I'm going to go see it today. I hope it's worth the money I spend. I don't think it'll be as good as the other two simply due to the lack of personnel on this film when compared to the other two. Where the hell is Edward Furlong anyway? I bet he needs the work.
The US Trademark and Patent Office should be arrested and charged along with this small litigious company for fraud and racketeering. They are knowingly and willingly engaging in an activity that supports these extortive lawsuits.
*CmdrTaco'sWife'sNameHere* we've only been married for a short time and well..the dot com boom has gone to bust..we're charging for subscription to Slashdot just to provide material people can find other places for free. I can't afford you anymore. I want a divorce!
It was a "Survival Guide", not an in-depth treatise on the mysteries of a T1 line for anal-retentive system administrators. In my opinion, if you have to diagnose andrepair your own T1 line - your company sucks and you should find a new job or you're in the wrong line of work.
I don't understand what the basic issue of contention is. After all is said and done, people are exchanging money for other people's time and effort. Sure it changes the game's dynamics a bit (eg. people may and do start camping certain spawns and quests for more than their own personal use) but this occurs anyway and should be addressed by the game designers, not by the lawyers.
People don't bother reading the article anymore. They'd rather post quickly and instigate debate than actually be able to discuss the issue in an educated manner.
Well during an appeal, only the information and evidence presented at trial is considered. So current events should not influence the appeal courts decision. Only during the punishment phase would MS' status be a factor.
Yeah..how about donating to me? My house hasnt burnt down due to stupidity and the company that bought my "simple-in-concept" web site isnt about to put out an IPO nor did they pay me oodles of cash just to keep misspelling common words or post stories that dozens of other web sites have already posted.
Its my opinion that, in general, games and game makers seek to establish a name with a spectacular first effort and then seem to just cash in on that name with some followup games of debatable progression or quality. For example, AOE and AOE2 or C&C and any of its sequels or Doom2 and anything that followed it. What's your opinion?
Sure..crack MS' machine and brag about your exploit to them. Sounds like commiting a felony, helping Microsoft out, and getting your own little file at the FBI all at the same time. The only reason I think anyone would attempt to hack it would be to completely "destroy" it, skipping the email brag of course.
If it smells like entrapment and looks like entrapment; then it probably is entrapment.
Does anyone know if B02K behaves the same way as BO did? Eg. by default, putting a registry setting in the RunOnce or RunOnceEx to start BO without a user noticing?
As a side note, I think it would have put cDc in a better light if they had included a method of detection as well. Of course that would fly in the face of this being a SA tool because every user knows how to scan a registry or check for remote administration tools.
I'd have to blame the computer for all of this. Instant gratification is such an evil thing especially when its propagated to a large degree. For example: you press a button, the computer comes on, you and click, and you're downloading porn. Take this grossly over-simplified example and apply it to management and the people who make decisions and you get people who want their databases and online pc banking right now because "I'm sure it can be done. You know computers right?". In addition, everything computer-related seems easier to deal with after hours when "normal" people have gone home and the resources arefreed up and no one is bothering you to change their screensaver. Late hours are the best work hours. Late hours however are not equal to long hours. Its my opinion that 50 hour + work weeks for the computer-related fields will continue simply because they're accepted norms. Accepted by the people that work them and accepted by the people that make you work them. Perhaps there does need to be a high tech union on a nationwide scale.
There are/were several sites that sprung up after BO's release claiming to rid your system of BO. If BO is run with its defaults unchanged, the executable shows up in the Registry under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce or RunServicesOnce or RonOnceEx. A more insidious user would change the default settings and most likely would not send you a pop-up stating he likes your porn collection.
The issue is not whether MS Win products have security holes; they do. It is a commonly accepted fact. The point is that by releasing Back Orifice and Back Orifice 2000, you're (cDc) opening up anyone unlucky enough to run an attached executable or any other method of delivery crackers may design to a complete loss of privacy and control of their computer to anyone who knows just enough. Its one thing to code this from scratch, run it from a command line, and analyze packets etc. Its an entirely different issue to slap a GUI interface on it, make it self installing, completely user friendly, *and* make it completely hidden from the victim. Not anyone can code or decipher IP packets, but when its so easy to take control and access someone's computer, you're letting the wrong kind of people into the toybox. Conclusion: BO and BO2000 will not hurt MS. MS will release a patch (maybe) and move on to another software product (definitely). BO and BO2000 will simply hurt the people who use MS. Its my hope the cDc would release a BO and BO2000 "detector and eliminator" and copyright the hell out of it. This way you're not only exposing MS' security flaws, but you're also protecting the people who might be exploited by them.
It has to. What you might pay $500 to $600 here for an apartment, its almost double that in most areas of California. And don't even think about buying a house in either Los Angeles, San Jose, or San Francisco. Unless of course you make in the high 6 to 7 figures a year.
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I would say that Obi Wan didnt have to hide. At some point in the future movies as well as in this one, he failed in his duty. He failed to save Qui-Gon and he'll fail at training Anakin by not fully preparing him for the pull of the Dark Side. I imagine Darth Vader (the newly annointed destroyer of the Jedi) will recognize he faces a broken man and will leave him on Tatoonine to wallow in his failures. As for Yoda, he ends up on a planet covered in life and he looks like one of the inhabitants. A search for him using probe droids or the force would have a low probability of success.
I wish this subject had come up earlier. We recently threw away about 20 old dumb terminals of the Wyse flavor. For some reason our systems software supplier decided that instead of using a terminal to telnet to the host, we needed Windows and Visual Basic to do the same thing. We actually still have some terminals lying around though. Email me if you're interested.
The thing is, that you don't know for sure what MS is donating other than "$1 million in goods and services". You're just assu( )ing. And we all know what happens when someone does that.
I think MS will open source some of its code and I'd be willing to bet they open WinNT 4 up. Why? Because it would take years to start serious modification and improvement at the source level for WinNT. In addition, Win2000 would be out (maybe) and would be established by the time end users saw quantifiable reasons for trusting and using OS'd versions of WinNT. Besides, during the startup curve for changes and comprehension, MS would be watching and seeing what can be done to improve their Win2000 product that is based, I think, on WinNT to begin with.
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Well unfortuately, filing the lawsuit will cost the public a lot of money. I imagine the best outcome would be if Dell settled out of court.
I'm going to go see it today. I hope it's worth the money I spend. I don't think it'll be as good as the other two simply due to the lack of personnel on this film when compared to the other two. Where the hell is Edward Furlong anyway? I bet he needs the work.
The US Trademark and Patent Office should be arrested and charged along with this small litigious company for fraud and racketeering. They are knowingly and willingly engaging in an activity that supports these extortive lawsuits.
So did anyone have any luck find the link to where you can purchase the Star Destroyer at Legoshop?
I wonder how much Valenti cock they'll be slobbing once they get hired by the RIAA?
*CmdrTaco'sWife'sNameHere* we've only been married for a short time and well..the dot com boom has gone to bust..we're charging for subscription to Slashdot just to provide material people can find other places for free. I can't afford you anymore. I want a divorce!
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It was a "Survival Guide", not an in-depth treatise on the mysteries of a T1 line for anal-retentive system administrators. In my opinion, if you have to diagnose andrepair your own T1 line - your company sucks and you should find a new job or you're in the wrong line of work.
I don't understand what the basic issue of contention is. After all is said and done, people are exchanging money for other people's time and effort. Sure it changes the game's dynamics a bit (eg. people may and do start camping certain spawns and quests for more than their own personal use) but this occurs anyway and should be addressed by the game designers, not by the lawyers.
People don't bother reading the article anymore. They'd rather post quickly and instigate debate than actually be able to discuss the issue in an educated manner.
If you're friends with her, how come you're not in any of the pictures with her?
Well during an appeal, only the information and evidence presented at trial is considered. So current events should not influence the appeal courts decision. Only during the punishment phase would MS' status be a factor.
Yeah..how about donating to me? My house hasnt burnt down due to stupidity and the company that bought my "simple-in-concept" web site isnt about to put out an IPO nor did they pay me oodles of cash just to keep misspelling common words or post stories that dozens of other web sites have already posted.
Hemos, get a new roommate. A smarter one.
Its my opinion that, in general, games and game makers seek to establish a name with a spectacular first effort and then seem to just cash in on that name with some followup games of debatable progression or quality. For example, AOE and AOE2 or C&C and any of its sequels or Doom2 and anything that followed it.
What's your opinion?
well if IBM is tired of OS/2, maybe they just need to make it Open Source and release all of the source code to the public.
Sure..crack MS' machine and brag about your exploit to them. Sounds like commiting a felony, helping Microsoft out, and getting your own little file at the FBI all at the same time. The only reason I think anyone would attempt to hack it would be to completely "destroy" it, skipping the email brag of course.
If it smells like entrapment and looks like entrapment; then it probably is entrapment.
Does anyone know if B02K behaves the same way as BO did? Eg. by default, putting a registry setting in the RunOnce or RunOnceEx to start BO without a user noticing?
As a side note, I think it would have put cDc in a better light if they had included a method of detection as well. Of course that would fly in the face of this being a SA tool because every user knows how to scan a registry or check for remote administration tools.
I'd have to blame the computer for all of this. Instant gratification is such an evil thing especially when its propagated to a large degree. For example: you press a button, the computer comes on, you and click, and you're downloading porn. Take this grossly over-simplified example and apply it to management and the people who make decisions and you get people who want their databases and online pc banking right now because "I'm sure it can be done. You know computers right?".
In addition, everything computer-related seems easier to deal with after hours when "normal" people have gone home and the resources arefreed up and no one is bothering you to change their screensaver. Late hours are the best work hours.
Late hours however are not equal to long hours. Its my opinion that 50 hour + work weeks for the computer-related fields will continue simply because they're accepted norms. Accepted by the people that work them and accepted by the people that make you work them. Perhaps there does need to be a high tech union on a nationwide scale.
There are/were several sites that sprung up after BO's release claiming to rid your system of BO.r entVersion\RunOnce or RunServicesOnce or RonOnceEx. A more insidious user would change the default settings and most likely would not send you a pop-up stating he likes your porn collection.
If BO is run with its defaults unchanged, the executable shows up in the Registry under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
The issue is not whether MS Win products have security holes; they do. It is a commonly accepted fact. The point is that by releasing Back Orifice and Back Orifice 2000, you're (cDc) opening up anyone unlucky enough to run an attached executable or any other method of delivery crackers may design to a complete loss of privacy and control of their computer to anyone who knows just enough.
Its one thing to code this from scratch, run it from a command line, and analyze packets etc. Its an entirely different issue to slap a GUI interface on it, make it self installing, completely user friendly, *and* make it completely hidden from the victim. Not anyone can code or decipher IP packets, but when its so easy to take control and access someone's computer, you're letting the wrong kind of people into the toybox.
Conclusion: BO and BO2000 will not hurt MS. MS will release a patch (maybe) and move on to another software product (definitely). BO and BO2000 will simply hurt the people who use MS.
Its my hope the cDc would release a BO and BO2000 "detector and eliminator" and copyright the hell out of it. This way you're not only exposing MS' security flaws, but you're also protecting the people who might be exploited by them.
It has to. What you might pay $500 to $600 here for an apartment, its almost double that in most areas of California. And don't even think about buying a house in either Los Angeles, San Jose, or San Francisco. Unless of course you make in the high 6 to 7 figures a year.
I would say that Obi Wan didnt have to hide. At some point in the future movies as well as in this one, he failed in his duty. He failed to save Qui-Gon and he'll fail at training Anakin by not fully preparing him for the pull of the Dark Side. I imagine Darth Vader (the newly annointed destroyer of the Jedi) will recognize he faces a broken man and will leave him on Tatoonine to wallow in his failures.
As for Yoda, he ends up on a planet covered in life and he looks like one of the inhabitants. A search for him using probe droids or the force would have a low probability of success.
The subject line says it all. I'm expecting huge GeoCities-type banners littering the site proclaiming Andover or anything else they want to push.
I wish this subject had come up earlier. We recently threw away about 20 old dumb terminals of the Wyse flavor. For some reason our systems software supplier decided that instead of using a terminal to telnet to the host, we needed Windows and Visual Basic to do the same thing. We actually still have some terminals lying around though. Email me if you're interested.
The thing is, that you don't know for sure what MS is donating other than "$1 million in goods and services". You're just assu( )ing. And we all know what happens when someone does that.
I think MS will open source some of its code and I'd be willing to bet they open WinNT 4 up.
Why? Because it would take years to start serious modification and improvement at the source level for WinNT. In addition, Win2000 would be out (maybe) and would be established by the time end users saw quantifiable reasons for trusting and using OS'd versions of WinNT. Besides, during the startup curve for changes and comprehension, MS would be watching and seeing what can be done to improve their Win2000 product that is based, I think, on WinNT to begin with.