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How bnetd Developers Reverse Engineered Battle.net
battlebot writes: "O'Reilly's ONlamp.com is running an interview with the bnetd developers that goes into great detail about how exactly they reverse-engineered Battle.net. This is by the same guy who wrote the recent Salon article, though is far more technical. They talk a little bit about their legal troubles too, and even sheepishly admit that perhaps talking to a lawyer earlier in the process would have been a good idea. Has this project been successfully squashed?"
I already have copyrights on your above post. My lawyers will be in touch with you.
HANDS OFF MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY@*(#(*!
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Korean War Navy veterans exposed to high levels of microwave radiation emitted from radar equipment were no more likely than other men to develop most forms of cancer--including lung, brain and testicular cancers--over a 40-year period, according to a recent report.
In fact, men with the highest exposure to radar waves--those who repaired and tested the radar equipment--were 35% less likely to die during the follow-up than men in the general US population.
"We found little, if any, evidence of adverse health effects resulting from microwave frequencies," one of the study authors, Dr. Robert E. Tarone of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, told Reuters Health.
One exception reported by Tarone and his colleagues, however, was that aviation electronics technicians, one group of highly exposed veterans, were more than twice as likely as other men to develop a type of cancer called non-lymphocytic leukemia.
However, the authors note that if radiation from radar was to blame, other highly exposed veterans would demonstrate the same increased risk. They suggest the increased risk is more likely to do with occupational exposures other than radar, lifestyle factors that are specific to this group, or simply chance.
The results, published in the May issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, stem from a 40-year follow-up of 40,581 Korean War Navy veterans designed to study the long-term impact of high levels of microwave radiation on health.
Studies of the association between radiation and brain cancer, leukemia and testicular cancer have had conflicting results.
During the Korean War, which took place between 1950 and 1954, some soldiers were exposed to high levels of radiation from search radar and fire control radar, the latter of which was used to direct gunfire.
Tarone warned that low-energy radiation emitted by radar detectors, cell phones and microwaves is different from extremely high-energy radiation like x-rays, which, as numerous studies have shown, can cause harm.
Furthermore, he explained that the Navy veterans followed in this study were exposed to much more radiation than we get today from our phones and machines.
"The average person would never be exposed to the high levels of radar waves that the Navy technicians were exposed to," he said.
Tarone explained that the finding that highly exposed veterans lived longer than men in the general population likely results from the "healthy soldier" effect. People have to pass physical exams to enter the Navy, he said, and must maintain their fitness while in service. Therefore, veterans are likely healthier to begin with than the general population, and may tend to exercise more.
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Which one of you wannabe, gonnabe, pussy-eatin' cocksuckin' prankstas marked the parent as a Troll?! Off-topic, yes, but TROLL? I was advocating a healthy, red blooded American gangsta lifestyle, not attempting to troll.
These atrocities will be corrected in meta-moderation (either that or I'll call up some pipe-hittin' niggas and we'll get medieval on your asses).
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
Not everyone finds my humour funny. As to the troll bit I think my karma of 47 proves I'm not. The WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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And now, as it slowly sucked the morsels of beetle-flesh off its feeding pincers, the signal for the scorpion's own death sounded from far away on the eastern horizon, audible to a human, but made up of vibrations which were far outside the range of the scorpion's sensory system.
A few feet away, a heavy, blunt hand, with bitten fingernails, slowly raised a jagged piece of rock.
There was no noise, but the scorpion felt a tiny movement in the air above it. At once its fighting claws were up and its sting was erect in the rigid tail, its near-sighted eyes staring up for a glimpse of the enemy.
The heavy stone came down.
"Black bastard."
The man watched as the broken insect whipped in death agony.
The man yawned and got to his knees in the sandy depression against the trunk of the bush where he had been sitting for nearly two hours and, his arms bent protectingly over his head, scrambled out into the open.
The noise of the engine which the man had been waiting for and which had signed the scorpion's death warrant was louder. As the man stood and stared up the path of the moon, he could just make out a clumsy black shape coming fast towards him out of the east, and for a moment, the moonlight glinted on whirling rotor blades.
The man rubbed hands down the sides of his dirty khaki shorts and moved quickly around the bush to where the rear wheel of a battered motorcycle protruded from the hiding place. Below the pillion on either side were leather toolboxes. From one of these, he extracted a small heavy package which he stowed inside his open shirt next to his skin. From the other he took four cheap flashlights. He then strode to an area fifty yards from the big thornbush where there was a clear patch of flat ground about the size of a tennis court. At three corners of the landing ground, he screwed the butt end of a flashlight into the ground and switched it on. Then, the last one alight in his hand, he took up his position at the fourth corner and waited.
gcc-3.1 is almost out (the first new usable compiler in a long time), and freebsd has already started incorporating it into 5.0. linuxfromscratch is soon going to base their "distro" on it, and i'm sure many others will follow.
RMS HAS A GIRLFRIEND!!! holy shit. she's supposedly young and hot. whooaaaa...
debian 3.0 is almost out. unstable will finally start to become interesting again.
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I have had posts modded up to 5(Funny) before
So have I. Point?
The moderators are useless to say the least. Being modded up or down doesn't mean anything.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Damn, what a little bitch you are...
Get a fucking sense of humour, dickhead.
Karma? Fuck karma. I've got plenty to burn.
I just got through reading about what your company is doing to those BNETD developers.
h tm l?tid=127
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/12/0231205.s
YOU PEOPLE SUCK ASS. I HOPE YOUR COMPANY ROTS IN HELL.
I used to think you were cool. I have Warcraft, Warcraft II, StarCraft, and Diablo. I have multiple copies of each that I run on my own computers.
These will be the VERY LAST games I ever buy from your company. I will remember the name Blizzard. I already knew it. But now you can bet I will be looking for your name on the box for a different reason, so I'll know when to throw it in the trash.
You should be ashamed of yourselves. BTW- I'm doing everything I can to spread the word about what you assholes are up to. I'm forwarding the URL to everyone I know.
You people suck ass. I hope your company rots in hell.
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And only then...
15. Profit
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And yet here you are, clearly warned by the title of the article, reading and responding to it. I hope whining about it has amused you as much as teasing you has amused me!
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
1) How old do you think I am then?
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