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Well ZDNet’s primary reason for not having DRM is non-interoperability. Looks like South Korea is not affected by Apple’s tyranny or example, but still affected by the RIAA. But interchangable DRM that works and isn’t buggy may sway me because I am relativily lazy and undisciplined. But I need to be have more than 1-3 copies (Home, possible 2-3rd home, Work, 2-3 laptops, multiple portables) though and shouldn’t have to pay for 1-3 copies. And I still like free-for-all sharing on Emule.

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Hey Bill Gates admitting that DRM is bad. Suggest buying CDs and ripping them. Works at least while non-DRM CDs last. Doesn’t affect Windoze at all. I dare him to say ‘buy a DVD and rip it’. Oh no! That requires cracking the CSS. Oooh illegal by the DMCA. Of course people are going to do it anyway

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The copyright mafia are getting their way so much that it may eventually turn into a world that a public library would have to pay a royalty every time a patron takes out a book or photocopies a page of an article. Hey come let eMule be your library. Unlimited take out, unlimited borrow time, book always available (no more reserving books), and NO FINES!. FUCK THE LAW!!! The MAFIAA owns and controls the law now!. eMule is easy. Have it in 20 minutes! Faster than going to the store (or library)!

That looks lucrative. Buy stolen identy-pieces from phishers and database hackers, assemble them to complete stolen identities and then resell them to illegal immigrants or to their smugglers / smuggling rings.

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Looks like the Pirate Party USA (PPUS) wants to get into the elections. Looks like you can become a ‘card carrying’ member of the party now. Not sure what that means. The only official party membership I know is that party’s name being stamped on your voter registration, which I was unable to do..

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It appears that the new e-Passport’s RFID scanning range is more than an inch or two and people have already figured out how to hack them with a nearby laptop! I think RFID should be limited to 5 centimeters / 2 inches and no cheating allowed (dumbing down receiver sensitivity), because this is how hackers get to read them from a foot or two away. Still better to hack poorly secured databases if you need bulk, but their is some need for some need for targetted identity theft. Likley people to go through the effort of eavesdropping your RFID are political or personal enemies, goverments, the mob, and private investigators.

I definitly agree that autism is genetic. I also would agree that it requires a complex combination of genes that can come from both parents in varying proportions.

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This kid ‘may’ be demon posessed because of the involvement of spirts in his psychosis. I think he is only schizophrenic for sure. Asperger’s is questionable. Antipsychotics ARE mind-altering. And very expensive (At least $500 per bottle). And they fry your motor cortex slowly over time (brain-fry like weed and booze).

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I have a large head and so does my mother. My autism was ‘infantile’ / ‘early-infantile’ / ‘non-regressive’ (signs of autism from birth and/or never develop skills in the first place) rather than ‘regressive’ (develop some skills but then lose them at around 18mos). My brain is probably hyper-aboundant in white matter (interconnected pathways of pre-formed knowledge) to make up for the gray-matter difficiency, very much like a blind person will hyper-develop autditory and tactile skills with the unusued visual brain-space.

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Identical twins, both autistic paper-thing hoarders (apparently the non-filtering type because they don’t appear to be badly affected when their hoard attacked). One torches the hoard futzing with a lighter. They panic and one gets killed by the smoke. The other will be fatally traumatized (loss of identical twin brother, possibly the only social connection, and being the cause of it all) and will probably in the nuthouse for the rest of his life. Sucks.

Great DVD quality review site! You have to get the Media ID to use it.

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Final Fantasy V is NOT hard. It just requires patience and proficiency with the job system. Same for Final Fantasy Tactics-GBA, but more so (FFT-Adv is cooler in that it has 10-30min time chunking built in intrinsically). Final Fantasy V’s grinding requirement is a lot less than the orginal NES’s Final Fantasy I and Dragon Warrior 1 and 3 (Dragon Warrior 3-R for SNES and GBC improves alot for required grinding). I am so GLAD they did not make Final fantasy V GBA easier like they did Final Fantasy 1 & 2.Dawn of Souls GBA.

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Looks like 1 gigabit in a single ship with regular dram. It looks like that 2 gigabyte ramsticks for PCs and laptops (8 chips on each side of the DIMM) are on their way. Looks like phones can get 128-256 MB of RAM now (1 or 2 chips), but top-of-the-line density is very expensive. Mushkin currently only offers 512mbit-per-chip DIMMs (128Mx64bits — 2 sets of 8 64Mx8bits chips on 1 DIMM) right now. Gotta wait until late next year. I did see 2GB dimms available on Dell Inspiron XPS laptops though (to get 4GB on a 2-slot MoBo). VERY EXPENSIVE.

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Yeah! Cheaper, More compact non-volitile memory! Drop any hard-disc based device while it’s on, and its life either immediately ended or its lifespan is dramatically reduced.

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Well, more difficult to hack than e-passports though. Phishing and poorly secured website databases are still the best things to hack to get these.

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If you are a substantial uploader of any content (both legal and illegal), RIAA, MPAA and other corporate vigilante hackers will be always attacking you like the hackers in this article. I learned that being up to date on windows security patches is absolutely important as well as a up-to-date ip blocker, becasue they attack your machine directly as well as your eMule. My eMule is finally stable now (11 days so far) now that my patches are up to date after having to reinstall from a crashed hard disk the day after thanksgiving. Firewalls are relativitly irrelavent because both eMule and BitTorrent need to be able to accept incoming connections to function to their fullest. Widows firewall is very easy to hack. But at least it will protect your non-P2P ports from script-kiddy attacks.

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Games make all the difference. The Wii-for-PS3 trading isn’t *that* widespread though. If it was, then it would be a straight trade, with no price-difference in cash being exchanged

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I’ve had SATA external drives since 2004. You need a SATA-2-SATA enclosure (still a little bit expensive) and you need either a SATA PCMIA card (cheap) or to snake SATA cables into an open card-door in the back of your PC’s case. I hope eSATA turns out to be cool. SATA PCMIA cards’ SATA ports are hot-pluggable.

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Blah for Apple. Go Pirate Bay! YouTube is cool too, and cache-rippable. Still better off with eMule though. YouTube’s size limits hamper video quality. Hopefully Azureus’s Zudeo service can compete directly with YouTube, allowing substantially higher quality (b/c of BitTorrent protocol) video’s that I get to DOWNLOAD AND KEEP WITHOUT DRM.

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Funny. Kid figures out the parental code system and sets a code, so the kid’s less computer literate or just overworked (Adults don’t have the time that kids do regardless of computer literacy) parrent can’t go dabble with it and impulsively set a code (usually to default rating settings).

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Still bulky. Max ouput 20W. 12000 watt-hours / 20 watts is 600 hours though - 25 full 24/7 days. Good for hyperportables, but ruins the hyper-portability as they need a bulky docking station. Bulk is not bad for gaming laptops, but these guys need 70-180W of sustained power output. One has to consider that these things consume oxygen and pollute CO2, though 20-180W is nothing compared to a 700-watt human (a human pollutes CO2 like a 1hp lawnmower engine 24/7) or a 125hp car engine (93250 watts), but still more CO2. Then one has to consider how much vendors will abuse and mark-up the cost of the methanol fuel.

5 Months in a minimum security prison camp. No county-jail contract for his short sentence (it is common practice for <12mo sentences). He gets to self-report to prison. Has to wait for a letter and then has a 10-day deadline. The letter can take up to 6 months to arrive as he has to wait in an anti-overcrowding queue, (I think only low and minimum security prisons get this privilidge). Then he has 5 months of home confinement, which is like minimum security prison, but with much more plentiful visitation. Then 2-3 years of federal-probation (supervised release). I don't know how easy it is to get violated in federal probation compared to Arizona or New York probation (Arizona is easy to get violated and overbooked).

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3 Months for this one. This is in Hong Kong. Just a major uploader as opposed to a major operator of a large semi-private piracy group and BitTorrent tracker/index.

“not much of a difference between Chan’s uploading the movies and someone manufacturing and distributing illegal DVDs.” — The difference is Piracy-4-Money vs Piracy-4-Free. Piracy-4-Money has a higher lost-sale ratio than Piracy-4-Free.

Well people do steal IP addresses. Either shady business (shady is relative to oppressiveness of resident country’s government), or unavailability (resident country’s government refuses to give you IP address or they just don’t have any left), or just don’t want to pay for the IPs. You can configure your computer to use any IP address you please. If you are in another country you can just use a black-market region-free icann-ignoring router, if you even need one. Just if somebody else is using it, you’ll knock both yourself and the other party offline! But if the IP’s owner isn’t using it and hasn’t used in awhile and won’t use it for a long while, he’ll never know!!

I wonder, why are this ‘bogons’ (unassigned or well-known unused ip address ranges) are so aggressively blocked by bluetack, which (hopefully) work for the security and well-being of P2P filesharing users and common-civilian users in general? Do national governments steal IP addresses? Of course the mafia would use stolen IP addresses for their virii and botnets and spam networks. Does the RIAA and MPAA themselves steal IP addresses for monitoring and sabotage?

Either way I get far more hits from NetSentry than I do from MediaSentry. I get the most from cyberverse online, which is MPAA I think. BayTSP uses packet sniffing and seems to have shifted to high-profile, high quality high-price, such as corporate trade secrets and really high-end, high-priced products like $50,000/copy medical records software. BayTSP uses deep-packet sniffing, possibly licensed from CacheLogic. MediaSentry and NetSentry spider the P2P networks with mutant clients and servers.

Kazaa is a thing of the past.

I like this blurb:

“God does not play dice with the Universe. Then again, Einstein never lived to see D&D”

Mix this with the randomness involved in Quantum Mechanics (which Einstein refused to accept), this statement is very true. Mix in the god games (SimCity, Civilization, Master of Orion; much randomness in their systems) with the D&D (Dungeons & Dragons; involves a lot of exotically shaped dice), and it is quite plausible for God to have a created universe that operates at it’s lowest level with systems of randomness that is still structured and balanced.

So I can’t track page views.? The author isn’t maintaining the program anymore and it is beta.? The search keywords and the referrers were always broken, but at least the search keywords were partially usable.? I may re-write this plugin myself as I am experienced in web traffic tracking and reporting.? But until then, unless come across a lucky quick fix, likely dropping all of the ba-stats tables (the sqlmyadmin for the site is broken too and reinstalling don’t fix it and the mySQL database is on a shared bulk-hosting server) and re-installing the plugin, I can’t publish the popular post/page/category/month stats anymore.? The BA-Stats plugin works half-way and was error-free until yesterday (intermittent errors yesterday, stats completly stopped working today), so I don’t know what happned to it.

Ah good on Chinese Communist Party Tyrants Censoring Away and Boosting Piracy

Emule and BitTorrent exempt. Not by chinese censor desire though Censorship will foster more piracy though

So:

Unblock all the damned imports. This is preferred by me and maybe the RIAA and MPAA too because it means more $$$ for them and possibly substantially less piracy due to availability of legit product. China will very likely NOT do this. Mafia / black market pressing plants / Piracy-4-Money will probably be vastly affected so they won’t like it.

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Block Emule and BitTorrent and make it a chore to hack unlike the web censorship. Fits China’s tyrannical nature better. RIAA / MPAA probably indifferent - piracy somewhat curbed but no $$$ from legit sales either. Definitely the preferred choice for the piracy-4-money folk and the mafia in addition to the communist party too.

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Unblock all the damned imports, but block P2P. I wouldn’t like it. I’m an Emule Addict. The Mob wouldn’t like it - availability of legit product affects them more than file sharing. The RIAA / MPAA’s dream come true!!! China would be wishy-washy, especially if they learn of the politically sensitive material on the P2P networks. They may non like sex and porn, but they hate things that encourage resentment of the party’s tyranny more than any actual moral value.

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Just leave things as it is. Indifferent choice to me. The MPAA and RIAA definitely won’t like this - No $$$, rampant piracy amplified by lack of legit product supply. The mafia and illegal pressing plants are impacted as well but at least legit product is still scarce so they still have a market. The communist party will probably be content with this too.

in summary:

Unblock legit product imports & stop censoring:  Me +1; Mob -1; RIAA/MPAA +1; China -1 = +1 / 0 / +1 /  0
Keep censoring and black out P2P:                Me -1; Mob +1; RIAA/MPAA  0; China +1 = -1 / 0 /  0 / +1
Stop censoring but black out P2P:                Me -1; Mob -1; RIAA/MPAA +1; China 0 = -1 / -2 / -1 / -1
Keep censoring and leave P2P Alone:              Me  0; Mob  0; RIAA/MPAA -1; China +1 =  0 / 0 / -1 /  0

Winner (Me only): Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring
Winner (Me+Mob): No Winner; 3-Way Tie
Winner (Me+Mob+RIAA/MPAA): Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring
Winner (Me+Mob+RIAA/MPAA+China): Keep censoring and black out P2P

So Fuck you China-Gov!! ??Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring??? wins in 2 out of 4 scenarios! (Freedom 2; Tyranny 1; Status-Quoe Polarity-Reversal: 0; Status-Quoe: 0). Now this isn???t fair because I didn???t do all 16 combinations of the superset (Me, Mob, RIAA/MPAA=MAFIAA, China commy anti-god bio-terrorists), but I really don???t give a damn about china???s communists, or the RIAA / MPAA to give them their fair share.

Found static html dump archives for wikipedia! The december version of the english wikipedia isn’t out yet. I’m going to wait for that. I’m pretty sure it can be run locally in a web browser, but it may need an external laptop drive all to itself when unzipped! They are in .7z archives. .7z is for 7-zip. It is open source / GPL. I encourage those who want to contribute the bandwidth, to share a copy on Emule!! And rename the files so they are searchable. wikipedia-en-html-1.7z is only mediocre on searchability. Add ‘dump’, ‘offline’, ‘backup’, ’static html’ to the filename will help. Oh yeah china blocks the wikipedia, probably partially because of these dumps, so get them up on Emule! China does not block Emule (Plenty of HighID chinese users)!!! So chinese can get their tibet massacre or pro-democracy crap off of Emule or BitTorrent while the commy-party thinks their ’subjugated’ citizens are mostly pirating away at american movies (encouraged by import restrictions). Oh yeah, Iran doesn’t block Emule either.

An abridged offline wikipedia CD seeded on BitTorrent! Free and legal! Also a 1.5GB (probably imageless) unabridged version for Ipods! Now I wonder If I can download a version for PC viewing (especially TabletPC). MS-HTMLHelp .chm seems to scale to 450MB well for the Penton Media VIP CD (All articles from penton Media IT-related magazines and newsletters since they first started). Not sure if it will scale to an offline Wikipedia. I’ve had 350MB PDFs load pretty well but these wre no-OCR (all pages are images), high-DPI RPG books.

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More stuff free and legal on BitTorrent (and probably made their way to Emule as well)

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Well, recompress it with xvid and seed it back up! Hopefully the oversized 1+GB 5-min clip is compressed with a lossless codec. It would be the only sound reason for the file to be so large. Otherwise it is sheer stupidity.

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ShareConnecter is returning soon! They were pretty good, but I was a very intermittent user.

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I seem to be having a hard time finding Azureus 3.0. Only Zudeo ‘Powered by Azureus‘. They have venture capital now. They are becoming infected. They are in fear of the MPAA. I do hope Zudeo turns out to be more like YouTube with higher quality videos (even if it is moderated though moderator salaries arn’t cheap so that venture capital won’t last long) rather than what BitTorrent is turning into though - A DRM infested MPAA distribution drone. When downloading Zudeo, the filename was ‘Azureus_3_0_windows.exe’. Also I cannot find source code, so it is apparently closed-source now. Also Azureus 2.5 and earlier and 3.0 are on different web sites. A secret / confidential buy-out (and the new owner got the venture funding) may have been involved with an unknown amount of coder turnover.

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Being MPAA infected, I’m pretty sure BitTorrent WILL fuck up uTorrent. Azureus appears to be in the process of becoming MPAA and DRM infected. BitComet is closed-source as well and will probably be consumed by MPAA-BitTorrent as well as they have to have a special license or permission to not release source code or they would be a GPL-violator. BitTornado is open source.

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It’s happening to me to. Watching less TV, and my current TV watching is on a much narrower range of channels — Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, Discovery Times Channel, SciFi Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, GolTV, and MLS Shootout season-package PPV mostly.

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Excellent case study with aggragates and psychology of BitTorrent user behavior. It refers seeders as ‘gifters’ (should be synonymous with ‘givers’ and ‘giving’), legit peers / leechers as traders, and those using leecher-Mods or other hacks as freeriders (synonymous with freeloaders). No sign of the label of ‘thieves’ or ’stealing’ in this paper

Hey, despite being in with the tyrrany, at least he isn’t a hypocrit. I bet the kids got grounded for at least a week when they got busted, and they probably were like most users who get sued — leeches who don’t manage their incoming folder (which modern P2P applications exploit to foster the health of their networks) and neglect the ip blocker.

Like this bit from the TinyMixTapes article:

Dad: Son?
Son: Oh… ummm… I was just finishing up an, uh… Excel document so I cank eep track of all my ponies.
Dad: Oh no! Oh God, no! Did I just see SoulSeek up on your screen?
Son: (Looks down) I???m sorry dad. I mean, you give me all these free CDs from Warner, but frankly, your music sucks.
Dad: I???m so disapointed in you, son. You are taking an artist???s intellectual property, you know that, right?
Son: I know, I know. I???m really sorry… Uh… dad, how much do artists make off of cd sales?
Dad: Uh, way less than 10 percent. muHaHahaha!!!
Son: More ponies for us, eh?
Dad: Yeah, more ponies.

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Hey it looks like the MPAA and RIAA copyright mafia have rigged the ‘Nike+iPod Sport Sport Kit’ to be a ‘Nike+iPod Sport Spy Kit’ to combat F2F trading over short-range Wi-Fi.

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Way too much sueing. It may appear to be pro-P2P, but it is not. It is definitly anti-RIAA so the RIvTP lawyers gladly help. It may affect open-source P2P like Emule even after a shutdown or hand-off if any of the individual developers has an expensive car or house and it would be a RIAA victim sueing instead of the RIAA.. I wouldn’t be surprised if the RIAA lawyers pitch-in with legal help to help their own victims take down P2P developers. Great RIAA (both the music pirate supsect and the RIvTP and other lawyers) pawns in their attacks against the developers.

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He’s Piracy-4-Money, so I really don’t give a damn. I like the ‘laughing all the way to jail’ part though he he. Sounds like the Pirate Bay ‘legal threats’ page.

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This one is an inital Piracy-4-Free release, followed by Piracy-4-Money. It involved screeners. Wish he didn’t sell them. Pre-Theater-Release Screeners are wickedly cool.

Apple is trying to patent a menuing scheme!! Don’t expect me to buy an Ipod. I guess that, if the patent is issued, you can expect to hear from apple’s lawyers if your software uses a menuing scheme with a similar flowchart and involves automated transfer of content between devices.

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I really don’t care if the allofmp3.com site lives or dies. AllOfMP3.com is Piracy-4-Money, unlike the PirateBay who is Piracy-4-Free (Their donation income bobs above and below their operating expenses).

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Lawsuits against linkers to pirated content is not new. It appears the rate of secondary scatter-sueing over copyright infringement (sueing linkers to a host of infringing conent) is on the rise. I’m not sure if P2PNet is being threatened over links to a site with warez or links to a site with a commercial product that is accused of infringing copyright or maybe just to a site or article accused of libel or something? Only details given is “In August, a heavyweight associated with a major Canadian political party threatened p2pnet with a nasty lawsuit unless we took down links to a site mentioned in another law suit. This person also demanded information about the publishers of the site we’d pointed to.”. The rest, including the reference links, is just tangent-filler. It does appear to be libel or political rather than piracy, patents, and copyright by this - “p2pnet refused to cooperate. We can’t for the moment go into more detail because we haven’t yet had a response to our refusals and we mention it only because demands being made by individuals and companies wanting to censor the Net by forcing sites to take down links look like becoming a major issue.”. They are probably better off not responding to the ‘legal threats’ and throwing them in the garbage. Look at the Pirate Bay. They ridicule them and then put them up in a mockery exhibit (‘the legal threats page’). I’d probably publish them with less mockery if i’m not lazy, otherwise just thow them away, but either way never actually officially reply.

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They cracked TivoToGo’s DRM!!! Yeah! If you didn’t have DRM in the first place (A custom PC-DVR kit) you wouldn’t even need to crack the DRM to begin with! PCSurveillance is just from a quick google search. I didn’t do any price shopping yet. These guys appear to sell spy cameras (cops / PIs / digruntled spouses / paranoid people) too and the DVR cards are design for security camera footage, but they should work for DRM-free TV-Ripping too though I knot sure if these hardware-compression hardcore cards will work with PVR/DVR tv-guide software. But if normal PC-PVR cards will be forced to listen to broadcast flags, these security-camera designed DVR cards will be overlooked by the law.

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The only thing that the German and British Football authorities have to become as bad as the RIAA is to start sueing video posters, bloggers, and file sharers with an automated ’sue em all’ campaign with semi-precise targeting with no target circumstance discrimination (some signs of income discrimination though, prefering upper-lower to middle-middle class who both will be too collectable to let the case go to default judgment without fear and decent lawyers will be unaffordable unless very long payment plans are involved) with a totally currupt subpoena system (process of converting IP/Filename to name/address), followed by no-mercy pre-litigation settlement ‘collections’, and finally, no-mercy but bully-cowardish litigation (They quickly back down and run if anything that looks like a meaningful defense is demonstrated).

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Free (Beer + Freedom), Open Source. Good top 10. Creative Commons is not a software work though. They are an organization like the FSF.

Here is some software that might make it easier to cheat up-line firewall censorship (should work on corporate firewalls in addition to China).

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All the better reasons to stay away from MMORPGs. It was probably a good thing that I was taxed out of town in Star Wars Galaxies. I was obsessed for over a year. Protests only helped my Droid Wal-Mart business, but being in a town where new mayor (old mayor grew increasingly inactive on Bria and eventually stepeed down) was the only competitor was bad. I hope CopyBot can keep values down in Second Life for the IRS to stay away. I hate artificial scarcity.

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Iran is really jumping on the censorship wagon. George Bush’s desire for war will eventually ovcome him so he’ll probably be invading Iran, at least in the air, by the time he leaves office. I’d rather see mass defiance though with a flurry of black-market broadband connections from China and Russia, but I think Bush is going to drop the bombs nontheless (at $50,000 per guided bomb and $2 million per cruise missle). I really wish there would be more Iraqis on Emule though. I wonder how Iran’s censorship will affect Iranian Emule users? Emule is robust with 144k cellphone modems, and it will most likely work just fine with 128k connections and 28.8k / 33.6k / 56k connections as long as they don’t cut in/out or stall, as long as not too many downloads are activated at one time (I’ve download rather large files from an australian 56k user on Emule). China’s censorship obviously doesn’t work all that well on Emule and the ‘Great Firewall’ is easily bypassed with some easy to use script-kiddy tools.

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More countries trying to crackdown on ‘loose cannon’ bloggers. Added stuff on the ‘roll of shame’ / ‘enemies of the internet’ / ‘internet black hole’ from Reporters Without Borders, P2P (mostly quoting rsf.org), and Committee to Protect Journalists

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I get so many of these now (today), after the busts and extraditions, that I can’t be bothered with sending back terrorist buzzwords (Nuke, bomb, blow up, etc…) because it has gotten too boring to be a vigilante asshole with these anymore (The FBI has automated but highly lagged terrorist buzzword analysis systems and monitoring policies that could be exploited to help nail fraudulant spammers).

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It appears that the RIAA wants to sham artists some more using internet piracy for leverage! They screw both artists and consumers. This one is about the artist end.

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Hmm I wonder what my terror score is? Steve Jolley? Chungy (Mark Chung)? Landon Donovan and the rest of the National Team? My father (Served on the Nuclear-Torpedo USS Greenfish as an electrician)? How about Joe Eigo or Team Ryouku (Both in Toronto; Chungy has family ties in Toronto as well; All Asian at least partially)? I bet my Terror score may be a litte high from my vigilante asshole-ness with scam-spammers, my modest hoard of stuff on nuclear weapons, my dabblings with area 51, my bad attitude with government secrecy, piracy disposition, and I am probably being watched because I was stuck in NYC during 9-11 and I made disturbing comments about being lucky it wasn’t a Nuke (as in spies planting nukes in enemy cities in the game Civilization). Also I think people like airlines can’t differentiate FBI flags for piracy (50 burnt DVDs + 50 unburnt DVDs in luggage) vs terrorism (especially since the CBP is managing and using the ratings). I’ve flown in X-Plane in airports also. Playing Scorched 3D (3D tank-artillery game) in an airport disturbs some people also. Oh yeah my father also has top-secret clearance (I think he got it while in the Navy) but both he plus the rest of the greenfish crew and the public have been lied to like crazy while sub was in service and the warheads on the torps have no unintended detonation safegaurds and they hide it by only putting in the tube and it goes completly undetected because nobody looked for a nuke (imagine how easy it would be to float a nuke in on a container and detonate it on the ship while in harbor) and his bunk was right on top of one of the nuke torps (warshot) when it was in storage, and the torps were meant for harbor busting in addition to convoy (carrier group) busting.

Mentioned a possibility that autism may be possibly autoimmune and a possible genetic correlation of psoriasis and autism. My mother has severe, but UV-B treatable psoriasis and my father’s side grandmother had severe rheumatoid arthritis. I think my father has a higher autism-quotient than my mother though. He is actually more anti-crowd and introverted than I am, but my mother has more ‘own world’ tendancy than my father does but it isn’t really that bad and she socializes just fine, but is introverted. It might be linkable with the other study finding that autistic kids were more retarded in grey matter than white matter while idiopathic retarded kids were equally retarded in grey and white matter (the autistic functioning level my be determinable by the level of retardation relative to norms — LFA = major grey deficiency and moderate white; HFA = moderate grey and mild or no white deficiency; AS = no, mild, or moderate grey deficiency and non-deficient or above normal white matter)

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Seems to fit to ‘use it or lose it’ concept that applies throughout the human body, especially brain and muscles. I bet it fits best with LFA-turned-HFA with early intervention subset of autistic people.

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I think I definitly agree, and with a lot of parental homework and genuine love. I’ve had early intervention, in state funded special-ed pre-school and hardly any autism awareness between lage age-3 and late-age 4. My official diagnosis at toddler age was of ‘Idiopathic mental retardation or infantile autism’ from the 2nd-opinion psychiatrist in 1977-1978 in AZ, suggesting that autism treatment will be more effective than retardation treatment regardless of autism or brain damage and the preschool in CT favoring this psychiatrist’s report over the original psychiatrist’s report. My kindergarten school-psychology report mentioned significant social and emotional deficiency but also ‘growing out of it’ in regards to ‘infantile autism’ in 1980-1981. I also remember blood tests, CAT and/or PET scan (shot in the butt prior to scan could be either for PET scan but my memory matches a CAT-scanner better than a PET, or for sedation for the EEG) and EEG when I was 6 (1982 i believe) but my mother had little paperwork from it and I remember it better than she does.

I put a very exhaustive user-review on GameSpot for X-Plane 8.0 and I figured that I would echo it onto my blog.

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The scenery has received a major overhaul as of 8.30. Current version is 8.60 beta 4. Updates are very frequent + FREE.

The value is incredible — $50 for X-Plane and your local world region or $70 for the whole-world of scenery. The core Sim is only 1/2 Gigabyte. The 8.0x-8.2x scenery and probably also the x-plane + local-world-rgion only needs about 10gb of space. The 8.3x+ full-world scenery needs 60GB of space for the scenery, but for anything that is not landmark buildings, it is really awesome with topological accuracy that Microsoft can’t beat.

The updates just keep flying out. Got cars on the road now, tire traction modeling (code back-engineered from up and coming high-realism civilian/racing driving sim), simulation of multiple engine contra-rotating propfan aircraft (any transmission ration/setup you can think of actually), even multiplayer or AI air combat, though their is no gore or explosions — a hit means smoke puff and engine shutdown.

The air traffic now uses the same flight modeling as the player’s plane (as of 8.5x+) and if they are military, they are automatically hostile if they are in a different force/color than you, even if your plane is not military or armed! Get a comprehensive version history since 6.06 here

The UI is still geek-optimized, no missions (I personally don’t care for them but I’m sure others do), you’ll never get high-realism cityscapes with high-detail landmark buildings, and plane-maker is clunky for the fuselage design, so if you are looking for acceptable-realism casual-user eye-candy, you are better off with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X.

X-Plane is the most realistic flightsim available, and the consumer version ($50 w/ new world scenery) is exactly identical to the FAA approved version ($500 from PFC or Fidelity except for the aircraft and extension code bundled into their panels (mostly for FAA regulations surrounding mandates for physical hardware control). So when your are flying Barry Leger’s F-22 or an by Morten Melhuus Ultra-Realistic 737-700 (Login required to view; terrorists like uber realism like this you know), you know you are getting the most realism you can get out of a consumer-priced flight simulator ever. Some of the low-cost payware 3rd-party aircraft have exceptional eye-candy at the aircraft level that rivals even Microsoft’s aircraft. Two great sites are c74.net (May be developer of FAA approved aircraft for the FAA approved version of X-Plane, regardless, these are very realistic and pretty looking) and Shade Tree Micro Aviation (Confirmed as source of FAA approved aircraft for the FAA approved x-plane at the X-Plane Features Yahoo Group)

Freddy Krueger: 1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you; 3, 4, better lock your door; 5, 6, grab your crucifix; 7, 8, gonna stay up late; 9, 10, never sleep again!

RIAA: 1, 2, The RIAA’s coming for you; 3, 4, better lock your connection; 5, 6, grab your IP Blocker; 7, 8, gonna manage my shares; 9, 10, never be sued!

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Nice spoof. Look out for these for the lack of links (not even to a comment to a prior story) in the ‘also see’ section or even an in-line link in the article. Claimed that the RIAA want to force libraries to only sell rather than lend out their DVDs and CDs ($1 per music track on a CD, $20 per movie on a DVD) because the patrons will only copy them to blank media before returning it back to the library. The gnu.org article has some actual really happening nasties flying around congress that can be the prelude to both the science fiction short story and the p2pnet spoof if they were to actually pass.

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He probably got bought… Can’t have him going off and creating a newer, better file sharing protocol & app (From the MPAA’s Perspective)….

Their was no blood in the video. It wasn’t much more than a very humiliating whining and screaming from a pamper-mother raised boy (he was being kicked though, but 0 fightback). Going by the way I see the world works, nothing will be done about bullying (or just picking on someone verbally or physically without extortion) until a bully victim DIES, preferably as a direct result of the bullying (not from poor health or from escalation to weapons / lethal unarmed attack resulting from overt retaliation by the victim or death by cop or other authority figure), and then the video going all over the filesharing networks and going on the news, especially if the video makes it on ogrish.com if enough physical torture and pain is involved. Even after that, a bullying crackdown would be hardly more effective than a RIAA/MPAA P2P filesharing crackdown.

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IQ Tests (I know the WAIS-R very well) are optimized for auditory-dominant people (sense of hearing). Visuals often can cope ok. Kinesthetics (Touch dominant) get the shaft. Aspies and some HFA often adapt ok. The rest of the Auties get the shaft, as do moderate+ ADHD people. Non-verbal or highly-withdrawn auties should just be considered untestable with unknown IQ, not just given a made-up or woefully approximated IQ score, as, especialy in the east coast, IQ and standardized test scores are usually 70-80% of the basis of any placement decision (grades and behavior overrides provide the rest). I think Auties should be tested every year or two at least until ages 12-16 if they show progress or sucessfully overcome their language and sensory integration difficulties.

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Hey I got banned WrongPlanet.net for evangelizing file sharing! I’m pretty sure thats what happened to the aspie shotgun killer. Many of the most-active members are highly liberal-socialist idealistic whiney-moms. But the people sueing wrongplanet.net can take their lawsuit and shove it up your ass!

Trade Guevera. Dump Jolley, Meola, Henderson and one other guy. Seems consistant with Red Bull. 3 Guys consume half the salary cap. Most of the guys with medium-high salaries (60-200K) would have to be dumped or they would have to run a major young-player sweatshop to have a productive cog in their marketing engine (Red Bull has marketing EVERYWHERE).

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Lanny is getting married! Second paragraph. He has lived with her for a couple of years now. I think the marriage will stay stable after the sex wears out.

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I learned that video games (Non-frustration, no indulging violence), game boys, books, and kitty cats lower my blood pressure (I bought a Omron from between 130/85 and 140/100 (pulse pressure between 40 and 50) to between 120/80 and 130/90 (pulse pressure between 35 and 45). I tend to have constant upper-130s blood presure when traveling and it goes up also when thinking anxious thoughts (I also have 130s readings when just waking up but I do snore badly and I think I have non-breath-hold sleep apnea, whatever you call - breathing resets from snore-jam).