Activity for October 26

Review - Dropbox
1.5.40 Experimental (Oct 26, 2012)

As for passwords, i don't care if your password is 5000 characters long, it doesn't matter with dropbox because they have FULL ACCESS TO ALL your files at ALL times. The reason for this is so that they can freely give them up to any "law-enforcement" agency that asks for them for any reason.

"Passwords" in the dropbox scenario are only keeping you protected locally at your own station, from potential LOCAL attackers. As far as super-long paranoid passwords are concerned, even on "secure" services that don't have backdoors to their encryption so that the company employees can access your files, the passwords you suggested (music4) are ridiculous and impractical. We simply don't HAVE the processing power today (not even all the GPU/FPGA computing power on earth) to crack passwords of even HALF that length. Maybe in 50 years.
Review - VSO Downloader
2.9.12.0 (Oct 17, 2012)

It is a *tiny* bit unstable, however, all-in-all I must say that this could really be the end-all as far as successfully downloading deliberately obfuscated streams from the internet! I can't believe someone didn't do this YEARS ago.

In theory, it is basically impossible to prevent this program from downloading streaming content, precisely because of the fact that it functions on the NETWORK LEVEL (Hence the mandatory WinPCAP driver installation). I personally haven't had it fail once, even on sites that violently block you from downloading.

Excellent, keep up the good work!
Review - Tweaking.com - Windows Repair
1.6.4 (Feb 14, 2012)

Not bad... not bad.

As for the guy that called this malware, his forum-id suits him PERFECTLY.
Review - NRPG RatioMaster for Windows
0.42 (Jan 26, 2012)

You kidding me? Its garbage like this that basically undermines the whole p2p file sharing 'system' in its entirety. I agree SH*T like this is NOT good for filesharing on private torrent networks. In fact I would *NOT* be surprised if I found out that the film & music nazis were the ones who funded the development of this software!

There is absolutely ZERO use for this program except for individuals who want to flat-out cheat private-trackers. If you're so effing hell-bent on having no ratios, just use a public tracker ffs. Oh, whats the problem? Cant get decent speeds on public trackers? Well guess what, RATIOS are what ENABLE you to get such good speeds! If you circumvent that by using garbage like this, you'll eventually be doomed to crappy speeds due to everyone setting their g** d*** upload to 5k.

jesus wake up people, we're living in an age where the MPAA/RIAA nazis are literally enemies of the human condition, lets not help these demons further by using software like this. Keep your uploads set as HIGH as you can to make everyone's sharing experience better!
Review - SecretSync for Windows
1.261 (Jan 23, 2012)

wtf awesome!!

ALLOWS YOU PROTECT AGAINST NAZI-ISM!!

Recommended to protect you against dropboxes' repugnant, illegal, unethical SPYING policies! :) :) :) thumbs up! I would of course like to have a wider-range of choice on what encryption algorithms I can use. Currently you're restricted to AES-256 which I GUESS will HAVE to do for now... Id like to see some more open-source choices including algos that arent endorsed or supported by the US (and other) governments.

5 stars though for defending against the prying eyes of government and corporate demons! :)

### EDIT #####
Afte an original rating of 5 stars, I LOWER my rating to TWO stars because of bugginess in the software. 1) Why the HELL write it in garbage java? Oh thats right I forgot, "rapid applications deployment" and "multiplatform". I WISH this had been written in C++/WTL or something because it doesn't work very well for my setup either with java 6, 7, or 8beta. Too much needless constant syncing going on and dropbox gets "stuck" syncing PERMANENTLY while this thing is installed. Guys you need go get on the ball with this because i'm officially ##DE-RECOMMENDING## this until you clean up the code and get it working right with ANY java version (preferably JRE7 and up).
Comment - Who is dropping Dropbox over terms-of-service changes?
1.261 (May 15, 2011 - 9:12 AM)

It's a non-issue. Encrypt all your data BEFORE it goes into the Dropbox. Also, stay away from any encryption standards that are endorsed by the US Government, Like AES, etc. Especially encryption algorithms that are legally exportable outside of the United States. You've been warned.
Comment - OSFMount turns most any disc image into a virtual drive
1.261 (Apr 19, 2011 - 6:25 AM)

Never ever had a program in years that malfunctioned/crashed as a result of a missing swap file. However, you're still right about that part. There are probably a few applications out there that will sh*t-the-bed without an existing swap file (no matter how much physical memory is present). Fortunately those are few and far between, as I've said I haven't had such a problem (related to lack of swap) yet. and i'm a heavy beta tester at that.

BTW if anyone DOES know of an application that doesnt work well (or not at all) without swap, please lemme know I'd love to mess around with it.
Comment - OSFMount turns most any disc image into a virtual drive
1.261 (Apr 14, 2011 - 4:57 AM)

That will NOT be necessary and is a bad/inefficient course of action that makes no sense actually. When you have huge amounts of RAM available, the right thing to do is to COMPLETELY TURN OFF/DISABLE your Windows swap file! I've not used a swap in 6 years and have never looked back. Currently running 24Gigs of RAM, 4 VM's permanently loaded/running and a 12Gig RAM-disk which I have redirected all windows %TEMP% folders as well as "scratch disks" and temporary folders used by other 3rd party programs to it. System F*CKING FLIES.

DO NOT redirect SWAP files to RAM DISKS !!! it is a WASTE OF your PLENTIFUL Memory that can be used MUCH more wisely! BTW, to maximize speed/features you should use the new exFAT filesystem when you format your RAMDisk unless you actually need NTFS for its security (exFAT has no security thus making it faster).
Comment - In-game advertising 'enhances realism,' says focus group
1.261 (Jun 5, 2008 - 5:30 AM)

I just think we need to educate people and increase awareness that utilities do exist that TOTALLY remove ads and spam from a variety of different kinds of software. Also people need to help others to learn how to successfully USE those available tools to forcefully REMOVE ads from software applications (ESPECIALLY those that you PAY for).

That is the only way to get the message across that we don't want f*cking SH1T ADS in products that we want to enjoy. This "adding realism" stupidity is just that, BULLSH1T PR crap.

NO ADS YOU F*CKERS.
Comment - Is Microsoft trying to pull an 'IE' on Google's product search?
1.261 (May 25, 2008 - 6:21 AM)

They're gonna get their a*sses kicked by google in the usual manner. Did anyone see Balmer get egged recently?? HAHAH!

http://www.newshounds.us...on_why_they_hate_us.php