People have worse entertainment addictions than playing computer games. If I am going to be addicted to something, I would choose online gaming over drugs, bowling, gambling, television, or being a baseball fanatic easily. I don't have to wear ugly shoes, lose my hard earned money or do the wave next to someone I don't know and that just about makes it a no-brainer for me. It IS after all just a video game, like Neal describes in his great novel, Snow Crash. It is just another amusement park.' Sounds like a happy ending to me."
Hmmm, something seems to be missing here, oh yes, physical human contact: people meeting people. For instance: I bowl on the weekends, do I bowl for the cool shoes, um NO; I bowl to drink a couple of beers with four friends and socialize. Do I go to a football game for the joy of spending money? No, I go to be with friends and cheer on a team as they play.
While I have no problem with online games (I have a level 72 Diablo 2 Paladin) I would *never* treat online gaming as a replacement for human contact, I just seems *obvious* to me, am I missing something here?
I'm not sure about that. While running something at 100% may reduce its life lets say.001% (pulling that number out of my ass) I think the greater chance of failure is with you PC being idle, here is my logic: the one leading cause of failure in components is stress (in this example thermal), being run at 100% causes stress, but not nearly as much as going from idle to 100% when I fire up UT2002 for an hour of so... my CPU temp with a distributed app running is constant... I would think this would reduce the chances of metal fatigue over time...
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I mean come-on! Its soooo likely that the, um, 12 pages of asm in this PDF http://www.xvid.org/v1_0_comparison.pdf are purely by coincidence, right? right?? I mean my god, how *stupid* do you have to be to not even change *one byte* of code in that many lines of code, at least make a few new variables....
Um, if your going to be giving up O'Reilly books can I have them?:) Seriously here, what is gained by bashing a (in my opinion a correct standpoint) on the open source community, made by respectable source? For open source to gain ground we do need to lobby, but to force our standards (be them open or closed) it makes us no better than what we fighting against.
Hmmm yet another use for LCD monitors, increased security for the paranoid... but whats the use really? if you have line of sight to the *screen* ??? You could use the old fashioned way of "just looking over someone's shoulder..."
Who to say you have to be free of disabilities to be a world class researcher? Look at Stephen Hawkings... by far one of the most intelligent scientists on the earth IMHO.
Raid 0, 1 or 5??? I have not found the manual for this board yet, but very few mobo's out there support ide raid level 5, and if you are touting the value of raid 0 for backups... you going to be in for some fun:) since raid 0 exponentially increases your change of data loss due to drive failure... raid 5 is the *only* way to go, if your truly paranoid (of have over 25 disks in a volume set) you can tack on an online spare drive as well...
True, (and belive me this is hard for me to say this next sentence...) I put more trust in Microsofts updater than Brilliants... ick I cant belive I just said that:)
However, none of these are installed on millions of PC that (mostly) have always on - high speed connections, also this Trojan is specifically engineered to "server data" most of the patch engines simply receive an update to certain files. If this is as insecure as it seems (and do you honestly think the company put an ssh connection or even a checking mechanism on this??) then this could very easily be used to launch the largest DDOS ever...
What I find truly scary about this watch is that if it were widely used it will raise an entire generation of people that find it perfectly "ok" to have an "authority figure" attach a locating device to them that they cant remove, hell while we're at it we might as well mandate them for adults as well, after all I watched the news last night and there was a 30 something' year old lady that disappeared as well, if we had a "wonderful government program" that had mandated that every citizen we forced to ware on of these *great* devices this tragedy could have been avoided... would be great for tracking all those undesirable people that speed on the highway as well since gps units can calculate speed on-the-fly...I for one, don't appreciate a fast chunk of my personal freedoms being remove for the benefit of a few people, no matter for noble the cause might be.
I truly am now fearful of the future, for it seems Orwell might have been right... he just missed 1984 by a few years...
Waayyy back when I remember the "days to exaust keyspace" was well into the thousands, as PCs have gotten faster the project would take less than a year to finish now...
I recently found an issue where our helpdesk was setting passwords to a "default" password when a user called with a password related issue... the user is then supposed to change the password, however the users are just using the default password and calling the helpdesk again (30 days later) when the password expires again. A cycle that a quick LC3 run on the SAM file reviled that 10% (over a thousand) had the *exact* same password... *sigh* anyone know a cure for typical user(s)???
Yes, the population is going up, but will this trend continue to accelerate of is there a glass ceiling that we will hit with the large chunk of the world the can barely get a phone connection (if that, in most areas...) we will run out of existing infrastructure shortly in these countries, and good infrastructure cant be put in place overnight...
Looking at those cases got me thinking... What would my case look like with it were semi-transparent? In no small terms it would look like *crap* much like the all black IBM tower, it suffers from one fatal flaw, its nearly impossible to find black cd-rom drives, mice, etc. Ever think how hard it would be to find transparent blue/white? Without those, the case loses any of its "wow" appeal.
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People have worse entertainment addictions than playing computer games. If I am going to be addicted to something, I would choose online gaming over drugs, bowling, gambling, television, or being a baseball fanatic easily. I don't have to wear ugly shoes, lose my hard earned money or do the wave next to someone I don't know and that just about makes it a no-brainer for me. It IS after all just a video game, like Neal describes in his great novel, Snow Crash. It is just another amusement park.' Sounds like a happy ending to me."
Hmmm, something seems to be missing here, oh yes, physical human contact: people meeting people. For instance: I bowl on the weekends, do I bowl for the cool shoes, um NO; I bowl to drink a couple of beers with four friends and socialize. Do I go to a football game for the joy of spending money? No, I go to be with friends and cheer on a team as they play.
While I have no problem with online games (I have a level 72 Diablo 2 Paladin) I would *never* treat online gaming as a replacement for human contact, I just seems *obvious* to me, am I missing something here?
I'm not sure about that. While running something at 100% may reduce its life lets say .001% (pulling that number out of my ass) I think the greater chance of failure is with you PC being idle, here is my logic: the one leading cause of failure in components is stress (in this example thermal), being run at 100% causes stress, but not nearly as much as going from idle to 100% when I fire up UT2002 for an hour of so... my CPU temp with a distributed app running is constant... I would think this would reduce the chances of metal fatigue over time...
*sigh* the humor value in relation to ME's stability was obviously lost here.
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Hmmm nope you appear to be running Windows ME
I mean come-on! Its soooo likely that the, um, 12 pages of asm in this PDF http://www.xvid.org/v1_0_comparison.pdf are purely by coincidence, right? right?? I mean my god, how *stupid* do you have to be to not even change *one byte* of code in that many lines of code, at least make a few new variables....
"from the time-to-get-out-the-lart dept."
:) Seriously here, what is gained by bashing a (in my opinion a correct standpoint) on the open source community, made by respectable source? For open source to gain ground we do need to lobby, but to force our standards (be them open or closed) it makes us no better than what we fighting against.
Um, if your going to be giving up O'Reilly books can I have them?
If I understand the problem correctly
:
Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced
Check :
Check for publisher's cert revocation
Check server cert revocation
Check signatures on downloaded programs
*** Warn about invalid site certs
Ta-da, you not get a dialog box asking of you want to continue if you hit one of these sites (someone earlier posted a link to thoughtcrime.com)
Figured I might as well be the first to say this... but doesn't this count as reverse engineering?
Hmmm yet another use for LCD monitors, increased security for the paranoid... but whats the use really? if you have line of sight to the *screen* ??? You could use the old fashioned way of "just looking over someone's shoulder..."
Who to say you have to be free of disabilities to be a world class researcher? Look at Stephen Hawkings... by far one of the most intelligent scientists on the earth IMHO.
well it could be worse... just imagane the headline : government chooses Brilliant Digital Entertainment as its sole distributor .... :)
my god could you imagane having to use Passport in order to e-file you taxes....
Raid 0, 1 or 5??? I have not found the manual for this board yet, but very few mobo's out there support ide raid level 5, and if you are touting the value of raid 0 for backups ... you going to be in for some fun :) since raid 0 exponentially increases your change of data loss due to drive failure ... raid 5 is the *only* way to go, if your truly paranoid (of have over 25 disks in a volume set) you can tack on an online spare drive as well...
Looks like a quality mod, I'm wondering how the heat buildup in that works ... its not nearly as cool if you have to keep the lid open all the time ...
True, (and belive me this is hard for me to say this next sentence...) I put more trust in Microsofts updater than Brilliants ... ick I cant belive I just said that :)
However, none of these are installed on millions of PC that (mostly) have always on - high speed connections, also this Trojan is specifically engineered to "server data" most of the patch engines simply receive an update to certain files. If this is as insecure as it seems (and do you honestly think the company put an ssh connection or even a checking mechanism on this??) then this could very easily be used to launch the largest DDOS ever ...
and Microsoft if making a bid for the Vatican! (theonion.com)
mmmm and maybe the first post??
Well, here is my 2 cents :
... would be great for tracking all those undesirable people that speed on the highway as well since gps units can calculate speed on-the-fly ...I for one, don't appreciate a fast chunk of my personal freedoms being remove for the benefit of a few people, no matter for noble the cause might be.
What I find truly scary about this watch is that if it were widely used it will raise an entire generation of people that find it perfectly "ok" to have an "authority figure" attach a locating device to them that they cant remove, hell while we're at it we might as well mandate them for adults as well, after all I watched the news last night and there was a 30 something' year old lady that disappeared as well, if we had a "wonderful government program" that had mandated that every citizen we forced to ware on of these *great* devices this tragedy could have been avoided
I truly am now fearful of the future, for it seems Orwell might have been right... he just missed 1984 by a few years...
Waayyy back when I remember the "days to exaust keyspace" was well into the thousands, as PCs have gotten faster the project would take less than a year to finish now ...
I recently found an issue where our helpdesk was setting passwords to a "default" password when a user called with a password related issue... the user is then supposed to change the password, however the users are just using the default password and calling the helpdesk again (30 days later) when the password expires again. A cycle that a quick LC3 run on the SAM file reviled that 10% (over a thousand) had the *exact* same password ... *sigh* anyone know a cure for typical user(s)???
Yes, the population is going up, but will this trend continue to accelerate of is there a glass ceiling that we will hit with the large chunk of the world the can barely get a phone connection (if that, in most areas...) we will run out of existing infrastructure shortly in these countries, and good infrastructure cant be put in place overnight...
Hmm, maybe a linksys firewall inside a stuffed animal? I smell marketing for other products ...
Looking at those cases got me thinking... What would my case look like with it were semi-transparent? In no small terms it would look like *crap* much like the all black IBM tower, it suffers from one fatal flaw, its nearly impossible to find black cd-rom drives, mice, etc. Ever think how hard it would be to find transparent blue/white? Without those, the case loses any of its "wow" appeal.