I really think this is a great idea, except I found a way to get around it... External modems, just plug into the serial port, to openeing the computer. Add to your idea dissabling the serial ports and putting a password on teh BIOS and it gets a little tougher on the kids, but there are always ways, USB modems are around now too....
Just because it isn't news to you doesn't mean it's not news to someone. I have a job where I work all day, I don't have cable at home and lsiten to music a lot at night. I havn't heard much, if anything about the space station in ahwile. This was news to me, maby I don't get out enough though... If you really don't like this story then don't read it, it doesn't hurt you at all to download an extra K of data at most, and some people find it helpfull and informative.
name a game that was sold on the market that had a goal other then making money... shareware doesn't work, cause your *supposed* to send in money, freeware doesn't work because freeware isn't sold (you can buy freeware cd's, but that cost is for the CD materials). against my orriginal post said that any game that was SOLD was intended to make money, and not just for the fun of it.
Unfortunately, some websites are actively depriving programmers and companies of revenue by emulating more contemporary systems, such as the Playstation or Nintendo 64.
Yeah, like this one, ripping off a poor megacorp.
This has always bugged me, stealing is stealing no matter how rich the person is your taking it from. I agree that connectix isn't breaking any laws, but the part about stealing from a megacorp I jsut have to comment on.
I mean c'mon.
Once the hardware platform's gone, you can't possibly sell anymore copies of the game. Fuggedaboudid. Its over Jack. Go ByeBye.
Not really, many "classic" games have been brought back. I believe robotron64 had a fully playable version of the orriginal game if you knew a code. and a lot of other new remakes of games have he orriginal hidden somewhere. I'm just playing devils advocate here, cause i really do agree with you... But for some reason I always have to defend the other person in an argument too... im just wierd that way.
Most programmers had one goal in mind, $$$$, when they wrote the game. Do you really think commercially available games were jsut out there to be fun? Any game made for pure fun was released as freeware.
A loss of hand-eye coordination? and I thought all those video games were supposed to such good training sims that they teach kids how to aim guns better...
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Wow I remember doing teh same types of things. My parents were both kinda tecnophobic and no matter how hard i tried i could not convince them that when i went on the internet (with a local number) and went to some australian website that i wasn't making a long distance call. They refused to let me connect at all, and I really loved those Renegade BBSs too. I had to run a really long phone cord out my bedroom door and down teh steps to teh phone when they were gone. And then I'd race to get it all out of site at the first sign they were coming home. Until one day I wasn't quite fast enough.... It still took me many months to convice them to let me call BBSs (the BBSs i used provided telnet gateways to teh net), but they are still don't like the net very much, I don't quite understand it.
my thought when i read that part was somethign like this, "DUH!".
lets look at it this way.. if there is only 1 person alive when doomsday coems then only 1 person will witness it. if there are 6 billion then 6 billion will witness it. it's only logical to say that the more people tehre are, the more will be effected by a global event.
$10,000 isn't really all that much to a huge corperation, they probably make that much every few hours. And im pretty sure they knew how unpopular they were goign to look to begin with by trying something like this, so they can't really come out looking any worse.
I don't think thier goal was to look good from the get go... They are trying to protect thier profits. What would they gain by hiding the fact that it was cracked?
i didn't really mean to be nasty about it, it just bothers me to see that everyone feels the need lately to point out redundant stories on Slashdot. I just think it work out better if they were just ignored rather then pointed out.
I'v seen a bunch of comments like your, but sometimg hit me as I read yours, not sure why...
This article was ment to show that violent media reduced violence. I don't think the statistics show that at all. But I DO think that the facts presented in it do shoe something very interesting.. That there is in effect NO relation between violent media and crimes by young people.
It can't prove that it causes more, it can't prove that it causes less, but it does show that they are not linked very closely at all because violent media is on the rise, and violent crimes are not. Unless of course there is some other heavy force acting as a balnce, but I doubt it... Ok, I'm done now:)
But what if there is only one company that WANTS to provide a service? They would have a monopoly by default, Can you blame someone one person because another doesn't want to do something.
Amy: "Mommmy! Billy started a lemonaid stand and is making all kind of money!!!"
Mom: "Well why don't you start one too?"
Amy: "But I don't wanna! Make him stop!"
There is no such thing as a frictionless anything. even in space there is dust, radiation, and all kinds of other things that WILL slow you down. And what i was trying to say is that had best not be off target or you will be missing your ride home. you would have to be at another star to get your push back, but if you miss a star then your SOL.
The "tow line" would have to be pretty long:) the article says they see no reason teh fields won't extend many kelometers from the source. And what happens when you stop?:)
I'm guessing the fastest speed you could get would be dependant on the amount of solar radiation the star puts out. And after you get so far wity this you WILL start to lose you "push", the bubble may keep expanding, but after a cirtain point it will get too weak to trap the gas. Just like a balloon, if you stretch it too big the rubber isn't strong enough to contain the gas and it pops. After awhile I think this sail will reach a max size because the strength of the field, and the gas escaping will balance out. I don't know if putting more power to teh magnet would effect this or not...
This would work very well for travel between 2 different star systems. you could get up all your speed 1/2 there, then cut the magnetic field to a minimium and drift into where you want to go. then use that star's solar power to blast twords home. just be sure you make it to another star before you stop or it'll be like running out of gas in the middle of Siberia.
Lets say that instead of them recording anonoymously your viewing habbits you had to write down on a little slip of paper each show you watch, then give that to them anonymously. if you did that for a year and then cancled your subscription, they would STILL haev you viewing habbits even though they don't know they are yours, the still have them. Same thing now, except they have data files instead of slips of paper.
I doubt your agreement with the ISP has anything to do with wether or not your carnivore can be hooked up, becasue it's not your ISP tapping you, its the FBI.
The slashdot headlines have been known to be terrable misleading at times, especially recently. I wouldn't take anything in the headline and brief as fact until I actually read the articles pointed to.
Second, just because the predicessor did something doesn't mean the current one will too. How exactly did they lie?
3rd, Carnivore isn't entirely evil, thinking that is just as bad as the MPAA thinking that napster is inherantly evil. Carnivore can be used to good, law abiding things, jsut like napster. Many people here on slashdot repeatedly say that napster isn't about piracy, it's about getting music that SHOULD be free. Carnivore is about catching the bad guys.
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I really think this is a great idea, except I found a way to get around it... External modems, just plug into the serial port, to openeing the computer. Add to your idea dissabling the serial ports and putting a password on teh BIOS and it gets a little tougher on the kids, but there are always ways, USB modems are around now too....
Just because it isn't news to you doesn't mean it's not news to someone. I have a job where I work all day, I don't have cable at home and lsiten to music a lot at night. I havn't heard much, if anything about the space station in ahwile. This was news to me, maby I don't get out enough though... If you really don't like this story then don't read it, it doesn't hurt you at all to download an extra K of data at most, and some people find it helpfull and informative.
name a game that was sold on the market that had a goal other then making money... shareware doesn't work, cause your *supposed* to send in money, freeware doesn't work because freeware isn't sold (you can buy freeware cd's, but that cost is for the CD materials). against my orriginal post said that any game that was SOLD was intended to make money, and not just for the fun of it.
Most programmers had one goal in mind, $$$$, when they wrote the game. Do you really think commercially available games were jsut out there to be fun? Any game made for pure fun was released as freeware.
A loss of hand-eye coordination? and I thought all those video games were supposed to such good training sims that they teach kids how to aim guns better...
Wow I remember doing teh same types of things. My parents were both kinda tecnophobic and no matter how hard i tried i could not convince them that when i went on the internet (with a local number) and went to some australian website that i wasn't making a long distance call. They refused to let me connect at all, and I really loved those Renegade BBSs too. I had to run a really long phone cord out my bedroom door and down teh steps to teh phone when they were gone. And then I'd race to get it all out of site at the first sign they were coming home. Until one day I wasn't quite fast enough.... It still took me many months to convice them to let me call BBSs (the BBSs i used provided telnet gateways to teh net), but they are still don't like the net very much, I don't quite understand it.
my thought when i read that part was somethign like this, "DUH!". lets look at it this way.. if there is only 1 person alive when doomsday coems then only 1 person will witness it. if there are 6 billion then 6 billion will witness it. it's only logical to say that the more people tehre are, the more will be effected by a global event.
$10,000 isn't really all that much to a huge corperation, they probably make that much every few hours. And im pretty sure they knew how unpopular they were goign to look to begin with by trying something like this, so they can't really come out looking any worse.
I don't think thier goal was to look good from the get go... They are trying to protect thier profits. What would they gain by hiding the fact that it was cracked?
i didn't really mean to be nasty about it, it just bothers me to see that everyone feels the need lately to point out redundant stories on Slashdot. I just think it work out better if they were just ignored rather then pointed out.
I'v seen a bunch of comments like your, but sometimg hit me as I read yours, not sure why... This article was ment to show that violent media reduced violence. I don't think the statistics show that at all. But I DO think that the facts presented in it do shoe something very interesting.. That there is in effect NO relation between violent media and crimes by young people. It can't prove that it causes more, it can't prove that it causes less, but it does show that they are not linked very closely at all because violent media is on the rise, and violent crimes are not. Unless of course there is some other heavy force acting as a balnce, but I doubt it... Ok, I'm done now :)
and thus... "Stichster" was born... the peer2peer sewing pattern version of Napster.
heheheh, ever hear of FUD my friend? That's what MS does....
But what if there is only one company that WANTS to provide a service? They would have a monopoly by default, Can you blame someone one person because another doesn't want to do something. Amy: "Mommmy! Billy started a lemonaid stand and is making all kind of money!!!" Mom: "Well why don't you start one too?" Amy: "But I don't wanna! Make him stop!"
The newest version of Licq (unfortunatly linux only) can encrypt ICQ messages to other suers of Licq.
There is no such thing as a frictionless anything. even in space there is dust, radiation, and all kinds of other things that WILL slow you down. And what i was trying to say is that had best not be off target or you will be missing your ride home. you would have to be at another star to get your push back, but if you miss a star then your SOL.
The "tow line" would have to be pretty long :) the article says they see no reason teh fields won't extend many kelometers from the source. And what happens when you stop? :)
I'm guessing the fastest speed you could get would be dependant on the amount of solar radiation the star puts out. And after you get so far wity this you WILL start to lose you "push", the bubble may keep expanding, but after a cirtain point it will get too weak to trap the gas. Just like a balloon, if you stretch it too big the rubber isn't strong enough to contain the gas and it pops. After awhile I think this sail will reach a max size because the strength of the field, and the gas escaping will balance out. I don't know if putting more power to teh magnet would effect this or not...
This would work very well for travel between 2 different star systems. you could get up all your speed 1/2 there, then cut the magnetic field to a minimium and drift into where you want to go. then use that star's solar power to blast twords home. just be sure you make it to another star before you stop or it'll be like running out of gas in the middle of Siberia.
Lets say that instead of them recording anonoymously your viewing habbits you had to write down on a little slip of paper each show you watch, then give that to them anonymously. if you did that for a year and then cancled your subscription, they would STILL haev you viewing habbits even though they don't know they are yours, the still have them. Same thing now, except they have data files instead of slips of paper.
I doubt your agreement with the ISP has anything to do with wether or not your carnivore can be hooked up, becasue it's not your ISP tapping you, its the FBI.
yes, yes you are :-)
The slashdot headlines have been known to be terrable misleading at times, especially recently. I wouldn't take anything in the headline and brief as fact until I actually read the articles pointed to. Second, just because the predicessor did something doesn't mean the current one will too. How exactly did they lie? 3rd, Carnivore isn't entirely evil, thinking that is just as bad as the MPAA thinking that napster is inherantly evil. Carnivore can be used to good, law abiding things, jsut like napster. Many people here on slashdot repeatedly say that napster isn't about piracy, it's about getting music that SHOULD be free. Carnivore is about catching the bad guys.