This, and with the amount of corruption in the legal system there’s a chance they might very well get away with it. I know this is just an addition to the case, but it brought it to mind again for me.
What this amounts to is: “We don’t like the law, so let’s just ignore it [...]
After Jay pointed it out to me, I noticed that the last two posts were showing up as having been written by Codeman. While it would be cool to actually see Codeman around here again, he’s not writing at the moment - those two posts are both by me (Pacdan). I was logged into the [...]
That Windows usability is an epic failure. And that’s why I don’t get all this anti-Vista BS. In my experiences, Vista is more stable (not saying much), more compatible, and much easier to use than XP ever was. Why anyone would insist on staying with XP when, although it has it’s issues, Vista works far [...]
OK, so Rapidshare seem to have decided to drop the absolutely ridiculous cat vs. dog CAPTCHA’s. Good, right? Not with what they’ve come up with for a replacement:
What the heck is that? Pseudo-3D landscape CAPTCHA? Why do they expect us to put up with this crap when there’s many better services out there, some without [...]
In addition to adding no real features of note and not delivering on the improvements in resource consumption that were promised (it may be better, but it’s still a memory hog), Firefox 3 broke my sidebar - apparantly over an objection to the h2 tag. I’ve got it more or less fixed, at least for [...]
And you can’t figure out why it’s quite that low - 11 GB of temp files certainly makes quite a difference.
Windows Media Player (11) takes 14 seconds to add a song to my playlist. 14 full seconds (I really timed it). Isn’t that just a little bit ridiculous? Add it to my long list of complaints with the program, it’s still not going to stop me from using it (at least not yet). Still seems [...]
Another one of the stranger errors I’ve seen: “An expected exception has occurred.” If you’re expecting the exception, couldn’t you put in an error catcher or something. Or are you just trying to make me nutty?
So, what does everyone think of the site design. I’m seriously contemplating changing the theme, although I don’t really have anything in mind other than maybe less blue. At the very least, I’d like to redo the banner. Codeman had a nice one he was working on at one point, but it just needed a [...]
I’m now upgraded to the newest version of WordPress (long overdue) courtesy of Jay. The bad news is, they completely redid the dashboard interface and it was so, so, so incredibly much better before. I guess I’ll go with it, though - nothing I can do. I’ll probably get used to it after a while [...]
Well, actually I’ve been using the Vuze client for a while - but only for the Azureus bittorrent client, not the Vuze service itself. Today, however, I actually decided to check out what was on Vuze and ended up downloading a low budget post-apocalyptic affair called Afterworld, which comes in five episode packs. Downloading was [...]
That is not a CAPTCHA. That is retarded. How is anyone ever supposed to read it, not to mention picking out only the letters that have a cat on them, which was a stupid idea to begin with. I had nothing against CAPTCHA codes, back when they were short and readable, but the system has [...]
In what should prove to be a fascinating experiment in new blogging ideas comes BayWords, a blogging service based on WordPress and promising completely uncensored blogging, at least up to the point of actually breaking the law, coming from none other than the creators of The Pirate Bay. So in concept this is all well [...]
Well not really, but this article mentions the last.fm group “People With An Absurdly Large Music Collection,” which I lead. So I at least thought it was kind of cool even though I wasn’t actually mentioned at all (two of my members were, though).
Of course it still all boils down to complicated math stuff, but I never expected to be getting a lecture about public key encryption.
That programmers these days are completely incompetent when the little application that goes with the fingerprint scanner manages to be using over 1GB of RAM. No lie. I have no idea how you manage to do that, but it’s pretty damned ridiculous.
In my fucking face. What wasn’t dead before certainly deserves to be now, and it looks like my video card and the wireless receiver for my keyboard and mouse were already toasted. Why me? Why me? Why me? And it smells like burnt power supply in here again (for the uninitiated, it’s a fucking vile [...]
And at the most inconvenient of times, too. And I bet none of my documents are on my flash drive either, or my external HD, because, of course, they wouldn’t be…just to annoy me. I really need to start keeping web backups, or something. Or at least putting stuff up on Google docs to use [...]
Our DSL seems to be registering at 3 Mbps, rather than our standard 1.5. This is actually what we’re paying for, but the original word was that it’s not available in our area, and thus we only have the 1.5 Mbps service. I don’t know if this is a fluke or a permanant change, but [...]
Completely ignoring the fact that by letting the 360 gain this much ground Sony already lost the console wars, PS3 fanboy has 10 reasons why they think the PS3 is still relevant this year, only one of which is actually well, relevant.
1. Blu-Ray Won: Yes, so PS3 will probably become the dominant HD movie player [...]
Oh, nevermind that would be Within The Realm of A Dying Sun, so I was close. And I wasn’t trying to be creative - that was actually the first thing that popped into my mind when I wrote that title. Given the positive response last time, I thought I’d look into what people actually wanted, [...]
So I went to edit the profile on one MySpace page, but since my cookies had been cleared it redirected me to login. So instead of logging back in, I accidentally log in with the information for my other profile, which is saved in Firefox, and it lets me back on the edit page for [...]
What could cause a computer to only recognize the sound card (actually motherboard sound) only intermittently (i.e. sometimes you start the computer and it works fine, sometimes it doesn’t recognize the device). Usually if it’s not working, just restarting will get it to go, though there have been a couple of times I had to [...]
Mario Kart Wii is going to support “normal” control schemes via classic controller or GameCube controller, rather than strictly going with the motion sensitive Wiimote on side approach. I hate playing racing games like that, having tried Need For Speed Carbon on Wii at Codeman’s. This seems much more sensible in maintaining the precision that’s [...]
Of the (rejected) Microsoft-Yahoo deal: One company of decreasing Internet relevance + One company of decreasing Internet relevance = Waste of everyone’s time and money.`
For this:
We have e-mail, we have real IDE’s, we have technology. This is just obscene, not to mention exceedingly difficult to use. Oh, and did I mention the part about the teacher not speaking English?
I actually had cause to use the new integrated AIM client that rests in the Gmail inbox. I had it all set up before, but had never actually received a message in it. It’s a serious case of neat concept but completely impractical. I guess it works for short conversation, but in all reality it [...]
First, for anyone who is considering buying an MP3 player, I unconditionally recommend Creative brand products. I’ve had my 30GB Nomad Zen Xtra for more than 3 years and it still works perfectly, quite a feat for a hard drive based drive. Anyway, that’s not what I’m here to discuss, though I wish I’d never [...]
What’s a good rule of thumb for dealing with things of potentially questionable legality in blogging? Specifically, I meant dealing with hacking. Is this alright to discuss, or is it better to just leave it alone. Actually the item in question isn’t illegal at all, just morally questionable, but I’m just asking as a general [...]
Dad got me a computer that someone he knows was getting rid of. It’s actually pretty nice, though I can’t build an arcade cabinet out of it (not like I have the space to store it anyways, but I still want one) since Dad wants it to use. It’s got a moderately bad malware (why [...]
