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The University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic filed an access to information request but received only a document stating the title of the agreement, with everything else blacked out.
Hi Renegade. I think I tried one of your other dup finders before I tripped over this one. You probably know the one. The window had two BIG scan pics in the middle and lists at top and bottom? Unfortunately I wasn't able to customize it (i.e. make the TOO BIG pics smaller) and the lists bigger without maxing the window.
I don't rememberdoes yours find duplicate audio or music? Does it scan network computers?
-crabby3 (January 24, 2012, 06:01 AM)
According to this, it's a fake.-jgpaiva (January 24, 2012, 03:49 AM)
I'm confused by this bit:are you truly apart of the anonymous consciousness?-Perry Mowbray (January 23, 2012, 10:52 PM)
January 28th, 2012 (12 AM MIDNIGHT EASTERN STANDARD TIME UNITED STATES!!!)
DOWNLOAD LOW ORBIT ION CANNON
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
OR HIGH ORBIT ION CANNON
http://rapidshare.co...36018600/Hoic2.1.zip
TO browse anonymously go to
https://www.torproje...oad/download.html.en
this will change your IP
Hello. People of the world. We are anonymous. The time has come. An online War has begun between anonymous, the people, and the government of the united states. While SOPA and PIPA may be postponed from congress, this does not guarantee that our internet rights will be upheld. For those unaware, there is still ACTA or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. You. The public. I have a proposal. Would you like to become part of the greatest internet protest and first official cyber war? Anonymous is in the hands of us all. It is time to take action. Operation global blackout is ongoing and everyone can be a part of it. In the description I have provided everything you will need. Our first target... Facebook... While it is true that facebook has at least 60,000 servers... It is still possible to bring it down... Anonymous needs the help of the people... The people who want to take a stand against the government... The people who want to make a difference... This is what we must do... But first... you must ask yourself, are you truly apart of the anonymous consciousness? Do you fully grasp our ideas and understand what we are. If you do... Then one thing is clear... Together... We the people... We anonymous... Can make a change... We've already crashed CBS... Warner Brothers... And FBI sites... Facebook is our next aim... This will be enough to show them indeed that we are not, playing. Now I will give some general instructions on what to do in order to help crash facebook... First... you will need to download the L-O-I-C or, Low Orbit Ion Cannon from the link provided in the description... Once downloaded... Open the program and type in the URL space http://www.facebook.com and hit lock on... It will tell you facebooks ip address. Because there are different servers, there will be more than one ip address that will pop up on different instances, but they will all be similar. Next you will go to the box that says attack options. Change the threads to 1000. Then you will hit the button that says IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER... tHIS WILL NOT WORK if everyone does it at random times... This is why... I would like to conduct this operation at exactly 12 A M on January 28th 2012. A five day preparation... That way... We will have a stronger army built up to fight for our rights... Do not fear... There is no way you can get caught... Hundreds of thousands of us citizens and those of the anonymous idea will all be participating... They cannot take down that large of a group... This is your chance... Our chance... The fate of the internet... Rests in your hands... In owr, hands... Government Of The United States... Leaders of the new world order... You have been warned... Operation Global Blackout Part 2, Facebook. Engaged... We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. They should of Expected us...
YOU CAN CHANGE THE THREADS TO 1000 or 10,000 or more!
However, I refuse to blame someone that makes $400 a year for pirating my software. Those people aren't the problem.-Renegade (January 23, 2012, 10:39 AM)
I hear what you're saying. But you have to be careful with situational ethics. All distinctions such as these avoid dealing with the underlying issue by creating exceptions. And it leads down an endless path. By way of example:
(see attachment in previous post)I don't have an issue with people who are taking something against the wishes of its creator if they are making less than $400.
What about if they're making $450 or less?
I still don't have a problem with that...
Ok. How about $600?
Not too much a problem...
How about $100,000?
Yes. I'd have a problem with those people.
Why?
Because they can afford it.
How do you know they can? Or the people making only $400 can't?
Well...there's a big difference between $400 and $100,000...
So what? Maybe the $100K guy is paying all the medical bills for his mother and is broke for all intents and purposes. Maybe the guy with $400 has no bills or responsibilities because he lives with his parents who pay for everything and don't care. So that $400 is pure disposable money burning a hole in his pocket.
Well...you can come up with an exception for everything.
Precisely. If $400 is ok, why not $450? If $450 is ok, how about $600? If ...
Ok, ok. I see your point.
Glad you do. Because I grabbed a cracked copy of your software off the torrents last week.
That wasn't right of you to do that.
How can you know possibly argue that?
Because you could afford it. And so could a lot of the people who will be downloading it.
How can you possibly know that?
Something seems wrong with this argument you're making.
There's nothing wrong with it. You're the one that introduced exceptions into the debate as wildcard arguments. Once you do that, you can argue virtually anything and not be wrong.
But...but...
But me no buts! Unless you want to go back and possibly consider there are the deeper issues of morality and personal responsibility lurking under all this - and trying to duck it by introducing exceptions isn't an effective way to get down to the real issue.
I'm a little conflicted by all of this.
Don't worry. We all are. So let's not let ourselves get distracted by bullshit arguments while we're trying to get it all sorted out.
Anybody ever tell you you're a royal pain in the butt sometimes?
At least once a day...it keeps me young.-An example
-40hz (January 23, 2012, 11:16 AM)
We can't be so scared and defensive all the time. We are people, we live with people, we have to be able to trust each other blindly on some level. We can't be afraid to ask for help if we need it. We need to be able to offer help without feeling like we were taken advantage of.-superboyac (January 23, 2012, 01:09 PM)
The problem with US law enforcement is its tendency to operate with a broadsword and executioner's axe rather than a scalpel. And to equate 'equal justice' with a "one size fits all" approach to enforcement.
-40hz (January 23, 2012, 12:43 PM)
Article I, Section 6 states:
“The Senators and Representatives…shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same….”
If someone is making half the money that I am and is battling with the cab driver, I am mentally far more patient with it than with the other girl. Is that fair of me? No. But it's right.-superboyac (January 23, 2012, 01:09 PM)
Damn Straight! Back in the day when things were really tight, I'd fight tooth and nail for every dime. Now it's just simpler to pay it and get on with my day. I'm not rich by any standards...but I'm not in a constant and total bind either. So I do my part to "Share-the-wealth" by not being a dick about nickels.-Stoic Joker (January 23, 2012, 05:13 PM)
Not sure still... I still see them as freedom-fighters. I don't see any terrorism. I see liberation... Maybe I'm just an idiot...
OH! I've seen the light! Yes... Ignorance is strength! War is peace...-Renegade (January 23, 2012, 10:49 AM)
Patriot/Freedom Fighter = successful revolutionary.
Traitor/Terrorist = unsuccessful revolutionary.
The tactics don't change. The collateral sufferings are real. And very often, the reprisals and "payback" continue long after one side attains complete victory.
But the winning side gets to tell the 'official' story. And put the spin on it.
(see attachment in previous post)
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Nice reflection on the subject here.-40hz (January 23, 2012, 12:03 PM)
Then STFU about piracy. Period.-Renegade (January 23, 2012, 10:39 AM)
@Ren - minor niggle & a personal request: Could we maybe not do the STFU thing here? There's better ways to say it...and this isn't MySpace.-40hz (January 23, 2012, 11:29 AM)
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The real problem with this is that textbooks published through this system can only be sold through Apple's retail distribution system - iTunes or whatever parallel system they set up for the educational market. See here for a discussion of the iBooks EULA.
Big publishers who can afford multiple product lines may like this because it eliminates used textbook reselling and it's efficient for them to pay Apple 30% to handle everything, but it has the potential to really screw small publishers and authors by locking them into Apple and out of the rest of the educational market.-xtabber (January 23, 2012, 08:56 AM)
Well it would be interesting to know what percentage of content on MegaUpload was legal v illegal.The disease being lack of access/means to legitimate means to get digital content.-Renegade (January 22, 2012, 08:54 PM)
Yes and no. There is an 'entitled' generation growing up for whom they very concept of paying for music doesn't make sense. Pretending that, when offered with a very convenient means to buy music, they will choose too is as big lie as the ones Big Content are spewing.-Eóin (January 23, 2012, 08:49 AM)-40hz (January 23, 2012, 08:53 AM)
Agree 100%.
Some people operate out of an innate sense of returning value for value received - and many don't.
Returning value is an adult concept. Some never reach that level of personal maturity. And, from my own casual observations, I strongly suspect their numbers are growing.
But considering how much our society has come to accept childish behavior, it's hardly surprising.-40hz (January 23, 2012, 09:00 AM)
I just had one of those birthdays last week that my family insisted on celebrating - for purely sadistic reasons!-J-Mac (January 22, 2012, 09:36 PM)
Hay me too! Happy day we were trying to ignore.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 10:16 PM)
On the other hand MegaUpload and similar sites are profiting by distributing other peoples works. Once you make money, you're no longer sharing, and you deserve to be stopped.-Eóin (January 22, 2012, 05:10 PM)
Ummm... no. They're profiting by giving space and bandwidth to people to share whatever they want. They aren't distributing anything.
For instance... I have a friend that does his own music. He used megaupload to store backups of works in progress, and allow others to get them. His backups are gone now. (He still has them, and can use another service... but still...)-wraith808 (January 22, 2012, 06:35 PM)
I did a double-take when I read this: MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought
Hard to believe - this seems quite brazen.
I like this response from publicknowledge, in the link provided here: Public Knowledge Advises Movie Lobby To Stop Threatening Politicians-IainB (January 22, 2012, 09:44 AM)
This certainly follows what many people assumed was happening, and fits with the anonymous comments from studio execs that they will stop contributing to Obama, but to be so blatant about this kind of corruption and money-for-laws politics in the face of an extremely angry public is a really, really, really tone deaf response from Dodd.
It shows, yet again, that he just doesn't get it. People were protesting not just because of the content of these bills, but because of the corrupt process of big industries like Dodd's "buying" politicians and "buying" laws. To then come out and make that threat explicit isn't a way to fix things or win back the public. It's just going to get them more upset, and to recognize just how corrupt this process is.
Well, the censorship continues:-Renegade (January 20, 2012, 10:59 PM)
How about this one for censorship?!
http://www.guardian....sentence-pornography
Iranian web programmer faces execution on porn charges
Saeed Malekpour sentenced to death after allegedly confessing under torture-TaoPhoenix (January 22, 2012, 09:33 AM)
Well, the censorship continues:
http://rt.com/news/i...license-revoked-333/-Renegade (January 20, 2012, 10:59 PM)
PressTV is almost lucky. Al Jazeera got bombed instead, in Baghdad, when the war criminals did not like their news.-tranglos (January 22, 2012, 07:41 AM)
I seem to remember there being "four boxes" without even the coffin ... Got it - y'all forgot Jury Box.
The four boxes of liberty is a meme that proposes: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order." It is often quoted by conservative groups that oppose gun control."
http://en.wikipedia....our_boxes_of_liberty-TaoPhoenix (January 21, 2012, 03:22 AM)
Not sure where I fall in there... I get the distinct impression "word" probably got passed back to the Big Players that Uncle Sam would greatly appreciate it if they downplayed the thing since the Legislature had already made what they no doubt felt was a conciliatory gesture by taking the bills off the table. Temporarily.-40hz (January 21, 2012, 01:08 PM)
Hmmm... shouldn't it be ammo, then jury?-wraith808 (January 21, 2012, 10:32 AM)
You're supposed to be ON the jury, not BEFORE it after the Ammo use!-TaoPhoenix (January 21, 2012, 06:44 PM)
On the whole political angle...
MPAA Directly and Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough to Stay Bought
(see attachment in previous post)-wraith808 (January 21, 2012, 04:13 PM)
I think this nails it:
http://boingboing.ne...ssigs-salt-talk.html
"Lessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash they received for voting in certain directions. That is now illegal and eliminated. This new type of corruption is more subtle, indirect and harder to outlaw…. the real money to be made in Congress is the relative fortune to be made as a lobbyist after leaving office. The differential in wages between a staff member and a lobbyist has escalated a hundred fold in the past 40 years. Now 43% of staff go on to become lobbyists. The promise of a well-paying job working for corporate interests later is enough to warp voting now."-mouser (January 19, 2012, 03:42 PM)
Britain has revoked the press license of Iran-based English language broadcaster Press TV, accusing it of violating press regulations. But some say the decision was really motivated by British geopolitical interests.
The Office of Communications (Ofcom), a government-approved watchdog overseeing broadcasting and telecommunications in the UK, says the channel does not control its content.
It also says the channel’s license should be held by its office in Tehran, not London, since its editorial control is clearly coming from the Iranian capital.
In addition, Press TV is accused of not paying a fine of £100,000 ($156,000) for airing an interview with an imprisoned journalist in 2009.
