Do I point out the earlier thread, or do I repeat the major points from it for extra karma?
Verisign broke the DNS RFCs, abused its position as keeper of the root servers, we'll never trust it again and they should be replaced, distributed DNS servers, let's all install the BIND update in the meantime yada yada.
And give your old address - you'll get huge amounts of spam on both. It's best to have an eBay ID identical to the email address, just to be on the safe side. Next, order anything from etronics.com.
These are just my top three based on personal experience, YMMV.
D2 (a survival horror title for the ill-fated Dreamcast, and the sequel to D, naturally) has several memorable boss characters, but the scariest one is one that doesn't actually hurt you but just begs you to kill it. It takes quite a bit of time to finish it off, and the entire time it repeats its request.
Its relation to your character only makes it more disturbing.
It is only natural that there will be increased monitoring, considering that the Internet could be used to hatch plans. Monitoring is necessary at least to a limited extent [...]
What about communication channels that cannot be monitored? Do two (or more) people have the right to communicate through a secure channel of arbitrary bittage? If so, monitoring is doomed to failure; if not, expect a locked-down net where you can only use web and (non-encrypted) email, and HTTPS is reserved only for financial transactions where at least one of the sides is a commercial entity.
I don't know who makes these Simpson's games, but they are seriously not using their license to the full potential. All they have done since the beginning is take cookie cutter genre games and replace all the graphics and sound with simpsons stuff.
It's not just one company; many different developers (and several different publishers) were involved in simpsons titles. And you know what? Some were OK, some were mediocre, and some sucked. That's what normally happens when you look at any random batch of titles, licensed or not.
I propose that if they follow through with this, open DNS software implements a Verisign filter such that replies to domain requests which return IP-addresses from Verisign are modified to return errors instead.
Or maybe they should return the address of a web site exposing verisign's business practices?
We played rogue because it was the only "game" in town. Now some games just make you "do" the dungeons to advance the plot and such - you wouldn't play these without a plot (remember a DC/GC release called "Evolution"? thought not).
Now some games (I guess like Diablo) are good enough so you're having fun as you're playing, rather than suffering for the sake of a later payoff. These are the kinds of games that can pull off random dungeon generation.
But talk to almost any serious RPG gamer and you'll hear randomly generated stuff sux. It's OK in the 50-floor-tower-of-leveling-up, but not in the main game.
Clearchannel and the RIAA run a tight squeeze on music and it won't change without some serious consumer action and hopefully federal litigation.
Here's what needs to happen:
A P2P application designed exclusively for sharing LEGAL music.
I'm not sure how this can be achieved - maybe you can't be anonymous if you want to inject a file to the network originally or some such solution involving cryptography - but imagine the impact. Hey, here's music you can download legally, you'll never be sued, and although the artists would appreciate you buying the CDs or paying directly, you won't find yourself in court if you don't. You can find new music, maybe an auto-recommendation engine based on your tastes...
What you want to achieve is to cut off the RIAA's ear supply.
The thing is, studies which don't address correlation/causation are idiotic - they don't provide any useful information, and are just likely to be misinterpreted.
The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card.
If only we could automate the process of acquiring music through radio and automatically separate, encode and label the tracks we could all have huge free legal music collections.
Hmmm.. maybe it's easier to do it with those audio-oriented digital cable channels? They already have the track info, but you have to OCR it which is difficult considering you don't know where the text is or the colors etc.
Or perhaps that satellite radio thing would work better? There the track information is already present and I bet the quality's pretty decent too.
... And their rituals (with the E-meter) are just as strange.
Not really. Their main purpose is four-fold:
1. Provide a means for subject to discuss problems with another human being (on some very basic level, it does help, I suppose).
2. Pass a low current through subject to introduce a sense of euphoria, which is both addictive and lowers resistance (heh) to interrogator's questions.
3. Alert interrogator to any issues which may weaken hold on subject.
4. Provide information on subject to be used if hold on subject ever looks like it may be broken.
So, what happens in the U.S. if a organization is ever certified as a "religion" by mistake? Is any means available to undo it?
If we were talking about overall sales, that would have been remarkable. But let's face it: Most of the people who want a PS2 already have one. I bet a large number of PS2s sold now actually replace worn-out (played-out?) units.
In contrast, since the Gamecube is much less popular overall, there are many more potential new owners. RPG fans, for example, who must have every major new title, or fans of the "Tales of" series. They might have never seen the "need" to own a cube before.
It's completely possible that the nokia n-gage will outsell the GBA - for the first week or two. It still won't mean the GBA is dethroned.
I'll probably pick up the new 'tales of' title once it arrives here. I loved the way the last title I played in the series (Tales of Eternia) let you save almost AT ANY POINT (unless you're in the middle of a fight or a puzzle). It worked great because when you restored the game, you'd continue at the last save point, but you never had to keep playing until the next save point even when you needed to stop playing, under penalty of losing all of your progress (levels+items+puzzles etc).
Slightly off-topic stupidity: Tales of Destiny was published in the U.S. Then Tales of Eternia was published in the U.S. as "Tales of Destiny 2" to capitalize on name recognition. Now a sequel to Tales of Destiny, called "Tales of Destiny 2" is available in Japan. Is this title going to make it stateside? What will it be called?
Thanks to the U.S. government, Iranians can now view material blocked in U.S. libraries after being categorized by a private company as violence/profanity, alcohol/tobacco/drug related, satanic, sexual, or otherwise containing information which may be considered harmful or offensive?
Why are Iranians entitled to view more of the web then Americans?
Will Apple's use of Rendezvous be confusing to people who are familiar with TIBCO's use of Rendezvous? The answer is clearly no: TIBCO's Rendezvous is a messaging solution that's part of their enterprise blah-blah-ware system. Apple's Rendezvous is a network configuration and service advertisement technology.
As someone who's had to struggle with (Tibco) Rendezvous documentation, let me assure you that confusion is very likely even if you've never even heard of Apple's Rendezvous.
Whenever you receive spam promoting a web site, just (automatically) hit that web site, downloading the home page, all graphics, follow a link, repeat ad bandwium. Maybe some kind of distributed system can be set up so that when many people detect spam for a certain web site, it's automatically "visited" by everybody. Distributed slashdotting!
Point being, they are looking for a specific hash, not just 2 that happen to come out the same. (Look, Sven, we've found 3 that match "fd8ddaf41fd482a6aa1a492915a3e788"... but none that match "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef". Hm. We should keep looking.)
I apologize; I misunderstood the comment. But it may be something they're considering doing - if several people have the exact same file, the RIAA may decide the at most one of them is the original owner, and the others (perhaps decided by when the files appeared on their IP address/usernames) are infringers.
If you were to examine 2^127 different files, then you would have a 50% chance of one of them giving you the desired MD5 hash. Do you know how large 2^127 is?
Sorry, but your math is way off. Do you need 183 people for a 50% chance of a shared birthday? You only need, hmm, twenty-odd people for that.
If they just create a public database of RIAA-owned tracks, we can all stay away from any RIAA music and maybe even have the clients shield us from it automatically.
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Do I point out the earlier thread, or do I repeat the major points from it for extra karma?
Verisign broke the DNS RFCs, abused its position as keeper of the root servers, we'll never trust it again and they should be replaced, distributed DNS servers, let's all install the BIND update in the meantime yada yada.
And give your old address - you'll get huge amounts of spam on both. It's best to have an eBay ID identical to the email address, just to be on the safe side. Next, order anything from etronics.com.
These are just my top three based on personal experience, YMMV.
D2 (a survival horror title for the ill-fated Dreamcast, and the sequel to D, naturally) has several memorable boss characters, but the scariest one is one that doesn't actually hurt you but just begs you to kill it. It takes quite a bit of time to finish it off, and the entire time it repeats its request.
Its relation to your character only makes it more disturbing.
It is only natural that there will be increased monitoring, considering that the Internet could be used to hatch plans. Monitoring is necessary at least to a limited extent [...]
What about communication channels that cannot be monitored? Do two (or more) people have the right to communicate through a secure channel of arbitrary bittage? If so, monitoring is doomed to failure; if not, expect a locked-down net where you can only use web and (non-encrypted) email, and HTTPS is reserved only for financial transactions where at least one of the sides is a commercial entity.
eBay item 2746828346.
Sure, the bidding ended, but you can make one yourself very easily.
I don't know who makes these Simpson's games, but they are seriously not using their license to the full potential. All they have done since the beginning is take cookie cutter genre games and replace all the graphics and sound with simpsons stuff.
It's not just one company; many different developers (and several different publishers) were involved in simpsons titles. And you know what? Some were OK, some were mediocre, and some sucked. That's what normally happens when you look at any random batch of titles, licensed or not.
I propose that if they follow through with this, open DNS software implements a Verisign filter such that replies to domain requests which return IP-addresses from Verisign are modified to return errors instead.
Or maybe they should return the address of a web site exposing verisign's business practices?
We played rogue because it was the only "game" in town. Now some games just make you "do" the dungeons to advance the plot and such - you wouldn't play these without a plot (remember a DC/GC release called "Evolution"? thought not).
Now some games (I guess like Diablo) are good enough so you're having fun as you're playing, rather than suffering for the sake of a later payoff. These are the kinds of games that can pull off random dungeon generation.
But talk to almost any serious RPG gamer and you'll hear randomly generated stuff sux. It's OK in the 50-floor-tower-of-leveling-up, but not in the main game.
Clearchannel and the RIAA run a tight squeeze on music and it won't change without some serious consumer action and hopefully federal litigation.
Here's what needs to happen:
A P2P application designed exclusively for sharing LEGAL music.
I'm not sure how this can be achieved - maybe you can't be anonymous if you want to inject a file to the network originally or some such solution involving cryptography - but imagine the impact. Hey, here's music you can download legally, you'll never be sued, and although the artists would appreciate you buying the CDs or paying directly, you won't find yourself in court if you don't. You can find new music, maybe an auto-recommendation engine based on your tastes...
What you want to achieve is to cut off the RIAA's ear supply.
The thing is, studies which don't address correlation/causation are idiotic - they don't provide any useful information, and are just likely to be misinterpreted.
Hopefully they price things high so that other people won't use them, an in particular, so that the government won't use them (in libraries, etc).
That's not how it works. The libraries have to install them, or they lose federal funding. Thanks, Sen. McCain.
The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card.
If only we could automate the process of acquiring music through radio and automatically separate, encode and label the tracks we could all have huge free legal music collections.
Hmmm.. maybe it's easier to do it with those audio-oriented digital cable channels? They already have the track info, but you have to OCR it which is difficult considering you don't know where the text is or the colors etc.
Or perhaps that satellite radio thing would work better? There the track information is already present and I bet the quality's pretty decent too.
... And their rituals (with the E-meter) are just as strange.
Not really. Their main purpose is four-fold:
1. Provide a means for subject to discuss problems with another human being (on some very basic level, it does help, I suppose).
2. Pass a low current through subject to introduce a sense of euphoria, which is both addictive and lowers resistance (heh) to interrogator's questions.
3. Alert interrogator to any issues which may weaken hold on subject.
4. Provide information on subject to be used if hold on subject ever looks like it may be broken.
So, what happens in the U.S. if a organization is ever certified as a "religion" by mistake? Is any means available to undo it?
If we were talking about overall sales, that would have been remarkable. But let's face it: Most of the people who want a PS2 already have one. I bet a large number of PS2s sold now actually replace worn-out (played-out?) units.
In contrast, since the Gamecube is much less popular overall, there are many more potential new owners. RPG fans, for example, who must have every major new title, or fans of the "Tales of" series. They might have never seen the "need" to own a cube before.
It's completely possible that the nokia n-gage will outsell the GBA - for the first week or two. It still won't mean the GBA is dethroned.
I'll probably pick up the new 'tales of' title once it arrives here. I loved the way the last title I played in the series (Tales of Eternia) let you save almost AT ANY POINT (unless you're in the middle of a fight or a puzzle). It worked great because when you restored the game, you'd continue at the last save point, but you never had to keep playing until the next save point even when you needed to stop playing, under penalty of losing all of your progress (levels+items+puzzles etc).
Slightly off-topic stupidity:
Tales of Destiny was published in the U.S.
Then Tales of Eternia was published in the U.S. as "Tales of Destiny 2" to capitalize on name recognition.
Now a sequel to Tales of Destiny, called "Tales of Destiny 2" is available in Japan. Is this title going to make it stateside? What will it be called?
Boong-Ga Boong-Ga?
Since the PS2 emulates the PS1, did Sony just need to get PS2 emulation right to get PS1 emulation 'for free'?
Thanks to the U.S. government, Iranians can now view material blocked in U.S. libraries after being categorized by a private company as violence/profanity, alcohol/tobacco/drug related, satanic, sexual, or otherwise containing information which may be considered harmful or offensive?
Why are Iranians entitled to view more of the web then Americans?
Will Apple's use of Rendezvous be confusing to people who are familiar with TIBCO's use of Rendezvous? The answer is clearly no: TIBCO's Rendezvous is a messaging solution that's part of their enterprise blah-blah-ware system. Apple's Rendezvous is a network configuration and service advertisement technology.
As someone who's had to struggle with (Tibco) Rendezvous documentation, let me assure you that confusion is very likely even if you've never even heard of Apple's Rendezvous.
The average slashdot reader spends so much time browsing and playing games that he's extremely unlikely to have any children in the first place.
Whenever you receive spam promoting a web site, just (automatically) hit that web site, downloading the home page, all graphics, follow a link, repeat ad bandwium. Maybe some kind of distributed system can be set up so that when many people detect spam for a certain web site, it's automatically "visited" by everybody. Distributed slashdotting!
Actually, the original math is still way off:
If you were to examine 2^127 different files, then you would have a 50% chance of one of them giving you the desired MD5 hash.
If you examine 2^127 different files, you'll get a lot of collisions (how many? anyone?) so your chances of getting a desired MD5 are less than 50%.
Point being, they are looking for a specific hash, not just 2 that happen to come out the same. (Look, Sven, we've found 3 that match "fd8ddaf41fd482a6aa1a492915a3e788"... but none that match "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef". Hm. We should keep looking.)
I apologize; I misunderstood the comment. But it may be something they're considering doing - if several people have the exact same file, the RIAA may decide the at most one of them is the original owner, and the others (perhaps decided by when the files appeared on their IP address/usernames) are infringers.
If you were to examine 2^127 different files, then you would have a 50% chance of one of them giving you the desired MD5 hash. Do you know how large 2^127 is?
Sorry, but your math is way off. Do you need 183 people for a 50% chance of a shared birthday? You only need, hmm, twenty-odd people for that.
If they just create a public database of RIAA-owned tracks, we can all stay away from any RIAA music and maybe even have the clients shield us from it automatically.
and I hope he's removed from office.
This guy is making a mockery out of the 1st amendment.