Except that giving 100% XP for everybody (as claimed for Guild Wars) means that either all your player base will rocket to ubberness or most of your mobs will be just too hard for single-killing.
The reason for penalizing is to avoid level-riders, I mean, the newbie that goes from level 1 to 10 because he just followed a level 80 around, hence starting his career as an ubber newbie.
Players still happily gang together to kill super-mobs that are impossible to be killed alone and the XP given is supposed to be proportinally good so that the split won't hurt it.
Oh right, sorry! No, according to the blog post, the iPad itself would not be involved at all. "iPad" there is just an excuse to lure the iPad owner to install a malware that affects the Windows PC like any other malware would.
The misunderstanding comes from this difference:
Blog post:
(...) opens up a backdoor that allows unauthorized access to and control over the affected system. (...) attempts to read the keys and serial numbers of the various software installed on the affected computer (...)
Article:
(...) opens up a backdoor which could let the perpetrator gain unauthorised access to the device (...) tries to read the keys and serial numbers of the software installed on the device (...)
Please don't do it again. My tummy hurts from the laughing.
The parent was filtered, so when I read your post I thought of replying "something like commodore64_love?", but I decided to drop it as it sounded trollish. Curiosity had the best of me, so I went to see who the parent was...
It's deeper than that. In his arguments, he cites "bad writing" in a way that it sounds like not being art, as if art for him implies being "good".
I get the impression that that's his problem. He focuses on "good art" as if that was the only kind of "art", when the "good" part of it carries a huge amount of personal opinion.
But see, he explicitly says that he doesn't care if gamers want to say that their games are art. It just means that he emitted his opinion and he's not willing to discuss it. In fact, he starts his post saying just that: he doesn't want to discuss it:
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it.
I'm not sure I understand your example. Usually, people who buy cars are free to modify them without having the manufacturer remotely kill it. I'd be surprised to learn that you have never seen a mod car before.
I dunno. One of the key info in the article is the possibility to map NULL to a real memory space. That's precisely what was missing in my idea of how the NULL pointer exploits work.
My personal observations are that current automobile technology improved the sensation (or illusion) of safety over higher speeds. Most cars are now so silent from the interior that one often can't tell if the motor is running or not. I find at least two consequences from this:
1. A driver that doesn't particularly want to go faster, ends up doing so because he's not constantly looking at the speedometer. 2. A driver that appreciates speed because of the feeling, which partially comes from the feedback given by the car, needs to go faster than he would to reach the same sensation.
Since the car no longer gives these cues, one thing that could help reduce the speeds are visual cues from the environment. I believe this is partially what the study and yourself head to.
But we don't necessarily have to fill the roadside with commercial buildings and parked cars. We can put simpler things that still give visual speed cues, like shorter and more frequent road markings.
Now, if only I could get 4 years of CDT budget to study if my idea works or not...:)
You can look a little further and look for why you get spineless teachers and spineless administrators. Those with spine tend to get prosecuted when they attempt disciplinary actions by overzealous parents that most of the time won't do their part in their children's education, leaving all the burden to school.
Last time I checked, when there's only one "in", you can tell the sound mixer if it's a "line" or "mic" input. Try these steps (in Windows XP, on my Dell D620):
1. Double-click the speaker icon in your task bar. The Mixer application (with multiple volume levels) should open. 2. Click on Options, then Properties. The Properties window should appear. 3. Select "Adjust volume for" "Recording". 4. Click OK. The mixer now morphed into the "in" controls. 5. Under "Line In", click on [ ] Select. Your "in" should magically become a line-in input. 6. Enjoy!
Exactly! Still there's an innovation factor of harvesting the electricity used to do it from noise. It's still to be seen if this can produce enough hydrogen to power, say, a vehicle, without having to wait days to fill the tank.
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Except that giving 100% XP for everybody (as claimed for Guild Wars) means that either all your player base will rocket to ubberness or most of your mobs will be just too hard for single-killing.
The reason for penalizing is to avoid level-riders, I mean, the newbie that goes from level 1 to 10 because he just followed a level 80 around, hence starting his career as an ubber newbie.
Players still happily gang together to kill super-mobs that are impossible to be killed alone and the XP given is supposed to be proportinally good so that the split won't hurt it.
Oh right, sorry! No, according to the blog post, the iPad itself would not be involved at all. "iPad" there is just an excuse to lure the iPad owner to install a malware that affects the Windows PC like any other malware would.
The misunderstanding comes from this difference:
Blog post:
(...) opens up a backdoor that allows unauthorized access to and control over the affected system. (...) attempts to read the keys and serial numbers of the various software installed on the affected computer (...)
Article:
(...) opens up a backdoor which could let the perpetrator gain unauthorised access to the device (...) tries to read the keys and serial numbers of the software installed on the device (...)
Looks like you lost the part where it says:
An e-mail invitation to an iTunes update gets iPad users’ PCs into backdoor trouble.
It's after the heading and before the text of the blog post. Usually called caption.
Please don't do it again. My tummy hurts from the laughing.
The parent was filtered, so when I read your post I thought of replying "something like commodore64_love?", but I decided to drop it as it sounded trollish. Curiosity had the best of me, so I went to see who the parent was...
Damn you!
Indeed, it looks like Mr. Schneier was in a rush to write something and forgot to add content.
It's deeper than that. In his arguments, he cites "bad writing" in a way that it sounds like not being art, as if art for him implies being "good".
I get the impression that that's his problem. He focuses on "good art" as if that was the only kind of "art", when the "good" part of it carries a huge amount of personal opinion.
But see, he explicitly says that he doesn't care if gamers want to say that their games are art. It just means that he emitted his opinion and he's not willing to discuss it. In fact, he starts his post saying just that: he doesn't want to discuss it:
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it.
He shouldn't have changed his mind.
I'm not sure I understand your example. Usually, people who buy cars are free to modify them without having the manufacturer remotely kill it. I'd be surprised to learn that you have never seen a mod car before.
Or it may just be a black hat wannabe that isn't really part of the Russian mafia.
As always, great tip, girlintraining.
You know her that well or you just wish you did?
I dunno. One of the key info in the article is the possibility to map NULL to a real memory space. That's precisely what was missing in my idea of how the NULL pointer exploits work.
Sorry to point out the redundancy, but the summary seems clear enough with its how to turn any NULL pointer into a root exploit on Linux .
That because code is always written in English and not C or Java, right?
Jealous, are we?
Let's try again: Hispanic != Mexican
Unless you actually meant:
St. Patrik wasn't Irish, but is definitely an English icon.
Or at least a Mexican one.
Yeah, especially in Buenos Aires.
I have learned today that putting 'grand' and 'unified' at the title of an idea in science is very powerful for marketing.
You haven't been around /. much lately then...
My personal observations are that current automobile technology improved the sensation (or illusion) of safety over higher speeds. Most cars are now so silent from the interior that one often can't tell if the motor is running or not. I find at least two consequences from this:
1. A driver that doesn't particularly want to go faster, ends up doing so because he's not constantly looking at the speedometer.
2. A driver that appreciates speed because of the feeling, which partially comes from the feedback given by the car, needs to go faster than he would to reach the same sensation.
Since the car no longer gives these cues, one thing that could help reduce the speeds are visual cues from the environment. I believe this is partially what the study and yourself head to.
But we don't necessarily have to fill the roadside with commercial buildings and parked cars. We can put simpler things that still give visual speed cues, like shorter and more frequent road markings.
Now, if only I could get 4 years of CDT budget to study if my idea works or not... :)
You can look a little further and look for why you get spineless teachers and spineless administrators. Those with spine tend to get prosecuted when they attempt disciplinary actions by overzealous parents that most of the time won't do their part in their children's education, leaving all the burden to school.
Interesting paradox, isn't it?
Dammit, that's exactly what I said when mobile phones started to run games. Before I said "get out of my lawn", of course.
Hold on, I'll be right back after I sync my mug with the coffee machine.
Last time I checked, when there's only one "in", you can tell the sound mixer if it's a "line" or "mic" input. Try these steps (in Windows XP, on my Dell D620):
1. Double-click the speaker icon in your task bar. The Mixer application (with multiple volume levels) should open.
2. Click on Options, then Properties. The Properties window should appear.
3. Select "Adjust volume for" "Recording".
4. Click OK. The mixer now morphed into the "in" controls.
5. Under "Line In", click on [ ] Select. Your "in" should magically become a line-in input.
6. Enjoy!
I can't find an equivalent for China, but this is another half of the story. From France to Singapore.
Exactly! Still there's an innovation factor of harvesting the electricity used to do it from noise. It's still to be seen if this can produce enough hydrogen to power, say, a vehicle, without having to wait days to fill the tank.
If that serves as consolation, the US is not alone. French companies are also moving their R&D to China.
Let's hope that they won't see their research suddenly finding facsimiles patented by Chinese competitors before theirs.
Ever heard about News Corp or Mr. Murdock?
Because you know for a fact that Europa has never been hotter than it is today?