I get tired of all the people saying Viacom is trying to "steal" this data. It is making available in a legal sense. It is NOT giving them the data to do what they want with it. There are laws against that behavior.
I work for a data warehousing company. Any accounts that we have that still use direct telemarketing campaigns are required to buy the list. It's not that expensive, and it is very nice, honestly. These people took the time to say they won't be buying things from telemarketers, so we know we don't want to market towards these people.
Your 1/7 of a second is misleading. That is the average. Highly trained gamers have been known to tone it down to nearly 1/12 or lower. At the peak of my CS 1.6 play, I had a reaction time of.09 seconds.
Thank you for the support. As I claimed, I have no idea how to perfect such a system, and it's dreaming at any rate. The base idea is that you should have to have a "real" interest in how things are ran before you are able to decide how they are ran. There are of course flaws with that idea. I think if it was a requirement to have a net worth of >SOME_FIGURE that people would put more consideration into their choices. Hell, with my mortgage and student loans I probably don't even begin to pass the 0 mark, so I wouldn't be able to vote under the idea.
Call me an elitist jerk all you want, but I think you should have to be a property owner to vote. Not physical property, but some kind of net worth. I don't even pretend to be able to create such a system, but you should have something invested in the government before you are able to decide what is best for "everyone".
Someone mod this man up. The only claim of censorship was by the crappy blurb. He just says he is taking photos of stuff that shouldn't exist. If you want to claim that by not revealing the location of these items (the prisons and the satellites, etc) that they are censoring it, you need to realize what secrecy is.
What you neglect to mention is that dieing and losing everything equated to MAYBE an hour of downtime to recollect everything. The fact that the best items you could get were gm crafted exceptional items made a massive difference.
If you lost everything like that in another game (say WoW for example), your talking about DAYS of lost farming.
The reason for this entire thought process is that almost every defense lawyer for a child pornography case uses the same argument. "This image was digitally created unless you can show us the original child".
'The basis of the American Revolution was "no taxation without representation". The basis of the whatever-you-call-it the Muslims are doing is "Jews are dogs and America is the Great Satan".'
At least that is the way we hear it happened.
Do you mean Frank Abagnale? Not to troll, it's just you didn't give any perspective on who he was. Frank Abagnale was a check fraudster who eventually went on to help counter forgery.
mod +insightful. It annoys me to no end how many people think that running ANYTHING will matter when a computer gets to forensics. They don't boot your system, they duplicate the drive and run their own forensic tools on the duplicated drive. When a computer is confinscated, most of the time they will actually remove the hard drive from the box before taking it out of the house.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to make a mechanical device that looks very similiar to a cup with dice in it (just really small). Then we are going to dump those dice, take a picture of it with a built in camera and feed it back to the pc. I'll make it as a usb device.
I'll make millions for reinventing (true) random...
I forgot to point out that the claim it is copied into ram to avoid detection by warden is total bullshit. Copying an executable into ram does not even begin to constitue "copying" it like they would make you think, it's just another way of running the client.
Something you have to remember is that these are lawyers, not developers. Even if the lawyers get the source code, it isn't going to be passed down the line to the developers to work on a way to defeat his bot.
As far as him infringing on their copyright, I seriously doubt it. I used to bot in UO and EQ and I can tell you that while they may hook a dll or view packets, they aren't using any of the source code from the game to do it. They may infringe on other copyrights owned by other companies, but I doubt it has anything to do with game software. Glider isn't a client that mimics a WoW client, it is a tool that gathers information and feeds the client information (much like a person sitting at a keyboard would).
That's F'ing insane. I seriously can't believe they put that in there. I write perl/c scripts daily that send out emails and use a From address that doesn't get replied to.
Icing on the cake is that almost all CEO's do this, their secretaries send out emails with FROM: Boss@company.com. Good stuff.
Yeah, they tried to file papers to have our stuff withheld indefinetely, because supposedely it was used in a crime. Even though they found absolutely no evidence of it ever occuring on any of the computers.
I mean, as soon as I got the comps back (almost a year later) was to toss the HDs into the river. I just want to get them back for the peace of mind of knowing it wasn't in the possession of someone trying to pin shit on me.
I totally agree, and wouldn't post this on any discussion except one like this for that exact reason. Also, to this day (7 years later) it still causes me to have nightmares/unexplainable fear. I actually had to move from that house because of waking up in the morning and freaking out.
So yeah, no way I would go out of my way to scare people for them on a topic like this, except when the topic has already been brought up.
When I was 17-20 my brother and I owned a house together. We would host daily lan parties, weekend beerfests, and other general mischief.
On any given weekend we would have 10+ people in our house, on our internet. On occasion they would use our computers as well. We had four, so friends could come over and lan.
Well, all said and done, apparently someone accessed an IRC server/channel that was distributing CP. The department of Emmigration and Internal Customs busted in 3 months later while my wife (gf then) and I were asleep. Pistols in the face, flashlights, the whole nine yards. They confinscated all of my computer equipment, my cat5s, my cds, my wife's home videos, my camera, and my hub. Yep, they even took my hub.
It took us almost 11 months and tons of paperwork to get our stuff back, even after proving there was no way in hell we were home w hen the supposed infraction occured. No charges were ever pressed, but it cost me $7,000 in lawyer fees (I wasn't fucking around and hired a lawyer as soon as they started asking questions).
You know what else can stop your heart? And, at a much larger distance? My rifle. I find this kind of subject to just be more of the terror sensationalism.
I mean, sure, if your heart was hooked to the internet and easily hackable, I would be worried. But, right now, if I want to kill someone it would still be done with a good old fashioned bullet. Much cheaper (maybe a dollar?) and a hell of a lot faster.
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Oh come on, mod the parent flamebait? If he had said US'ians instead of Europeans everyone would have laughed and modded it +5 funny.
I get tired of all the people saying Viacom is trying to "steal" this data. It is making available in a legal sense. It is NOT giving them the data to do what they want with it. There are laws against that behavior.
I work for a data warehousing company. Any accounts that we have that still use direct telemarketing campaigns are required to buy the list. It's not that expensive, and it is very nice, honestly. These people took the time to say they won't be buying things from telemarketers, so we know we don't want to market towards these people.
Your 1/7 of a second is misleading. That is the average. Highly trained gamers have been known to tone it down to nearly 1/12 or lower. At the peak of my CS 1.6 play, I had a reaction time of .09 seconds.
Thank you for the support. As I claimed, I have no idea how to perfect such a system, and it's dreaming at any rate. The base idea is that you should have to have a "real" interest in how things are ran before you are able to decide how they are ran. There are of course flaws with that idea. I think if it was a requirement to have a net worth of >SOME_FIGURE that people would put more consideration into their choices. Hell, with my mortgage and student loans I probably don't even begin to pass the 0 mark, so I wouldn't be able to vote under the idea.
Call me an elitist jerk all you want, but I think you should have to be a property owner to vote. Not physical property, but some kind of net worth. I don't even pretend to be able to create such a system, but you should have something invested in the government before you are able to decide what is best for "everyone".
Someone mod this man up. The only claim of censorship was by the crappy blurb. He just says he is taking photos of stuff that shouldn't exist. If you want to claim that by not revealing the location of these items (the prisons and the satellites, etc) that they are censoring it, you need to realize what secrecy is.
What you neglect to mention is that dieing and losing everything equated to MAYBE an hour of downtime to recollect everything. The fact that the best items you could get were gm crafted exceptional items made a massive difference. If you lost everything like that in another game (say WoW for example), your talking about DAYS of lost farming.
alt + tab works just fine for integrating them for me...
The reason for this entire thought process is that almost every defense lawyer for a child pornography case uses the same argument. "This image was digitally created unless you can show us the original child".
'The basis of the American Revolution was "no taxation without representation". The basis of the whatever-you-call-it the Muslims are doing is "Jews are dogs and America is the Great Satan".' At least that is the way we hear it happened.
Bah, forgot I said this. I just reread the comment and realized at the beginning you did spell it correctly. My bad for jumping the gun.
Do you mean Frank Abagnale? Not to troll, it's just you didn't give any perspective on who he was. Frank Abagnale was a check fraudster who eventually went on to help counter forgery.
mod +insightful. It annoys me to no end how many people think that running ANYTHING will matter when a computer gets to forensics. They don't boot your system, they duplicate the drive and run their own forensic tools on the duplicated drive. When a computer is confinscated, most of the time they will actually remove the hard drive from the box before taking it out of the house.
LEAVE Britney aloooone!!!
I'll make millions for reinventing (true) random...
I can cite one game to throw your entire theory to shit, Ultima Online...It was arguably the first successful MMO and it WAS ffa pvp at the time.
I forgot to point out that the claim it is copied into ram to avoid detection by warden is total bullshit. Copying an executable into ram does not even begin to constitue "copying" it like they would make you think, it's just another way of running the client.
As far as him infringing on their copyright, I seriously doubt it. I used to bot in UO and EQ and I can tell you that while they may hook a dll or view packets, they aren't using any of the source code from the game to do it. They may infringe on other copyrights owned by other companies, but I doubt it has anything to do with game software. Glider isn't a client that mimics a WoW client, it is a tool that gathers information and feeds the client information (much like a person sitting at a keyboard would).
Icing on the cake is that almost all CEO's do this, their secretaries send out emails with FROM: Boss@company.com. Good stuff.
I mean, as soon as I got the comps back (almost a year later) was to toss the HDs into the river. I just want to get them back for the peace of mind of knowing it wasn't in the possession of someone trying to pin shit on me.
Or perhaps it concentrated its energy in a narrow jet that was aimed directly at Earth. They're shooting at us!
So yeah, no way I would go out of my way to scare people for them on a topic like this, except when the topic has already been brought up.
On any given weekend we would have 10+ people in our house, on our internet. On occasion they would use our computers as well. We had four, so friends could come over and lan.
Well, all said and done, apparently someone accessed an IRC server/channel that was distributing CP. The department of Emmigration and Internal Customs busted in 3 months later while my wife (gf then) and I were asleep. Pistols in the face, flashlights, the whole nine yards. They confinscated all of my computer equipment, my cat5s, my cds, my wife's home videos, my camera, and my hub. Yep, they even took my hub.
It took us almost 11 months and tons of paperwork to get our stuff back, even after proving there was no way in hell we were home w hen the supposed infraction occured. No charges were ever pressed, but it cost me $7,000 in lawyer fees (I wasn't fucking around and hired a lawyer as soon as they started asking questions).
So yeah, this kind of stuff really scares me.
I mean, sure, if your heart was hooked to the internet and easily hackable, I would be worried. But, right now, if I want to kill someone it would still be done with a good old fashioned bullet. Much cheaper (maybe a dollar?) and a hell of a lot faster.