Off topic here, but the DLC has actually been delayed. Possibly all the way until Q1 2009. I'll be returning my PS3 copy and getting the PC version when it comes out (November?) so I can just make my OWN extra content:)
Thats pretty much what the article said, "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation". So anyone who doesn't have a "normal" hobby is going to be raided by the Man?
I live in Massachusetts, so is the police going to come to my house and raid it and steal all my stuff because ham radio isn't considered a "customary home occupation"? How about servers, are they going to take all my servers and say running servers isn't considered a "customary home occupation"?
What's next, the Halting Public Noise to Give Us Peace (HPNG UP) Act, that bans talking on cell phones IN PUBLIC? Or how about the Halting Children's Noise to Give Us Piece Act (HCNGUP) Act, that bans annoying kids from talking in public (or online)???
I admit, I find it annoying that people can sometimes get carried away on their phones and forget they're in a public place, but that's no excuse to ban them!
On my home Web server, I accidentally left a copy of the PHP manual in a browsable folder, which was linked to the homepage. So when Google indexed my homepage, guess what it also checked for? Every single page the homepage linked to! Including that manual... and damn the PHP manual has a LOT of pages.
So when I got back on the server and pulled up the logs (it was running strangely slow) I found Googlebot accessing page after page after page of the PHP manual. Thousands of pages. Lagging the server and Internet to hell.
And not just those stupid "parked by GoDaddy" or "domain farms"? Like those ones where when you Google something, and you get a promising result, so you click on it, and it turns out to be nothing more than a page full of ads.
Seeing the amount of spammers, script kiddies, and social engineering scams floating around MySpace - and the scalability of MySpace users, this is bad news. People can scam the kids who have MySpace accounts out of their passwords very easilyl, but having every password the same on all the sites you use...
Wow, I'm just shocked that the patenting system and legal system in the United States is SO fucked up to the point where you can patent just about anything, regardless if you invented it or not, and sue everyone for using it.
I think I'll patent "The process of selecting a person, or voting, in a democratic election"... then sue the United States and everyone who votes in an election for infringement every 4 years! I WOULD BE RICH!
I got my first computer when I was about 5 years old (a Dell XPS D333, I actually still have it somewhere). I loved it, I would play those educational games on it, then I started using the Internet. As I got older (around 9-10 years old), I wanted to know how this fascinating machine worked. So I started reading about computers, how they worked, the operating system manuals, etc.
Around this time, when I was about 12, my grandmother, being a huge packrat who can't throw anything out, had been given 2 very old IBM PS/2 PCs that her office was about to throw out. These computers ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11. We would go to my grandmother's house every weekend, so I spent a lot of time on this old computer. Then I found a very interesting program, qbasic.exe, QuickBASIC, as I would later learn. I had no idea what it did, so I pressed the HELP button and read the entire help menu. So I started playing with it, entering commands and codes that I learned in the HELP Menu.
Soon I had made dozens of programs, including a program that played music, a program that had a paint-like drawing board, and dozens of separate misc programs. Then I thought "how can I do this on my home PC?". So I talked my mom into buying me some programming books, which included a few BASIC-based programming environments, and learned even more.
Now I'm 16, I know how to program in BASIC, Visual Basic, C++, PHP, LUA, and some C, and use Linux.
To answer this question, we just ask ourselves "what was the biggest announcement at this year's E3?". I really can't think of anything that wasn't announced last year (really the only thing I liked was Spore, which I plan to get for PC when it comes out).
Nothing groundbreaking was really announced that people didn't already know. Microsoft announced Gears of War II (which is a dumb Xbox game that EVERYONE already knows is coming out soon).
The only announcement I didn't expect that I WAS looking forward to was Bungie's new game. I really don't like the Halo series (Xbox exclusive, nothing new, etc) but I loved their older works (Marathon, Myth), and was looking forward to their next PC game, but Microsoft canceled their huge announcement! I really hope Bungie learns to abandon Microsoft 100% this time...
I would have thought the government would have deemed Teddy a TERRORIST EXTREMEST PLOTTING TO BLOW UP THE CITY and shipped him off to Guantanamo Bay by now...
They put an option right into the main XMB menu to "Install other OS", which automatically formats the system's hard drive. All the user needs to do is download a minimal Linux boot image from Sony's site, download a distro of Linux that supports the cell arch (which is usually the version for Mac PCs), burn it, and install it.
No exploits needed, an IQ of maybe 100 is needed, etc. I would be bored with that in a few minutes, I would rather hack a system NOT meant to be hacked:)
I had Windows Server 2008 betas installed on my PC alongside Linux and Windows Vista. One thing that always amazed me is that Server 2008, even though it was still a beta at the time, ran much better than Windows Vista, had no annoying popups, consistently was stable, etc.
Even with Active Directory Domain Services and all the Web services enabled, turning Windows 2008 into a domain controller, I STILL saw better performance.
I believe people did this for Windows Server 2003 as well, I remember seeing forum posts about Windows 2003 being the BEST gaming OS a few years back.
My Internet recently stopped working, and I had a strange suspicion it might be getting DDoSed. So I ran a packet sniffer, and I found that thousands of ARP packets were coming in every second! I quickly went online since when I had the modem connected to the computer the Internet worked fine, and come to find out getting that many ARP requests is NORMAL on Comcast Internet! That's why the little light on the modem is ALWAYS flashing, even when no ones using the Internet!
A few months ago, my local Best Buy set up an ad in hte miiidle of the store, conviently facing the MP3 devices. The display had 2 flashing strobe lights (one of those police light things), and a poster that, when I read it, appeared to be... PROPAGANDA FOR THE RIAA! It implied that downloading music illegally was a CRIMINAL OFFENSE and that you can go to jail for it. I asked to speak to the manager of the store in question, and when I asked him whose idea it was to put that flyer up, he saud "upper management"... so I told him that if he doesn't take that lying an misleading propaganda down right now, I'll take pictures of it, post it as a story on Digg, Slashdot, and all the other sites a major part of your store's demographic visit, and have their store's phones ringing off the hook because I'd post the phone numbers of the stores in my area that had that poster
The next day, the poster was gone.
I'm not sure if this was just a moron manager at that one store or every store nationwide that put these posters up, but it's just plain stupid...
I can see it now: NewsCorp will buy the patents for this device, and modify the gun so it can shoot stuff inside out heads out of our TV speakers! Now Fox News doesn't even have to be a biased right-wing network to brainwash us!
I was busy playing PC games today, good thing I didn't turn my PS3 on! Unfortunatly, I bet all teh Xbox fanboys are using this as an example of why the PS3 "SUXORZ" (which, compared to the Xbox 360, is not true)!
Just a question, do you need to have your Linux PC connected directly to Comcast's cable modem for this to work? It sounds to me like you do, but my PC is in my room, and we have a wireless router connecting everything.
This is off topic, but southeastern MA is going to be getting FiOS soon. My relatives, who live in Braintree, had Verizon people working for a month to get everything set up in that city, now they're moving to southeastern MA. So I should have Verizon aviable soon:)
I get out of high school at 2:00PM EST, so now, just one hour and 37 minutes after it started, I finally get home, excited to use the new FF, and get: HTTP 1/1: Service Unavailable.
Now its loading, but so slowly... and it seems they are editing the web pages to use very basic HTML (no fancy stuff, or even backgrounds) to help suppress the server loads... but they are still working on the Firefox page.
I can't believe Congress are still using this tragic story as a tool to push for anti-free speech and Internet censorship legistlation... LET IT GO! She's going to jail, theres no need to over react here...
Plus, according to the wording of the bill, anyone who says anything negitive to someone else or is rude online can get fined/in jail. Now most of the time I'm nice online, but sometimes (especially on Counter-Strike and Call of Duty, I trash talk or aruge when theres an idiot on... so your going to tell me I can now go to jail for calling someone a "n00b"???? And what about Xbox Live (which I hate)?
This can not stand! They are trying to destroy the First Amandment on the Internet!
P.S. Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, I'm on a public computer with a broken keyboard:)
Slashdot Mirror
The article is from December 2007, and the last action in the case was in January 20008! Hello... are the ./ editors going nuts or something?
Off topic here, but the DLC has actually been delayed. Possibly all the way until Q1 2009. I'll be returning my PS3 copy and getting the PC version when it comes out (November?) so I can just make my OWN extra content :)
Thats pretty much what the article said, "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation". So anyone who doesn't have a "normal" hobby is going to be raided by the Man?
I live in Massachusetts, so is the police going to come to my house and raid it and steal all my stuff because ham radio isn't considered a "customary home occupation"? How about servers, are they going to take all my servers and say running servers isn't considered a "customary home occupation"?
Never hold any type of important meeting in a city that has the same name as a Microsoft codename! (Windows Whistler = Windows XP)!
Is there any chance this was broadcast on C-Span and recorded? If so, link please.
What's next, the Halting Public Noise to Give Us Peace (HPNG UP) Act, that bans talking on cell phones IN PUBLIC? Or how about the Halting Children's Noise to Give Us Piece Act (HCNGUP) Act, that bans annoying kids from talking in public (or online)???
I admit, I find it annoying that people can sometimes get carried away on their phones and forget they're in a public place, but that's no excuse to ban them!
On my home Web server, I accidentally left a copy of the PHP manual in a browsable folder, which was linked to the homepage. So when Google indexed my homepage, guess what it also checked for? Every single page the homepage linked to! Including that manual... and damn the PHP manual has a LOT of pages.
So when I got back on the server and pulled up the logs (it was running strangely slow) I found Googlebot accessing page after page after page of the PHP manual. Thousands of pages. Lagging the server and Internet to hell.
And not just those stupid "parked by GoDaddy" or "domain farms"? Like those ones where when you Google something, and you get a promising result, so you click on it, and it turns out to be nothing more than a page full of ads.
First POST :)
I kind of figured that was going to happen, knowing the FCC :)
Seeing the amount of spammers, script kiddies, and social engineering scams floating around MySpace - and the scalability of MySpace users, this is bad news. People can scam the kids who have MySpace accounts out of their passwords very easilyl, but having every password the same on all the sites you use...
Wow, I'm just shocked that the patenting system and legal system in the United States is SO fucked up to the point where you can patent just about anything, regardless if you invented it or not, and sue everyone for using it.
I think I'll patent "The process of selecting a person, or voting, in a democratic election"... then sue the United States and everyone who votes in an election for infringement every 4 years! I WOULD BE RICH!
I got my first computer when I was about 5 years old (a Dell XPS D333, I actually still have it somewhere). I loved it, I would play those educational games on it, then I started using the Internet. As I got older (around 9-10 years old), I wanted to know how this fascinating machine worked. So I started reading about computers, how they worked, the operating system manuals, etc.
Around this time, when I was about 12, my grandmother, being a huge packrat who can't throw anything out, had been given 2 very old IBM PS/2 PCs that her office was about to throw out. These computers ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11. We would go to my grandmother's house every weekend, so I spent a lot of time on this old computer. Then I found a very interesting program, qbasic.exe, QuickBASIC, as I would later learn. I had no idea what it did, so I pressed the HELP button and read the entire help menu. So I started playing with it, entering commands and codes that I learned in the HELP Menu.
Soon I had made dozens of programs, including a program that played music, a program that had a paint-like drawing board, and dozens of separate misc programs. Then I thought "how can I do this on my home PC?". So I talked my mom into buying me some programming books, which included a few BASIC-based programming environments, and learned even more.
Now I'm 16, I know how to program in BASIC, Visual Basic, C++, PHP, LUA, and some C, and use Linux.
To answer this question, we just ask ourselves "what was the biggest announcement at this year's E3?". I really can't think of anything that wasn't announced last year (really the only thing I liked was Spore, which I plan to get for PC when it comes out).
Nothing groundbreaking was really announced that people didn't already know. Microsoft announced Gears of War II (which is a dumb Xbox game that EVERYONE already knows is coming out soon).
The only announcement I didn't expect that I WAS looking forward to was Bungie's new game. I really don't like the Halo series (Xbox exclusive, nothing new, etc) but I loved their older works (Marathon, Myth), and was looking forward to their next PC game, but Microsoft canceled their huge announcement! I really hope Bungie learns to abandon Microsoft 100% this time...
I would have thought the government would have deemed Teddy a TERRORIST EXTREMEST PLOTTING TO BLOW UP THE CITY and shipped him off to Guantanamo Bay by now...
They put an option right into the main XMB menu to "Install other OS", which automatically formats the system's hard drive. All the user needs to do is download a minimal Linux boot image from Sony's site, download a distro of Linux that supports the cell arch (which is usually the version for Mac PCs), burn it, and install it.
No exploits needed, an IQ of maybe 100 is needed, etc. I would be bored with that in a few minutes, I would rather hack a system NOT meant to be hacked :)
I had Windows Server 2008 betas installed on my PC alongside Linux and Windows Vista. One thing that always amazed me is that Server 2008, even though it was still a beta at the time, ran much better than Windows Vista, had no annoying popups, consistently was stable, etc.
Even with Active Directory Domain Services and all the Web services enabled, turning Windows 2008 into a domain controller, I STILL saw better performance.
I believe people did this for Windows Server 2003 as well, I remember seeing forum posts about Windows 2003 being the BEST gaming OS a few years back.
My Internet recently stopped working, and I had a strange suspicion it might be getting DDoSed. So I ran a packet sniffer, and I found that thousands of ARP packets were coming in every second! I quickly went online since when I had the modem connected to the computer the Internet worked fine, and come to find out getting that many ARP requests is NORMAL on Comcast Internet! That's why the little light on the modem is ALWAYS flashing, even when no ones using the Internet!
It was the router. I reset it and it worked fine.
I've been looking to buy an iPhone, will this mean the original iPhone will start to go down in price?
A few months ago, my local Best Buy set up an ad in hte miiidle of the store, conviently facing the MP3 devices. The display had 2 flashing strobe lights (one of those police light things), and a poster that, when I read it, appeared to be... PROPAGANDA FOR THE RIAA! It implied that downloading music illegally was a CRIMINAL OFFENSE and that you can go to jail for it. I asked to speak to the manager of the store in question, and when I asked him whose idea it was to put that flyer up, he saud "upper management"... so I told him that if he doesn't take that lying an misleading propaganda down right now, I'll take pictures of it, post it as a story on Digg, Slashdot, and all the other sites a major part of your store's demographic visit, and have their store's phones ringing off the hook because I'd post the phone numbers of the stores in my area that had that poster
The next day, the poster was gone.
I'm not sure if this was just a moron manager at that one store or every store nationwide that put these posters up, but it's just plain stupid...
I can see it now: NewsCorp will buy the patents for this device, and modify the gun so it can shoot stuff inside out heads out of our TV speakers! Now Fox News doesn't even have to be a biased right-wing network to brainwash us!
I was busy playing PC games today, good thing I didn't turn my PS3 on! Unfortunatly, I bet all teh Xbox fanboys are using this as an example of why the PS3 "SUXORZ" (which, compared to the Xbox 360, is not true)!
Just a question, do you need to have your Linux PC connected directly to Comcast's cable modem for this to work? It sounds to me like you do, but my PC is in my room, and we have a wireless router connecting everything.
This is off topic, but southeastern MA is going to be getting FiOS soon. My relatives, who live in Braintree, had Verizon people working for a month to get everything set up in that city, now they're moving to southeastern MA. So I should have Verizon aviable soon :)
I get out of high school at 2:00PM EST, so now, just one hour and 37 minutes after it started, I finally get home, excited to use the new FF, and get: HTTP 1/1: Service Unavailable. Now its loading, but so slowly... and it seems they are editing the web pages to use very basic HTML (no fancy stuff, or even backgrounds) to help suppress the server loads... but they are still working on the Firefox page.
I can't believe Congress are still using this tragic story as a tool to push for anti-free speech and Internet censorship legistlation... LET IT GO! She's going to jail, theres no need to over react here...
:)
Plus, according to the wording of the bill, anyone who says anything negitive to someone else or is rude online can get fined/in jail. Now most of the time I'm nice online, but sometimes (especially on Counter-Strike and Call of Duty, I trash talk or aruge when theres an idiot on... so your going to tell me I can now go to jail for calling someone a "n00b"???? And what about Xbox Live (which I hate)?
This can not stand! They are trying to destroy the First Amandment on the Internet!
P.S. Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, I'm on a public computer with a broken keyboard