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Re: WMV DRM Unbreakable

Padre — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:57:37 -0000

So you have to have the DRM owner's authorization to remove the DRM, which negates the need to get an app to do it with, especially one that claims it can... So those who purchase the app, can't complain to cops about fraud because it'd be like calling the DEA because someone stole your street-purchased pills.
And I thought legalized racketeers (aka Insurance Companies), not to mention Bankers were stealing us blind! LMAO!!!

Re: Monogamy in the Human and Animal World

innomen — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:45:57 -0000

If you're going to respond to something specific I've said please do quote me. I don't have my essays memorized and I'm not particularly fond of re-reading my own work.

On the face of it your logic is suspect. Firstly "can be monogamous" is ambiguous at best. Do you mean can they behave in accordance with monogamy? Obviously. Why would one feel the need to prove that? Do you mean can people be monogamous by inclination? Again, obviously some are. (Mostly women.) Secondly the invalidity of that use of proof would not in theory invalidate the second example.

The status of monogamy in nature is rare. All that proves is that it's rare. How that relates to other pieces of information in other contexts varies. Typically I use monogamy in nature's rareness as a counter to assertions that monogamy is natural.

_"Also, you have a choice on whether you want to be monogamous or not, even if it's frowned upon. So yes, it is a choice. "_

That's a disgusting, self serving, and gross over simplification.

Firstly, its not a choice across a whole range of contexts ranging from legal to social. If I marry two people I have prison to look forward to. If I don't marry anyone I am socially ostracized and barred from dozens of career paths. When was the last time we had a single president?

To pretend there is no bias (and that's putting it gently, coercion would be more accurate) towards monogamy in culture is absurd to the point of schizophrenic delusion.

How many people have been murdered beaten tortured and otherwise destroyed because they dared have sex with someone while being "in a relationship" with someone else?

Monogamy and the infantile mine mine mine possessive control freak jealousy that gave birth to it designed expressly to turn women into commodities to be divvied up among the working class, are based on jealously and greed and the desire to own a person like so much beef, and are among the absolute worst human emotions.

Enforced social monogamy is literally on the same spectrum as honor killings.

Defend that if you like, just realize you're setting fire to any moral/ethical authority you may have ever had.

Enforced monogamy is this generation's slavery. Future generations will respect us all the less for having it. The state shouldn't be in people's bedrooms. Period.

A marriage license or any legal framework that respects marriage as anything beyond a religious ritual is a violation of our civil rights. Why not start passing out baptism licenses as well?

Re: Monogamy in the Human and Animal World

MissGrandiosity — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:21:23 -0000

Well, if one can't use monogamy in nature as "proof" that humans can be monogamous, then neither can the anti-monogamous people use polygamy in nature as and a reason to not be monogamous. Also, you have a choice on whether you want to be monogamous or not, even if it's frowned upon. So yes, it is a choice.

Re: Prison Rape

innomen — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:04:56 -0000

"Do you not like poverty? Because if you did, you would donate all of your money to end it."

I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic, but if you're being serious then my reply that would be like dumping my last gallon of drinking water on a forest fire. It's a nonsensical impossible standard. Social problems require social solutions.

I'm absolutely willing to pay my fair share, but it's absurd to demand that I volunteer an unfair share certain that it would be insufficient.

"Also, you don't care about jail rape enough because you aren't saving men in jail from being raped."

I'm doing the most effective thing I can given my personal constraints and the best information I have available. If you have a better solution, I'm all ears, but as far as I can tell the main problem is that people don't even see it as a problem. That's something I can attack with writing.

" Are you lobbying to end jail rape?"

With what funds? And what congressmen can be persuaded to care so long as felons and ex-felons can't vote? Look at the drug war. Attempting to persuade legislators to take this problem seriously is more of a fools errand than the water dump you mentioned.

"So please cut out the obvious inference that "women", i.e. "feminists" don't care about jail rape..."

I say what I mean. I didn't say all women, I said feminists, which is an easily and objectively defined political group with significant power and a unique cultural authority to speak effectively about rape.

I know many women personally who are horrified on moral grounds, as you seem to be to your credit, about the existence of institutionalized rape, regardless of the victim demographic be they female or not.

"Let's not forget the fact that women get raped more often than men WITHOUT being in jail."

And that is a legitimate problem which society is combating as best it can given the circumstances, but as I said, male rape both in and out of prison isn't even considered a problem, much less is it being combated.

"...but that saying a "feminist" doesn't care because we somehow think it's
OK for a man to get raped or that they are simply less able to defend
themselves is a disgusting assumption."

An assumption strongly defended by action and lack of action. I've never once encountered a feminist that didn't turn into a rabid vengeance fantasy machine when the subject of social response to rape come up. the rank and file feminist gives two shits about convicts. And the vast majority of them actively hate convicted rapists and quite happily sentence them to fantasy vengeance rape callously asserting that such occurrences are justice.

I stand behind my hypothesis that if you could survey what feminists honestly think the vast majority would say they basically don't care about prison rape of men.

Their attitude as a group could best be summed up by the writers on staff at law and order special victims unit.

"No one should be raped and making rape jokes or using it jokingly
shouldn't be funny in any context given the implications of the nature
of rape to both men and women (both in the setting of jail or without)."

Hear hear. How come I didn't get, nor do I ever get, an ounce of backup on that front from declared feminists?

Point me at the top feminist group in the United States, we'll see if I can get them to publicly come out in a statement condemning prison rape. Bet you 1$ that they tell me to piss off in effect.

"In the end, I don't have to physically step into a jail and stop a
person rape to clarify my position that rape (in any context) is wrong,
nor, as an example, do I have to donate all of my time and assets to
poverty stricken places to think that poverty is sad."

Agreed. But speaking out is morally urgent. Especially in the United States which has the largest prison population in the world. Also I see that you were indeed being sarcastic above. Well, I'll leave my argument anyway for those that need it.

Also you're bordering on a nirvana fallacy there. Just because you can't completely fix it doesn't mean you're justified in doing nothing.

"But the theory that a feminist would want a man to be raped is a gross
assumption and your portrayal of a feminist in this case is undeserved..."

I wish that were the case and I think you're projecting your own moral soundness onto a group that as a group doesn't deserve such respect. Some feminists even actually advocate violent assault on men and remain un-denounced by more rational feminists.

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Stol... This is a type of problem that even some prominent feminists are deeply concerned about. This is but one book in a whole class of works on similar subjects.

http://www.amazon.com/There-An... The citations in this book list a good many of them. Feminism in America today is not what was intended, it's turned into something most women when given a clear look are not too happy to be associated with.

Re: Prison Rape

the watcher — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:44:58 -0000

Do you not like poverty? Because if you did, you would donate all of your money to end it. Also, you don't care about jail rape enough because you aren't saving men in jail from being raped. Or lobbying to end jail rape. Are you lobbying to end jail rape? So you must be okay with either poverty or rape. Please correct me if I'm wrong so I can make another intense example to undermine your beliefs. So please cut out the obvious inference that "women", i.e. "feminists" don't care about jail rape because the incidence of male rape in jail is represented more prevalently than women being raped in jail.

Let's not forget the fact that women get raped more often than men WITHOUT being in jail. Not saying that justifies a lack of understanding of the severity of jail rape, but that saying a "feminist" doesn't care because we somehow think it's OK for a man to get raped or that they are simply less able to defend themselves is a disgusting assumption. No one should be raped and making rape jokes or using it jokingly shouldn't be funny in any context given the implications of the nature of rape to both men and women (both in the setting of jail or without).

In the end, I don't have to physically step into a jail and stop a person rape to clarify my position that rape (in any context) is wrong, nor, as an example, do I have to donate all of my time and assets to poverty stricken places to think that poverty is sad. But the theory that a feminist would want a man to be raped is a gross assumption and your portrayal of a feminist in this case is undeserved despite the validity of your article that asserts that the notion that people in jail do not "deserve" to be raped. No one does.

Re: Mozilla Autocracy

Sergent — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:31:37 -0000

They just can't handle the truth...

Re: Telescopic Evolution

Elevenstrings — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:27:54 -0000

Voyager

Re: May All Dentists Burn in Hell. (If there were a Hell.)

innomen — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:53:58 -0000

Looks like this is finally getting some political attention.

http://www.thenation.com/print...

Re: “Good Morning!” A trivial tail of technology, kitties, and texting.

Kiddy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:26:38 -0000

This made my day. ^^

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

innomen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:11:49 -0000

Could you email me the keygen your friend made, the source, and a brief run down of the process you or he used to compile it? Also what Norton product and version exactly produces the false positive and would it be possible to get some screen caps?
If you can prove a false positive that's news. Further, if we can document the process of it happening again, duplicate the whole cycle that proves corruption. That's even bigger news. Whats next? Illegal mp3s being flagged as infected? Wikileak documents? We're talking about a shadow version of the anti piracy acts here.

Now is absolutely the time to bust them if possible.

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

Jmyeom — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:01:31 -0000

this is true, creating a keygen that does nothing but pick a random key from a preset list, and nothing else, and report it to a antivirus company for scanning, they will report it is a virus and will tell you to remove it..

i know this as a friend of mine made a simple keygen that just picks 1 key from a built-in list of 50,
although he is a friend, i still don't trust it and after no virus programs picked it up, i sent it to Norton internet security for scanning.

got a email saying it was a Trojan and told me to remove it, i kept it and instead just ask my friend to just send me one key instead....

week or two later, Norton updates and finds it as a Trojan, with no option to allow it...
i instantly assumed it was a virus and removed it, and told my friend that antivirus program had found it to be a virus, he insisted it was not and send me the source...

the source was clean, so i compiled it just to see if he had removed something, while trying to compile Norton said it was a Trojan and automatically removed it,

so, a keygen that i had seen the source for and was clean, was removed, the only thing i could think of was, "because it was a keygen"
hope this helps

o, and i like how they block you from getting a keygen, but when you licenses runs out, they will more then happly place a virus on the computer it is installed on (or, after 1week of no activation, it at least says im infected and that i must rebuy/upgrade to the newest version)

if that is not proof, i dont know what is

Re: May All Dentists Burn in Hell. (If there were a Hell.)

Retard — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:09:35 -0000

wow.. what a retard

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

innomen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:52:23 -0000

That's interesting, looking for a way to trigger it. I always assumed it was a master list of keygens, I expect them to see slots on such a list under the table to companies irrationally terrified of piracy, but it could of course be procedural as you suggest.

If we can find a provable reproducible false positive heuristic attempting to police pirated software by deception, as I believe they do, I think the online community would like to hear about it.

Thanx robbied, please do comment back here about your results.

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

robbied — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:12:30 -0000

I found myself last night watching a slew of recorded content while I spent the evening doing my quarterly system cleanup and re-organization, you know rid the documents you had good intentions of writing and never did, those documents cluttering the desktop that you promised yourself you would get to later and never did...BAM...up comes MSE with a severe threat warning and I thought that's weird because I regularly scan not only my system but also my network drives.

I have always given software whether it be video editing, conversion tool or an OS a test drive and some software just does not offer it and I have been burned in the past. I'm not willing to have my converted audio have an "audiomark" or my video or images to have a permanent "watermark" so yes I to utilize "preview" versions however I end up buying the software or donate it if the software meets my needs.

So back to the BAM, it's identified a KeyGen as the problem, ok possibly but then I thought I should check some others and sure enough same or similar threat warnings. So I quarantined and deleted the folders as I already have the software with key, but then I thought well hold up here how convenient the MSE has identified a keygen app as problematic. Not saying it is not possible but what is the likelihood that 3 different AV and malware detectors miss it? So each family members computer runs a different AV product and malware and I have the drives shared so that overnight when the scans are performed I get a once over from a different set of eyes in the hope that if one misses the other or the other will get it.

I definitely don't appreciate this if it is a scare tactic and like this discussion has unveiled it appears to be just that. When it comes to software and paying for it I have no issues with that, however I do have issues if I have to pay 700 dollars to use Word as part of a suite and you know what I won't. Most of the world's population cannot afford 700 dollars, most cannot afford it at all and yes the developers who put their blood, sweat and tears into the development of the software should be paid and paid fairly however I beg to ask the question, should I be paying for their high end cars, homeS and lavish lifestyle? That's another argument.

I have some tests planned about these keygens if I can find any, what if I just create a "keygen.exe" file empty...this should be interesting.

Great read...cheers.

Re: Censored at Stumbleupon

innomen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:52:18 -0000

Eh, given what SU is doing to itself these days it seems they spared me a great loss. Kind of like getting kicked off the titanic.

I appreciate the compliment. Your blog is looking good. I love that theme. I hope more people that knew me run across the post, I had no way of telling my hundreds of followers what happened. And since SU hid my page, those that did find out had little way of contacting me. Indeed, SU doesn't even alert you if you send a page directly to a banned account. So I'm sure I've missed hundreds of shares over the months. Occasionally I even get emails still when people share with their entire list. So I know my material is still in there, as are my lists.

Rather underhanded and childish I think to keep the product of my years of reviews and promotion but to silently remove me.

I contemplated suing for my content back, but I knew it would be outdated by the end either way, and basically I'd just lose time and money. Further, without integration into the SU system the reviews would be largely out of context anyway.

I've gotten a lot more done since I didn't have SU to consume time and content. I didn't quite realize how much work I was doing for them. All in all being kicked was a very good thing, and I truly regret sharing SU with all the people that I did.

Re: Censored at Stumbleupon

SketchSepahi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:40:54 -0000

Hello, my old friend. Sorry to hear about the censorship against you. Despite our little spat way back I still think of you as one of - if not the - most awesome stumblers. Nobody contacted me, but I found this blogpost just now because you linked to me. (I some times Google links and mentions of me when I'm bored.) I've thumbed up this post and "discovered" your other post about being banned. ( http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=14... ) Hope you're well.

Regards,
Sketch

Re: Herby Fuzzback Spiderton III Photoshoot

innomen — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:19:22 -0000

Well it is kinda scary all up close but I assure you he was pretty tame and relaxed compared to other light speed spiders I've found in my house.

I found it in my bedroom after my cat alerted me to it's presence. He swatted it once and it shrugged it off. I moved him away fearing a painful bite and then captured it with a cup and a piece of paper. I could actually detect it's weight, which amazed me. I moved it to an unused aquarium and got some scale photos, and then took him outside for some more photos and release.

I'm too ignorant of spiders and insects to responsibly keep him. Any attempt on my part would almost certainly equate to a slow execution :/

I'll tell the story of my photos from now on thank to your suggestion :)

Re: Herby Fuzzback Spiderton III Photoshoot

Notyourgina — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:55:38 -0000

Hun, this spider is crazy scary to me. But I have a few question, did you just find it in your house, is it in your house, is it a pet of your's? I think it would help to if you added some information about the pictures.

Re: Disruptive Technologies: What can I do?

Spot — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:41:16 -0000

are you even american liliana? im pissed. i want answers. this shit is not going to fly. the idea that im going to "help" city hall or congress and "help" them get their stuff in order is a pipe dream, stupid and ungrounded in practicality. we are human beings, and you can only piss only 300 million people so much before they come for you, and yes, they will, come for you.... examples you ask? how about the senate murdering ceaser in the middle of session... America is the new Rome? Roman Senators killed their own co-worker because of disagreement on economic policy?.....

Re: Advice to the government: My position on the fiscal situation.

innomen — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:58:15 -0000

I believe you are referring to this article. http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=21... Which is indeed republished with permission from the link you gave. Feel free to duplicate your quote there, and if you do and would like I can delete this comment once that is done.

Re: Advice to the government: My position on the fiscal situation.

Zhawq — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:08:52 -0000

I just found this article here. I left a comment expressing how impressed I am, I truly think this author has hit on some of the most central issues related to the discussion about psychopaths and psychopathy, the nature of the psychopath 'problem' and the problems associated with how it is being approached and dealt with.

I salute you on re-publishing this great piece of work!

.....

Edit & Addit(ion)... Was I just redirected to a different page? I've tried to go back to the page here at Underlore where I just saw the article I'm referring to above. I don't know what went wrong, but apparently it isn't there anymore. My apologies. - I'll leave this comment in case it sparks an interest with the readers.

The title of the original article:
Another Thorn in the Death Penalty's Side: The Ethics of Executing the (Neurobio) Eccentric
And again, the Link.

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

innomen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:18:23 -0000

I'm glad you found it useful. Indeed, your comment is accurate. Broken intellectual property law has given rise to broken software "development." Patent trolls and litigation wars are only the most obvious consequences. The more subtle and thus possibly more dangerous effects are expressed as a systemic "attitude" for lack of a better word, which leads to actions described above.

The solution is simple, but not easy; Intelligent Intellectual property law reform. http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/2...

The software "pirates" are ignoring the law because it is broken and obviously corrupt. Anyone who knows anything about the subject and isn't bought off has roughly the same opinion. Not to mention the millions who daily ignore it.

It's a bit like drug prohibition opinion. The crowd can be usefully divided into groups, the ignorant, the corrupt, and the reformers. You're pretty much either being paid, being deceived, or being fleeced.

Re: Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

Harry — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:14:58 -0000

Very nice and interesting article.
I really enjoyed reading it.
Software companies do anything to make more profit, even by lying.

Re: Bad Boys

abj — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:03:45 -0000

Well done ! Let's be sure we remember that the 3 men listed are probably at the top of all of our lists (mine included) but the writers are the ones to be applauded... the characters they play are the ones we lust over. Are the writers the real ladies men ?

Re: How to deal with out of control law enforcement.

innomen — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:28:41 -0000

The answer those that know you seek is an answer they don't want to hear. Perhaps even one you don't want to face. Because each of us to one degree or another has internalized our culture. We ARE Americans. And this actually means something to us.

The answer is that the entire system, not just parts of it, is wrong. I'm tempted to say "broken" but that implies a possible fix, or that it worked at some past point. But when you look at a culture if it ever fails from within, or as a result of it's own choices, it was never working. This standard has to be applied in order that cultures can evolve because they are immortal and must evolve directly.

The smartest cultures make adaptation a part of the culture. As ours did, in theory. But a look at our history shows that helping the people was never the point of our culture, helping the rich was, protecting property rights was the entire point. Washington himself was the richest man in the colonies prior to the revolution. And the revolt was overtly about taxes, not oppression. The populist rhetoric was just a tool used to guide the local mob such that they would stand between them and england's musket fire. ISBN: 0060528370 In particular explore the interplay between, and history of, the bill of rights, the constitution, the articles of confederation, and the federalists.