[MarkoDaGeek]

A quick search ON GOOGLE pulled up articles about their new data center ( they have a few ) in Dallas, TX.

MYSTERY SOLVED, THE ANSWER FOUND WITHIN THE ENEMY.

[fooboo]

How cunning of them to hide the answer on the web...they must be l33t.

[William_Wilson]

google is their own worst enemy it's true, they not only data mine everything but then offer it to the public through their search engine.
You can learn everything their bots search for in a few minutes, including the naive text file to stop google bots from searching certain directories... because that works, lol

[Lord Hadies]

Amadeus, on 28 Nov, 2006 - 10:54 AM, said:

I'm not debating your words or intent...I merely pointed out that you were the first to mention hacking in this thread, and it kind of evolved from there.

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I mean even if they keep the servers locked away and don't tell anyone where they are wouldn't they still be suseptable to hackers and such

As an FYI, just beacause it's never been made public that a google server has been hacked does not necessarily mean it has not happened.

EXACTLY... THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT THE EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE!!!! (scream it out)...
Look wheter we debate the issue of hacking/cracking blah blah it doesn't matter because if you really want to be paranoid...everyone knows everything already... i mean usa works on a level where they want people to be scared!!!hence you can control them...god man...you can use google earth and find out exactly where your house is and get a digital picture of it...i mean thats supposed to be CIA shnit....so if the normal public have such machines and programs what do the major governments have!!!!the thing is we as civilians are all ignorant. will always be...hence we will always be controlled to follow the big machine which is society...

by the way...i thawt hackers was an ok movie...represented sum bull crap though..but still KEWL!!! the book was better (by some bishoff dude..) it was taken from the movie...much much much better...wanna get a copy of that...as well as the movie...well i believe in opensource so if anyone has the movie or book in opensource (FREE!!!) then hook me up

[Lord Hadies]

just wanted to monitor this thread forget to get the e-mail notification thing

[fooboo]

Lord Hadies, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 01:36 AM, said:

...well i believe in opensource so if anyone has the movie or book in opensource (FREE!!!) then hook me up

I doubt the movies owners would ever release it for free! lol.

[Bort]

That doesn't mean it isn't available for free, just that it might not be entirely legal.

DVD Pirates strike again!!! 'Arrgghhh!!!'

This post has been edited by Bort: 29 November 2006 - 04:11 AM

[fooboo]

Yes...but then it wouldn't be opensource (I'm not sure you can apply this term to movies anyway )
Microsoft haven't released an opensource version of Windows or Office but you can get it all over the place...and if you're lucky the cracker wont have bunged a load of their own illicit code in the downloaded files too

[Bort]

Oh, you mean the pirate 'treasure' lol

[fooboo]

I admit, for my sins, I have gone down that route in the past...it ended up being such a ball ache with buggy software and frequent attacks on my PC then I discovered Linux and it's many legit free applications like Open Office and things got a lot more stable I wasn't purposely loading trojans onto my PC

Now I have a legit Windows partition with legit freeware and a few paid for programs and a linux partition that will soon be my only OS, just working out the Windows emulation etc. then I'm switching permanently.

[Lord Hadies]

Well by opensource i meant pirated version...i was just sugar coating the term..
i love piracy..honestly...the reason is companies have ALWAYS had extremely high prices for software...

i know...they'r going to say its high becoz people don't buy the software nemore blah blah blah...
but think about it..if lets say a game was sold at R100 (i think this is roughly $14) (with all the current piracy protection)...would crackers really waste their time trying to commercially crack the damn game since its cheap...probably not..even if they did..it would be easier just to buy the damn game then actually find the pirated copy...hence more products would be sold and badabing companies would earn more revenue....

Instead games cost south africans R400-R600.Windows costs R2000 (for home edition) i think professional cost about R4000. ( divide by 7 for approx $ costs). I'm not 100% sure about the prices but its somewhere there...ITS GODDAMN ridiculous. i ain't paying for that shit..rather fork out R200 and get a pirated copy...

newayz...about advice where to get the 'd copy of Hackers don't worry i'll be a aboot it.. ok ok i'v had 9 posts without abusing the smilies...just had 2

[fooboo]

Lord Hadies, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 04:24 AM, said:

i love piracy..honestly...the reason is companies have ALWAYS had extremely high prices for software...

I love getting stuff for free and I agree with you about the ridiculous pricing of proprietary software but I'm moving away from pirate software now that there is legit free software to do everything I need to do and drm is being stepped up a gear.

I can't be bothered basically. I can download a free working application for Linux (or a free version for Windows...Firefox, Thunderbird, open office, nant, mono...etc.) and use it without risk and with support or I can download a cracked app that might have trojans, or a legit version that I then need to search for a patch for then each day I use it I risk being found, out as software nowadays seems to contact it's maker more often than a monk, and get no support for it.

Also now that I am a coder myself I have a new outlook on software. I want to write useful software that people can use for free but I also want to make a living at it. The more secure my living the more free stuff I can give out...I know we're talking mostly big corporations here but I feel a little hypocritical nicking stuff from other coders who also want to make a living.

[Lord Hadies]

Well look right now i'm coding for an open source company and they are paying me..Open Source good.. but the problem comes in with opensource is that you NEED an internet connection...

at home i'm running a p2 400MHZ pc with WinXP...no internet...everything fine ...playing movies etc...when i do need stuff i can go to the net at Varsity or work but i need only go once a month...chances are that my friends have downloaded the stuff neways. so life is easy...

this is my first experiance with linux (ubuntu) and god i'm ALWAYS looking for stuff on the net to get the software...right now in South Africa internet connections are expensive and so is downloading (takes a while unless you with a company or can afford ADSL,etc). So the world is not ready for this type of opensource yet...give me a opensource DVD with ALL the packages needed (like windows does) and i'll leave windows alone (its pirated btw )but i can't do that...

so what do ppl like us do then???

also i don't have issues with support or trojans etc... (have no idea why everyone does) i also don't have an anti-virus on my pc!!! so those things don't apply to me...its a weird cycle...

This post has been edited by Lord Hadies: 29 November 2006 - 05:06 AM

[fooboo]

Lord Hadies, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:05 AM, said:

So the world is not ready for this type of opensource yet...

Well South Africa isn't...I don't know about 'the world'

Lord Hadies, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:05 AM, said:

give me a opensource DVD with ALL the packages needed...so what do ppl like us do then???

You can get DVD's of linux with everything you need on them in shops and ordered off the web

Lord Hadies, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:05 AM, said:

also i don't have issues with support or trojans etc...i also don't have an anti-virus on my pc

Well then you 'think' you don't have problems but you don't know for sure...lol...I could be poking around on it right now...lol
You're very lucky to have only ever used software that works perfectly out of the box.

[Lord Hadies]

fooboo, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:14 AM, said:

Well South Africa isn't...I don't know about 'the world'

dude...the states and european countries don't count as the world

fooboo, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:14 AM, said:

You can get DVD's of linux with everything you need on them in shops and ordered off the web

so doesn't that mean i'm buying the software (at a cheapier price)...its still a bit expensive...i know i know nothing is really free.... but still atleast make the cost of the DVD R10 not R100...

fooboo, on 29 Nov, 2006 - 05:14 AM, said:

Well then you 'think' you don't have problems but you don't know for sure...lol...I could be poking around on it right now...lol
You're very lucky to have only ever used software that works perfectly out of the box.

its not that it works perfectly out of the box but with a lil tweaking everything works smoothly...
plus i think pirated versions are usually patched and everything