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Gaming Zone?
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Whenever I even get close to "The Zone" it's fscked up when I have to play hunt-the-missplaced-semicolon.:(
As for games [Unreal Tournament], I used to be the lame loser wherever I went. I was using a VooDoo banshee, AMD K6 400mhz, crappy logitech mouse too small for my big ape hands, 56kb modem.
Then I discovered "The Zone"... Within 2 weeks I was hittin the top spot on the scoreboard consistently, often with a few LPB's for good measure.:)
Now I only have one problem: I cannot connect to any fscking UT servers since gettin NTL broadband! Anyone else have this problem? _I_ wanna be the annoying LPB for once!!!
Wouldn't it make sense to have the robot designed to a form that's efficient and practical as possible? Sure, current EVA hardware is human-form oriented, but in the long run they will be replaced anyway.
Mine would have 8 arms, a beer cooler, joint roller [munchies make space food taste nicer!], and puncture repair kit.
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As another post said, the world is roughly 20 years behind the DoD. Just look where AIDS [made to thin the black population] has got already! Do you think a virus of that nature just appeared out of nowhere roughly around the time the DoD would have had the means to manufacture it? Doublethink in action.
Anyway, for us pathetic tax-battery-chickens this is a pretty cool little toy. Of course, we'll... ah, brb!
/me patents "E.M.P. Fly swat"
...we'll need some defences, which I can provide to you for only $199 inclusive of shipping! [UK £179, Europe 210] Get yours while stocks last!
Well, nukes or "Dirty Bombs". Dubya's popularity is falling, he needs another "attack" so he can push through a few more anti-terrorist [i.e. privacy/liberty] laws. Maybe I'm just too cynical of human nature but I wouldn't be suprised to see this used against the people of America, or even England, just to drum up more support for the war for oil^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hon terror.
Don't forget that Dubya wanted to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11, and those attacks were a "Don't fuck with us!" from the middle-eastern oil barons, in bed with Saudi Bin Laden Inc.
Yes, a reboot will fix the problem, but that's only slightly more convenient than restoring a compromised system from backups.
I'd say a reboot is a lot more convenient than a resore from backups [if you have them!], and the bigger your site then the bigger the job of restoring the whole lot after r00t1nG. Just ask Taco! Hehehe...
I see this drive helping by having one machine on the read-only head, serving the website and only the website [r00tage risk is minimised]. If that system is somehow compromised, it's only a reboot needed.
OK now for DB based sites, or any site that needs write access, as mentioned many times already. Here's my idea: Have database update requests sent via a trusted computer [perhaps on a read-only drive head itself? With an unconnected drive having r/w access] to filter them, and alert the admin if needed, then on to the computer with the RW access to the website drive/array. Any attack on the site would be a A LOT harder!:) R00t1nG would not be an all-or-nothing affair. The network cable between the webserver and "filter" could have an undetectable packet logger on it to log the database change requests, greatly helping system restoration, and detecting which records were compromised.
Ali
P.S. I've ALWAYS wondered why HD's didn't have read only switches on them, or a flash eprom to store a table of sections to be read-only, which would be a good compromise for us poorer geeks!
P.P.S. A for lazy admins, that's what Windows Update is for! [sorry, couldn' resist]
I see, thanks. I meant intelligently forewarded cos it wasn't forewarded to *everyone* on the person's list. I didn't check it out cos, as I mentioned, it was midnight.
Thanks!:) I'd have checked out the cases and added links if it wasn't midnight-ish when I posted.
I'm glad McDonald's actually gave the facts too, rather than ordering a truckload of shredders and/or answering every query with "I honestly cannot remember".
Heres an intelligently forewarded email I got from a friend today. It seems the 3l33t w4rez d00d's might even have a chance...
The "Stella" awards rank up there with the Darwin awards. Stella Liebeck is the 81-year-old lady who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonalds. This case inspired an annual award - The "Stella" Award for the most frivolous lawsuit in the U.S. The following are this year's candidates:
1. January 2000: A jury of her peers awarded Kathleen Robertson of Austin Texas $780,000 after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little bastard was Ms. Robertson's son.
2. June 1998: A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr.Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car, when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
3. October 1998: A Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation. Mr.Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a million dollars.
4. October 1999: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in it's owner's fenced-in yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson threw it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
6. December 1997: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware successfully sued the owner of a nightclub in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
Oh well... The law might be useful for as long as it takes to search KaZaA and write a cheque. The kidz dont give a crap about anyone else. The 'Stellas' site is under construction.
If you cast your mind back to around the end of 2001, ATI shot themselves in the foot by placing a few sneaky modifications in the driver to produce faster benchmarks in quake3. Here's John's views on the ATI Quake3 driver trickery.
Personally, that sort of behaviour is just low. I'm quite happy with my GeForce3 Ti200, and I shall remain so until I cannot run the games I want to at 1024x768 with good framerate and visuals.
That method really wasn't meant seriously, and if someone really wanted to tap into a projector then I'm sure there would be more discreet ways of doing so. If that fails, people will likeley still be smuggling in video cameras. The piracy prevented by on-the-door searches would not outweigh the loss from customers put off by said searches.
*sigh* No, he's just a guy doing a job to earn a wage. You're the "fuckhole" who is whining at the possibility of something he get's for free which he isn't even entitled to getting taken away. If you can't see and argue for both sides of a debate, then you don't know enough to make any comment at all.
you can't tap into it, because there is no place outside of the projector with a playable version of the content.
*Looks lovingly at his 24V DeWalt industrial cordless drill kit* Are ya feeling lucky, punk? Well are ya? Well ok, that's one for the projector engineers, rather than the coders.:)
the content will be watermarked so we'll know which projector you stole it from if you tamper with a projector to grab it.
Either grab the stream from 2 or more projectors/theatres and do a little math on the raw stream, or crack the watermarking technology and fudge the watermark before encoding.
At the end of the day it's pretty much one group versus the other, with a few neutral parties. I won't say "good versus evil" because it's much more complicated than that [e.g. Piracy is "theft", but so is £5.00+ for a soft drink, some puffed corn, and a Hot Dog] and it's not the issue. Pirates keep you in a job, you keep pirates from totally destroying the movie industry. In the end a balance is naturally kept and at the moment, especially with regards to music, it's swinging slightly towards consumers. Losses from piracy are calculated by multiplying the cost of CD's/DVD's by the number of downloads; but when you're buying a car do you buy every car you test drive? How often have you bought an album and thought "oh crap, 3 good songs and a load of shite, I wish I'd listened before I'd bought"?
It's a sorta ecosystem, and it can't survive without the two opposing forces.
There are many more uses for digital cinema technology that can even be thought of right now. I see this as another technology that precedes it's demand; uses will be developed for it once it's uptake gathers speed. I won't repeat the quality and distribution benefits already mentioned in this thread.
Theaters could play 'censored' [i.e. no nudity, bad language etc.] versions to get extra revenue from the younger and religious audiences. The in-flight version of Outbreak was quite acceptable, though I can't imagine there'd be much left of the South Park movie;-) How about audience participation? It's a long shot but it could be a laugh for some stuff. I know some people here would like buttons labelled [bra], [panties], [gravy] and [grits] for the next Natalie Portman flick.
I havent had my caffiene fix and it's way too hot in here so I can't think of many more right now, but I'm sure other people can add to this list. As for the slow uptake of digital projection so far, I'd say it's either because AFAIK there's no finalised standard for digital film distribution, or because some people wouldn't know a good investment when it was staring them in the face.;-)
Last time I checked my kitty litter was made of "Pure clay". That is NOT flushable! And strangeley enough my cat doesnt sem to like swimming and building dams.
As for sifting out the turds from the tray... Err, no thanks!
What a non-story. It must have been a slow day eh michael?
I'm currently reading You Are Being Lied To and will soon read Everything You Know Is Wrong alongside Nineteen Eighty Four (not '1984' FFS!). There are some BIG parralells between the two, and I'm only a few chapters in on each. They both take on a new dimention when read together.
Remember that MIT, like any other guvverment organisation, cannot teach anything that really annoys the ruling elite.
Ali
Note: The books are fatter than they appear (roughly A4, more than 1" thick), so are excellent value.:)
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Whenever I even get close to "The Zone" it's fscked up when I have to play hunt-the-missplaced-semicolon.
As for games [Unreal Tournament], I used to be the lame loser wherever I went. I was using a VooDoo banshee, AMD K6 400mhz, crappy logitech mouse too small for my big ape hands, 56kb modem.
Then I discovered "The Zone"... Within 2 weeks I was hittin the top spot on the scoreboard consistently, often with a few LPB's for good measure. :)
Now I only have one problem: I cannot connect to any fscking UT servers since gettin NTL broadband! Anyone else have this problem? _I_ wanna be the annoying LPB for once!!!
Ali
Could you throw in some firearms training? [And yes, I have been to L.A!]
Wouldn't it make sense to have the robot designed to a form that's efficient and practical as possible? Sure, current EVA hardware is human-form oriented, but in the long run they will be replaced anyway.
Mine would have 8 arms, a beer cooler, joint roller [munchies make space food taste nicer!], and puncture repair kit.
As another post said, the world is roughly 20 years behind the DoD. Just look where AIDS [made to thin the black population] has got already! Do you think a virus of that nature just appeared out of nowhere roughly around the time the DoD would have had the means to manufacture it? Doublethink in action.
Anyway, for us pathetic tax-battery-chickens this is a pretty cool little toy. Of course, we'll... ah, brb!
And since when did evidence and a fair trial get in the way of furthering political objectives?
Ali
Well, nukes or "Dirty Bombs". Dubya's popularity is falling, he needs another "attack" so he can push through a few more anti-terrorist [i.e. privacy/liberty] laws. Maybe I'm just too cynical of human nature but I wouldn't be suprised to see this used against the people of America, or even England, just to drum up more support for the war for oil^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hon terror.
Don't forget that Dubya wanted to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11, and those attacks were a "Don't fuck with us!" from the middle-eastern oil barons, in bed with Saudi Bin Laden Inc.
Think about it.
Ali
Think... What is the single most unreliable "trusted" element of your security setup? Your staff.
Be nice to your PFY(s) people! :)
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Well it will be once any "protection" is cracked, at least.
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Yes, a reboot will fix the problem, but that's only slightly more convenient than restoring a compromised system from backups.
I'd say a reboot is a lot more convenient than a resore from backups [if you have them!], and the bigger your site then the bigger the job of restoring the whole lot after r00t1nG. Just ask Taco! Hehehe...
I see this drive helping by having one machine on the read-only head, serving the website and only the website [r00tage risk is minimised]. If that system is somehow compromised, it's only a reboot needed.
OK now for DB based sites, or any site that needs write access, as mentioned many times already. Here's my idea: Have database update requests sent via a trusted computer [perhaps on a read-only drive head itself? With an unconnected drive having r/w access] to filter them, and alert the admin if needed, then on to the computer with the RW access to the website drive/array. Any attack on the site would be a A LOT harder! :) R00t1nG would not be an all-or-nothing affair. The network cable between the webserver and "filter" could have an undetectable packet logger on it to log the database change requests, greatly helping system restoration, and detecting which records were compromised.
Ali
P.S. I've ALWAYS wondered why HD's didn't have read only switches on them, or a flash eprom to store a table of sections to be read-only, which would be a good compromise for us poorer geeks! P.P.S. A for lazy admins, that's what Windows Update is for! [sorry, couldn' resist]
Nope, no bearded lady as yet. You'll just have to make do with Lesbian Linux.
Ali
Less desirable than a spammer? ;-)
Ali
My fsckup, and I'm never short of them.
Ali
Thanks!
I'm glad McDonald's actually gave the facts too, rather than ordering a truckload of shredders and/or answering every query with "I honestly cannot remember".
Ali
Heres an intelligently forewarded email I got from a friend today. It seems the 3l33t w4rez d00d's might even have a chance...
Oh well... The law might be useful for as long as it takes to search KaZaA and write a cheque. The kidz dont give a crap about anyone else. The 'Stellas' site is under construction.
Ali
Here it is.
Ali
If you cast your mind back to around the end of 2001, ATI shot themselves in the foot by placing a few sneaky modifications in the driver to produce faster benchmarks in quake3. Here's John's views on the ATI Quake3 driver trickery.
Personally, that sort of behaviour is just low. I'm quite happy with my GeForce3 Ti200, and I shall remain so until I cannot run the games I want to at 1024x768 with good framerate and visuals.
Ali
That method really wasn't meant seriously, and if someone really wanted to tap into a projector then I'm sure there would be more discreet ways of doing so. If that fails, people will likeley still be smuggling in video cameras. The piracy prevented by on-the-door searches would not outweigh the loss from customers put off by said searches.
Thus, the balance is maintained.
Ali
*sigh* No, he's just a guy doing a job to earn a wage. You're the "fuckhole" who is whining at the possibility of something he get's for free which he isn't even entitled to getting taken away. If you can't see and argue for both sides of a debate, then you don't know enough to make any comment at all.
Ali
*Looks lovingly at his 24V DeWalt industrial cordless drill kit* Are ya feeling lucky, punk? Well are ya? Well ok, that's one for the projector engineers, rather than the coders. :)
Either grab the stream from 2 or more projectors/theatres and do a little math on the raw stream, or crack the watermarking technology and fudge the watermark before encoding.
At the end of the day it's pretty much one group versus the other, with a few neutral parties. I won't say "good versus evil" because it's much more complicated than that [e.g. Piracy is "theft", but so is £5.00+ for a soft drink, some puffed corn, and a Hot Dog] and it's not the issue. Pirates keep you in a job, you keep pirates from totally destroying the movie industry. In the end a balance is naturally kept and at the moment, especially with regards to music, it's swinging slightly towards consumers. Losses from piracy are calculated by multiplying the cost of CD's/DVD's by the number of downloads; but when you're buying a car do you buy every car you test drive? How often have you bought an album and thought "oh crap, 3 good songs and a load of shite, I wish I'd listened before I'd bought"?
It's a sorta ecosystem, and it can't survive without the two opposing forces.
Ali
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
There are many more uses for digital cinema technology that can even be thought of right now. I see this as another technology that precedes it's demand; uses will be developed for it once it's uptake gathers speed. I won't repeat the quality and distribution benefits already mentioned in this thread.
Theaters could play 'censored' [i.e. no nudity, bad language etc.] versions to get extra revenue from the younger and religious audiences. The in-flight version of Outbreak was quite acceptable, though I can't imagine there'd be much left of the South Park movie ;-) How about audience participation? It's a long shot but it could be a laugh for some stuff. I know some people here would like buttons labelled [bra], [panties], [gravy] and [grits] for the next Natalie Portman flick.
I havent had my caffiene fix and it's way too hot in here so I can't think of many more right now, but I'm sure other people can add to this list. As for the slow uptake of digital projection so far, I'd say it's either because AFAIK there's no finalised standard for digital film distribution, or because some people wouldn't know a good investment when it was staring them in the face. ;-)
Ali
3 steps to DivX heaven:
Last time I checked my kitty litter was made of "Pure clay". That is NOT flushable! And strangeley enough my cat doesnt sem to like swimming and building dams.
As for sifting out the turds from the tray... Err, no thanks!
What a non-story. It must have been a slow day eh michael?
Ali
I'm currently reading You Are Being Lied To and will soon read Everything You Know Is Wrong alongside Nineteen Eighty Four (not '1984' FFS!). There are some BIG parralells between the two, and I'm only a few chapters in on each. They both take on a new dimention when read together.
Remember that MIT, like any other guvverment organisation, cannot teach anything that really annoys the ruling elite.
Ali
Note: The books are fatter than they appear (roughly A4, more than 1" thick), so are excellent value. :)
The stupidity of 'intellectuals' [mainly guvverments] really does astound me sometimes. Time for a world tour with the Clue-By-Four.