Comment Re:Good recruits? (Score 1) 154
Each attack leads to the creation of new terrorists
Actually, I'm pretty sure its SecuROM that makes new terrorists. They're all just angry about their copies of Spore, the Sims 2, and Fallout 3 not working.
Comment Re:None of them (Score 1) 116
Just wandering, (if you've seen any) what do you think of Canadian comedy and TV? As one of the very few people in Southern Ontario who actually knows what the term "Americanization" means, I'd like to hear the opinion of say Corner Gas of someone with taste living in the middle of the Televised hellhole. Its bad enough that a good 95% of what I get up here is Americanized, I'd like to know if what little distinction remains is actually good or if I'm just holding on to the last bit of non mainstream American TV here and convincing myself its good.
Comment A Homebrewer's best friend (Score 3, Funny) 53
Console game downloading services, giving hackers holes to load homebrew through since 1981
Comment Re:Start buying disk again? (Score 1) 275
I used to use the online multi-scanners, but the DSL Slam in my area can only handle 800kb/s up so large batches of files took FOREVER, with the exception of Kaspersky, which is on a seperate box and used to scan network SMB/SAMBA shares, they're all run locally on my XP install. As long as you make sure you only have one resident scanning at a time there's no conflict. The doenside is that it can get tiring manually scanning once with each utility, but it helps to kill false-positives and catches those few that slip through one or 2 of them.
Comment Re:Start buying disk again? (Score 1) 275
If you know what you're doing you're safe. Just never run anything that hasn't gotten good response from the community, doesn't show up as malicious by at least 5 Antimalware systems (I use Kaspersky, Avast!, ClamAV, Spybot: S&D, and Ad-Aware), and you haven't already tested in an isolated Virtual Machine. Besides, I only use my XP install for games so if it gets killed, no big deal.
Comment Re:Start buying disk again? (Score 1, Interesting) 275
Exactly! Most of the music/DVDs/software/games I buy physical copies of never leave their packaging, as soon as I own them I fire up BitTorrent/Gnutella/Warez forums and download myself a copy. I'm not exactly sure about the legality in the states under the DMCA but here in Canada it's 100% legal under the Private Copying section of the Copyright Act and the Computer Programs section if you want a rock-solid defense for backing up Software/Games to get "copies" by any methods you like as long as you actually own it.
Also, even if the House of Commons or the Supreme Court makes it illegal up here, I really don't care. For me morality is more important than legality when it comes to stupid laws, if I've purchased a copy I'll be damned if anyone is going to tell me that I can't grab myself a DRM-free version (besides, the RCMP hasn't and isn't going to be putting any effort into cracking down on piracy, and the ISPs up here don't seem to be doing anything beyond throttling). The day I give in to DRM is the day Microsoft goes open-source.
Submission + - CRTC won't tax ISP for Canadian content
Exidy writes: Following the previous story about the CRTC studying the possibility of taxing ISP to produce Canadian content on the internet. The CRTC has finally decided to keep new media exempt from broadcasting regulation.
The decision is a blow to artist groups who were hoping the CRTC would regulate internet content the same way it does television and radio to ensure Canadian content is represented.
It's welcome news, however, to internet service providers, who bristled at the notion they might have to monitor the amount of Canadian content on the internet and were opposed to the suggestion that a levy might be imposed on them to go toward a Canadian content new media fund.
The decision is a blow to artist groups who were hoping the CRTC would regulate internet content the same way it does television and radio to ensure Canadian content is represented.
It's welcome news, however, to internet service providers, who bristled at the notion they might have to monitor the amount of Canadian content on the internet and were opposed to the suggestion that a levy might be imposed on them to go toward a Canadian content new media fund.
Submission + - Recovering cell phone video of police killing 2
belmolis writes: "Vancouver police recently shot and killed a man whom they claim was advancing aggressively. Bystander Adam Smolcic says that he recorded the incident on his cell phone and contradicts the police account. He reports that shortly after the incident, a police officer took his phone and examined it for several minutes. When he returned it, the video was gone. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association reports that the three data recovery firms that it has had examine the phone have been unable to recover the video or to confirm or deny whether it was ever present.
How difficult is it to recover a freshly erased video from a cell phone? Should it be possible to tell whether it was present but erased?"
How difficult is it to recover a freshly erased video from a cell phone? Should it be possible to tell whether it was present but erased?"
Comment Re:Here's my approach (Score 0, Offtopic) 83
Too true. Of course, the biggest difference is that the open shit doesn't try to sue you.
Comment Re:I wrote code in the Army (Score 1) 1127
You've worked for Microsoft?
