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Uhh... I honestly am looking forward to the day the vinyl generation of judges die off (of natural causes), and get replaced by mp3 generation ones.-eleman (August 06, 2015, 10:36 AM)
If you’ve used iTunes CD ripping feature recently, did you know you were breaking the law? If you backed up your PC to a remote cloud platform, did you know you were taking part in an illegal activity? Yes, thanks to a recent overturning of revised copyright legislation by the High Court, copying any copyright protected media, whether from a CD to a PC, one device to another, or even backing up to a remote cloud is entirely illegal.
The High Court decision came through last month, where it overturned a previous ruling by the British government made in 2014, which legalised the copying of privately owned media for private use. A number of music studios were scared by that though and assumed people would stop buying music, so it lobbied and had the decision made unlawful in June this year.
So technically almost all copying is illegal, and this has been clarified as such by the Intellectual Property Office, which TorrentFreak recently spoke to. It specifically highlighted how it is illegal to rip a CD to a PC, making iTunes illegal and its advertising potentially infringing of copyright law, since it advertises the feature.
What I tried to say is that when I'm connecting to DC on https, the YT links in http do not even show... in my browser (Pale moon x64, Firefox x86), not even the embedding border or reserve space for itDoesn't accessing DC using https disable YT displaying, because it's connecting with http ? (AFAIR)-Ath (August 05, 2015, 11:43 AM)
It just occurred to me...how could it be a HTTPS issue? the DC2 Beta link doesn't have HTTPS on it o.O-Stephen66515 (August 05, 2015, 11:51 AM)-Ath (August 05, 2015, 01:20 PM)
Doesn't accessing DC using https disable YT displaying, because it's connecting with http ? (AFAIR)-Ath (August 05, 2015, 11:43 AM)
Doesn't accessing DC using https disable YT displaying, because it's connecting with http ? (AFAIR)-Ath (August 05, 2015, 11:43 AM)
It has to do with the link the yt is posted under, not the link you're connecting through DC with (AFAIK)-wraith808 (August 05, 2015, 11:45 AM)
Am I the only person in the world who doesn't have any plans to use this, and will just continue to use a "Guest Network" which I can enable/disable with a few clicks via my routers settings page (It creates a Wi-Fi network that gives zero access to your main one, and because it is broadcasting as if the main doesn't exist, has full security features for the password (WEP/PSK etc) or can be completely open.)-Stephen66515 (August 04, 2015, 04:49 PM)
Use WiFi Sense on your guest network. Extra security without the hassle of having to type in passwords for your guests.-Deozaan (August 04, 2015, 05:25 PM)
Part of the delight is that Microsoft never mentioned (at least in anything I saw) just what this notification would look like. I even did a quick search, and couldn't find a picture. I went ahead and pulled down all 5 of the ISOs I need and have worked from there, but just got the notification on my main box. And in case you haven't yet seen it, the "Windows 10 Upgrade is Ready Notification" looks like.... this:
(see attachment in previous post)-x16wda (August 03, 2015, 06:49 PM)
Well, tbh, when it comes to this...As far as I am aware, they don't e-mail you shit to click to download - They just download it to your PC if you pre-ordered via the annoying popup, then it will give you an annoying popup to tell you it's done doing whatever it did.
It does specifically say, in that stupid popup, that when it is ready, that window will let you know - absolutely nothing about "We will e-mail you"-Stephen66515 (August 03, 2015, 02:35 PM)
dont be too quick of the mark there Stephen - I got asked when I 'reserved' my copy, if I wanted email notification.-tomos (August 03, 2015, 03:05 PM)
Bingo!Combine an old scam with a new confusion and the fun ensues promptly at click here. Sure, I get where he's coming from...but folks need warned to think before they click.
-Stoic Joker (August 03, 2015, 04:49 PM)
Anyone want to summarize a "magic bullet" method of separating the fake ones from the real ones?-TaoPhoenix (August 03, 2015, 09:24 AM)
Check for spelling and grammar errors. I have never seen a phishing or scam email that didn't have such errors. But a company like MS is going to have everybody from their marketing department to their lawyers proofreading anything they send, it's not going to have such errors.
It seems that the folks who engage in scams like this are the kind of people who think they can get by without having to do their own work, and so they never did their own studying back in school, either.-CWuestefeld (August 03, 2015, 02:26 PM)
It has sweet-FA to do with Windows 10 - It's just randomware...-Stephen66515 (August 03, 2015, 09:31 AM)
While basically true, the reality is it's leveraging the confusion surrounding the new-fangled Windows 10 upgrade delivery system to get people to launch it.-Stoic Joker (August 03, 2015, 11:08 AM)
Just in time for the new week, we have this from fosshub.
We have bets in at work on which client will report this to us first after honkling their file server... (honkling = a whole letter worse than just honking a box...)According to the Cisco’s security team, they have found a new scamming campaign that spreads CTB-Locker ransomware. This trouble comes in the form of a fake Microsoft email, telling Windows users that their Windows 10 download is ready.
These messages in Windows 10 ransomware scam mimic the emails sent by Microsoft, along with some text mistakes and changes. However, scammers have managed to spoof the address of origin as [email protected]. To make the messages look more authentic, attackers are using the same color scheme used by Microsoft to fool the users. Thus, these emails look more legitimate.-x16wda (August 03, 2015, 05:27 AM)
Anybody else notice that thread it 3 years old?-Stephen66515 (July 30, 2015, 04:28 PM)
I just looked at it as the OP updating the thread with new information, i.e.for Screenshot Captor there is only an older portable version (4.5.0) available at PortableApps.com available:
http://portableapps.com/node/30465
I suppose he could have created a new thread... but why?-wraith808 (July 30, 2015, 07:23 PM)
I am a member of Reddit, because I once wanted to say something, and I have not yet figured out how to cancel the annual, auto-renewing, PayPal pay system.-Curt (July 23, 2015, 02:12 AM)I don't think you need to pay to say things on Reddit.-Deozaan (July 25, 2015, 10:13 PM)
that sounds very dubious Curt
I'd do a bit of research to try and find out what exactly is going on there...-tomos (July 26, 2015, 03:27 AM)
MilesAhead @6,000
(see attachment in previous post)-tomos (July 24, 2015, 03:24 PM)
I just discovered that I have a page of bookmarks about which I'd forgotten.
The ability to bookmark an individual post, with app102's suggestion for attaching a note, would give me better than a 50-50 chance of ever finding a specific post.-cranioscopical (July 21, 2015, 05:25 PM)
Microsoft has revealed the end of life date for its latest operating system, Windows 10. The soon to be released OS will reach its end of life support date on the 14th of October 2025, despite previous reports suggesting that Windows 10 would be the ‘final’ version.
The new end of life date was revealed on the Windows life-cycle fact sheet, which shows that mainstream support for Windows 10 will end on the 13th of October 2020, with extended support set to end five years later. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide regular updates for the software or any technical assistance.
