And the last time I planned something big and illegal we sure as hell didn't EMAIL each other about it, we met in person. (3 friends of mine all worked at Taco Bell through High School. Summer before college we planned a heist of the flags off the top. I still have a flag I fly on Rugby trips with the Taco Bell Dog.)
But then you posted it on the net bragging about it... so you just technically submitted your confession. Let's hope this doesn't bite you in the ass now. Even if it does, maybe then you will understand a few things a bit better.
Uhm, what worse thing can they be held responsible for than having their software cause all these computers to get trojaned?
Uhm, all these computers could have their OS partition trashed because of some Win X "feature" due to faulty testing.
Then the article would've been: "Adobe releases patch from outside source, breaking millions, instead of testing!"
I'm on Adobe's side, if you wanted your fix so badly/early, then take it from the "untrusted" source (oh but you wouldn't, now WOULD YOU?). Otherwise wait for the official release that has been tested more.
The way Steam works, is that it allows you download it anywhere as long as you are logged into YOUR account.
You can also play at your friends house and your house simultaneously IF you choose play offline. But this is true with most multiplayer games now that tie your account to a CDKEY. Your Steam logon is like your unique CDKEY. Although I'm not sure if you can play 2 different multiplayer games at the same time on 1 account (multi logging isn't possible I'm sure).
As for that REAL, printed manual.... where is it now? Collecting dust? Burned in a house fire? Dog/kid/wife ate it? Hopefully you can at least download the pdf if you enjoy reading the manuals that much.
I'm not saying Steam is without faults (if they ban you, you lose all your games tied to the account, but I haven't heard of any instances of that *yet*), and you are right the resale would be a nice feature that they could easily add (with limitations like you can't resale a game within x weeks, to prevent people just swapping hourly between friends). Although if someone hacks you and swaps all your games away, I would have to say tough luck... but welcome to the digital age.
I think that age group is too young to build robots on any informative level. I'm sorry, but they just won't "get it".
Just because the No Child Left Behind Act has you underestimating education, doesn't mean anyone is too young to indulge in technology.
Hell, 5-10? I'm sure they already have a decent applications/software background (surfing the web, running programs/games on the computer). Seeing how the linked PDF looked interesting, yet elegantly simple enough for a child (ok, so advertising may not speak truth), I would say it's worth a chance to teach. What's the worst that can happen if it goes over their heads? 1 student learns while 25 don't?
Why make it a pet, with all its NEEDS? I don't want to have to feed it, walk it, and clean up after it... although I might be okay with the stuff it squirts out....
I love how everyone immediately assumes kiddie porn is what he's hiding.
Ever think for a second hes hiding top secret nuclear plans for taking over the entire planet?! Or perhaps the DNA structure for the perfect human who could annihilate the human race? Or perhaps all the banking information of everyone where he can hire people to kill themselves so he can take over the world?! Maybe he has the AI for a robot who can take over the world? Take over the world... the world... *slowly reaches for tin foil hat and scatters to the corner*
The math is simple. Say your subscription to the NY Times costs $1 per day, $365 per year. That's a Kindle. Even if you replace them every two years, and pay retail for them (which are both unlikely) you're still coming out on top if you give them away.
Assuming people aren't cutting out the coupons on the Sunday edition...
is that nobody focuses on playability aka controls and game mechanics. The few companies that do for example blizzard make record profits whenever they release a game.
I'm not hating on blizzard entirely but I have played almost all of their games. Game mechanics is where they are *finally* getting into tolerable. SCBW was good, WC2 was good, then they tried to "polish" their mechanics and throw heroes and spells and cooldowns into WC3 and removing the ships and destroying the game mechanics (in my eyes WC3 was a huge flop, and to all the DOTA fans upset, get a real rpg game).
WC3 was just a test for WoW. They saw how they can make more money off an MMO and chased that route immediately after (it is now a company for profit, not innovation, mostly because they don't know how to innovate, look at Starcraft Ghost, I will give them points for trying at least). From my understanding, WoW had plenty of faults when it started, and they are still fixing them (I still wouldn't mind getting rid of that "parry" "miss" shit whenever you are 3 levels less than something, but save that long winded discussion for another day).
There are plenty of good games with good game mechanics out there, just don't get upset over not state of the art graphics. You were right about there not being many new good games, but that's because company's have stopped innovating (economy possibly?) and started chasing green. Valve would be a good example for a company that listen's to the community and still after years of release, adds new content (with no expectation of further funds). Just wish the company produced more games, because all games do get boring after a few years.
If you found a way to completely alter your game (upgrading graphics only extends the lifespan another year maybe) every few years without pissing off the veterans, you would be gauranteed a constant fan base.
Yes, but too much immersion is annoying. Sometimes you don't have a clue what to do and get so farm/grind happy cause you don't know where to quest, minigame, etc.
Stating where quests start are a BIG help. Although they *might* be able to do it differently without icons above heads etc.
Some reality has to be lost for game interface, you can never immerse yourself when you see a HEALTH BAR at the top left of your screen. Try playing a game with full immersion and NOT reading a manual, and it just seems too difficult to pickup.
You want to know what it would be like with total immersion? Try playing without the tutorials as well... because those are the least immersive things ever. Seriously, I'm playing an x year old character and you are teaching me to do y?! (y being chopping a tree, burning some logs, attacking someone with a sword, shooting a gun, jumping, walking, looking at a map, etc.)
Oh yea. When it comes to socializing, us geeks are terrible because we can't relate on the intellectual level of most people. Most people, tend to talk about nothing but sports and those people seem to look like these guys to us.
Although after getting a job and being surrounded by a few more others who are interested in technology (plus the boom in it), socializing and being a geek is a thing of the past, if not a new fad. Hell, all the kids use cell phones and play games on their cell phones now (I remember kids were considered geeks for playing handheld games). Using the internet or playing games made you a geek too, but after looking at all the online gaming communities, there are plenty of jocks/girls playing online games. Half of which aren't verbal about it, the other half will admit it if you ask them correctly.
My asshole of a supervisor said I HAD to give them more time I changed my date from 2 weeks to one week
He tried lowering his two week notice so the boss fired. Not what you thought, but still don't think they had grounds to fire him on a two week notice (least ethics wise).
This whole firing thing never made sense to me. You can fire anyone for any reason. You have good performance? Fine, we will dump 10x more work on you and say you are performing badly. You handle all calls politely and in time. Fine, they won't allow you to answer the phone or only forward bad clients who give bad reviews. And if all else fails they can say you called them an asshole verbally with no proof and still fire you. It's their word against yours, and the fact that there is little proof for these types of issues is a bit disturbing.
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Think he meant AOL messenger. Since if I recall, back in 3.0 you could message and punt (I was young and it was new to me at least:P). AIM got released later for the non-AOLers.
I noticed the comment on SILC, but looking over their page I see it touting security, but nothing about IP security. Encrypt all the messages you like but if others can still get your IP (or their servers freely hand them over) then its pointless...but this is a question - not a statement.
This is the debate of Windows vs Linux that I see quite a bit, but never gets discussed:
When someone runs something in Windows, and it infects their machine it's "stupid windows". But, when someone runs something in Linux under ROOT, and infects their machine, it's "stupid user".
Yet (a few months ago) there was an article posting that most people run as admin in Windows, because software doesn't work. That's right, because of poorly designed software that doesn't work all the time, people have to run as admin. Now, I am not saying the software developers are to blame, but I feel they share some blame to this whole debate.
But for those who say Windows has poor security, I really want to know some figures on how much infection you can get when under a guest account, because technically you are under a rule by rule specific account under Linux.
If by shot you mean a slap on the wrist (perm ban) while they run off with the cashloads they made from RMT (Real Money Trading)
I was looking for a rough estimate of real life currency that was affected... This is partially why RMT is a bad thing, not to mention it promotes unfit working conditions for people (12 hours straight for Chinese farmers), plus many other things.
Regardless, I just wish there was a way to prosecute people (further) who profit in real life from breaking a game's agreements. Hell, if you cheat a gambling website game, you get prosecuted by the police. The WoW/glider incident is a little hopeful, but why play an MMO where cheating happens (not saying EVE is bad, but I've seen a few where they just don't care).
My chess set has majestically sculpted pieces and a beautifully painted wood board but that doesn't make the game of chess art.
But the minute you take a picture of it, it is art.
Taking pictures of nature is art...Almost anything visual is art (at least once its captured in a photograph). Art is protected by freedom of expression, but yet we are not able to state that anything visual is protected by freedom of expression (of course the definition of freedom of expression isn't what you would hope it means, to do drugs is expressing yourself, etc. etc.).
Hmm I seem to have cornered myself into an infinite loop...
Steve Gibson from the "security now" podcast did his own benchmark where he created a drive image and timed how long it took to defrag the drive, then restored the bits from the image, encrypted with TC, then timed the defrag again
If it was done in this order, then perhaps the conversion from restored image to TC was defragging it?
No offense, this should not even be modded informative, since encryption is EXTRA overhead (not faster). AES simply changes the bits (it doesn't compress), you are reading the same amount of bytes, but now you have to decrypt it. By Tom's hardware linked above, it was shown about 94% as fast as normal (remember that performance varies based on processor). But all tests were shown to go SLOWER with encryption.
Okay, the only problem I see is your definition of "inhuman". You say its inhuman for the guy to expect someone to willingly die... but I say its inhuman to let others die. Being humane is caring for others, being inhuman is self-preservation.
No, he shouldn't technically refuse it, I agree. But he should (keyword, should, but doesn't have to) think of the others, based on the statistics posted above: 11,700 people don't get transplants. What are the odds that person is a child under 18? Although the original response was a bit hostile and I can see how you can get defensive, his point still remains valid. Sorry
And maybe the guy was never told 1 of 11,700 people won't be getting this transplant if we give you your 2nd-4th, perhaps bringing this to light and seeing this guys' humanity take effect over self preservation may come in place, and he may very well volunteer not to have it. Who knows? I know of a few people who would rather sacrifice their life for others (talk to some firemen for example, but that is "risk" and not sacrifice, but there are still other people who would sacrifice)
It's never easy telling someone they have to die to help another live (like telling the parents of conjoined twins, which child they want to keep), and your emotions are understandable. You didn't want to hear it, but it has to be said...
We have a shift from an administration that was very dismissive of multilateral negotiations [as a whole], to an administration that is open to that possibility if it improves U.S. national security.'
I know he may not have been the best, but to add words that almost read "aswhole"...
Hate to say it, but, after "killing" 3 people (4 - his 1 chance) for your own survival. Who knows how many children those 3 people had? Can you admit taking 3 livers away from people so you can live is the right thing?
Using the word "self-preservation" only means selfishness, you may argue all you like about the 2 daughters, but... here in this world ALL people should be equal. You get 1 chance. Maybe if this guy is a nobel prize winner and is helping advance society at a wonderful rate, where he's saving human lives, we give him 2 or more. So I ask, will the daughters still live after he dies? Has he saved any lives himself? No lies, you know the truth.
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And the last time I planned something big and illegal we sure as hell didn't EMAIL each other about it, we met in person. (3 friends of mine all worked at Taco Bell through High School. Summer before college we planned a heist of the flags off the top. I still have a flag I fly on Rugby trips with the Taco Bell Dog.)
But then you posted it on the net bragging about it... so you just technically submitted your confession. Let's hope this doesn't bite you in the ass now. Even if it does, maybe then you will understand a few things a bit better.
Uhm, what worse thing can they be held responsible for than having their software cause all these computers to get trojaned?
Uhm, all these computers could have their OS partition trashed because of some Win X "feature" due to faulty testing.
Then the article would've been: "Adobe releases patch from outside source, breaking millions, instead of testing!"
I'm on Adobe's side, if you wanted your fix so badly/early, then take it from the "untrusted" source (oh but you wouldn't, now WOULD YOU?). Otherwise wait for the official release that has been tested more.
Yes, but the original intent is to say: my penis is a mile long.
The way Steam works, is that it allows you download it anywhere as long as you are logged into YOUR account.
You can also play at your friends house and your house simultaneously IF you choose play offline. But this is true with most multiplayer games now that tie your account to a CDKEY. Your Steam logon is like your unique CDKEY. Although I'm not sure if you can play 2 different multiplayer games at the same time on 1 account (multi logging isn't possible I'm sure).
As for that REAL, printed manual.... where is it now? Collecting dust? Burned in a house fire? Dog/kid/wife ate it? Hopefully you can at least download the pdf if you enjoy reading the manuals that much.
I'm not saying Steam is without faults (if they ban you, you lose all your games tied to the account, but I haven't heard of any instances of that *yet*), and you are right the resale would be a nice feature that they could easily add (with limitations like you can't resale a game within x weeks, to prevent people just swapping hourly between friends). Although if someone hacks you and swaps all your games away, I would have to say tough luck... but welcome to the digital age.
I think that age group is too young to build robots on any informative level. I'm sorry, but they just won't "get it".
Just because the No Child Left Behind Act has you underestimating education, doesn't mean anyone is too young to indulge in technology.
Hell, 5-10? I'm sure they already have a decent applications/software background (surfing the web, running programs/games on the computer). Seeing how the linked PDF looked interesting, yet elegantly simple enough for a child (ok, so advertising may not speak truth), I would say it's worth a chance to teach. What's the worst that can happen if it goes over their heads? 1 student learns while 25 don't?
On the other hand, wasting time complaining about other people wasting time complaining...
Why make it a pet, with all its NEEDS? I don't want to have to feed it, walk it, and clean up after it... although I might be okay with the stuff it squirts out....
I love how everyone immediately assumes kiddie porn is what he's hiding.
Ever think for a second hes hiding top secret nuclear plans for taking over the entire planet?! Or perhaps the DNA structure for the perfect human who could annihilate the human race? Or perhaps all the banking information of everyone where he can hire people to kill themselves so he can take over the world?! Maybe he has the AI for a robot who can take over the world? Take over the world... the world... *slowly reaches for tin foil hat and scatters to the corner*
The math is simple. Say your subscription to the NY Times costs $1 per day, $365 per year. That's a Kindle. Even if you replace them every two years, and pay retail for them (which are both unlikely) you're still coming out on top if you give them away.
Assuming people aren't cutting out the coupons on the Sunday edition...
is that nobody focuses on playability aka controls and game mechanics. The few companies that do for example blizzard make record profits whenever they release a game.
I'm not hating on blizzard entirely but I have played almost all of their games. Game mechanics is where they are *finally* getting into tolerable. SCBW was good, WC2 was good, then they tried to "polish" their mechanics and throw heroes and spells and cooldowns into WC3 and removing the ships and destroying the game mechanics (in my eyes WC3 was a huge flop, and to all the DOTA fans upset, get a real rpg game).
WC3 was just a test for WoW. They saw how they can make more money off an MMO and chased that route immediately after (it is now a company for profit, not innovation, mostly because they don't know how to innovate, look at Starcraft Ghost, I will give them points for trying at least). From my understanding, WoW had plenty of faults when it started, and they are still fixing them (I still wouldn't mind getting rid of that "parry" "miss" shit whenever you are 3 levels less than something, but save that long winded discussion for another day).
There are plenty of good games with good game mechanics out there, just don't get upset over not state of the art graphics. You were right about there not being many new good games, but that's because company's have stopped innovating (economy possibly?) and started chasing green. Valve would be a good example for a company that listen's to the community and still after years of release, adds new content (with no expectation of further funds). Just wish the company produced more games, because all games do get boring after a few years.
If you found a way to completely alter your game (upgrading graphics only extends the lifespan another year maybe) every few years without pissing off the veterans, you would be gauranteed a constant fan base.
Yes, but too much immersion is annoying. Sometimes you don't have a clue what to do and get so farm/grind happy cause you don't know where to quest, minigame, etc.
Stating where quests start are a BIG help. Although they *might* be able to do it differently without icons above heads etc.
Some reality has to be lost for game interface, you can never immerse yourself when you see a HEALTH BAR at the top left of your screen. Try playing a game with full immersion and NOT reading a manual, and it just seems too difficult to pickup.
You want to know what it would be like with total immersion? Try playing without the tutorials as well... because those are the least immersive things ever. Seriously, I'm playing an x year old character and you are teaching me to do y?! (y being chopping a tree, burning some logs, attacking someone with a sword, shooting a gun, jumping, walking, looking at a map, etc.)
Oh yea. When it comes to socializing, us geeks are terrible because we can't relate on the intellectual level of most people. Most people, tend to talk about nothing but sports and those people seem to look like these guys to us.
Although after getting a job and being surrounded by a few more others who are interested in technology (plus the boom in it), socializing and being a geek is a thing of the past, if not a new fad. Hell, all the kids use cell phones and play games on their cell phones now (I remember kids were considered geeks for playing handheld games). Using the internet or playing games made you a geek too, but after looking at all the online gaming communities, there are plenty of jocks/girls playing online games. Half of which aren't verbal about it, the other half will admit it if you ask them correctly.
My asshole of a supervisor said I HAD to give them more time I changed my date from 2 weeks to one week
He tried lowering his two week notice so the boss fired. Not what you thought, but still don't think they had grounds to fire him on a two week notice (least ethics wise).
This whole firing thing never made sense to me. You can fire anyone for any reason. You have good performance? Fine, we will dump 10x more work on you and say you are performing badly. You handle all calls politely and in time. Fine, they won't allow you to answer the phone or only forward bad clients who give bad reviews. And if all else fails they can say you called them an asshole verbally with no proof and still fire you. It's their word against yours, and the fact that there is little proof for these types of issues is a bit disturbing.
June 1995 AOL 3.0 (Win16) for Windows 3.x/Windows 95/Windows NT released
Think he meant AOL messenger. Since if I recall, back in 3.0 you could message and punt (I was young and it was new to me at least :P). AIM got released later for the non-AOLers.
I noticed the comment on SILC, but looking over their page I see it touting security, but nothing about IP security. Encrypt all the messages you like but if others can still get your IP (or their servers freely hand them over) then its pointless...but this is a question - not a statement.
This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.'
I don't think whoever modded you troll understands the meaning of QQ...
This is the debate of Windows vs Linux that I see quite a bit, but never gets discussed:
When someone runs something in Windows, and it infects their machine it's "stupid windows". But, when someone runs something in Linux under ROOT, and infects their machine, it's "stupid user".
Yet (a few months ago) there was an article posting that most people run as admin in Windows, because software doesn't work. That's right, because of poorly designed software that doesn't work all the time, people have to run as admin. Now, I am not saying the software developers are to blame, but I feel they share some blame to this whole debate.
But for those who say Windows has poor security, I really want to know some figures on how much infection you can get when under a guest account, because technically you are under a rule by rule specific account under Linux.
Better yet, they passed up the chance of a snappy name like Karmic Khameleon Imagine the new colors they could bring to their new desktop scheme...
The perpetrators have been shot.
If by shot you mean a slap on the wrist (perm ban) while they run off with the cashloads they made from RMT (Real Money Trading)
I was looking for a rough estimate of real life currency that was affected... This is partially why RMT is a bad thing, not to mention it promotes unfit working conditions for people (12 hours straight for Chinese farmers), plus many other things.
Regardless, I just wish there was a way to prosecute people (further) who profit in real life from breaking a game's agreements. Hell, if you cheat a gambling website game, you get prosecuted by the police. The WoW/glider incident is a little hopeful, but why play an MMO where cheating happens (not saying EVE is bad, but I've seen a few where they just don't care).
My chess set has majestically sculpted pieces and a beautifully painted wood board but that doesn't make the game of chess art.
But the minute you take a picture of it, it is art.
Taking pictures of nature is art...Almost anything visual is art (at least once its captured in a photograph). Art is protected by freedom of expression, but yet we are not able to state that anything visual is protected by freedom of expression (of course the definition of freedom of expression isn't what you would hope it means, to do drugs is expressing yourself, etc. etc.).
Hmm I seem to have cornered myself into an infinite loop...
Steve Gibson from the "security now" podcast did his own benchmark where he created a drive image and timed how long it took to defrag the drive, then restored the bits from the image, encrypted with TC, then timed the defrag again
If it was done in this order, then perhaps the conversion from restored image to TC was defragging it?
No offense, this should not even be modded informative, since encryption is EXTRA overhead (not faster). AES simply changes the bits (it doesn't compress), you are reading the same amount of bytes, but now you have to decrypt it. By Tom's hardware linked above, it was shown about 94% as fast as normal (remember that performance varies based on processor). But all tests were shown to go SLOWER with encryption.
Along those same lines: fairness.
It isn't fair if they can randomly roll a higher number.
Okay, the only problem I see is your definition of "inhuman". You say its inhuman for the guy to expect someone to willingly die... but I say its inhuman to let others die. Being humane is caring for others, being inhuman is self-preservation.
No, he shouldn't technically refuse it, I agree. But he should (keyword, should, but doesn't have to) think of the others, based on the statistics posted above: 11,700 people don't get transplants. What are the odds that person is a child under 18? Although the original response was a bit hostile and I can see how you can get defensive, his point still remains valid. Sorry
And maybe the guy was never told 1 of 11,700 people won't be getting this transplant if we give you your 2nd-4th, perhaps bringing this to light and seeing this guys' humanity take effect over self preservation may come in place, and he may very well volunteer not to have it. Who knows? I know of a few people who would rather sacrifice their life for others (talk to some firemen for example, but that is "risk" and not sacrifice, but there are still other people who would sacrifice)
It's never easy telling someone they have to die to help another live (like telling the parents of conjoined twins, which child they want to keep), and your emotions are understandable. You didn't want to hear it, but it has to be said...
We have a shift from an administration that was very dismissive of multilateral negotiations [as a whole], to an administration that is open to that possibility if it improves U.S. national security.'
I know he may not have been the best, but to add words that almost read "aswhole"...
Hate to say it, but, after "killing" 3 people (4 - his 1 chance) for your own survival. Who knows how many children those 3 people had? Can you admit taking 3 livers away from people so you can live is the right thing?
Using the word "self-preservation" only means selfishness, you may argue all you like about the 2 daughters, but... here in this world ALL people should be equal. You get 1 chance. Maybe if this guy is a nobel prize winner and is helping advance society at a wonderful rate, where he's saving human lives, we give him 2 or more. So I ask, will the daughters still live after he dies? Has he saved any lives himself? No lies, you know the truth.
If the guy crosses 7000 miles gets thru the hoops for a visa and takes your job he is fucking better then you accept it
Not entirely, he probably just proves the GP's point: too many promises (I'll do more for less money).