Super-Villain Style

I’ve been using Firefox for over the past two years. It’s like this pretty cute little toy that I like to play with every day. I load all of these great little extensions and have a field day with all the cool little tricks the browser is able to do. I can check out the weather, or read little news snippets in a sidebar. I can check out sites using their rss feeds. And I can download images and other little things and have the downloads sorted with a click, without ever having to open a system’s window.

The only thing that’s wrong with Firefox, is the longer I keep it open, the slower and buggier my system becomes. And the browser, sometimes it works smoothly. Other times, it’s like wrangling with a bull trying to get it to work.

And the funny thing is, other people are having the same problem. Some have explained it as a memory leak. Mozilla, which makes Firefox, doesn’t like that term. Instead, the “memory leak” is seen as a “cache feature.” However you want to call it, the memory usage is killing me, which is why this digg article may be of some use to somebody.

What it pretty much says is that your extensions are the problem, although I don’t think that’s the case completely. I’ve used Firefox without any extensions and I’ve seen it climb up to 40 mbs, at least. It’s always the biggest user of my memory. The only other application I’ve seen use more memory is Azureus, which I haven’t used in a while since I started using utorrent.

I use to love using Azureus. I loved the plug-ins. I loved the interface. I loved the rss feed importer that pulled downloads by keywords. I just simply loved it. But I had to stop using it because it would kill my system after a couple of hours, which doesn’t happen anymore with utorrent. It has such a small memory footprint that I keep it running all the time without any problems.

And it looks like I’m going to have to find something similar in the browser market, something that has similar features without all the memory hogging. Something like…

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Man. I got a 60. I’m gonna die young. No hitting 80 or a hundred for me.

I did this life expantancy calculator crap, and it said I won’t make it past 60. Something about me being a man, and having the dietary habits of a hobo.

Funny thing is, I don’t feel all too bad. I mean, I got over thirty years of living to do. I consider that pretty good, especially since half my relatives are alcoholics and crackheads, and the same half have had some form of cancer, or heart disease, or diabetes — sometimes all three. So if I live until I’m 60, I think that’s cause for celebration. So I’m celebrating.

YIPPEE!

I won’t live to see my grandchildren.

Of course, I have to find a woman dumb enough to let me impregnate her with my filthy line of DNA.

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I’m a genius!

Damn. This article proves my f’in life theory. Do less, think more. The only real innovation comes from slacking off. And I love to slack off. I’ve been doing it constantly at my current job. I just spent at least three hours surfing the Internets, and that’s just right after they paid me. And in all this time, I can’t tell you of all the great innovations I’ve come up with.

For example, I thought up, uh, you know, something, possibly, just today. I came up with so much stuff just typing crap to comment sections and stuff. Man, you know, it’s been hectic in my brain, if not in my actual workspace.

Okay, who the hell am I kidding. My brain’s dead. I’ve thought of nothing, except what I might do when I leave here. I’ve completely wasted the whole day here. I’ve done nothing, except collect a paycheck. And I feel like just crap for that.

I know I should be doing more, but for whatever reason, I’m not. I sicken me, much like when I’m about to hit your mother from the back.

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Wah Wah Wah’

Somebody stole my content.

Please.

Most people’s content isn’t even worth stealing. Most of it is worthless,. It isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Oh wait. It isn’t printed on paper. So, it ain’t even worth that.

That’s why most web sites should be glad someone is stealing their worthless piece of garbage. In fact, isn’t that what RSS feeds and other forms of site syndication for. In fact, most bloggers should pay people to steal their content. It might actually have some worth then.

But anyway, this guy goes vigilante on the content stealers. I feel for his 2-bit soul

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How do you get the magic back?

I’ve been gone for so long.  I don’t think I have it anymore.  I can’t do that shit that use to come naturally to me.  My gibberish-magnitude is dead.  This online shit is dead.  It’s all dead inside.

You try to do the right thing, and live the right way, doing all the right like type shit, and you find yourself becoming dull.  And you lose your edge.  Slowly, you lose your edge a little at a time until you become this round piece of shit. 

I hate round pieces of shit.  HATE IT!

So, you try to go back and try to rough that shit out of you.  You try to fuck the roundness out of you, and you fail miserably at doing it.  Because you don’t gotta a penis no more.  You don’t stick no more.  You just keep receiving.  And you know you’re stuck being this blobbish piece of shit that you hate. 

But what the fuck can you do.  Be edgy and stay poor.  Go round and eat on a regular basis.

I’m such a fuckin sell-out.

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(This shit has nothing to do with this post.  It’s my sad attempt to go home again.)

I’m the worse father in the world.  And I don’t even have a kid.

But that’s why I suck.  Because most of my life, I’ve avoided being a family man.  I’ve avoided getting married.  Fuck!  I’ve avoided all human contact.  I’m like some eunich android.  I’m sick.  I’m mechanical trash.  Doodie-filth, bastard.  Lifeless piece of non-life-type shit.  I’m better off being some asexual, homophobic, gay man.

Apparently, the MPAA and the RIAA are about to start a war with ol skool technology. They’ve sent cease and desist letters to the nzb sites, sites that post little nzb files that index headers of newsgroup content.

Nzb files are useful because the only way to download from a newsgroups is by, first, downloading the headers in a newsgroup to your newsgroup client. Most binary newsgroups usually contain thousands of headers each day. And many newsgroup servers don’t differentiate between header downloads and actual content downloads when it comes to charging for server bandwidth use.

Let’s say you want the new Strokes album. You could simply open your newsgroup client, click on the newsgroup where rock music is being uploaded to, and download the thousands of headers of all the content that’s in the newsgroup at the time. This can take several minutes even on a fast connection, and even after you’ve downloaded several megabytes of data, the Strokes album you were looking for may not be in there.

Or you could go to a nzb site and search for the Strokes. If someone has recently posted material from them, the nzb site should have a nzb index file of the headers of that Strokes material.

If you have a decent newsgroup server to connect to, the nzb file, when clicked or imported into your newsgroup client, should connect to your server, which will go to the newsgroup where the headers were indexed from, and start downloading the chunks that make up the files you wish to download. This makes downloading from newsgroups far easier and accessible to people who wouldn’t normally be bothered to download material the old way.

My guess, that’s why the MPAA are going after these nzb sites. It would be harder to go after the Usenet directly since most of the data in newsgroups are mirrored on thousands of servers across the world. Killing one server wouldn’t really put a dent in the network.

Although, I’ve wondered why they haven’t just sued some of the major servers that connect to the Usenet, like Giganews and Easynews. I’m sure if they sued some of the ramp servers, they’d scare the hell out of half the ISP that still offer newsgroup access, who, in turn, would cease offering newsgroup access for its members. That could cut off a substantial amount of users from the network.

And for those that don’t see it happening, just think about who we’re dealing with. I see it no different from suing the nzb sites, or the torrent sites. Torrent sites only hold the torrents that connect to the actual data being distributed by others. And newsgroup servers only hold the headers that connect to material posted on their servers and on other servers, which might be an even greater offence..

I’m sure the MPAA and the RIAA are readying lawsuits against the big newsgroup servers situated in the US as I write this. I think it’s only a matter of time.

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Okay, I find this to be perfect.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never paid a debt back in his life or I’m delusional, but I think this could be a great idea.

What? You might ask. I’ll get to that later.

First, I think I need to restate something. I am what some may call a “deadbeat.” I don’t wanna be a deadbeat. It’s just that I’m poor, and I don’t make much money, and I wanna a lot of things I can’t afford. That’s why I’m up to my eyeballs in debt now.

I wish I was a better person financially, but I’m not. Please for give me George Washington, or is it Alan Greenspan. I think both of them are dead. But George Washington could still be alive, if only in our hearts and minds.

That’s why the website this digg is about is perfect. It’s this place called Prosper, or something like that. From what I’ve seen, it’s pretty much a place for begging, because the whole front page is filled with people who want somebody to “lend” them money.

I think this Prosper is more than that though, because I think anyone can sign up to become a lender, which I think is sort of risky. I mean, there are a lot of deadbeats like me around, and if they had the A-One credit and the clout, these beggars would probably already have credit from a “real” bank, and wouldn’t have to stoop so low as to have to beg for money on the Internet, sort of like me.

But see, i’m different. I’m real about it. I know I’m a lowlife. I couldn’t get a loan in the real world if my life depended on it. And I’ve already stated before on these Internets that I actually want people to send me money, like my former mysterious benefactor used to, so I can continue to buy whores and the crack, you know, so I can feed to the crack whores. So, any potential “lender” knows what they’re getting into when they loan me money.

That’s why this Prosper is such a good idea. I know there are a lot of people who will lie and talk about having great credit, and needing the dough to fix up their home, or start a new business, but I think it might be the best when you come like me and tell the truth from the start.

I mean, I could post up on Prosper, ask for 10,000, but be real with it. Tell the “lender” that he’ll probably never see the money again, and that I’ll probably end up gambling and whoring the dough away. If he accepts these terms and gives me the dough, he can’t be too pissed when I don’t pay him back. I see that as a win-win proposition.

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So, what’s so important about this digg. I haven’t had a Mac in over 10 years. It was an Apple II. So, I could care less about Google making widgets for the Mac.

What makes this digg so interesting is that a lot of commenters get pissed off that the submitter uses the term “fanboy.” They treat fanboy like I treat the “N-WORD.” It’s stupid. But I guess I know what to say when I really want to piss a nerd off.

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I’m sort of testing out this digg crap at work. Since I don’t have the time (meaning I’m too darn lazy to post on a regular basis), I decided that I might need a little help when it comes to keeping up with posting daily. It’s sort of the lazy’s man way of blogging.

So this digg story is about, well, I don’t know because I didn’t bother to actually read the article, like most Digg users. But apparently, according to the comments, the MPAA has decided to sue several very popular torrent sites including two which I might have possibly used before (amnesia), Torrentspy and IsoHunt.

The thing is, neither one is really a torrent site. They both sort of search public torrent sites and pick up their links to their torrents, so I honestly don’t know why they are being sued. Would you sue Google.

Well, maybe you would. I think Google was sued recently for linking to images from Perfect 10 or some other pornographic site I wouldn’t know about.

Anyway, the only real site that’s being sued is Torrentbox. I think Torrentbox is owned by the same people that run IsoHunt. So, those boys could get hit big. I feel for them.

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