As cool as that sounds, I'm not to keen on the idea of a portable disc drive. Perhaps power issues can be dealt with, but remmeber little kids love to play rough with things and Nintendo's target market is and always probably will be children...you'll need one hell of a durable/accurate drive for that.
Not only that, but I do believe just about every company does this for every product on the shelves. It's actually kind of vital to business, escpecially if your product can do bad after a certain time.
Would you ship a million beers to a certain town if you knew that only 10,000 of them would be consumed before they went bad? That's a lot of beer to be thrown out and/or disgusted customers who didn't check the label. Not a situation you want.
Mobile phones can be tracked by GPS these days, and I assume Wireless IP phone hardware would work the same way.
If you went on vacation, 911 would simply get the adress of the hotel/timeshare/whatever that you where calling from, just like the regular phone.
As for user-specified, perhaps that could be too easily faked, but that can be handled by the VOIP provider instead.
Honestly, this can be nothing but a Good Thing for VOIP if the regulation doesn't go any further than this. Just because it cost the old phone companies more to transmit long distance doesn't mean the new, higher tech ones which are designed to eliminate such problems need to charge more "in order to play fair", and that would be a stupid move by the FCC.
Simple, type it in. Perhaps a copy is kept at the CO and sent in apon 911 relaying, to prevent someone from con-ing it out of your computer to track you by IP. Each installation is given a signed key from the provider which is used to identify it when an emergency call is placed, regardless of dynamic IP changes or username/password, if such a thing is required.
...that most of the software that experiences buffer-overflow problems is software that wasn't written using standard APIs (unless, of course, the standard APIs are buggy...). If they didn't do it right the first time, what makes you think they're going to re-write it in a less lazy form just because hardware supports it? Programmers could easily prevent buffer-overflows in software but they (sometimes) don't. If this is to work at all, it should probably be automatic. How to actually acomplish that is another question...
What is really needed is for compilers to have the option to include runtime overflow checking. I know it was decided to leave such a thing out of the ANSI C/C++ standards for speed/optimization reasons, but now it's causing quite a few headaches as we see that the more people we have programming, the less the ratio of careful programmers to non-careful programmers there are. Computers are faster these days, and perhaps the speed hit would be negligible.
Of course, adding such functionality in hardware would most likely keep such a problem to a minimum, but that leads us back to the first problem of detecting and/or APIs. Perhaps compilers will be modified as well as hardware?
Play on servers which encourage you to use modifications, some people want to play the game as it was originally intended, they don't want to play YOUR game.
Also, gamers aren't all programmers, and by your description, unless youy write your own aimbot, you're just a skr1pt k1ddie with someone else's skr1pt, which is lame. The game becomes "Who can Google for the best cheat proggiez".
If I wanted to play hacking games, I'd buy Uplink.
My mother took up skeet shooting a few years back for a little while...when she did, she decided to become an NRA member. Now that's she isn't into all that anymore, the NRA can't seem to stand it. They call 3 times a day trying to get a hold of her. We can't do anything about it because although we're on the DNC list (both state and federal), they're a political party and can call us.
Let me tell you what, I'm going to use my right to bear arms if they make me jump off the crapper to answer the damn phone one more time!
The Do-Not-Call lists need TWO lists...one list for "Do Not Call if you're an annoying insurance salesman", and one list for "Don't any of you assholes call me, ever. If I didn't have friends I'd disconnect my phone. Scram."
I haven't done much moden BASIC. My last BASIC was FutureBASIC, back in the MacOS 8 days. Before that, it was AppleSoft ][ BASIC and/or IntegerBASIC on the Apple ][c. I did a bit of Visual BASIC in college but I'm a bit rusty on that front.
What does that have to do with strings, anyways?;-D
I think the real brilliance is the screenshot page, where you see something you'd never even think possible: Linux, running OS X in a window, which is in turn running Microsoft Internet Explorer, which in turn is playing a Quicktime movie!
Quick, someone install MOL and then VPC, and run every major OS simultaniously.
...if I "jam" you while you're talking to the person next to you? It's so annoying and it ruins my peace and quiet!
Honestly, unless you're in a place where you're not SUPPOSED to make noise, like perhaps a library or a movie theater, there is NO reason to be disturbed by a cel phone conversation, other than the fact that you're a nosy asshole and can't stand hearing one side of a conversation.
I have a cel phone, and I use it. If anyone tries to stop me, I'll send them to the hospital. I'm sick of this nonsense.
Another intestesting point, however, is that he did do the work in mixing the tracks together. I assume since this is a DJ compilation, it's not just a straight copy of each album, rather blended (segue'd, as the DJ term goes) together.
If they decide to release it on their own, would it be at all possible they could owe him for creating this portion of the work?
If not, that's entirely understandable. If you're going to make a DJ mix, you absolutely must at least get permission, if not pay for a license, for the tracks you use. The only exception to this is demo CDs for promotional use, but this is something that the music industry tends to simply turn a blind eye too...it's still against the rules. I cannot, for example, distribute my DJ demo CD on the Internet because it costitutes piracy, but handing out a few copies to promoters to try to land a gig would probably be ingnored, and rightfully so. This doesn't seem to be the case here, however.
The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan books when they think no one is watching.
Even the people without webcams on the Internet are whores...
In the end, MS gets lots of free publicity as the victim. I don't see a downside for them.
The fact that anyone, including, well, anyone, who wants to get their hands on the source code to the more secure of the Windows releases now can, I can't see that as being good for MS or their customers.
Watch, in a few days, they'll claim source code from Windows has made it into Linux, and begin "innovating" their way to the top once again...:-(
Open source advocates rightfully maintain that the sheer number of eyes looking at the source tends to rapidly find and repair problems as well as inefficiencies--and that those same eyes would find and repair maliciously inserted code as well. Unfortunately, the model breaks down as soon as the core group involved in a project or distribution decides to corrupt the source, because they simply won't make the corrupted version public. Therefore, security problems for governments begin with knowing which distributions they can trust.
They can trust the source code they download, review, and compile themselves, asshat. That's the whole POINT of open source?
How do you know that every version of Microsoft Windows or SCO UNIXware or IRIX or Solaris or hell even Mac OS X isn't riddled with keystroke loggers and data miners? Because you paid money for it and can't inspect it?
It could happen that a Linux distro's binary distribution could be in fact corrupted with such things, but the project's creators would be held responsible apon discovery, just like any major corporation which would try to attempt this. The source would be safe because it would be subject to peer review.
The argument is basically the opposite; any software that you donwload/purchase in binary form could be corrupt and you should review and compile all your software from source code, i.e. open source. Good one.
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As cool as that sounds, I'm not to keen on the idea of a portable disc drive. Perhaps power issues can be dealt with, but remmeber little kids love to play rough with things and Nintendo's target market is and always probably will be children...you'll need one hell of a durable/accurate drive for that.
Not only that, but I do believe just about every company does this for every product on the shelves. It's actually kind of vital to business, escpecially if your product can do bad after a certain time.
Would you ship a million beers to a certain town if you knew that only 10,000 of them would be consumed before they went bad? That's a lot of beer to be thrown out and/or disgusted customers who didn't check the label. Not a situation you want.
Mobile phones can be tracked by GPS these days, and I assume Wireless IP phone hardware would work the same way.
If you went on vacation, 911 would simply get the adress of the hotel/timeshare/whatever that you where calling from, just like the regular phone.
As for user-specified, perhaps that could be too easily faked, but that can be handled by the VOIP provider instead.
Honestly, this can be nothing but a Good Thing for VOIP if the regulation doesn't go any further than this. Just because it cost the old phone companies more to transmit long distance doesn't mean the new, higher tech ones which are designed to eliminate such problems need to charge more "in order to play fair", and that would be a stupid move by the FCC.
...but arguing against emergency services?
Simple, type it in. Perhaps a copy is kept at the CO and sent in apon 911 relaying, to prevent someone from con-ing it out of your computer to track you by IP. Each installation is given a signed key from the provider which is used to identify it when an emergency call is placed, regardless of dynamic IP changes or username/password, if such a thing is required.
...that most of the software that experiences buffer-overflow problems is software that wasn't written using standard APIs (unless, of course, the standard APIs are buggy...). If they didn't do it right the first time, what makes you think they're going to re-write it in a less lazy form just because hardware supports it? Programmers could easily prevent buffer-overflows in software but they (sometimes) don't. If this is to work at all, it should probably be automatic. How to actually acomplish that is another question...
What is really needed is for compilers to have the option to include runtime overflow checking. I know it was decided to leave such a thing out of the ANSI C/C++ standards for speed/optimization reasons, but now it's causing quite a few headaches as we see that the more people we have programming, the less the ratio of careful programmers to non-careful programmers there are. Computers are faster these days, and perhaps the speed hit would be negligible.
Of course, adding such functionality in hardware would most likely keep such a problem to a minimum, but that leads us back to the first problem of detecting and/or APIs. Perhaps compilers will be modified as well as hardware?
Exactly. I always used to read about the miles of dark fiber laying around the country...is that all used up now, or is it still lying dormant?
Sounds like a selfish business move to me.
Imagine the fun you can have with prank calls! Costumes, tampered video feeds...the fun will NEVER cease!!!
Play on servers which encourage you to use modifications, some people want to play the game as it was originally intended, they don't want to play YOUR game.
Also, gamers aren't all programmers, and by your description, unless youy write your own aimbot, you're just a skr1pt k1ddie with someone else's skr1pt, which is lame. The game becomes "Who can Google for the best cheat proggiez".
If I wanted to play hacking games, I'd buy Uplink.
Tommorow on Capitain Obvious: How to tell it's a slow news day without going past the front page of Shashdot!
My mother took up skeet shooting a few years back for a little while...when she did, she decided to become an NRA member. Now that's she isn't into all that anymore, the NRA can't seem to stand it. They call 3 times a day trying to get a hold of her. We can't do anything about it because although we're on the DNC list (both state and federal), they're a political party and can call us.
Let me tell you what, I'm going to use my right to bear arms if they make me jump off the crapper to answer the damn phone one more time!
The Do-Not-Call lists need TWO lists...one list for "Do Not Call if you're an annoying insurance salesman", and one list for "Don't any of you assholes call me, ever. If I didn't have friends I'd disconnect my phone. Scram."
Actually, he only forgot the opening {, the blank line I assume is where he thought he had typed it.
Either way, he didnt' include a main(), therefore this life is undefined, making it impossible for the compiler to find the meaning of life.
I haven't done much moden BASIC. My last BASIC was FutureBASIC, back in the MacOS 8 days. Before that, it was AppleSoft ][ BASIC and/or IntegerBASIC on the Apple ][c. I did a bit of Visual BASIC in college but I'm a bit rusty on that front.
What does that have to do with strings, anyways?
I think the real brilliance is the screenshot page, where you see something you'd never even think possible: Linux, running OS X in a window, which is in turn running Microsoft Internet Explorer, which in turn is playing a Quicktime movie!
Quick, someone install MOL and then VPC, and run every major OS simultaniously.
Only on a Mac.
Obviously, you've never programmed in BASIC.
M$ means "variable M as a string (as indicated by the $)". In BASIC you either have numeric variables ("varName") or string variables ("varName$").
...if I "jam" you while you're talking to the person next to you? It's so annoying and it ruins my peace and quiet!
Honestly, unless you're in a place where you're not SUPPOSED to make noise, like perhaps a library or a movie theater, there is NO reason to be disturbed by a cel phone conversation, other than the fact that you're a nosy asshole and can't stand hearing one side of a conversation.
I have a cel phone, and I use it. If anyone tries to stop me, I'll send them to the hospital. I'm sick of this nonsense.
Another intestesting point, however, is that he did do the work in mixing the tracks together. I assume since this is a DJ compilation, it's not just a straight copy of each album, rather blended (segue'd, as the DJ term goes) together.
If they decide to release it on their own, would it be at all possible they could owe him for creating this portion of the work?
If not, that's entirely understandable. If you're going to make a DJ mix, you absolutely must at least get permission, if not pay for a license, for the tracks you use. The only exception to this is demo CDs for promotional use, but this is something that the music industry tends to simply turn a blind eye too...it's still against the rules. I cannot, for example, distribute my DJ demo CD on the Internet because it costitutes piracy, but handing out a few copies to promoters to try to land a gig would probably be ingnored, and rightfully so. This doesn't seem to be the case here, however.
...about how this really works:
Could we make a big one that is just as good?
Watch, in a few days, they'll claim source code from Windows has made it into Linux, and begin "innovating" their way to the top once again...
How do you know that every version of Microsoft Windows or SCO UNIXware or IRIX or Solaris or hell even Mac OS X isn't riddled with keystroke loggers and data miners? Because you paid money for it and can't inspect it?
It could happen that a Linux distro's binary distribution could be in fact corrupted with such things, but the project's creators would be held responsible apon discovery, just like any major corporation which would try to attempt this. The source would be safe because it would be subject to peer review.
The argument is basically the opposite; any software that you donwload/purchase in binary form could be corrupt and you should review and compile all your software from source code, i.e. open source. Good one.
My point is that Disney's new computer-based outfit isn't designed to replace Pixar...not yet, anyways
They don't auto-launch an executable computer code file. Even your DVD player is more of a PowerPoint-style system than something running
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