It's ironic that IE is hated by the same people because it doesn't support the standard
That's a different KIND of standard. HTML is a text layout standard. API standards, protocol standards, and data formats should be standard, for interchange between platforms.
Also, why is having different X libs, a different release of Glibc 2.1 (which all distributions have STANDARDIZED on now) or whatever else? There's a reason that they follow the same APIs. And if my installation is not directly supported, so what? As long as I have the necessary libraries on hand, where's the problem? _____
My point exactly. Games are rated. Why should we legislate them out of regular stores? Why can't parents exercise some damned parental responsibility? I wish someone would answer that question - what's so unreasonable about expecting parents to take responsibility for their own kids? If you can bring the kid into the world, you better damn well have the gonads it takes to stand up and be responsible for 'em. _____
Why are the ratings on the majority of games on store shelves (and the sticker on EVERY COPY of SoF, stating what sort of content is in the game) not enough to provide parents with what they need to know? Why does it have to be legislated? Why should the freedom of an adult to buy what they want, within the limits of common sense, be restricted because someone who thinks they're parent material can't be bothered to read the warning label?
This just proves how stupid people are, not that there needs to be more "protection" against violent video games. Parents: You have a brain. When making decisions about what games you want you kids playing, or what movies you want them watching, (a) READ, and (b) THINK! _____
If that's the kind of game you prefer, that's great. Buy more of them to show developers that there is interest in that type of game. But please, don't sit there and tell ME what kind of games I should be able to buy/not buy, or what I should or shouldn't like.
If you have kids, and you don't want them playing violent FPS-class games, the decision should be yours to make. But once again, you have your own set of values and morals - don't assume that your decision is right for the entire population, or that your morals and values are right and everyone else's either (a) are wrong or (b) can go to hell. I don't try to restrict your choice. You shouldn't try to restrict anyone else's, and restricting choice in the name of "the children" is only going to save some lazy parents the brainpower that it'd take to pay some attention to what their kids are doing. _____
Why must the government legislate this stuff? The majority of games on store shelves today have rating markers on them. What, parents need to be TOLD by the government that games might be violent? Give me a break. Too many parents don't bother to parent at all, instead leaving it up to the government to do so. That's the only kind of parent this will actually benefit. (And they really should be more involved with their kids to begin with, not leaning on the government to do it for them.) _____
The concept of "objective" news reporting was a fabrication, to sell more newspapers. We are human, and as far as I'm aware, the reporters all are too. They're not necessarily GOING to be 100% unbiased, because they ARE HUMAN.
Not that I don't agree with you. I think the vegan rant should've been skipped completely. Just because you have decided that you're not going to eat meat, or anything that comes from an animal, that doesn't make you more morally "right" than anyone else, and it's totally hypocritical of Jamie to post it at all. Just post what's newsworthy - your dietary habits don't qualify. _____
Well, what do you want? The gaming industry is trying to do some measure of self-policing, with self-imposed ratings (which are probably higher than necessary for some games). SoF has a nice sized red sign on it that says what's in the box (graphics violence, gore, language). Unfortunately a lot of parents don't pay attention. You think that putting more restrictions on who can buy this stuff is actually going to make a difference?
I think it's a lame move on the part of the Government of British Columbia. What are they achieving? Nothing. They're restricting where you can buy SoF? Big hairy deal. Parents who don't bother to read the game ratings anyway aren't probably going to care. So what's been gained?
And btw, just because the guy who posted the story had to bring in his whole Veganism spew, don't get the idea that we ALL go for that. I'm an omnivore. Why not? Meat == good. Besides, if we weren't meant to eat animals, why are they made out of meat? _____
What ever happened to the idea that maybe children have parents who know what's good for their kids?
I guess it's an unpopular concept right now. Too bad, too. Too many parents talk about how their kids shouldn't see this or that... but they seem to have forgotten that they're the parent, so they ARE responsible for what their kids are doing, and if they don't want them consuming specific types of content (be it R-rated movies, violent video games, whatever), then they'd better take control. _____
Don't get me wrong. I don't think the government should have anything to do with it. But the government really wouldn't HAVE to be involved in the process if more parents would pay more attention to what their kids are doing. _____
Your point is certainly not lost on me. I agree wholeheartedly - except for the fact that too many parents have decided not to take responsibility for what their kids see and hear. I have an uncle who will let his kids (16, 13 and 11, iirc) watch anything and everything (I don't think porn, but pretty much anything else is fair game). IMO the kids have some growing up to do before they're really mature enough for R-rated movies... but their parents don't really seem to care.
So yes, parents should take responsibility, not leave it up to the rest of the world - if only parents would _do that_. If only they would, we wouldn't have to have so many stupid laws about stuff like this. _____
You can always just listen to what you already have of an MP3 (at least on Linux, where the file size is updated as the file is created). An MP3 is just a stream of MPEG frames, so you don't have to have the entire file to just play what you've got. _____
Umm. I thought the reviewer was referring to Batman & Robin with the "gay pool party" comment? (Not that that movie didn't deserve it. It was bad. Hopefully the next one will be better, now that Joel Schumacher's back on the case...)
The X-Men, on the other hand, looks like it should be pretty rockin'. I'm gonna go see it for sure.:) _____
The setuid and setgid bits are manipulated with the chmod command. Any user can set it on a file that they own, but it isn't overly useful (or really dangerous) unless it's a root-owned file to begin with (and a user can't make a root-owned file setuid without becoming root - and if they already have root, the system's already compromised, or they're a valid root user). _____
What terms are you unfamiliar with? setuid indicates a permission attribute that allows a file, when executed, to take on the UID (user ID number) of the file's owner instead of the user running it. statd is an RPC (remote procedure call) server for communicating file state information for NFS (network filesystem) volumes.
If you have any others, reply to this post, or e-mail me personally, and I'll try to answer your questions. _____
Your first point: Not having adequate backups. If you'd read the entire series, and read the entirety of #7 as well, you'd know that they aren't running a business, but donating their time and efforts, and using donated equipment. They can't exactly be choosy. They seem to have gotten webpage files and config files, but lost mailspools and most other user files. Not fun, but overall not the world's largest tragedy.
Second point: This cracker showed up on the IRC server they run. Noel didn't go looking to talk to the guy, the cracker ended up coming to him. Also, when they were originally cracked, after moving all their equipment, they DID go through and rebuild EVERY machine from scratch, updating everything, restructuring, etc.
Third point: See above. They did that the first time. They thought they were up to date enough that they wouldn't be vulnerable to something as stupid as a compromisable rpc.statd. Obviously they were wrong. They were overconfident, and it was a mistake. But they were trying.
Final point: This cracker is smart enough to connect via several intermediate hosts. Makes him kinda harder to track. Once again, I say go back and read the ENTIRE series. You'll get a better idea of the situation. _____
I thought if you held the 'I' key down, to mount it as ISO9660, then played it back, it'd work. (Thought I tried it on a G4 Server at my old work, and it handled it fine...)
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Does "Ghost in the Shell" qualify? I've watched it multiple times, and I think the encode job was done quite well.
Yes, but do most PCs run Linux? Sadly, no. What do most of them run? Windows. Therefore, my point still stands - I do not consider most PC users to be computer-literate.
Well, after reading someone's link to the Web site for his business, it looks like the entire paper is little more than an advertisement for his product. Somehow, for a supposed researcher, stooping to that kind of product placement seems kinda weak. Just MHO.
Ok. I looked, and it looks like a sorta-interesting-looking document storage system. (I couldn't run the demo since there's no Director plugin for Netscape for Linux, and all the shots are so small you can't discern anything.) But I don't see anything revolutionary. And it looks like it runs on Windows. So basically, his whole paper is an advertisement for this? Yawn. If that's what it's all about, Dr. Gelertner can kiss my white ass, thanks.
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It's ironic that IE is hated by the same people because it doesn't support the standard
That's a different KIND of standard. HTML is a text layout standard. API standards, protocol standards, and data formats should be standard, for interchange between platforms.
Also, why is having different X libs, a different release of Glibc 2.1 (which all distributions have STANDARDIZED on now) or whatever else? There's a reason that they follow the same APIs. And if my installation is not directly supported, so what? As long as I have the necessary libraries on hand, where's the problem?
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My point exactly. Games are rated. Why should we legislate them out of regular stores? Why can't parents exercise some damned parental responsibility? I wish someone would answer that question - what's so unreasonable about expecting parents to take responsibility for their own kids? If you can bring the kid into the world, you better damn well have the gonads it takes to stand up and be responsible for 'em.
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Why are the ratings on the majority of games on store shelves (and the sticker on EVERY COPY of SoF, stating what sort of content is in the game) not enough to provide parents with what they need to know? Why does it have to be legislated? Why should the freedom of an adult to buy what they want, within the limits of common sense, be restricted because someone who thinks they're parent material can't be bothered to read the warning label?
This just proves how stupid people are, not that there needs to be more "protection" against violent video games. Parents: You have a brain. When making decisions about what games you want you kids playing, or what movies you want them watching, (a) READ, and (b) THINK!
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If that's the kind of game you prefer, that's great. Buy more of them to show developers that there is interest in that type of game. But please, don't sit there and tell ME what kind of games I should be able to buy/not buy, or what I should or shouldn't like.
If you have kids, and you don't want them playing violent FPS-class games, the decision should be yours to make. But once again, you have your own set of values and morals - don't assume that your decision is right for the entire population, or that your morals and values are right and everyone else's either (a) are wrong or (b) can go to hell. I don't try to restrict your choice. You shouldn't try to restrict anyone else's, and restricting choice in the name of "the children" is only going to save some lazy parents the brainpower that it'd take to pay some attention to what their kids are doing.
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Why must the government legislate this stuff? The majority of games on store shelves today have rating markers on them. What, parents need to be TOLD by the government that games might be violent? Give me a break. Too many parents don't bother to parent at all, instead leaving it up to the government to do so. That's the only kind of parent this will actually benefit. (And they really should be more involved with their kids to begin with, not leaning on the government to do it for them.)
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Yea. Save the cats. Kill the dogs! :)
I'm sorry. I like cats. I think they're extremely cool and intelligent animals (ferrets also rock, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise).
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The concept of "objective" news reporting was a fabrication, to sell more newspapers. We are human, and as far as I'm aware, the reporters all are too. They're not necessarily GOING to be 100% unbiased, because they ARE HUMAN.
Not that I don't agree with you. I think the vegan rant should've been skipped completely. Just because you have decided that you're not going to eat meat, or anything that comes from an animal, that doesn't make you more morally "right" than anyone else, and it's totally hypocritical of Jamie to post it at all. Just post what's newsworthy - your dietary habits don't qualify.
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Well, what do you want? The gaming industry is trying to do some measure of self-policing, with self-imposed ratings (which are probably higher than necessary for some games). SoF has a nice sized red sign on it that says what's in the box (graphics violence, gore, language). Unfortunately a lot of parents don't pay attention. You think that putting more restrictions on who can buy this stuff is actually going to make a difference?
I think it's a lame move on the part of the Government of British Columbia. What are they achieving? Nothing. They're restricting where you can buy SoF? Big hairy deal. Parents who don't bother to read the game ratings anyway aren't probably going to care. So what's been gained?
And btw, just because the guy who posted the story had to bring in his whole Veganism spew, don't get the idea that we ALL go for that. I'm an omnivore. Why not? Meat == good. Besides, if we weren't meant to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
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What ever happened to the idea that maybe children have parents who know what's good for their kids?
I guess it's an unpopular concept right now. Too bad, too. Too many parents talk about how their kids shouldn't see this or that... but they seem to have forgotten that they're the parent, so they ARE responsible for what their kids are doing, and if they don't want them consuming specific types of content (be it R-rated movies, violent video games, whatever), then they'd better take control.
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Don't get me wrong. I don't think the government should have anything to do with it. But the government really wouldn't HAVE to be involved in the process if more parents would pay more attention to what their kids are doing.
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Your point is certainly not lost on me. I agree wholeheartedly - except for the fact that too many parents have decided not to take responsibility for what their kids see and hear. I have an uncle who will let his kids (16, 13 and 11, iirc) watch anything and everything (I don't think porn, but pretty much anything else is fair game). IMO the kids have some growing up to do before they're really mature enough for R-rated movies... but their parents don't really seem to care.
So yes, parents should take responsibility, not leave it up to the rest of the world - if only parents would _do that_. If only they would, we wouldn't have to have so many stupid laws about stuff like this.
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You can always just listen to what you already have of an MP3 (at least on Linux, where the file size is updated as the file is created). An MP3 is just a stream of MPEG frames, so you don't have to have the entire file to just play what you've got.
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Umm. I thought the reviewer was referring to Batman & Robin with the "gay pool party" comment? (Not that that movie didn't deserve it. It was bad. Hopefully the next one will be better, now that Joel Schumacher's back on the case...)
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The X-Men, on the other hand, looks like it should be pretty rockin'. I'm gonna go see it for sure.
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The setuid and setgid bits are manipulated with the chmod command. Any user can set it on a file that they own, but it isn't overly useful (or really dangerous) unless it's a root-owned file to begin with (and a user can't make a root-owned file setuid without becoming root - and if they already have root, the system's already compromised, or they're a valid root user).
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What terms are you unfamiliar with? setuid indicates a permission attribute that allows a file, when executed, to take on the UID (user ID number) of the file's owner instead of the user running it. statd is an RPC (remote procedure call) server for communicating file state information for NFS (network filesystem) volumes.
If you have any others, reply to this post, or e-mail me personally, and I'll try to answer your questions.
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Ok, let me break this down, point by point:
Your first point: Not having adequate backups. If you'd read the entire series, and read the entirety of #7 as well, you'd know that they aren't running a business, but donating their time and efforts, and using donated equipment. They can't exactly be choosy. They seem to have gotten webpage files and config files, but lost mailspools and most other user files. Not fun, but overall not the world's largest tragedy.
Second point: This cracker showed up on the IRC server they run. Noel didn't go looking to talk to the guy, the cracker ended up coming to him. Also, when they were originally cracked, after moving all their equipment, they DID go through and rebuild EVERY machine from scratch, updating everything, restructuring, etc.
Third point: See above. They did that the first time. They thought they were up to date enough that they wouldn't be vulnerable to something as stupid as a compromisable rpc.statd. Obviously they were wrong. They were overconfident, and it was a mistake. But they were trying.
Final point: This cracker is smart enough to connect via several intermediate hosts. Makes him kinda harder to track. Once again, I say go back and read the ENTIRE series. You'll get a better idea of the situation.
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Well... considering id's next project is Doom 3, not a new Quake, I walked into it recognizing the smell of bullshit right off. :)
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IIRC, It's a DragonBall EZ 68EZ328, and it's running at 20 MHz. Once again, IIRC - I seem to remember that that's the CPU spec, but I'm not 100% sure.
I thought if you held the 'I' key down, to mount it as ISO9660, then played it back, it'd work. (Thought I tried it on a G4 Server at my old work, and it handled it fine...)
Does "Ghost in the Shell" qualify? I've watched it multiple times, and I think the encode job was done quite well.
Yes, but do most PCs run Linux? Sadly, no. What do most of them run? Windows. Therefore, my point still stands - I do not consider most PC users to be computer-literate.
Well, after reading someone's link to the Web site for his business, it looks like the entire paper is little more than an advertisement for his product. Somehow, for a supposed researcher, stooping to that kind of product placement seems kinda weak. Just MHO.
Ok. I looked, and it looks like a sorta-interesting-looking document storage system. (I couldn't run the demo since there's no Director plugin for Netscape for Linux, and all the shots are so small you can't discern anything.) But I don't see anything revolutionary. And it looks like it runs on Windows. So basically, his whole paper is an advertisement for this? Yawn. If that's what it's all about, Dr. Gelertner can kiss my white ass, thanks.
Dude, didn't you hear? 15 is obsolete now too. :) I think it was mentioned in the good Dr.'s paper...
Or maybe he teaches theotretical CSci. I'll bet he's a tough prof to take a class from.