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Yeah, and when the l33t h4x0rz find the top s3kr1t terrorist base we could send Jean Claude Van Damme and Hulk Hogan in to teach the bastards a lesson.
Christ on a crutch, how did your post get modded up? The hijackers haven't even been identified yet so where do you suggest the Baker Street Irregulars start looking for clues, Holmes? Oh yeah, they'll just call their friends Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Scooby Doo Gang. Then they will go on an expedition to dig through the wreckage of Old Man World Trade Center's broken down shack until they find a busted up 767 in a secret room. After that it's just a matter of determining which charred and dismembered remains are terrorists and which are passengers.
Good thing they've got Agent Scully's cell phone number!
This is only a problem if you're a fucking idiot. Who else would pay so much for the right to RENT an IMAGINARY gee-gaw from a company that could delete all traces of said trinket from the game at a moments notice?
That's right kids: Read your terms of service! Not only do you NOT own you own any of that shit you spent months of game time collecting but it could go away at any time for any (or no) reason. Best thing about this scenario: You suckers are so stupid you'll actually come back for more after such an apocolypse!
Sneer all you want at twitch games, but when was the last time you played a FPS that required a monthly fee and relied on the grace of Sony to continue to function?
It doesn't matter who they're granted to. I could patent anything I want but the only way to enforce it is with expensive court battles which can be drawn out to the point where I will have no choice but to conceed.
Where I live Charter actually doesn't do the cable modem stuff themselves -- it's subcontracted to a bunch of poorly trained monkeys dressed up as techs.
These jokers often break existing installations when they add new subscribers and at one point my friend could either watch TV or use his cable modem but not both at once thanks to their incompetence.
This method won't work because identical spam is often sent from many different relays. Of course most spam includes at least SOMETHING that is either random (random numbers in the subject is common) or personalized ("Dear xyz@example.com").
If spam were this easy to filter it would have been implemented a long time ago.
Not only does it ignore robots.txt but it even ignores . Combine this "feature" with a failure to group similar results from the same domain under a single link and you've got a huge mess if you've ever relocated a site to a new domain and set up redirection pages on the old one.
Well I'd like to address the disgusting stereotype of criminals I have been seeing on television and in movies. I am friends with many speeders and software pirates, several of which I see on a weekly basis. All of them are nice people, and none of them have caused any accidents or would have bought the software they copied.
The problem we have in society in relation to the criminals is that because we get robbed at gun point, we suddenly decide to foster a hatred for the person who did it. Only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of criminals own guns or have robbed anyone and most of them reside in towns that only recently obtained indoor plumbing.
Criminals choose to commit crimes knowing that they may be caught. If it easier for them to live their lives, without worrying about some asshole reporting their crimes anonymously to the police, than I'm for it.
If you don't think there are enough methods to record criminals' actions, then rally your town to pay for every citizen to wear a microphone. Just don't be surprised later if they begin committing more violent crimes.
Well I came in expecting an extended video game cutscene. Keep in mind that there are many ways the creators could have failed to meet even the modest standards that exist in the videogame cutscene arena.
While the casino is surely not generating truly random numbers I would guess that they are using many different methods of generating pseudo-random numbers and switching methods pseudo-randomly. I'm not an expert, but this seems like a sound method of making the patterns difficult to detect.
Yeah, several years ago I remember reading a.plan update from one of the id software guys (Carmack?) about how he went to Vegas and card counted his way to a fairly large sum of money then donated it to some charity or other.
And what NOC (or chain of NOCs) on the scale of what Microsoft wants to do can boast the kind of reliability that a bank of a similar scale can? Banks are backed by the FDIC and therefore robberies, mistakes and natural disasters that result in monetary loss are insurred against. What kind of insurance can MS provide for data which (if their plans succeed) will be worth many trillions of dollars?
Why is Slashdot always down on the RBL? Every time one of these anti-RBL pieces gets put up it is pointed out by everyone and their dog that getting listed in the RBL requires that some very strict requirements be met. As long as you aren't a spammer and aren't hosting any spammers you won't be listed -- it's that simple.
The only realistic way to stop spam is to make it thoroughly unattractive and the only way to do that is to hit the spammers where it hurts: the bottom line. "If this can happen to Macromedia who else could it happen to?!" with the implication of "who else" being "you" is the sort of vague statement designed to worry people who don't understand the RBL or how it works.
Yeah, I hear that some child pornographers also BUY music CDs created by RIAA members! In fact, could it be that music is a major influence in cases of child pornography? Perhaps there should be an investigation of the RIAA and their members!
If you read some of the other posts you'll note that Princeton was fully behind the idea of going to court but others who helped do the research worked in the private sector (Xerox was mentioned) and their employers were not interested in going to battle with the RIAA.
I disagree. I have used E2 as a reference on several occasions when I don't feel like paging through a FAQ, an RFC or a search engine for exactly the chunk of info I'm looking for.
The good thing about E2 is that I can usually find exactly what I'm looking for very rapidly. Sure, the Internet Movie Database will tell me everything I might ever want to know about John Travolta but E2 will just give the highlights that I need to reference him or one of his films correctly.
It's all a matter of browsing around it until you have a rough estimate of it's depth on various topics you're likely to look up.
1. Phoenix are a bunch of whores. We're talking about the company that was gung-ho about selling advertising in their BIOS a year or two ago. Weather that ever went anywhere I have no idea because I've never had the misfortune of using a computer with one of their (by all accounts) craptastical chips installed on it.
2. This strategy of changing the names of things that are controversial and aimed at stripping people of their rights JUST when their opposition is really gaining momentum seems to be real popular these days. I don't remember exactly what story it was (HDTV perhaps?) but it was this same goddamn thing. This is unfortunately a highly effective strategy for splintering opposition because most people aren't that well informed about the whole thing to begin with so if you launch a widely printed press release with lots of easy to read words saying "Oh darn, it didn't work out!" then just change the name and make sure the new name isn't "news" you've got it made.
So what the hell can we do when faced with this level of brute force bullshit? Well I say we make like the CoS and raise enough money to file spurious lawsuits against all the cockmasters behind these schemes. Let's see how they like being charged with MULTIPLE COUNTS OF GENOCIDE!
That's JUST the sort of activity I can see Dubya engaing in! Why I bet that good ol' boy with most of his money tied up in big oil has got all KINDS of trust busting plans up his sleeve!
Isn't most of the content in 2600 pretty useless anyway? I remember skimming a new issue a year or two ago and coming accross an article about how to take over IRC channels. The author's methods were perfectly sound in 1995. Unfortunately the article was being published in 98 or 99 by which point the information was entirely obsolete.
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Yeah, and when the l33t h4x0rz find the top s3kr1t terrorist base we could send Jean Claude Van Damme and Hulk Hogan in to teach the bastards a lesson.
Christ on a crutch, how did your post get modded up? The hijackers haven't even been identified yet so where do you suggest the Baker Street Irregulars start looking for clues, Holmes? Oh yeah, they'll just call their friends Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Scooby Doo Gang. Then they will go on an expedition to dig through the wreckage of Old Man World Trade Center's broken down shack until they find a busted up 767 in a secret room. After that it's just a matter of determining which charred and dismembered remains are terrorists and which are passengers.
Good thing they've got Agent Scully's cell phone number!
Grokster uses the same network but it doesn't require IE and it's ads can be filtered by Junkbuster.
It's also not spyware (unlike KaZaa).
This is only a problem if you're a fucking idiot. Who else would pay so much for the right to RENT an IMAGINARY gee-gaw from a company that could delete all traces of said trinket from the game at a moments notice?
That's right kids: Read your terms of service! Not only do you NOT own you own any of that shit you spent months of game time collecting but it could go away at any time for any (or no) reason. Best thing about this scenario: You suckers are so stupid you'll actually come back for more after such an apocolypse!
Sneer all you want at twitch games, but when was the last time you played a FPS that required a monthly fee and relied on the grace of Sony to continue to function?
It doesn't matter who they're granted to. I could patent anything I want but the only way to enforce it is with expensive court battles which can be drawn out to the point where I will have no choice but to conceed.
I am personally for horse shit, as long as it doesn't come from horses.
I want to be an Olympic champion but I don't have time for that either.
Hell, if only I had time I could be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods!
Right on!
Where I live Charter actually doesn't do the cable modem stuff themselves -- it's subcontracted to a bunch of poorly trained monkeys dressed up as techs.
These jokers often break existing installations when they add new subscribers and at one point my friend could either watch TV or use his cable modem but not both at once thanks to their incompetence.
This method won't work because identical spam is often sent from many different relays. Of course most spam includes at least SOMETHING that is either random (random numbers in the subject is common) or personalized ("Dear xyz@example.com").
If spam were this easy to filter it would have been implemented a long time ago.
Not only does it ignore robots.txt but it even ignores . Combine this "feature" with a failure to group similar results from the same domain under a single link and you've got a huge mess if you've ever relocated a site to a new domain and set up redirection pages on the old one.
Well I'd like to address the disgusting stereotype of criminals I have been seeing on television and in movies. I am friends with many speeders and software pirates, several of which I see on a weekly basis. All of them are nice people, and none of them have caused any accidents or would have bought the software they copied.
The problem we have in society in relation to the criminals is that because we get robbed at gun point, we suddenly decide to foster a hatred for the person who did it. Only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of criminals own guns or have robbed anyone and most of them reside in towns that only recently obtained indoor plumbing.
Criminals choose to commit crimes knowing that they may be caught. If it easier for them to live their lives, without worrying about some asshole reporting their crimes anonymously to the police, than I'm for it.
If you don't think there are enough methods to record criminals' actions, then rally your town to pay for every citizen to wear a microphone. Just don't be surprised later if they begin committing more violent crimes.
Well I came in expecting an extended video game cutscene. Keep in mind that there are many ways the creators could have failed to meet even the modest standards that exist in the videogame cutscene arena.
If you read up on it you'll find that several new animation software plugins were created specifically for this film.
While the casino is surely not generating truly random numbers I would guess that they are using many different methods of generating pseudo-random numbers and switching methods pseudo-randomly. I'm not an expert, but this seems like a sound method of making the patterns difficult to detect.
Good truly random numbers can be had here:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
Yeah, several years ago I remember reading a .plan update from one of the id software guys (Carmack?) about how he went to Vegas and card counted his way to a fairly large sum of money then donated it to some charity or other.
And what NOC (or chain of NOCs) on the scale of what Microsoft wants to do can boast the kind of reliability that a bank of a similar scale can? Banks are backed by the FDIC and therefore robberies, mistakes and natural disasters that result in monetary loss are insurred against. What kind of insurance can MS provide for data which (if their plans succeed) will be worth many trillions of dollars?
Why is Slashdot always down on the RBL? Every time one of these anti-RBL pieces gets put up it is pointed out by everyone and their dog that getting listed in the RBL requires that some very strict requirements be met. As long as you aren't a spammer and aren't hosting any spammers you won't be listed -- it's that simple.
The only realistic way to stop spam is to make it thoroughly unattractive and the only way to do that is to hit the spammers where it hurts: the bottom line. "If this can happen to Macromedia who else could it happen to?!" with the implication of "who else" being "you" is the sort of vague statement designed to worry people who don't understand the RBL or how it works.
Yeah, I hear that some child pornographers also BUY music CDs created by RIAA members! In fact, could it be that music is a major influence in cases of child pornography? Perhaps there should be an investigation of the RIAA and their members!
If you read some of the other posts you'll note that Princeton was fully behind the idea of going to court but others who helped do the research worked in the private sector (Xerox was mentioned) and their employers were not interested in going to battle with the RIAA.
I disagree. I have used E2 as a reference on several occasions when I don't feel like paging through a FAQ, an RFC or a search engine for exactly the chunk of info I'm looking for.
The good thing about E2 is that I can usually find exactly what I'm looking for very rapidly. Sure, the Internet Movie Database will tell me everything I might ever want to know about John Travolta but E2 will just give the highlights that I need to reference him or one of his films correctly.
It's all a matter of browsing around it until you have a rough estimate of it's depth on various topics you're likely to look up.
But how do you know it's really the DARPA Chief and not Decoy Octopus??
1. Phoenix are a bunch of whores. We're talking about the company that was gung-ho about selling advertising in their BIOS a year or two ago. Weather that ever went anywhere I have no idea because I've never had the misfortune of using a computer with one of their (by all accounts) craptastical chips installed on it.
2. This strategy of changing the names of things that are controversial and aimed at stripping people of their rights JUST when their opposition is really gaining momentum seems to be real popular these days. I don't remember exactly what story it was (HDTV perhaps?) but it was this same goddamn thing. This is unfortunately a highly effective strategy for splintering opposition because most people aren't that well informed about the whole thing to begin with so if you launch a widely printed press release with lots of easy to read words saying "Oh darn, it didn't work out!" then just change the name and make sure the new name isn't "news" you've got it made.
So what the hell can we do when faced with this level of brute force bullshit? Well I say we make like the CoS and raise enough money to file spurious lawsuits against all the cockmasters behind these schemes. Let's see how they like being charged with MULTIPLE COUNTS OF GENOCIDE!
Well obviously.
I'm just saying that the cries of "2600 is for HACKERS!" can actually be proven to be bullshit if the information in the magazines is mostly useless.
Yeah, trust busting!
That's JUST the sort of activity I can see Dubya engaing in! Why I bet that good ol' boy with most of his money tied up in big oil has got all KINDS of trust busting plans up his sleeve!
Isn't most of the content in 2600 pretty useless anyway? I remember skimming a new issue a year or two ago and coming accross an article about how to take over IRC channels. The author's methods were perfectly sound in 1995. Unfortunately the article was being published in 98 or 99 by which point the information was entirely obsolete.