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i think he will especially not mind making a clean cut himself to publish online of the alternative is some amateur, no offense intended, butchering the thing with a free sound editor.

tell the guy if he wants the exposure he has to clean 'em up for you. he'll find a way.

ca3le, the site has its legalities in order. they printed an article on a company that has people download malware from their site in spam e-mails. in the forum concerning the article a user suggested running scripts to dl the file repeatedly, effectivel ddos'ing the site. the site owner in question took this as a reason to have an attorney issue an admonishment. this is a german legal technicality, i am unaware wether or not there is something similar under us law. the way it works is that an attorney or a client finds something in print or online or sees an action that someone takes in his/her business practices that is illegal/questionable/infriges copyright or trademark law etc. etc.. etc. the attorney then sends an admonishment to the person in perceived violation that includes the reason, a bill for the legal fees to work up the admonishment and a statement to be signed by the admonished that under penalty of xxx dollars he/she will not repeat said action in the future. the site received this admonishment and then removed the posts in question but refused to either pay the bill or sign the statement, stating that they were responsible for content that they were or had been made aware of but that other posts did not fall under their responsibility, it being an online forum etc. etc. etc. the attorney then proceeded to take them to court and won the ruling in question 4 months ago. in the now released written reasoning behind the ruling the court states that operators of something so obviously dangerous as an online forum should be held especially responsible for the goings on in said forum. they should check each message before it is made available to the general public. in effect this means that if someone here suggests "just download office from limewire" upon someone asking where he can get a good free word proccessor and microsoft issuing said admonishment to this site because it is promoting theft. i will post an english version of the article on the written explanation as soon as i find one if you care to read it. maybe i will see if i can scare up an online version of the whole court document and run it through babelfish. edit. by the way, as soon as the ruling came out and bvefore the written explanation was even there many operators found themselves the target of similar admonishments for different perceived violations. now that the written text is out it will likely get worse. the publisher in question is however ignoring the threat so far and waiting for a ruling from a higher court.

in germany there has been a ruling against a large publisher operating a forum. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/67029 the written explanation of the ruling has now been publishged by the court. (4 months after the ruling). in it online forums are seen as something inherently dangerous and that the operators of such forums should be held especially responsible for anything published on those forums. it means that anything posted would need to be reviewed before it is published to avoid the forum operator being held responsible for any content that is against the law. the court chose to ignore the comment by the publishger that their forum receives about 200.000 posts a month and that would mean an insurmountable workload. the publisher will of course challenge the ruling and take it to the next level... insane.

it's not the trains of thought. it's the system of punitive damages, where you don't get paid to reimburse you for your pain but you get paid an amount to alleviate your pain that is intended to hurt the party that caused you pain as well. and the bigger the party that caused you pain is the bigger the award. see the 239 million $us settlement against merck for causing a man a heart attack with viox and not warning him about the possible side effect beforehand. true, the recent settlement was lower, but still 9 million. with the posibility of such awards litigation becomes an interesting option.

as for work in IT, mostly been there done that got the shirt. from telecomm's to admin, retail sales to repair, helldesk to installation.

the mfr didn't mount a fan, didn't mount a temperature probe to check card temp through comp, and i'm sure there wasn't a sticker saying that touching the heatsink can burn your fingers. if McD's can get sued over hot coffee (durr, who woulda thunk it?) you can sue them over a heatsink. it's supposed to cool stuff not get hot, right? if you can't go after the card mfr go after the guy that sold it to you for manipulating the settings unbeknownst to you thereby causing you physical pain and mental distress because you now approach any kind of computer hardware that used to be a hobby with apprehension.

don't call the mfr. call a lawyer and see if you can't sue the mfr. for millions in punitive damages for burning you with the vid card. i want my 10% cut for the idea...

fallow, the vikings named it that when they landed there and actually found some arable land there. (prolly one of the reasons it's still danish territory, that and noone else really wanting it...) i believe the arable land was a fluke in the weather, their colony there folded when the weather went back to normal.

if he's reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled win it don't sound like a bios password. otherwise how would he get past it to format reinstall?

try resetting to get a newer config file maybe?

you could prolly get bestbuy to ship to the uk...

unlikely, since you are already faster than you are paying for. any increase would be minimal. the risk is borking a setting and ending up slower. (since you just went from dialup to this speed, enjoy it for now. once the novelty wears off, take the time to do research and try some teaks. that way the new toy stays new longer.)

the connection atm isn't stable enough to tweak. if i change settings and things slow down how am i to know if it's the settings or onelink causing the problem. as for max speed, i got some tests in the 4200 and 4400 range today. checked the modem and saw that the down cap had been raised from 4000000 to 4400000. too bad they didn't put that extra bandwidth in upload instead...

besides the fact of the encouragement to pirate audio editing software, jamaica, do you own the rights to the tunes you are looking to distribute from your site? or have an agreement with the holder of said rights? hm?

plenty of vid cards that still use passive cooling. i just picked up a 64 meg agp4x one with a radeon 7000 chipset, vga, dvi, comp out and all it has is a little heatsink stuck on it. gets warm to the touch but nothing dramatic. all depends on what card. remember back when we walked to school uphill both ways in a snowstorm carrying a stove on our backs so we wouldnt freeze when vidcards had no sinks at all? not to mention neither did the cpus...

actually i'm letting winXP pro do what it likes atm. seems to be working fine. 9never touch a running system)

not to mention the bases in europe, japan, all over the damned globe. it's called force projection. cholla, why bother attacking them only when they are at the fence if you can start hammering em earlier...

a good run for me atm is a 3500+ on a terayon. i also see the 3rd ping timeout on tracerts. weird.

thank you! i agree wholeheartedly. the cole and embassy bombings were just 2 more acts overseas by crazed <snip>. before 9/11 noone would have supported a massive undertaking against terrorism. they would have called it imperialism, blood-for-oilism, racism etc. hell even after 9/11 people were making a stink about racial profiling, sueing cops because they pulled over suspicious looking middle eastern folks. should law enforcement rely solely on things like racial profiling? no. but it wasn't a bunch of tourists from sweden that drove those planes into the towers either... <hr> edit: racial slur

peanuts just take the fizz out. before energy drinks were all the rage we used coke we saturated with sugar (keep mixing in the sugar till it doesn't dissolve) then add about half a cup of instant coffee powder (of course not decaf...) per 2 liter bottle. that helps keep you awake...

USS Cole please. clinton had info linking jihad joe to the bombing. fine. and i am sure that info was also given to the countries he was suspected to be in. problem is none of them went and nabbed him. for us forces to violate other countries terrain, other allied contries terrain even just to nab some criminal is incredibly unpopular internationally. or why do you think the only us forces chasing druggies in colombia are those few giving support to the local government instead of a battalion of armored cav going after every single drug lord there?

exactly. which is why i was wondering about the >4mbit speed on that test. it wouldn't surprise me if they had different config files for different modems... or didn't think anyone would use a different modem than what they send out with the installer... or any of a number of possible reasons why.

yeah dawn, i get you. all i'm saying is that oddly enough the worst anti-smoking-fanatics are former smokers. that's like michael jackson becoming an activist for exploited and abused children.

my terayon used to be capped at over 5, when they changed ownership the cap went down, just like the up, went from 460000 to 384000