick doesn’t work well if the reps (collections or telemarketing) follow policy. What might work if you don’t want to ignore unknown numbers is counter-question then identity confirmation (such as what are you calling about), then say ‘he don’t live here no more’ on either success or failure. If they don’t answer your query, they are probably not friendly. I’m pretty sure my friend Rick (non-computer literate) may be able to work wonders on a counter attack, but unless you are an expert phone pranker like him, I wouldn’t suggest trying a deceptive counter-offensive.

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Crack down on the counterfeit sellers. I don’t care. Counterfeit sellers harm legit product far more than file sharing does. Don’t buy counterfeit music or movies. Download them for free instead, and buy your favorites. It is more difficult to actually buy some if you are paying a counterfieter…

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“The rich get poorer and the poor get richer. That???s what filesharing does for the music industry”. I like that phrase he he… Big artists already got big branding and the record companies pay for it all, so only lose from file sharing. Small artists have no record company backing, but are also free of their fraud and tyranny, and need free advertising, so they benefit from file sharing.

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Looks like Azuerus with only the option to run a private, decentralized tracker, and level 2 encryption (modest security, defeat traffic shaping), but it is further private by limiting seeds and peers to those in your contact list. Setting up the tracker may be much easier for non-geeks. As for the Slyck-AllPeers BlogWar, I think most ambiguity would be resolved by the concept of ‘quickly making deadlines and re-using as much BitTorrent code as possible. It’s use of the BitTorrent code is probably also the only reason it is open source, because of the Share-Alike provisions of copyleft licenses like the GNU-GPL (The full GPL is a upstream-viral share-alike license while the rest including the L-GPL are non-viral share-alike).

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Looks like tracker-only software that automates seeding of other public trackers and also has integrated torrent-site website software.

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I think it is a table-lookup based system that exploits the very small amount of unencrypted packet remaining. So it probably only be able to block and throttle the biggest, most popular torrents, which outside of Linux stuff, is mostly pirated anyway.

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Looks like Winny got ’sanatized’ with DRM CRAP. I don’t they it will be branded as Winny though.

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Looks like Sweden has to change their laws under american pressure in order for the MPAA to pull swedish prosecuter pupeteer strings again.

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Download DRM music for free, but you got to watch ads. And you STILL cannot copy it, not even to your freind, because we need you to keep watching our ads. And you have to check in and watch some ads for 15 minutes every month even if you don’t download anything new. I’ll stick with Emule. Its an improvement over Itunes though. I don’t mind the ads. I mind the DRM. Its more over the DRM than the 99c or the ads. 25 cents AND ads, but no DRM may win me over though. No Ads in the music though. And extra advertisement MP3 in budle archives is fine with me though. If the ad is cool, I may hoard it! No DRM in the ads, either, please.

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A movie deliberatly being released for free by a normally commercial movie company. Its not by a MPAA-company though. So it ain’t that good of news.

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I’ve been watching about a third as much TV since i’ve finally gotten into downloading movies and TV (mostly BBC documentaries) off of Emule. I think that has largely been triggered from the theft of two full 32-capacity DVD holders from my checked airline luggage by either TSA bag-searchers (had a notice) or SWA baggage handlers. I’m really have a loot of momentum now. I’ve downloaded at least 6 hollywood movie DVDrip-XVIDs in the past 2 months that I’ve never owned a real DVD before. I have never owned any BBC or Discovery Channel DVDs. I’ve been downloading them well before the DVD-luggage theft.

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Why universities hate BitTorrent and P2P: Hogs bandwidth and they don’t want to buy more just to accomodate P2P (class-relevant BitTorrent use can be kept on-campus). Lots of copyright complaints and they don’t want to deal with them. 90% of bandwidth hogged by P2P is pirated, so they are linked. About 80% of my bandwidth hogging is piracy – currently mostly books and RPG-books upstream and movies downstream

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More and more countries are passing anti-P2P laws and more and more of these laws that do nothing to stop it or slow it down much. Enforcement requires privacy invasions that create way too much unrest. Oh well. Share ahoy! And please help make more legal files available on Emule. Not just Moviez and Warez.

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They can always use more donations. Freenet looks to be great. I don’t know how I will be able to work it because I’m not very socially adept. I only have one current and significant friend that is computer literate (plus 2 more that are semi-literate), but he is all pro-open-source (and gay, of the genuine subtype, but has a committed partner). I was very hampered in using HotLine at school – a non-encrypted FTP-like social-environment type network. FreeNet is one of the ultimate networks to evade all forms and manners of censorship. It is optimized for contraband web pages (Chinese Tibet Independance) and message boards (Chinese Democracy) and piracy of smaller files (like MP3s of chinese police beatings or leaked bad-video or audio footage of area 51 like radio transmisions from the ‘fastmovers’). Cambodia / Myommar and several african countries are also non-free. South and central america has a lot of curruption that comprimise freedom also.

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This reporter is a whiner. The only public internet access which I was able to get a HighID (the ability to accept incoming connections via direct external IP or port-forwarding in the router/proxy) is at the Hilton Towers in downtown San-Jose. You get to hog a megabit of half-duplex bandwidth too! Everywhere else — Starbucks, airport, Spokane HotZone, Every other hotel i’ve been too…, it is LowID (no incoming). The best portable internet is Verizon Wireless BroadbandAcess. Not as much bandwidth – ISDN-like, sometimes braodband on web, but it is high-ID (accept incoming connections), and works wherever a cellphone works.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is still #1 on all charts!!!

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I’ve checked a few out. ‘Shakespear Romeo Juliet’ and ‘Astronomy’. By the nature of public domain allowing re-copyrighting and proprietarization of deriviative works (like new covers new illustrations, reformatting), all the books available in google are so damned old it ain’t funny. Google should start publishing some of the copylefted books. Even then, Emule (free, piracy, not legal unless PD or copyleft) and non-DRM PDF (legal but costs $$$) e-bookshops will be better. They need the downloads to work with GetRight (GetRight and ‘Save Link As’ is downloading web pages). In-line PDF viewing (which you would then use the ’save button’) is crashing Adobe Reader 7.08 almost all the time.

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How-To #1 is applicable to Emule as well. Emule doesn’t need hashlink or torrent sites, but they are helpful if you are seeking hot new release warez-games or pre-release or just released theatre movies. You are better off using BitTorrent for these because of the exceptional torrent site (BitTorrent doesn’t work well without them) support for hot mainstream pirated files. Emule is better for books, RPGs, backwater piracy, homemade, legal and rare files.

There is just way too much sueing going on. In the long run, the lawyers win, and the goverment tax coffers.

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Looks like a well-off small-timer. Don’t buy bootlegs. Free is better. Use Emule. And buy at least some of the stuff you download. Better donation turnout for open source / legally free stuff would make things a lot better.

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Some more brainstorming on how big music and get along with filesharing, hopefully without DRM.

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Screwing Consumers and Artists since 1952? Got that right. Now hopefully the beatles arn’t as evil as the RIAA itself.

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Old news, but RIAA got busted bribing radio stations and other forms of ‘payola’. All this crap and the attempt to eliminate filesharing is on the vision of sole monopolistic dominion of the entertainment industry and beyond. I wonder if the “nonprofit organizations that finance music education and appreciation” are going to be pupeteered into distributing intellectual monopoly propaganda??

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Bigger news than the Itunes crackers because it has prompted M$ to talk to the press. When the day comes that only DRM music downloads are available and nothing else, these will be more useful to me. And I am definitly one of those that will use DRM crackers on legitimately purchased products. I use No-CD cracks all the time with PC games and I pirate these less than any other time of piratable software or media. I don’t think I have ever purchased or acquired a DRM-restricted windows media file. Made in China! China is the king country of the world if you can toss out those communists!

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Itunes DRM crackers… I’m pretty sure Media Player Classic with the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (includes MPC) can play raw-AAC audio files.

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Guess its like the gun laws. The crinimals will always carry guns and the law abiding won’t be able to shoot back at the crinimal. Copyright laws also have the fringers and the ignorant too because hardly anybody gets busted outside the RIAA’s not-so-smart out-sourced, automated sue em all compaign and a very occasional FBI example-making. Worse penalties wont’ stray the apathetic and the fringers, even death or torture, but a higher bust rate definitly will. Even if filesharing did got busted at the same rate as shoplifting or drug dealing, the crinimals will still pirate stuff, and it will be more sales & bootlegging and not free-sharing.

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The swedish Pirate Party has made their election program official! TorrentFreak has the swedish PDF and inline english translation of the Pirate Party’s official manifesto. Can the USA pirate party get some seats in congress? Since the USA is regionalized and mostly two-party, it is pretty difficult. Probably the best way in is to find the most file-sharing savvy congressional districts (house) and states (senate).

Not suprising. Goerge W bush wants everything classified and is even re-classifying all kinds of shit (especially current and past american nuclear weapon stockpiles). Wordpress runs on MySQL, So you can make database backups. Plus you can web-rip the monthly archive pages. Take your rips and database backup and share them up on Emule. Chinese individuals and other residents of non-freedom of speech countries and organizations should do the same.

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Ban the internet! People leaking secrets! At least these are only embarrasments. You scared of YouTube?? Both YouTube and Google are easily rippable! And theres Emule and BitTorrent too! I want to see high quality UFO vids, spaceplane tests, and more (I will download obviously fictional ones too as long as they don’t suck)!

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Well designed databases are cool, if it’s well designed. I actually might like the system. I hate it that its so damned classified that they can’t even follow the law that everybody else has to though. Though the ‘federal registry’ law being violated is too red-tapey for my taste, after considering the mountains of bureaucracy that the FBI already has, it should be nothing to sweat over. It shows that the FBI is becoming more and more ‘above the law’ from need for increased secrecy deriving from Georgy Bushy’s desires for emporer-hood for himself or one of his kids (GrandKiddy-Bush) to become the first facist-dictactor dynasty of the United States and beyond. Most facist and communist states have very high opressometers. The opressometer is a concept for Master of Orion three that represents a continum of Freedom vs Security (Morale vs Security to the emporer). Higher opressometer settings also increase ‘Heavy Foot of Goverment’ (HFoG), a measure of bureaucratic inefficiency, inconsistancy, and curruption.

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Looks like crooked power-hungery politicians are behind VietNam net censorship. Why would a tyrant not want to filter porn?? Because it pacifies the commoner! Who cares about the moral thing. I’d rather have no censorship at all though.

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Video game bans, as well as age restrictions are uneforcable because of alternative demand fufilment via piracy on Emule and BitTorrent, both highly international environments.

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The exploited aid is probably federal subsidized stafford student loans within states that give a lot of state-level aid, like New York. $5,500 (max federal student loan per semester ) + $3000 (Pell+Tap per semester) – $5000 (Bursar’s bill per semester – tuition, fees, room, and board but not books, project expenses, trips, and partying) isn’t covered entirely by the financial aid, but that student loan has a bit of leftovers. My father paid the deficit for me but I had to get a loan to pay for summer school as my father wouldn’t pay for that. I know one kid who got a student loan soley for use in day-trading. Most get loans and have leftovers and use it to party. I guess some of the more dicsiplined could launder federally subsidized studnt loan money to terrorists.

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You can say whatever you want. As long as you don’t actually do it (although simply dwelling on it in thought, let alone speech & gossip, does increase the probability of you actually doing it). Can’t say it on the web? Then say it on Emule, Gnutella, or Freenet.

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The technology within the trash can’s themselves isn’t as bad as you think. I’m pretty sure the scale is on the truck itself, and not on the bin’s RFID. The RFID contains probably only a unique ID (int or GUID or some other unrecognizable value) or no more than what is on a credit card strip (Unique ID, account type, account #, cardholder name, city, state, zip), that can be read from no further than a few inches. The ID on the chip and the weight from the garbage truck’s scale (probably integrated in the picker-upper arm) is probably stored in a 1 to many relationship in the database, which is then cross-related to other useful bits of information. Thats the actually scary part, but it isn’t that bad. Its the intent of the whole program. Why do they want to weigh the trash cans and store the weights with the can’s unique identifier, possibly with one or more foreign keys to another table(s) with info on the house and/or the owner (This is in the centralized database system, not in the can or the truck)?

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So this means that Gearge Bush will invade Iran by the time he leaves office? Probably start WWIII if the Iranian invasion affects chinese oil too much and Bush uses miltiary force to deal with any possible chinese intervention. Their are neo-nazi nuts in China’s communist party who want to biologically sterilize the United States. Oh yeah I have a video praising a Chinese-Pakistani friendship. I’m pretty sure it will get very ugly as long America’s least-favorite war-mongering facist dictactor wannabe stays in office. Definitly count on the middle east blowing up into all-out war, Iran invasion or not.? Oh yeah, there are all kinds of Iranians on Emule.? They are gonna get stuff from me, sanctions or no Sanctions.? I don’t give a damn who gets shit from? me, as long as they wait in line just like everybody else, because it’s pretty long if they are not requesting a PowerShare.? I get stuff from them too.? Got a few parts of a Hackers DVD from one.

If San Bernadino were to succeed to become a mini-country, they would have to at the very least be able to survive a major embargo for several years. That means feeding and watering a million people or so independantly in a desert… I don’t think any country would be to fond of their neighbors simply dumping crinimals across the board. They’d be at war within a the year. And if they declare war with the USA over LA’s polution, where are the troops, weapons, and combat technology going to come from? Conscription alone won’t win a war unless you’re full of people like china that are used to tyranny (semi-tyranny from monarch then full tyranny from communism). This article is just humor over a typo though. Still cool.

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I get 150-200 spam comments filtered out by WordPress’s Askimet spam filter plugin. The moderation queue (first-time commenters and more than 1 hyperlink) turns off commenters. IP Blockers reduce your spamload a little bit but you have to be very careful and it only stops the noob spammers. 60% of my blog’s traffic are spiders of some sort (including the legit ones like googlebot + slurp (yahoo) + MSNBot, the market research google-search bots, and the comment spam bots). That’s pretty bad considering that I only get 100-120 visitors per day total. Why don’t the spammers spend their bandwidth downloading free moviez and muzic instead?? The Moviez, Muzic, Bookz, and Warez be worth less than the spam profits though because of all the stupid people out their clicking on the spam — you can buy everything you download and plenty left over for more from the spam profits. btw, I wonder if my large amounts of comment spam are spilling over into P2Pnet.net? As I do links to P2PNet alot

My mother has severe psoriasis (late-40s onset) and my father’s side grandmother had late-age (60+) severe rhumatoid arthritis. I hope there is no correlation with genetic history of autoimmune disorders and autoimmune brain inflammation in autism.

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My head was abnormally large when I was a kid too. It is large today by adult standards. It is at least 24″ but less than 28″ because a 24″ gold chain doesn’t fit around it but a 30″ fits around with a decent amount of slack. My mother has a large head too. My neck is 18″.

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I don’t think there will be any safety issues. The lack of violence, noise, stink, cops, crime, or unsightly things will have not eliminate all of the negative effect on property values. Some of the reduction of property value is community predujice. There are some communities, such as Aquia Harbor in Virginia, where black people moving into the house next to you will cut your property value by at least 20 grand, because of community-level bigotry. A low-security group-home will definitly be worse than simply black people in such communities, and Aquia Harbor isn’t really all that bad really. There are some HOA neighborhoods here in AZ that are REALLY BAD.

Both of these technologies look really cool. 100TB in a 3.5″ anyone?

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Oh yeah Sony is a part of RIAA (Sony-BMG). They can rot and die for all I care. They botched up Star Wars Galaxies too (SOE Sony Online Entertainment), making it favorable for noobs to rake in revenue. And they probably did the same with the batteries – all bottom line oriented. Its all a balance between a greedy corporation and India’s terrible economic bureaucracy, while minimizing taint by the need for power and control. My Sony TIVO box’s modem is broken too. And Sony laptops break alot, far more than the IBM/lenovos, Dells, Fijutsus, and Toshibas, at work.

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Vista prices leaked! Prices are canadian but USA prices have been speculated by cross-applying the change percentage. Minimal inflation, mostly just exploiting the ‘ultimate edition’ for extra cash, but it still costs too much. I’m guessing that ‘Home Premium’ and ‘Business Professional’ don’t completley overlap and Ultimate overlaps them and maybe adds some worthless gimmicks. Cool exploit of loopholes in the law (Blogs) for a very sue-able corporation to be able to repeat the leak with no fear! Now go snoop on Area51 or any of its possible successors go leak that on to your blogs!

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This is the lazy and the ignorant failing to clear their cell phones and other devices of data before shipping them to the auction winning. Organized crime is now exploiting this on a large scale.

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This is evil-RIAA member Sony’s problem, not Dell or Apple. Since NIMH is denser than Li-Ion now, laptops that already have or don’t mind going to 12 cells (and that’s still only 14.4V) should switch to NIMH. 3 NIMH cells are needed to match each Li-Ion cell in voltage, but they are now holding quadrupal the amp-hour capacity, meaning there is 1/3 more energy from 3 1.2V NIMH cells in series than 3 3.6V Li-Ion cells in paralell. NIMH is not toxic-waste in a landfill and it is less explosive when badly overcharged or short-circuited (they still will leak hot fluid though), and are a lot less sensitive to overcharging and short-circuiting to not need protection-boards inside, though you sill need a microprocossor controlled charger.

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Dell and Nokia are winning! Yeah!! Apple sux! They can take both their intellecutual monopoly CRAP DRM and toxic waste and shove it up their ass!!!

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I not interested in overpriced portable DRM-d media players like iPod or Zune. Go shop at those MeritLine links for some cut-throat priced, open format players, with USB-OTG (no-PC copying) capability!

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I think they should port BOINC to the PlayStation 3, if it is possible to both port the code and have the PS3 talk XML over http over TCP/IP. Folding@Home is a BOINC project also!

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TDK is really ramping it up with Blu-Ray . They rocked for high-end VHS tapes and audio tapes. Now keep the licenses cheap so I can afford to buy them. $30 for 50GB is not competitive with hard drives and DVDs. The 25GB is $8. A Buck per layer, and $200 or less for the burner is probably when I get interested. I wonder what HD-DVD has got to offer? I hope blu-ray wins barring IP-tyranny. 200GB will fit my entire hoard on 3 discs and I could spin out copies like mad!

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Choose between being able to play Blue-Ray or HD-DVD or keeping my old proggies? Well I choose both via CHEATING!!. The K-Lite Codec pack will have me playing Blue-Ray movies (probably piggybacking off of it’s embedded WinDVD codecs) on my PC (if not I will just get them off of Emule instead), and then when a ‘WindowsBox’ comes out and I get a 64-bit machine, I’ll enjoy my old stuff on Vista 64-bit. For reasons, the MPAA cannot conceptualize that cracks will be swiftly released in x64 when the need arises and they want monopolistic tyranny on the world. Microsoft wants their tyranny as well, forcing drivers to be signed (a major red-tape, 5-figure figure process), which blocks small-time hardware companies or onese just want to not just hand free money over to Microsoft. My fairly new Epson scanner runs on unsigned drivers. Sierra Wireless fairly recently got their cellphone modem drivers signed, but they were unsigned for over 2 years. What’s so weird is that people are whining on Windows not having Hi-Def DRM support but at the same time they are whining for integrating Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer!

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http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/nonGenuine.aspx?displaylang=en&Error=8&PartnerID=101&Loc=USA

See QueryString ‘Error=8′? Here’s the Error List. Change ‘Error=#’ to one of those other values to see:

1 – Windows Activation Required
3 – Windows product key is not genuine – VLK key reported stolen or leaked
8 – Windows product key is not genuine – Key not in Microsoft’s database
9 – Windows Activation Limit Exceeded
11 – Key reported stolen or lost
13 – Windows product key is not genuine – VLK key expired

Changing ‘Error=#’ to a value not in the list above returns an error page. Changing the ‘PartnerID=#’ has no effect. Changing the ‘displaylang=xx’ to an invalid 2-letter language code defaults to english. There is a dropdown anyway, so there is no need to hack at that. The GUID that was not completly visiable in the ZDNet article can be omitted safely.

I’m guess that most false positives result in Error # 8. Most customized keygens work to defeat error #8 also, since I could not find any errors for license-type mismatches (VLK key on retail windows, VLK key on a different VLK licensed windows). I tried Error=1 through Error=25.

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Most WGA-only ‘premium’ upgrades can be gotten from Emule. The newest DirectX is also WGA-premium.

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This was smart. Fights WGA-only update piracy on Emule (or private F2F sneakernet trading). Go get FireFox.

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Most KeyGen generated keys will fail activation. Hence activation cracks. Keygens embedded with pirated windows XP packages are sometimes customized to the VLK licnese of the warez copy, allowing the activation cracked copy of windows with a keygenerater generated key to pass WGA. Multi-installation VLKs will probably be eliminated with Windows Vista.

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This is confidential. Link right on site. I got me a copy Sue! Sue! Sue!

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There are plenty of key changers on Emule that don’t send jack-shit to microsoft. Standalone cracks have high incidence of virus infection, so can them before running them.