SUX. I don't know why I can never stay in the jobs I like. Best Buy was good, the Church was good and I was forced out of both. Now I make stupid copies for people. Idon't get my boss at all. Sometimes I think he's trying to help, others it seems like I should start looking for a new job. Ater finals this morning working is the last thing on my mind. Sleeping sounds better. But alas I get a combat nap and am on my way to work in 30 min. At least my coworkers are cool. Its not like a certain deli I worked in where all my coworkers hated my guts. Anyway I am off to put on my stupid uniform. To go do my stupid job. Hopefully I will get to relax at THE HOOT with my peeps tomorrow.
I, Wanna Rock & Roll All Night, And Party Everyday - KISS
Thursday, June 9, 2005
Sunday, May 8, 2005
THIS IS WORD FOR WORD FROM ROTTWEILER
BIG hat tip to www.nicedoggie.net for this alert. I am NOT trying to rip him off I will fully admit this is his article, and thank him for it.
Piracy Protection Taken Too Far
To those of you with no interest in using your computer for anything other than word processing and spreadsheets, you can safely disregard this post. At least for now, since it doesn't seem to have spread beyond game software.
For pretty much as long as computer software has existed, companies have tried to come up with new and innovative ways of protecting their product. This is of course all well and good. They invested a lot of time and money in it, and they have every right to protect their investment from theft.
However, a new company has come along, a company that has decided to push the boundary of what a software developer can reasonably do to protect his product.
The company's name is Starforce, and they are truly the most despicable little arrogant snots that ever hacked out code. We never thought that we'd see a legitimate software protection company that would make even snot-nosed, pimple-faced pirates look angelic by comparison, but once again we underestimated them.
Why are they so particularly nasty, we hear you ask?
Well, here's what they do: In order to "protect" their product, they install a little piece of malware on your computer that messes up your registry, tampers with your drives and generally fucks up your computer's functionality. Forget about the hours you spent building and tweaking your dream system, StarForce will turn your box into a limping x486 emulator in no time.
Particularly if you have a DVD or CD RW drive. You'll immediately lose a lot of speed when legally writing to discs if you're not one of the really unlucky ones who can't write anymore at all.
But even if you're just an average user with a standard Read-Only drive, you're not safe from StarFarce tampering with your property. His Rottieness, for instance, suddenly has great trouble playing standard DVDs, not to mention the fact that the drive doesn't detect what's in there anymore, which can make it somewhat difficult to play audio CDs, as we're sure you can imagine. Standard software CDs can still be read, but you now have to manually explore the CD and start the executable by double-clicking. Not too hard, if you know what you're looking for. But if you don't... Oh well, it's All For The Children™, dontcha know?
Oh yes, they DO have an "uninstaller". Problem is, it doesn't really remove itself and all the changes it made to your system. For that, you're going to have to feel familiar with registry editing, something that we know that gives quite a few people who just want to enjoy the computer THAT THEY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR goosebumps and bad nightmares. Oh, and if you ever choose to run a StarFarce "protected" program again, it'll just re-install itself, and you can prepare to do the cleaning all over again.
Again, we fully understand and acknowledge the right of software developers to protect their product from theft, but we aren't quite on the level with them tampering with YOUR PROPERTY to do so, not to mention tampering with it in a fashion that hampers or even destroys its functionality. As far as we're concerned, that kind of invasion of privacy and property rights should be illegal if it isn't already.
So buy software with StarFarce protection on it at your own peril. Currently Ubisoft is very much in love with it, but we're sure that it'll spread to others quickly, unless the companies using them realize what they do to their sales numbers.
This has been a public service announcement.
Feel free to pass the word to others or link to/post about it. (That is, if you give a flying flip at a rollin' donut, of course, but we have a suspicion that quite a few of you LCs are like His Majesty, wanting to use that expensive piece of equipment sitting on your desk for fun occasionally).
Again Thanx to www.nicedoggie.net for the story
Blame It On The Rain - Milli Vanilli
Piracy Protection Taken Too Far
To those of you with no interest in using your computer for anything other than word processing and spreadsheets, you can safely disregard this post. At least for now, since it doesn't seem to have spread beyond game software.
For pretty much as long as computer software has existed, companies have tried to come up with new and innovative ways of protecting their product. This is of course all well and good. They invested a lot of time and money in it, and they have every right to protect their investment from theft.
However, a new company has come along, a company that has decided to push the boundary of what a software developer can reasonably do to protect his product.
The company's name is Starforce, and they are truly the most despicable little arrogant snots that ever hacked out code. We never thought that we'd see a legitimate software protection company that would make even snot-nosed, pimple-faced pirates look angelic by comparison, but once again we underestimated them.
Why are they so particularly nasty, we hear you ask?
Well, here's what they do: In order to "protect" their product, they install a little piece of malware on your computer that messes up your registry, tampers with your drives and generally fucks up your computer's functionality. Forget about the hours you spent building and tweaking your dream system, StarForce will turn your box into a limping x486 emulator in no time.
Particularly if you have a DVD or CD RW drive. You'll immediately lose a lot of speed when legally writing to discs if you're not one of the really unlucky ones who can't write anymore at all.
But even if you're just an average user with a standard Read-Only drive, you're not safe from StarFarce tampering with your property. His Rottieness, for instance, suddenly has great trouble playing standard DVDs, not to mention the fact that the drive doesn't detect what's in there anymore, which can make it somewhat difficult to play audio CDs, as we're sure you can imagine. Standard software CDs can still be read, but you now have to manually explore the CD and start the executable by double-clicking. Not too hard, if you know what you're looking for. But if you don't... Oh well, it's All For The Children™, dontcha know?
Oh yes, they DO have an "uninstaller". Problem is, it doesn't really remove itself and all the changes it made to your system. For that, you're going to have to feel familiar with registry editing, something that we know that gives quite a few people who just want to enjoy the computer THAT THEY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR goosebumps and bad nightmares. Oh, and if you ever choose to run a StarFarce "protected" program again, it'll just re-install itself, and you can prepare to do the cleaning all over again.
Again, we fully understand and acknowledge the right of software developers to protect their product from theft, but we aren't quite on the level with them tampering with YOUR PROPERTY to do so, not to mention tampering with it in a fashion that hampers or even destroys its functionality. As far as we're concerned, that kind of invasion of privacy and property rights should be illegal if it isn't already.
So buy software with StarFarce protection on it at your own peril. Currently Ubisoft is very much in love with it, but we're sure that it'll spread to others quickly, unless the companies using them realize what they do to their sales numbers.
This has been a public service announcement.
Feel free to pass the word to others or link to/post about it. (That is, if you give a flying flip at a rollin' donut, of course, but we have a suspicion that quite a few of you LCs are like His Majesty, wanting to use that expensive piece of equipment sitting on your desk for fun occasionally).
Again Thanx to www.nicedoggie.net for the story
Blame It On The Rain - Milli Vanilli
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Bob Saget
What happened to Bob? He was one of the dirtiest funniest comedians on the planet when all of a sudden the biggest crap to hit the TV, Full House pops into our boob tubes and forever doomed the once hilarious Bob Saget... Or so we thought. The New York Observer has a great article on Saget. CAUTION, NOT FOR CHILDREN OR THE UPTIGHT! (if you fit into one or both of those categories you will want to click away now.)
Penn Gillette on Saget; "One of the most important things about The Aristocrats is, when Saget is getting so filthy-dirty, he has no worry,” he said. “We live in a country where we do have freedom of speech. This movie is just a pure dream of Thomas Jefferson, in that it’s a hundred people saying anything that pops into their head, with no fear whatsoever. You know a lot of the Hollywood people—and this pissed me off so much—would say, ‘Oh, your movie’s fine in the blue states, but what about in the red states, where you get to the stupid people?’ And I would say, ‘Oh, by ‘stupid people’ you mean people who can program a machine, fix cars and perform surgeries? As opposed to we who are in Hollywood, who can’t do f+cking anything?"
You can read the full article here http://observer.com/pages/frontpage8.asp
It's Off To The Principal's Office I Go - Young MC
Penn Gillette on Saget; "One of the most important things about The Aristocrats is, when Saget is getting so filthy-dirty, he has no worry,” he said. “We live in a country where we do have freedom of speech. This movie is just a pure dream of Thomas Jefferson, in that it’s a hundred people saying anything that pops into their head, with no fear whatsoever. You know a lot of the Hollywood people—and this pissed me off so much—would say, ‘Oh, your movie’s fine in the blue states, but what about in the red states, where you get to the stupid people?’ And I would say, ‘Oh, by ‘stupid people’ you mean people who can program a machine, fix cars and perform surgeries? As opposed to we who are in Hollywood, who can’t do f+cking anything?"
You can read the full article here http://observer.com/pages/frontpage8.asp
It's Off To The Principal's Office I Go - Young MC
Sunday, May 1, 2005
The Guide
I saw Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy yesterday, it was good. BUT, you have to read the book or it will be to much information and you won't understand. The effects are out of this world (pun intended) and the characters were close to the book. The screenplay was adapted almost as bad as, Jurassic Park. The end is no so hot if you are a guide fan. One and a half out of three thumbs up for HGTTG.
Slam In The Back Of My Dragula - Rob Zombie
Slam In The Back Of My Dragula - Rob Zombie
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Yahoo SUCKS
So I have had an account with yahoo mail for 13 years or better. Two days ago they killed it. No reason, just gone. I lost my whole address book which was pretty good sized thanx to 13 years of collecting. The best part is that I only know a quarter of the people on my list other than their e-mail. So if I stop talking to you I am sorry, BLAME YAHOO for being bastards. For all you that do know me I have a new e-mail address, give me a call I will give it to you. I of couse after the fact will be backing up my addresses from now on I suggest you do to.
He gave a quarter and his order; small fries BIG MAC - Run DMC
He gave a quarter and his order; small fries BIG MAC - Run DMC
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
3 Of Them
I recently saw Eurotrip. It was funny, I will admit that but it was also lame. The jokes are all the same stuff rehashed, not since Me, Myself and Irene have I seen a movie that made me laugh so hard I almost puked. Comedies are getting very repetitive. Be Cool was funny but not gut busting funny. Comedy needs a new great hit to jump-start its ailing genre. Action on the other hand looks good, Drama OK, Kung Fu no prob but horror is horrible. The Ring, The Grudge, the crappiest movies, I slept through both. Need a kick-start there too.
We're All Stars Now, In The Dope Show - Marilyn Manson
We're All Stars Now, In The Dope Show - Marilyn Manson
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Guess Who liked that movie?
When I walked into the theater to see Guess Who I was worried that it would suck, I was wrong. I found it hilarious, the back and forth between Kutcher and Mac was great. Almost like the old days; Moving with Pryor and Carvey or even 48 Hours Murphey and that old guy. The story was 95% complete, there was one part where I was confused but I laughed through it and the movie ended well. Make sure you stick around to watch after the end, there is a little extra good stuff. Anyway I give Guess Who 2 thumbs up.
We have to learn how to love and forget how to hate. - OZZY
We have to learn how to love and forget how to hate. - OZZY
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