Pet project: being a trojan to a trojan.
I’m currently seeking active trojans that turn computers into drones for a healthy zombie network. They need to communicate using IRC.
My plan? Shut the network down, and record the whole process.
What do I need? An active trojan with which to infect myself.
If you can help, drop me a line on the contact page.
“Shortly after learning of the New Orleans plan for free city-wide wireless internet, Bellsouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate a damaged building to be used for police headquarters. According to the Washington Post, ‘Bill Oliver, angrily rescinded the offer of the building in a conversation with New Orleans homeland security director Terry Ebbert.’”
Full Story Here.
I understand that Bellsouth interprets city wifi as some kind of competition(ISPs have tried to make those illegal, with some success). That said, I don’t see Evian pulling donations because the same government provides free water.
WiFi is no competition to dedicated DSL lines. Network congestion makes the speeds significantly inferior. Plus, Internet is becoming a necessary ammenity. All that to say that reguardless of the government’s move, BellSouth’s customer base is well secured. To pull this donation because of such a misguided and selfish motivation is one of the coldest things I’ve witnessed a company do publicly.
Yep, I’ve been oddly quiet for the last few weeks. It’s been hectic over here, and it shows no sign of stopping.
Coming up now is exam time! So more quiet-ness for me!
Well, I shot out the script to a group of people for review.
Final comments: it draaaaags ooooooon, repeats the points too much, and lacks non-narrated moments. As one person said “I feel like I got clubbed on the head repeatedly”. I decided to give it a week, and then come back to it all. As it turns out: They’re right.
What that means is that I’m reworking the script, and jetissoning alot of the research. Or at least streamlining it all. It’s a balance between educating people on piracy, and boring them to death. I also need interview material; but who, and how to fit it in is problematic. Furthermore, I need to do this fast: If I wait too long, the movie will loose relevancy.
I’m getting tired of this. I’m an anime fan; and I also try to support those who make works I enjoy. Therefore, I purchase import DVDs of the anime I really like.
Unfortunately, this is the 2nd time where I’ve been shipped bootleg products. How do I know? Well, the DVDs have video quality which are far poorer than the rips I downloaded. FAR poorer. In fact, it appears as if these are Telecine/TS-Rips [dunno how anyone could pull that off when DVD-Rips should be available].
I say this as the person conducting the rip has to adjust multiple times the camera/telecine-machine to make all the video visible. The subtitles also contain the text “dvd_animation@yahoo.com”. Even fansub groups don’t even go so low as to stick their own promo info in the subs in the middle of the show.
I’m pissed off because the money I spent will not go to the authors. It will go to the person who made the bootlegs. Googling the above address, it appears as if these discs are manufactured in Hong Kong. The other time I got ripped off (and I do consider this being ripped off), was when I purchased a copy of CASSHERN (a live action Japanese movie). What I got today in the mail was the Love Hina TV series.