We are KINGS of misappropriating funds to defend politicians and law enforcement,
No, we aren't. It happens here, yes; it happens everywhere. It's even a defendable proposition that it's been getting worse here. But there are countries out there that make us look like pikers. Burma, to pick a particularly egregious example.
No, EQ is not that modern, being over nine years old. The way its client got hacked was an object lesson for those who came later. It is worth noting that EQ was released on March 16, 1999. Before the year was out, ShowEQ was available to hack it. So much for security by not releasing the source code.
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I'm willing to bet most MMOs trust the client to some extent, in order to reduce their load. Open Sourcing them might not be such a good idea.
You massively overestimate the power of security by obscurity and massively underestimate the power of reverse engineering. Just about every instance of server-client gaming where the server trusts the client has resulted in subverted clients to cheat using that trust. Modern MMOs (and any other server-client games) do *not* trust their clients.
how is that California can put requirements on auto makers involving pollution controls?
Because the state of California specifically granted that right by the Federal Clean Air Act. Which is, incidentally, why other states can't do it--the law doesn't give other states that right. Since there's no Federal law on the matter of videogames, no state has the ability to do this. This is going to get thrown out so hard it'll bounce twice.
Firefox supports user installation to their home directory. I have an awful suspicion that you now have a second, updated, copy of Firefox installed to your home directory.
That implies that The Phantom has something resembling a family life. That makes him pretty implausible as a superhero!
Implausible or not, he does. The current Phantom has a wife and twin children, a boy and a girl. The boy will presumably eventually become Phantom in his turn.
Prostitution isn't a victimless crime. It could be, and sometimes is, but the general case is that it's gross exploitation and if you're looking for a victim, the prostitute is it.
So you're saying prostitution is a crime in which the victim is charged, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced.
No woman wants to go from weighing 95 units to weighing 209 units.
Congratulations, you did the conversion backwards. A kilogram is 2.2 pounds, not the other way around. A woman who weighs 95 pounds weighs 43 kilograms, not 209.
When you talk about a fighter's "class", you're talking about his weight, nothing else. Trust me, any good bantamweight will handily disassemble the geeky nerd in his weight class. And the big fat nerds...oohh, that isn't gonna be pretty.
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No, we aren't. It happens here, yes; it happens everywhere. It's even a defendable proposition that it's been getting worse here. But there are countries out there that make us look like pikers. Burma, to pick a particularly egregious example.
No, EQ is not that modern, being over nine years old. The way its client got hacked was an object lesson for those who came later. It is worth noting that EQ was released on March 16, 1999. Before the year was out, ShowEQ was available to hack it. So much for security by not releasing the source code.
You massively overestimate the power of security by obscurity and massively underestimate the power of reverse engineering. Just about every instance of server-client gaming where the server trusts the client has resulted in subverted clients to cheat using that trust. Modern MMOs (and any other server-client games) do *not* trust their clients.
Because the state of California specifically granted that right by the Federal Clean Air Act. Which is, incidentally, why other states can't do it--the law doesn't give other states that right. Since there's no Federal law on the matter of videogames, no state has the ability to do this. This is going to get thrown out so hard it'll bounce twice.
Firefox supports user installation to their home directory. I have an awful suspicion that you now have a second, updated, copy of Firefox installed to your home directory.
That would make it rather difficult to maintain the illusions that it's all the same guy...
You know, you can take this "strike fear into the hearts of evildoers" bit too far.
Implausible or not, he does. The current Phantom has a wife and twin children, a boy and a girl. The boy will presumably eventually become Phantom in his turn.
Yes. The technical term for those people is "idiots". See also: "Penny wise, pound foolish."
In other words, as somebody else posted, he installed the "caching-nameserver" package and got, surprise, a caching nameserver. Shocking.
So you're saying prostitution is a crime in which the victim is charged, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced.
...what you use to run Final Fantasy VII?
I'd pay five strips of gold-pressed latinum for one of those!
Except that you wouldn't want to multiply a pound by 2.2. You'd want to *divide* a pound by 2.2, or, going the other way, multiply a kilogram by 2.2.
Congratulations, you did the conversion backwards. A kilogram is 2.2 pounds, not the other way around. A woman who weighs 95 pounds weighs 43 kilograms, not 209.
Noob. *My* first thought was of Billy Mumy and the urge to cry, "Danger, Will Robinson!".
The circle is now complete. When C left Unix it was but the back-end. Now, it is the API.
Yeah, but if you grow 'em in the US, the DEA will come get ya.
There are those who say the consoles will replace the PCs. Then there are those who say that the consoles will do that by turning themselves into PCs.
Well, duh. Did you think we were the only ones with Raise spells?
Well, according to Bill Keane, a "notme" is a little ghost-like
figure, that little kids find handy for blaming things on.
When you talk about a fighter's "class", you're talking about his weight, nothing else. Trust me, any good bantamweight will handily disassemble the geeky nerd in his weight class. And the big fat nerds...oohh, that isn't gonna be pretty.
What do you think this is, Yu-Gi-Oh?
Bah, a tool on a dead proprietary system is no tool at all. You'll need to convert to Whitespace.
When you come to the point in the paper where the author divides by zero, there's generally not much point in continuing on.