Re:Virus to deter piracy?
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Unless they offer a toll-free number as an option to register, this would not be great. We have to remember that not EVERYONE has Internet access, even though it's considerably more common nowadays. And if this is a requirement to get anywhere in the game, it needs to be stated on the box.
You know, I may be wrong here, but isn't that Trademark law? I know this discussion has been posted on slashdot before, and the general consensus was that trademarks cannot be selectively enforced, but patents could.
Yes, but the stories are embellished. I live in College Station, TX and attend Texas A&M University. We have a tradition of building and burning a bonfire every year, and this year it fell, killing and harming several of us. The story got to Darwin and they put it on the site, however it was grossly exaggerated and thrown well out of context. Not only that, but they flat out lied about some things, in order to make the story more amusing. Now I've always thought the Darwin Awards were funny, but if our situation is any indication, their complete exaggeration of truly horrible events in order to get some laughs is simply not laughable.
First, the Processor ID in PIII's can be turned off. TURN THE GODDAMN THING OFF if you don't like it.
Yes, and when they made the announcement that you could turn it off, they said the only way to turn it back on was through rebooting. The next week someone had figured out how to turn it on in software without rebooting. Real secure.
Too many ignorant people (conspiracy theorists, perhaps?) make dumb statements like the above.
And what exactly are YOUR credentials? No offense here, but it doesn't take an idiot to make the connection between UIDs that a browser can identify and send to a company and cookies. Honestly cookies are bad enough, but adding a unique identifier to them such that you personally are easily identifiable without going through your ISP is worse.
What we need is FAIR-USE-COPYING for games. I.e. After 10 years, the game becomes public domain. That gives the game companies time to make money, and lets face it, if a game doesn't sell well in the first 10 years, how do they expect it to sell well after??
Well I know *I* love finding out that an old game I played on my C64 is being released in a collection with other games. Or even just older games that were released on the PC in diskette form. My two big examples of this are the LucasArts collections and the Ultima Collection. The Ultima Collection has Ultima 0 (Aklabeth) through Ultima 8, skipping the tangent Ultimas that have somewhat different copyrights. I still buy things like this, and I think both examples have games that are over 10 years old.
If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, there were no warning signs. This is what CAUSED them to put warning labels on all their coffee.
There are also several interpretations of this case. One is that the coffee was so hot that it melted the cup and burned her. In this case, McDonalds is probably to blame.
Another interpretation is just that she spilled the coffee, but that the coffee was "too hot." This is less obvious, but it is definately not McDonald's fault.
The last interpretation is that she spilled the coffee on herself and sued McDonald's because of it. That's just plain dumbass.
I'm just waiting for the day when we have to sign waiver slips when we buy ANYTHING.. something aking to "By signing this, you agree not to sue [business] for injuries related to [product]." While they're at it they'll just force you to give up all rights to sue that company or they won't sell you the product. Ironically, people would probably sue over that.
Debian is GNU/Linux not just ordinary Linux the GNU part means that only free software can run on it.
I normally don't reply to idiots or assholes, but in your case I'll make an exception.
The GNU part doesn't mean that only free software will run on it. Tell me how that would work? How does the operating system magically know whether the software I put on it is free or not?
I always find it amusing how many people think that laws should prevent spamming yet the government shouldn't be able to regulate anything else on the Internet. You can't have it both ways people. Spam is annoying, but not nearly as annoying as say, loss of your rights to encryption.
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User: Help! It says I need administrator privilege to install foo/uninstall foo/do something useful.
Admin: Hmm, that's funny. You're supposed to be able to do that.
User: But I can't! Come and look at it.
(user repeats steps with admin watching)
Admin: Well, I guess I'll give you administrator rights to your own machine...
This isn't a flaw in NT, it's a flaw in the NT admin.
I'd settle for simply requiring unsolicited emails to say in the subject that they were spam.
Help me to understand this. You want the government to regulate how spam can be delivered and specify how it must look, but you don't want government to be able to censor websites.
I understand that going to websites is voluntary and that spam is out of your control, but the problem is that the [US] government is pretty much able to regulate their part of the internet or they aren't able to regulate it at all. When you give them control over part of it, it becomes control over all of it.
um dsl is only 256k total... so you'd be geting twice the upstream, for 1 18th of the downstream....
Um... look who's not paying attention. DSL and Cable u/dl is different depending on the provider. Around here, (if you can get dsl) you have options for 64u/256d, 384u/d, 768ku/d, 768u/1.5M d, and 1.5M u/d. All numbers are for kilobits unless otherwise specified.
However, in other places, just depending upon the provider, the speeds may be very different.
Bet you can only install that piece of commercial crap on one computer.
Back to the old "non-free non-opensource is crap" argument eh? Guess I chose the wrong profession.
In any case, how often do you need to use Partition Magic? The ONLY thing I've used it for is a cleaner, GUI version of FIPS. Which means you could install it, partition, uninstall it, install on your friend's machine, etc.
And as an aside, I don't think Partition Magic is Windows software... I'm pretty sure it drops down to Dos, and will run in Dos 5.0 or above.
And quite frankly, this is bullshit. I'm on the outskirts of town, in a small valley, surrounded by trees. If I use an antenna I can LISTEN to X-Files on Fox, and can't get CBS or NBC for anything. After 4 individual letters of protest per station, I am still unable to receive them via my DSS system. The [possibly] good news is, there is a bill that has passed in the House and is pending in the Senate that would allow Network access from major satellite providers again. Ah well, at least this whole thing gave me an excuse to get wired up to cable and now I have a nice, speedy cable modem:)
Problem #5: Start the game up, no sound. Seems this requires OSS sound drivers to run. It says so on the fine print on the box so I can't be too mad at Loki for that. Had to recompile my kernel though.
Well, no offense intended, but -- duh.:P
Well does this mean that SBLive users are SOL if they want to have sound in Civ? iirc, you have to disable OSS to use the SBLive drivers..
I definitely overclock my computer because I hate the manufacturer. I hate my chips manufacturer and everything they stand for.
Then why do you support them? If you truly hate them, switch. You don't have to use Intel. You can use AMD. Excellent chips, I ran one for quite awhile until I upgraded, and when the K7 comes out I may go back over. What I find amusing is your stupidity. You buy the company's chip (thus supporting the company) even though you don't like them. But dammit, you're gonna overclock to show THEM who's boss!
One thing I hate about a lot of 56k modems is that they suck because they are "Winmodems" - an emulated modem in software.
This is a great reason to learn C and take the time to write a Winmodem driver for Linux/*BSD. Not only will it let you use the cheaper hardware, but you will probably be considered a hero to alot of people who were duped into buying a Winmodem (I was too, luckily the store I bought it from let me exchange it).
Well that's what the lawsuit is about: Printing magazine ads screaming "56K!!! X2!!!!" and then putting "You'll only get 53K if you live next door to the phone company and you re-wire the entire phone lines in your house" on small print at the bottom of the box doesn't cut it as responsible advertising.
Actually, as long as they meet the government standards, it is considered responsible advertising. 56k technology DOES approximately double the download speed. 56k connect speeds ARE attainable with 56k modems. They just aren't attainable with the modems that your ISP uses. And 53k is nothing to sneeze at. If you notice, the symbol for X2 looked something like X(superscript 2). I don't think ANYONE thought that X2 squared your connect speed (tho I wish it did!).
Anyway, as long as the fine print is there, and large enough to be legal, 3com is not in the wrong. They're probably settling out of court so they won't look bad.
I'd wager you NEVER connect at 57600. That speed isn't attainable (to the best of my knowledge). It is, however, one of those speeds that is always listed in dropboxes and that you have to put in your/etc/ppp/options file in Linux. Whatever is so magic in this number, I'd like to know. Anyway, if you want to see your true download speed, I'm fairly sure there's a modem init string that will return that value to Windows DUN.
the highest stable connection that I've ever seen was 54000bps. I still think that is a real nice speed.
I find this incredibly hard to believe, considering that the FCC prevents speeds higher than 53k. And connecting with a 56k modem (USR model) returns that it's downloading at 53333bps (which I attribute to a) the fact that modem speeds are always returned as specific numbers, or using powers of 2). This is when going through my ISDN modem so it goes through the very clean ISDN line. I have never failed to achieve maximum modem connection while using this line.
On another note (more pertaining to the actual topic) I don't remember if 3com actually made it clear that the FCC restricted connection speeds, but even if they didn't, I honestly believe them when they say these modems can achieve 56k... in closed circuit tests in which the FCC cannot intervene. However it's a real world occurrence (in the US at least) that you just can't go above 53k. This would be like an auto manufacturer advertising a top speed of 150mph on their car, and then suing them when you get a speeding ticket.
The power of Slashdot has no end. The only thing that worries me is that it could actually cause ill effects in the name of good. Lets say Sierra finds out that the story was posted on Slashdot. Now instead of seeing 74% (Or whatever it ends up at), they see a statistical sample that is not demographically correct.
True, but if they look at the numbers, they'd have to be stupid NOT to realize it isn't demographically correct. Windows users outnumer Linux users (at least) 10 to 1. What will count here is the actual number of people who vote for each particular topic.
By the way, did anyone else notice that this was a very poorly designed poll? I mean, I wouldn't mind seeing more DVD games out on the market, regardless of the system. It'd be great if they were released for Linux (once we get some support) but isn't DVD non-os dependant once you write the drivers?
However, at least this option will act like Ross Perot. It will draw votes away from "More PC games"
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Unless they offer a toll-free number as an option to register, this would not be great. We have to remember that not EVERYONE has Internet access, even though it's considerably more common nowadays. And if this is a requirement to get anywhere in the game, it needs to be stated on the box.
You know, I may be wrong here, but isn't that Trademark law? I know this discussion has been posted on slashdot before, and the general consensus was that trademarks cannot be selectively enforced, but patents could.
IANAL of course, though.
Yes, but the stories are embellished. I live in College Station, TX and attend Texas A&M University. We have a tradition of building and burning a bonfire every year, and this year it fell, killing and harming several of us. The story got to Darwin and they put it on the site, however it was grossly exaggerated and thrown well out of context. Not only that, but they flat out lied about some things, in order to make the story more amusing.
Now I've always thought the Darwin Awards were funny, but if our situation is any indication, their complete exaggeration of truly horrible events in order to get some laughs is simply not laughable.
First, the Processor ID in PIII's can be turned off. TURN THE GODDAMN THING OFF if you don't like it.
Yes, and when they made the announcement that you could turn it off, they said the only way to turn it back on was through rebooting. The next week someone had figured out how to turn it on in software without rebooting. Real secure.
Too many ignorant people (conspiracy theorists, perhaps?) make dumb statements like the above.
And what exactly are YOUR credentials? No offense here, but it doesn't take an idiot to make the connection between UIDs that a browser can identify and send to a company and cookies. Honestly cookies are bad enough, but adding a unique identifier to them such that you personally are easily identifiable without going through your ISP is worse.
What we need is FAIR-USE-COPYING for games. I.e. After 10 years, the game becomes public domain. That gives the game companies time to make money, and lets face it, if a game doesn't sell well in the first 10 years, how do they expect it to sell well after??
Well I know *I* love finding out that an old game I played on my C64 is being released in a collection with other games. Or even just older games that were released on the PC in diskette form. My two big examples of this are the LucasArts collections and the Ultima Collection. The Ultima Collection has Ultima 0 (Aklabeth) through Ultima 8, skipping the tangent Ultimas that have somewhat different copyrights. I still buy things like this, and I think both examples have games that are over 10 years old.
If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, there were no warning signs. This is what CAUSED them to put warning labels on all their coffee.
There are also several interpretations of this case. One is that the coffee was so hot that it melted the cup and burned her. In this case, McDonalds is probably to blame.
Another interpretation is just that she spilled the coffee, but that the coffee was "too hot." This is less obvious, but it is definately not McDonald's fault.
The last interpretation is that she spilled the coffee on herself and sued McDonald's because of it. That's just plain dumbass.
I'm just waiting for the day when we have to sign waiver slips when we buy ANYTHING.. something aking to "By signing this, you agree not to sue [business] for injuries related to [product]." While they're at it they'll just force you to give up all rights to sue that company or they won't sell you the product. Ironically, people would probably sue over that.
I just realized that the comment I posted on behalf of "us x86 users" was posted from a Mac G3...
Or an x86 user with Junkbuster (which reports your machine as a Mac by default).
Debian is GNU/Linux not just ordinary Linux the GNU part means that only free software can run on it.
I normally don't reply to idiots or assholes, but in your case I'll make an exception.
The GNU part doesn't mean that only free software will run on it. Tell me how that would work? How does the operating system magically know whether the software I put on it is free or not?
I always find it amusing how many people think that laws should prevent spamming yet the government shouldn't be able to regulate anything else on the Internet. You can't have it both ways people. Spam is annoying, but not nearly as annoying as say, loss of your rights to encryption.
User: Help! It says I need administrator privilege to install foo/uninstall foo/do something useful.
Admin: Hmm, that's funny. You're supposed to be able to do that.
User: But I can't! Come and look at it.
(user repeats steps with admin watching)
Admin: Well, I guess I'll give you administrator rights to your own machine...
This isn't a flaw in NT, it's a flaw in the NT admin.
I'd settle for simply requiring unsolicited emails to say in the subject that they were spam.
Help me to understand this. You want the government to regulate how spam can be delivered and specify how it must look, but you don't want government to be able to censor websites.
I understand that going to websites is voluntary and that spam is out of your control, but the problem is that the [US] government is pretty much able to regulate their part of the internet or they aren't able to regulate it at all. When you give them control over part of it, it becomes control over all of it.
don't talk about Windows media here please.
Why, because it's not linux?
Troll...
um dsl is only 256k total... so you'd be geting twice the upstream, for 1 18th of the downstream....
Um... look who's not paying attention. DSL and Cable u/dl is different depending on the provider. Around here, (if you can get dsl) you have options for 64u/256d, 384u/d, 768ku/d, 768u/1.5M d, and 1.5M u/d. All numbers are for kilobits unless otherwise specified.
However, in other places, just depending upon the provider, the speeds may be very different.
IE has 0% market share with non-Windows users.
Not true, iirc there's a Mac version of IE.
Bet you can only install that piece of commercial crap on one computer.
Back to the old "non-free non-opensource is crap" argument eh? Guess I chose the wrong profession.
In any case, how often do you need to use Partition Magic? The ONLY thing I've used it for is a cleaner, GUI version of FIPS. Which means you could install it, partition, uninstall it, install on your friend's machine, etc.
And as an aside, I don't think Partition Magic is Windows software... I'm pretty sure it drops down to Dos, and will run in Dos 5.0 or above.
Try The Empire Strikes Back or The Return of the Jedi, both better than the original A New Hope.
Also, though there are some people who consider this to be blasphemy, I liked Romero's Dawn of the Dead better than Night of the Living Dead.
And I know MANY people who liked Back to the Future 3 over the first two.
It's all really a matter of preference, but there ARE examples out there.
And quite frankly, this is bullshit. I'm on the outskirts of town, in a small valley, surrounded by trees. If I use an antenna I can LISTEN to X-Files on Fox, and can't get CBS or NBC for anything. After 4 individual letters of protest per station, I am still unable to receive them via my DSS system. :)
The [possibly] good news is, there is a bill that has passed in the House and is pending in the Senate that would allow Network access from major satellite providers again.
Ah well, at least this whole thing gave me an excuse to get wired up to cable and now I have a nice, speedy cable modem
Think they'd mind if I kept an electronic log of the entire conference? If not, I find the whole thing vaguely ironic.
Problem #5: Start the game up, no sound. Seems this requires OSS sound drivers to run. It says so on the fine print on the box so I can't be too mad at Loki for that. Had to recompile my kernel though.
:P
Well, no offense intended, but -- duh.
Well does this mean that SBLive users are SOL if they want to have sound in Civ? iirc, you have to disable OSS to use the SBLive drivers..
I definitely overclock my computer because I hate the manufacturer. I hate my chips manufacturer and everything they stand for.
Then why do you support them? If you truly hate them, switch. You don't have to use Intel. You can use AMD. Excellent chips, I ran one for quite awhile until I upgraded, and when the K7 comes out I may go back over.
What I find amusing is your stupidity. You buy the company's chip (thus supporting the company) even though you don't like them. But dammit, you're gonna overclock to show THEM who's boss!
One thing I hate about a lot of 56k modems is that they suck because they are "Winmodems" - an emulated modem in software.
This is a great reason to learn C and take the time to write a Winmodem driver for Linux/*BSD. Not only will it let you use the cheaper hardware, but you will probably be considered a hero to alot of people who were duped into buying a Winmodem (I was too, luckily the store I bought it from let me exchange it).
Well that's what the lawsuit is about: Printing magazine ads screaming "56K!!! X2!!!!" and then putting "You'll only get 53K if you live next door to the phone company and you re-wire the entire phone lines in your house" on small print at the bottom of the box doesn't cut it as responsible advertising.
Actually, as long as they meet the government standards, it is considered responsible advertising.
56k technology DOES approximately double the download speed.
56k connect speeds ARE attainable with 56k modems. They just aren't attainable with the modems that your ISP uses. And 53k is nothing to sneeze at.
If you notice, the symbol for X2 looked something like X(superscript 2). I don't think ANYONE thought that X2 squared your connect speed (tho I wish it did!).
Anyway, as long as the fine print is there, and large enough to be legal, 3com is not in the wrong. They're probably settling out of court so they won't look bad.
I connect at 57600 bps almost 100% of the time.
/etc/ppp/options file in Linux. Whatever is so magic in this number, I'd like to know.
I'd wager you NEVER connect at 57600. That speed isn't attainable (to the best of my knowledge).
It is, however, one of those speeds that is always listed in dropboxes and that you have to put in your
Anyway, if you want to see your true download speed, I'm fairly sure there's a modem init string that will return that value to Windows DUN.
the highest stable connection that I've ever seen was 54000bps. I still think that is a real nice speed.
I find this incredibly hard to believe, considering that the FCC prevents speeds higher than 53k. And connecting with a 56k modem (USR model) returns that it's downloading at 53333bps (which I attribute to a) the fact that modem speeds are always returned as specific numbers, or using powers of 2). This is when going through my ISDN modem so it goes through the very clean ISDN line.
I have never failed to achieve maximum modem connection while using this line.
On another note (more pertaining to the actual topic) I don't remember if 3com actually made it clear that the FCC restricted connection speeds, but even if they didn't, I honestly believe them when they say these modems can achieve 56k... in closed circuit tests in which the FCC cannot intervene. However it's a real world occurrence (in the US at least) that you just can't go above 53k. This would be like an auto manufacturer advertising a top speed of 150mph on their car, and then suing them when you get a speeding ticket.
The power of Slashdot has no end. The only thing that worries me is that it could actually cause ill effects in the name of good. Lets say Sierra finds out that the story was posted on Slashdot. Now instead of seeing 74% (Or whatever it ends up at), they see a statistical sample that is not demographically correct.
True, but if they look at the numbers, they'd have to be stupid NOT to realize it isn't demographically correct. Windows users outnumer Linux users (at least) 10 to 1.
What will count here is the actual number of people who vote for each particular topic.
By the way, did anyone else notice that this was a very poorly designed poll? I mean, I wouldn't mind seeing more DVD games out on the market, regardless of the system. It'd be great if they were released for Linux (once we get some support) but isn't DVD non-os dependant once you write the drivers?
However, at least this option will act like Ross Perot. It will draw votes away from "More PC games"
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