Posts by Levente Szileszky 1265 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jul 2007
... did they reveal any information about the *customers* of these crooked providers, the buyers of the hijacked info - or, being realistic, the *agencies* who paid for this operation...?
"Vodafone's Greek head of network design supposedly killed himself two days after the phone tapping was publicly revealed."
Oh, yeaaah, I'm suuure he was sooo ashamed he rather just killed himself... what a BS. :o
What did his bank account etc show? I'm sure Greek authorities investigated his connections - where did his orders or payments come?
Let me guess... a Potemkin company/personality in the forefront, operated through other shills by either FSB or CIA, perhaps The Mossad - which of these have most interests or cui bono? I'm afraid it's just another case where truth will never come out, or only after we passed away; the latter two would not comment anyway (the Russians would simply outright deny it, heh) but that's it, Greeks are in the NATO so they will have to swallow it silently as loyal allies... or am I missing something here...?
On the other hand I can already hear those folks with their tin-foil hat on saying this crazy, amddening fire came just in time to divert attention from the details of these verdicts... ;)
"men in black
By SpitefulGOD
Posted Monday 3rd September 2007 17:41 GMT
US/UK super secret agencies have had Scramjets for decades, although seeing as their tech never gets leaked or released (similar to the light chips they already have) looks like we'll have to wait for the inferior government / corporate versions."
Err I don't know about that but I know precisley it was El Reg where I read DARPA is already at Mach 10: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/18/scramjet_test/
"By Webster Phreaky
Posted Monday 3rd September 2007 16:52 GMT
Just like back in 1995, when Bubba Bill Clinton signed off on the selling of VERY sensative ICM Missle, Computer and Atomic technology secretsw to the Commies in China for campaign funds (so did Al Internet Gore later) the Democrat traitors including Hillary, I'm sure are "making the connections" in Bejing.
Democrats = American Traitors"
Exactly this kind of retarded lunatics like this Webster guy who poison everything in American life, the same moronic hallucinaries who lie in a blink of an eye, without a second think - Webster fella, what's up with Bush selling out *everything* military for private companies including Saudi ones? How's Halliburton moving to Dubai?
You right-wing nuts are the most pathetic kind, seriously.
... except anything that invokes the word "iPhone" - that's an utterly crap phone, let's not confuse anybody; HTC is always about quality and full of features for its price - no one gives a flying *** about that pathetic EDGE-only iPhone with more than 3 brain cells, I think.
"Make the 2nd world war be on the digital front ;)"
Second...? Ouch.
Dunno where you're from or have been raised but based on the fact you speak English I think it must be some very rural part of the Western World where a person can live without ever hearing of World War II - because it's already ended, sixty-some (62 in Europe, 61 and 11 months in Asia) years ago.
Some would argue we're in the Third already, some would say that's also ended circa 1990 but one thing is sure, we - thanks God - are way beyond the Second. You might want to take those skipped classes after all... :P
"Nervous System = Employee Salaries.
Yes mixing and mastering SOFTWARE is cheap but the hardware is not. Plus the guy behind those consoles is a craftsmen to a very high degree and charges a rate that he's worth."
Yes, this is the kind of clueless idiotic BS I read from people who eat all the crap they've been fed by the music industry and other RIAA-trolls.
$100k per album would make these guys CRAZY RICH - IF IT INDEED WOULD GO TO THE POCKET OF THOSE guys behind the mixer consoles, the private recording place owners .
BUT IT DOES NOT GO FOR THOSE GUYS.
Most importantly ~80-90% of THAT $100k COST DOES NOT EXIST, it's completely false utter crap, made up by 'managers of the studios.
Why? Studios CHARGE IT AGAINST THE BANDS' SALES, lowering the bands' payment so they can feed themselves, the parasites - ergo they will MAKE UP all kind of BS "costs" .
"At the end of the day a good studio is not a mac book pro with pro-tools on it. It's a room with amazing acoustics (no small feat) all that equipment and a few humans who deserve to be paid well for their work."
The difference between you and me, dear STFU, that I've been to studos many times and I know that they actually DO NOT SPEND A DOLLAR FOR YEARS after they invested in things only very few bands need anymore.
"100K barely pays one of them for a year let alone the rent and constantly upgrading all that 'cheap' equipment."
Another utterly idiotic comment - usually these places are located in current or former industrial areas, itself converted from industrial use or a basement etc.
$100k rent for a year is a PRIME MANHATTAN OFFICE rental fee, dear STFU.
Let me repeat, maybe you can swallow it now, dear STFU: $100k studio fee IS COMPLETE BS, 90%+ goes to sustain an ALREADY DEAD, PARASITIC INDUSTRY.
It's everybody's interest to shorten this aginy and KILL THE RIAA & STUDIOS AS FAST AS WE CAN before it ruins our music industry (artists and market).
"What ashame,
By Brent Gardner
Posted Wednesday 25th July 2007 15:13 GMT
Regardless of your stand on the rest of these issues, AllOfMp3 was the one music site that got it exactly right: easy to join, no proprietary hardware or formats, no DRM, fast downloads, your choice in compression rates. The music industry should have just bought them out. "
Well said, Sir.
Steve wrote it:
"Funny isn't it....
By Steve
Posted Wednesday 25th July 2007 14:13 GMT
That nobody used to be so vocal or so numerous in their complaining that music was overpriced in the days before digital copying and the internet.
The record industry goes way beyond the four majors and for those of you that think music is overpriced consider this. Average return per sale for a single is around 45p. A number one single these days is lucky to sell 40,000 copies in a week. To get the track in the shops will cost well over £100k - do the profit analysis on that and you will see there isn't much, even with compilation income and the other sundries. Not every artist is in the same situation as The Beatles.
Music is probably cheaper in the UK than it ever has been - the supermarkets and digital track sales have seen to that. Yes you can buy it cheaper in Russia, but the problem is that even if allofmp3.com sends 15% of the revenue back to the Russian copyright bodies, those bodies do not send any of their money back to the western based societies like the PPL or MCPS.
I put this to you - you work here in the UK for say £15 an hour. I could probably offshore your job and save 50% on my wage bill. Given that you are happy to go and buy records abroad purely based on cost, regardless of wether the artist gets their dues I take it you won't complain when I send your job abroad will you - fat chance I'm guessing, and don't say it's different, it's not and if you say otherwise its hypocrisy."
You know, Steve, if I were employed by ANY RIAA-MEMBER PUBLISHER THEN I SDHOULD BE DUMPED ANYWAY.
Don't even 'outsource' my RIAA-job - just FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET, together with all the stuidos and RIAA.
Stop using this BS excuse about $100k for recording - this is the classic straw man argument RIAA-trolls use.
A classic utterly false crap: $95k of that $100k goes to sustain their own (studios) parasitic "nervous system', it's well known by anybody who knows the music business. Studio prices are dirt cheap, they are constantly going down ever since computer-based mixing/mastering softwares became commodity.
BTW you are contradicting yourself: you are praising the indies yet you are arguing how expensive is to make good music - it's totally false, go and check the records on cdbaby.com or any other indie distribution sites. The last one I bought arrived on a CD-R - who cares? It's got a case, a decent cover art, track list, everything and the music was great - I am satisfied with my purchase and they certainly did not spend more than few thousand bucks on the whole project including recording studio rental, mixing/mastering and illustration, duplication. Heck, even pressed CDs are buck-apiece nowadays (from 1000 pcs and up.)
The point I'm trying to make is NO NEED FOR PARASITES, NO NEED FOR THE MIDDLEMEN, period.
THE SOONER THE PARASITE STUDIOS DIE, THE BETTER FOR THE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, for the whole industry including us, customers.
...he's nowhere a representative sample of the average US internet user, trust me.
I live here - EU 'transplant' enjoying low taxes and cheap prices on electronics :) - and I know at least two DOZEN American who use AoMP3 on weekly basis. Brainwashed? They are, in many ways but not when it comes to their wallet, you know... ;)
"Wot no fanboys?
By Ron Eve
Posted Thursday 19th July 2007 17:58 GMT
Interesting.
Second time today I've read a Mac-related article on El Reg which has several comments by folk who seem to expect loads of Apple fanboys to flame the comments. But flames there are none...
Is it because Mac users really couldn't give a toss what these mostly illiterate and ill-educated losers think?
(And please note the spelling - 'lose' which means 'to be deprived' and not 'loose' - which means 'not tight or firm')
Bracing myself..."
Thanks - I was worrying we won't have a single idiotic Apple fanboy-comment calling everybody else "ill-educated" and "loser" who's outside of effective radius of Apple's RDF... now we have at least one entry, thanks for your help.
Anonymous Coward wrote it:
"I was a Windows programmer and user for 20 years but got sick of the patch updates..."
Oh, yes sure. That's all you have to say- we got who you are, trust me.
"and real "science" in the US labs used Macs out of choice."
Sheesh... this is one of the most worn-off fake posts that fake Windows-switchers/programmers/sysadmins/researchers/etc (= zealot Mac fan) used to post since the beginning of digital age - how about some creativity when it comes to faking posts, fanboys? :)
"Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK" - while I'm sure huge countries like San Marino and Luxembourg will really appreciate this unit, I'm wondering whether did HK get the news about multiple expansions of EU during the past few _years_? If so, what the hell happened to rest of the EU? People travel all around Europe, in case they did not notice... well, it's only HK's loss, I guess, considering the Mid-EU Visegrad 4 (CZ-HU-PL-SK) countries alone represent a 50-60M market, let alone the rest added.
I smell the same typical, good-ol' arrogant ignorance I've seen from most CE companies until the late 90s - but in 2007, when almost every brand name GPS unit maps full of EU and further, it's a no-go, I think, it just doesn't work anymore, not even for starter...
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