Ratware is legitimate software that upon your checking "yes" to the agreement and completing the install, begins to report back to it's maker. It may recognize the music patterns of a song and suddenly show you the album cover art. It may store your searchwords, monitor you website activities, your subscribed-to usenet groups, and your non DRM videos in order to "enhance your experience" build a model of your interests or to report you to the authorities in order to make an example of you. It may report system errors along with the nature of the files that caused the crash.
Richie, I'd be careful using that ratware music player. it kind of creeps me out how it suddenly either shows you the cover art or suggests other songs by that artist. You can rename the file qwerty.mp3 and it still knows its Aerosmith! That ratware crap is gonna report you DRM free shit man. be careful. You can go offline, but maybe it remembers and rats you out later. Microsoft, Google, the whole music and film industry are acting in concert developing ratware.
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A legitimate program that culls and divulges information about you and the media you are playing or have in storage.
When you load such a program many gave up such privacy rights when you checked the "I agree" box upon installation.
It may report that you do not have the proper digitally watermarked, signed or registered software and/or media.
Joe I'm afraid to play my downloaded MP3 files while online. Its kind of creepy the way this ratware pulls up the album cover art. Who knows what else it can pull out of my stuff. Maybe this DRM ratware even remembers what I played while offline and waits when I get back on to report me. It's as bad as a keylogger. Microsoft, google and Sony are cohorts in developing this DRM ratware crap.
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Ratware is legitimate software that upon your checking "yes" to the agreement and completing the install, begins to report back to it's maker. It may recognize the music patterns of a song and suddenly show you the album cover art. It may store your searchwords, monitor you website activities, your subscribed-to usenet groups, and your non DRM videos in order to "enhance your experience" build a model of your interests or to report you to the authorities in order to make an example of you. It may report system errors along with the nature of the files that caused the crash.
Richie, I'd be careful using that ratware music player. it kind of creeps me out how it suddenly either shows you the cover art or suggests other songs by that artist. You can rename the file qwerty.mp3 and it still knows its Aerosmith! That ratware crap is gonna report you DRM free shit man. be careful. You can go offline, but maybe it remembers and rats you out later. Microsoft, Google, the whole music and film industry are acting in concert developing ratware.
1) The skill of avoiding eye contact with another person that you want to think you did not see.
2) The ability to not stare at a disfigured part of a person's body.
3) The willpower honed skill to keep from staring at a woman's bountiful breasts while speaking to her.
1) I didn't want to speak to Josey as she walked by, at the mall, so I turned on my avert-o-vision even though I know she saw me.
2) Dom's hand was burned to a nub, so I had to avert-o-vision the whole situation when he started to zip up his jacket because last time he got mad when I tried to help.
3) I was talking to my real estate agent about the home's features so I had to turn the old avert-o-vision on full blast when she kept leaning over the table to me, almost bursting out, while she shuffled through the listing papers.
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One who is quite adept at playing video games to the point of doing nothing else.
Joe doesn't want to go to the game with us: He's turning into a real captain video since he got his new X-Box.
Check it out! Captain Video is down to his last quarter!
One who is constantly complaining about capitalism yet carries a credit card.
Ignazio supports the cause, but like any Chevisa, he owes 4,500 filthy American dollars to those plastic whores!
Moving around a bar or a party, paying attention to a woman then making an excuse to work oneself away, with the promise of returning, only to move on to doing the same with another woman, and another as many times as time allows.
Look a Thomas work that room: He must be kiting as many as eight chicks at a time. Ha, you must have heard him call that chick kiting! What do you expect from a banker dealing with checks all day?