Every Blizzard patch is like a mini-expansion, rather than a bug fix caused by rushing development.
... wow. You really missed out on last December's server patching, eh? Go rummaging around forums, and _eveyrone_ legit and non-legit players were being constantly kicked for 'excessive packet usage' because they set their filters too tightly. This was the most poorly thought out patch for any game that I have seen.
But hey, I usually don't play games -- DII is just the heroin of video games... one try and you're hooked for life. That doesn't mean that I agree with _any_ of their post-release politics or changes(including D2X). The things they do to whitewash their reputation are at the top of my personal list of reasons to dislike them. Bnetd is nothing in comparison to the way that they treat their customers.
Whoa... A minority of players cheat on DII? That is new to me. I've been playing for well over 2 years now, and at the very least over 95% of the players use maphack. A cheat. Hacks, dupes, trojans, and otherwise malicious cheats are now and have been a part of the culture of DII for a _very_ long time. Nonmalicious cheats simply added another element to the game, and gave me more code to play with! It is sad that this drove you away, but why not just go with the flow?
To answer another question altogether, Blizz has to 'fix' the hacking not because they are dedicated, but because major news sites have picked up on the enormous hacking community. Syadasti was on TechTV a long time ago that covered his mephbot, and Slashdot posted info about d2jsp, a javascript parser for diabloii. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there have been other damaging news coverage. They certainly have never been in a hurry to fix dupes or the easily detected hacked items. I don't claim to know anything for sure, but I started cheating because I had played long enough to know that blizz doesn't really care.
I know for a fact that this would not have worked at my old school. I found out accidentally that the first 6 digits of my SS were the same as another student there. I'm sure it's a matter of time before a similar incedent happens -- all I would have to do is use the yearbook to find out what their last name was.
I know it's sort of a moot point now that every poster says 'yes it's insecure', but perhaps this illustrates another problem on top of general SS security issues, which just about every institution seems to easily forget about.
lol! Ok, I will:-) I know parents who bring their children up this way, and they are some of the most healthy people I know. You obviously have different(perhaps more normal) experience than I and I respect that. I may just find that you are right. Maybe children's rights may become more of an issue as we stray more and more from athoritarianism enforced by phisical distinctions.
I just believe strongly in that the distinctions do not lie in age, but experience and maturity. While a governing body must handle this problem, and makes blanket rules for these people, there are important distinctions between different types of minors. Perhaps my complaint could be fixed with something as simple as more regular grants for emancipation for minors. I don't claim to know the right way, but I have presented my opinion and thanks for considering it at least. And no, in no way am I going to mess up the world:-) I'm a pacifist programmer with a terrible sense of humor, and politically a passionate socialist/libertarian. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I graduate from a private institution this Friday, and we implemented a similar system this year. While this may protect kids or not, what it will do is violate the rights of kids over 18 still in school, and allow serious abuses of power. What network is safe? And we're trusting this data in the hands of largely incompetent administrators?
I am ok with this idea, as long as it is consentual, as it is here, just as I may give permission for my parents to access my medical records or not.
For conspiracy theorists, get over it - the government already tracks what you do, so what?
For you "concerned parents" out there, consider the rights which you regularally deny children. Are those not the very same rights which you pride yourself on, the ones which we founded our country to preserve? I have never been property of my parents; I have been a sentient being forced to live under conditions mandated by so called 'responsible' adults, who were regularally more irresponsible than I. And I'm pretty irresponsible, admittedly. I recognize your concern for your children, but at least recognize your children's concern - remember these are the people who will pay your social security, decide to put you into a home or not(when you no longer become 'fit'), and decide how long to keep you plugged in.
While that last remark is rather bitter, I am very happy with my personal situation, but cannot fathom how you can justify controlling another person like that, regardless of their capacity. I guess the other sticking point is that children are only considered adults when it is convienient for adults, in court when they want to demonize kids. Make up your mind - either we are irresponsible and need this treatment, or we are capable, and deserve our rights. What I can say is that the selective treatment of minors is not alright in America. Even now, I can be drafted by the government and still not be allowed to legally drink alcohol. I wish I understood what logic backs any of this up...
<gets off soapbox> "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I respect your opinion. I do think that you misinterpreted this statement though.
When he is talking about "casual sex" and prudes, he is referring to the Christian church and it's followers, not females. Don't take everything so personally - this was obviously not written for or against you.
Rape is at an epidemic scale, in fact my mom has been a leader in speaking out against such things. However, this is not because of "male dominant attitudes", but because of underlying social problems. In fact, Hollywood has picked up on this and exploit it regularally.
Abuse of one sex is always a social problem though. I would enjoy seeing a society where sexes are equal, but I doubt it will happen. Our instincts are to conquer and destroy all who threaten power.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Daemons have always been considered lowlevel, and therefore special by OS programmers. There are tons of special hooks for that reason(ie nice), and in MINIX, there's even a different task queue just for servers, between user apps and drivers. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I've implemented life in java and c... looks like I may do it for my AP CS class this year too, in C++. You should be able to find a 'life' pretty easily. Too bad I don't one now. Automata are cool. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
What a boring use of this technology! Use it to create a massive set of links to porn - you'd be rich! "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
you can't blame him for the fact that people like that follow him. He is is own person, and the person who would do something like that because "the all mighty taco" said so is delusional. Judge a person on thier own merit. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I don't have to have a point:-) But no, seriously. What the conversation implied was that VMware was, and plex86 wasn't - saying that "vmware killer" and whatnot. So it was a comparison, no? And one of the points against it was that it was not an emulator, which would tend to imply that the thing it is being compared to also has this feature. It is similar to when M$ said that linux didn't have a journaling filesystem:-) Neither did they,(NT maybe) but hush!
So just avoiding confusion and FUD. I apologize for the confrontational tone, senior coward. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
VMware accesses the processor directly. That's what that driver that comes with it does, allows direct processor accessies to attempt to achieve the 5% margin they were aiming for. Perhaps things changed in 2.0, but from 1.2, it was still calling the processor directly. Otherwise different devices wouldn't work(like DVD). On other platforms, it'd fall flat on it's face as far as I know. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Actually, if you read the VMware whitepapers, neither is VMware. So what's your point in bringing that up again? "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
There was plex86 version 1.0 on the ftp site last night... He said he'd have to update the cvs there... but I still wonder if that is the version that he's showing off there(there were boot images as well..). I'll have to try it out tonight. "Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Republic != democracy! ARG! Nobody recognises any sort of difference, and this is where people like you go wrong. Jefferson was a very rich man that had teams of scientists of men working under him. He made the first great Intellectual Property company:-) And he got insanely rich and famous.
Now.. back to the subject at hand. "Democracy" is one of the lies told to Americans. We are a democracy in so few ways it's not even funny. The only laws that people directly vote on are perhaps some local laws. The rest are made by officials which people(sometimes...) vote for(ie electoral votes). We are somewhat a democratic republic. But most certainly we are even more of a _communist_ country than we are a democracy(we implemnt all of Lenin's 9 planks of communism...)
May seem a bit pedantic, but whatever. Small things matter. But sometimes they don't. Just ask any girl.
Yes, this was the major debate between me and my AP CS teacher. I could cite the quotes from The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, yet the broken Codewarrior stuff was all that mattered. And they are producers of quite strange software - I have helped developers using this product, and in some releases, they mixed up the macro values for TRUE and FALSE... Donno, seems like a topic just to complain - no real answer or change can be enacted with this...
There was alot of random discussion on this exact point in the last few weeks on the kernel dev list. I'm not much of a kernel hacker, but it's good to check up on at least. Here are a few of the links - www.samba.org/~netfilter/kernel-hacking-HOWTO/ke rnel-hacking-HOWTO.html humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/kernel-links.html http://linux-mag.com/depts/gear.html http://kt.linuxcare.com/ http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/port ing-to-2.2.html http://www.tux.org/lkml/ http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/port ing-to-2.3.html http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/inde x.html http://www.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml http://jungla.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/h ackers-docs.html http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/CS746G/a1/ http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html and others too... I felt the same way until I started looking around.
Actually, this is what I'm doing right now, finishing up "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" after finishing the dino book (I find it funny that tanebaum critisizes the dino cover...). And I have found it to be an _extremely_ good way to get a footing in the way operating systems work. However, heavily theoretical and squeaky clean code is not going to help in reality. If you're going to do any real work in OS dev, you're going to see a lot of wierd crap, and getting your hands dirty with this book seemed to me to be a good idea. Oh well.
donno... seems like a joke to me, but whatever. a) Linux is a product? b) the famous rm 'security hole':) so funny. c) the black screen argument... yeah, windowmaker == black screen. Sure. Great stuff, we get some of the best gui stuff around. The only thing that you can succesfully attack is the integration. If only both desktops would just use the _X_ copy area instead of thier own stupid ones... It would save me headaches.
According to a book I've been reading... I forget which one(the only way reading several books at one time messes me up), but one of the books covering the linux kernel, says that several distributions have been certified. And Posix != unix. I thought this for a long time, but it seems that X/Open has the newer Unix 95 and then 98 standards(funny years to make standards... perhaps they'll make one this year?)
I'm not the most up to date on modern philosophy, but I do happen to know that this is one of Chomsky's main arguments, the sixth right - the right to make money, which is protected more so than the others.
Although these people have the right intent as far as I have read(and I have read 300x my monthly quota for slashdot today), nobody brought up any real philosophy or philosophers. Kind of disappointing, but I am glad to see that consumerism has been realised(yes, it's not the masses' faults - manipulating people's minds has beeen a science since the 60's), and that the individual is standing up for him/herself.
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But hey, I usually don't play games -- DII is just the heroin of video games... one try and you're hooked for life. That doesn't mean that I agree with _any_ of their post-release politics or changes(including D2X). The things they do to whitewash their reputation are at the top of my personal list of reasons to dislike them. Bnetd is nothing in comparison to the way that they treat their customers.
Whoa... A minority of players cheat on DII? That is new to me. I've been playing for well over 2 years now, and at the very least over 95% of the players use maphack. A cheat. Hacks, dupes, trojans, and otherwise malicious cheats are now and have been a part of the culture of DII for a _very_ long time. Nonmalicious cheats simply added another element to the game, and gave me more code to play with! It is sad that this drove you away, but why not just go with the flow?
To answer another question altogether, Blizz has to 'fix' the hacking not because they are dedicated, but because major news sites have picked up on the enormous hacking community. Syadasti was on TechTV a long time ago that covered his mephbot, and Slashdot posted info about d2jsp, a javascript parser for diabloii. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there have been other damaging news coverage. They certainly have never been in a hurry to fix dupes or the easily detected hacked items. I don't claim to know anything for sure, but I started cheating because I had played long enough to know that blizz doesn't really care.
I know for a fact that this would not have worked at my old school. I found out accidentally that the first 6 digits of my SS were the same as another student there. I'm sure it's a matter of time before a similar incedent happens -- all I would have to do is use the yearbook to find out what their last name was.
I know it's sort of a moot point now that every poster says 'yes it's insecure', but perhaps this illustrates another problem on top of general SS security issues, which just about every institution seems to easily forget about.
having a beowulf cluster of these?
More porn in the shower for me, and faster! Maybe I'll be able to stream better quality live clips...
lol! Ok, I will :-) I know parents who bring their children up this way, and they are some of the most healthy people I know. You obviously have different(perhaps more normal) experience than I and I respect that. I may just find that you are right. Maybe children's rights may become more of an issue as we stray more and more from athoritarianism enforced by phisical distinctions.
I just believe strongly in that the distinctions do not lie in age, but experience and maturity. While a governing body must handle this problem, and makes blanket rules for these people, there are important distinctions between different types of minors. Perhaps my complaint could be fixed with something as simple as more regular grants for emancipation for minors. I don't claim to know the right way, but I have presented my opinion and thanks for considering it at least. And no, in no way am I going to mess up the world :-) I'm a pacifist programmer with a terrible sense of humor, and politically a passionate socialist/libertarian.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I graduate from a private institution this Friday, and we implemented a similar system this year. While this may protect kids or not, what it will do is violate the rights of kids over 18 still in school, and allow serious abuses of power. What network is safe? And we're trusting this data in the hands of largely incompetent administrators?
I am ok with this idea, as long as it is consentual, as it is here, just as I may give permission for my parents to access my medical records or not.
For conspiracy theorists, get over it - the government already tracks what you do, so what?
For you "concerned parents" out there, consider the rights which you regularally deny children. Are those not the very same rights which you pride yourself on, the ones which we founded our country to preserve? I have never been property of my parents; I have been a sentient being forced to live under conditions mandated by so called 'responsible' adults, who were regularally more irresponsible than I. And I'm pretty irresponsible, admittedly. I recognize your concern for your children, but at least recognize your children's concern - remember these are the people who will pay your social security, decide to put you into a home or not(when you no longer become 'fit'), and decide how long to keep you plugged in.
While that last remark is rather bitter, I am very happy with my personal situation, but cannot fathom how you can justify controlling another person like that, regardless of their capacity. I guess the other sticking point is that children are only considered adults when it is convienient for adults, in court when they want to demonize kids. Make up your mind - either we are irresponsible and need this treatment, or we are capable, and deserve our rights. What I can say is that the selective treatment of minors is not alright in America. Even now, I can be drafted by the government and still not be allowed to legally drink alcohol. I wish I understood what logic backs any of this up...
<gets off soapbox>
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I respect your opinion. I do think that you misinterpreted this statement though.
When he is talking about "casual sex" and prudes, he is referring to the Christian church and it's followers, not females. Don't take everything so personally - this was obviously not written for or against you.
Rape is at an epidemic scale, in fact my mom has been a leader in speaking out against such things. However, this is not because of "male dominant attitudes", but because of underlying social problems. In fact, Hollywood has picked up on this and exploit it regularally. Abuse of one sex is always a social problem though. I would enjoy seeing a society where sexes are equal, but I doubt it will happen. Our instincts are to conquer and destroy all who threaten power.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Daemons have always been considered lowlevel, and therefore special by OS programmers. There are tons of special hooks for that reason(ie nice), and in MINIX, there's even a different task queue just for servers, between user apps and drivers.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I've implemented life in java and c... looks like I may do it for my AP CS class this year too, in C++. You should be able to find a 'life' pretty easily. Too bad I don't one now. Automata are cool.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
use macOS if you feel that way. Nothing is perfect, including linux.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
What a boring use of this technology! Use it to create a massive set of links to porn - you'd be rich!
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
you can't blame him for the fact that people like that follow him. He is is own person, and the person who would do something like that because "the all mighty taco" said so is delusional. Judge a person on thier own merit.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
I don't have to have a point :-) But no, seriously. What the conversation implied was that VMware was, and plex86 wasn't - saying that "vmware killer" and whatnot. So it was a comparison, no? And one of the points against it was that it was not an emulator, which would tend to imply that the thing it is being compared to also has this feature. It is similar to when M$ said that linux didn't have a journaling filesystem :-) Neither did they,(NT maybe) but hush!
So just avoiding confusion and FUD. I apologize for the confrontational tone, senior coward.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
VMware accesses the processor directly. That's what that driver that comes with it does, allows direct processor accessies to attempt to achieve the 5% margin they were aiming for. Perhaps things changed in 2.0, but from 1.2, it was still calling the processor directly. Otherwise different devices wouldn't work(like DVD). On other platforms, it'd fall flat on it's face as far as I know.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Actually, if you read the VMware whitepapers, neither is VMware. So what's your point in bringing that up again?
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
There was plex86 version 1.0 on the ftp site last night... He said he'd have to update the cvs there... but I still wonder if that is the version that he's showing off there(there were boot images as well..). I'll have to try it out tonight.
"Hex, Bugs, and Rockn'Roll" --The Programmer's Digest
Republic != democracy! ARG! Nobody recognises any sort of difference, and this is where people like you go wrong. Jefferson was a very rich man that had teams of scientists of men working under him. He made the first great Intellectual Property company :-) And he got insanely rich and famous.
Now.. back to the subject at hand. "Democracy" is one of the lies told to Americans. We are a democracy in so few ways it's not even funny. The only laws that people directly vote on are perhaps some local laws. The rest are made by officials which people(sometimes...) vote for(ie electoral votes). We are somewhat a democratic republic. But most certainly we are even more of a _communist_ country than we are a democracy(we implemnt all of Lenin's 9 planks of communism...)
May seem a bit pedantic, but whatever. Small things matter. But sometimes they don't. Just ask any girl.
Yes, this was the major debate between me and my AP CS teacher. I could cite the quotes from The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, yet the broken Codewarrior stuff was all that mattered. And they are producers of quite strange software - I have helped developers using this product, and in some releases, they mixed up the macro values for TRUE and FALSE... Donno, seems like a topic just to complain - no real answer or change can be enacted with this...
There was alot of random discussion on this exact point in the last few weeks on the kernel dev list. I'm not much of a kernel hacker, but it's good to check up on at least. Here are a few of the links -e rnel-hacking-HOWTO.html t ing-to-2.2.html t ing-to-2.3.html e x.html h ackers-docs.html
www.samba.org/~netfilter/kernel-hacking-HOWTO/k
humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/kernel-links.html
http://linux-mag.com/depts/gear.html
http://kt.linuxcare.com/
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/por
http://www.tux.org/lkml/
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/por
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/ind
http://www.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml
http://jungla.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/
http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/CS746G/a1/
http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
and others too... I felt the same way until I started looking around.
Actually, this is what I'm doing right now, finishing up "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" after finishing the dino book (I find it funny that tanebaum critisizes the dino cover...). And I have found it to be an _extremely_ good way to get a footing in the way operating systems work. However, heavily theoretical and squeaky clean code is not going to help in reality. If you're going to do any real work in OS dev, you're going to see a lot of wierd crap, and getting your hands dirty with this book seemed to me to be a good idea. Oh well.
donno... seems like a joke to me, but whatever. :) so funny.
a) Linux is a product?
b) the famous rm 'security hole'
c) the black screen argument... yeah, windowmaker == black screen. Sure. Great stuff, we get some of the best gui stuff around. The only thing that you can succesfully attack is the integration. If only both desktops would just use the _X_ copy area instead of thier own stupid ones... It would save me headaches.
According to a book I've been reading... I forget which one(the only way reading several books at one time messes me up), but one of the books covering the linux kernel, says that several distributions have been certified. And Posix != unix. I thought this for a long time, but it seems that X/Open has the newer Unix 95 and then 98 standards(funny years to make standards... perhaps they'll make one this year?)
Duh. The Unix 98 standard. You can yak all you want, but Unix is defined by it's interfaces. Why is this question on slashdot?
I'm not the most up to date on modern philosophy, but I do happen to know that this is one of Chomsky's main arguments, the sixth right - the right to make money, which is protected more so than the others.
Although these people have the right intent as far as I have read(and I have read 300x my monthly quota for slashdot today), nobody brought up any real philosophy or philosophers. Kind of disappointing, but I am glad to see that consumerism has been realised(yes, it's not the masses' faults - manipulating people's minds has beeen a science since the 60's), and that the individual is standing up for him/herself.