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Video game pirate headed to slammer

Video game pirate headed to slammerOutstanding!!!True, it's only four months but that should be plenty of time for Bubba to romance him....Will he remove the parrot before or after foreplay.Excellent. Now he can meet other people's parrots at the state bed & breakfast. Maybe they will pass him around like...

Tags: Games, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Viruses and worms, Cable, SECURITY, Network technology, Hitesh Patel, video game, Hell OJ, X-Box, pirated game, Bubba, O.J. Simpson, game, SQL Slammer, video

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

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Piracy and the Apple App Store

PiracyI'm curious as to how they discovered that 80%. I'm assuming (I know, bad idea) that they post the app on the app store (well, Apple does after reviewing it) and someone has to buy it in order to pirate it or is the App store itself broken into? If...

Tags: Games, piracy, game, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes

Screw it!Let's just pull the friggin' plug.I'm so tired of this crap. Really, I am.I kinda feel the same way.By the time the lawyers, big corporations, and the politicians get down with the Internet, it won't be worth the powder to blow it to Hell. It was originally designed...

Tags: Channel management, INTERNET, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!They sure have...Now if they'd only do so by making an actual good product rather than just locking everybody into using it....No SoI've been running Linux since giving up on Windows by having too many BSOD screens with Windows ME. And frankly, given Windows Genuine PITA...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Xbox handheld coming...eventually

Xbox handheld coming...eventuallyA Little Late, Don't You Think?Another FLOP.Late and as always a little short.Don't get me wrong, I like my Xbox 360, but I like my PS3 more. The definition and shear power of my PS3 runs circles around the 360, not to mention all of the extra's...

Tags: Game players, Games, handheld, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox, game, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...

Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Microsoft gets its edge back

Microsoft gets its edge backrplat"edge"? Microsoft hasn't had an original idea since "Visiplot/Visitrend".Kicking butt is what they do best...This is pure heaven for my rep and I. I of course knew Microsoft would strike back and strike back hard they have. I have done my part by re-launching "Rotten...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or joint venture?

Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or joint venture?Should buy OQOMicrosoft should buy OQO, and get specialty hardware design expertise.There is a clear trend. Oracle, Apple, IBM, HP are all software and hardware companies. It would be to Microsoft's advantage to get "Microsoft-branded" hardware into the marketplace.RE: Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Game players, Microsoft Corp., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

BSA says piracy cost $50 billion, awaits its IP czar

BSA says piracy cost $50 billion, awaits its IP czarThere is no such thing as piracy...Piracy is what happens to ships on the high seas.Un-licensed software is NOT piracy! Useing the word "piracy" to denote un-licensed software is just a form of propaganda.With product activation, Draconian DRM and EULAs that...

Tags: Well Let, Business Software Alliance, piracy, IP Czar, Cyber Mafia, IP

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

The two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft

The two trends that are conspiring against MicrosoftOpen Source softwareOpen Source software that frees a business from the grasp of licenses and enables them to branch out.Good article......I largely agree with the points made.MS have lost direction a bit and need to focus again.Neither trend is sustainableSmartphones are an awkward...

Tags: Smart phones, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

DoD Gates: We're always under cyberattack

DoD Gates: We're always under cyberattackThis "private initiative" BS has gone too far!DoD contracts need security teeth in them tied to a cybernoose around the corporate CEO's necks. National security is too important to compromise.My God! We pay enough already so an isolated and secure network is not...

Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, Vertical industries, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense, cyberattack, government

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

PirateBay founders guilty

PirateBay founders guiltymehPiracy is NOT "ok". It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's cheap, and it's evil!Now, that being said, I'm going to a flaming pit in a handbasket when I die.The recording/movie industry has no one to blame for their "immense damages" except for themselves. They held onto business practices...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PirateBay, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'

Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'This would be the Charlie Millerwho won by cheating, correct? By using an already known Perl exploit that Apple hadn't patched yet in OS X.The event organizers know he cheated, but didn't have the onions to call him on it. Well, actually, they were...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Miller, Apple Inc., Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage

Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage They are both irrelevant... or should have been.Adrian was originally wanting to send a fax, which prompted him to find a fax template and WGA/OGA insisted that he needed to first recertify his Sharepoint and Project sw.So Adrian would have been better off using Open Office.Unless...

Tags: Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

News to know: Microsoft's layoffs, Google's profits, Win7 netbooks, White House tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, White House, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Select testers to get Office 14 alpha release any day now

Select testers to get Office 14 alpha release any day nowAny idea if you can scan directly into Word?With Office 2007, MS actually had to issue a technical bulletin.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827100Microsoft morons at their finest. Office XP is one of the most pirated programs for a reason: for power users it has...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 14

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

SecuROM DRM sucks

SecuROM DRM sucksThey are never going to accept thatUnless they are legally forced to. That means massive class-action lawsuits, and no one thus far wants to go that far.Read carefully and see the message...The relevant line to the post you are responding to is:"how many pirates have machines with the...

Tags: Games, SecuROM DRM, game, piracy, SecurROM

Discussion threads 2008-12-18

When Linux fails

When Linux failsBravo nice articletruly love it .....All very good points! In China, the little corner shops make a meagerliving installing and supporting pirated Windows and MS Office, and they have years doing it. They see NO reason to switch to Windows, where the end users do not need any...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux Fails, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0

Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0Why are you advertising the merits of a trojan?This whole blog post reads like an ad, it almost sounds like you're bragging about how improved the latest version of the trojan is.Committed to your "piracy"That's really cute. Check the description vs. the URL....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Financial services, Microsoft Windows XP, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Fake Windows XP, Fake Windows XP activation trojan, activation trojan

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake...

Tags: Layoff, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-10-24