Script kiddies talk to each other. All it takes is one clever but unscrupulous person to secretly find the hack and distribute it to a friend, and then you have the same 50 million cretins. It just takes a few more days.
And the vendor is still sitting there with its fingers in its ears up to the elbows.
There is something to be said for publishing the existence of the hack without detailed instructions. That should be the second step, after contacting the vendor directly.
But there's still far too many vendors who won't bestir themselves even at that step. Would you rather have 50 million hackers next week with no patch to come for months, or 50 million hackers AND a patch tomorrow?
You are a fool, sir. Suppose someone discovers an exploit in a program you're using. They do the responsible thing and privately tell the vendor. The vendor sticks their fingers in their ears and goes "La, la, la, I can't hear you." What then? How is our responsible exploit-finder supposed to tell you without telling everyone else? Now, if the vendor does the Right Thing and releases a patch promptly, then there's no problem. But experience has shown that many vendors won't get off their ass until you light a fire under them. And the only way to do that is to publish the exploit.
Verant apparently deals with this problem, not by technical design, but by being as hardcore as they possibly can about detecting and shutting down people who use tools like this.
They even used to scan players' hard drives for ShowEQ until they had to back down in the face of a massive uproar over the privacy issues involved.
Failure of SETI doesn't prove that there isn't intelligent life out there. But it could prove that what is out there doesn't particularly want to say anything to us. Maybe there's an interstellar war on.:)
As far as I can tell, SETI isn't hoping to pick up leakage from communcations amongst aliens. What they're looking for is a signal that was specifically intended, by the putative aliens, to be picked up by other species such as ourselves. An alien species that wanted to be detected, we assume, would not attempt to obfuscate their signal.
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Re:Newsflash: Crappy movies are crappy movies!
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If all you've seen so far is Akira and Ghost in the Shell, I can't blame you. They're okay, but definitely not the best anime has to offer. On the other hand, I agree with you about the insane fans...
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Re:Most americans can't take animation seriously
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I'll grant you most of those, but if by nge you mean Neon Genesis Evangelion, you really need to watch that one again, this time with your brain turned on.
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Re:Most americans can't take animation seriously
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I don't remember any nipples in Evangelion, or Lain, or Kimagure Orange Road, to pick three at random. Sure, Ranma 1/2 was full of 'em, but that's just Rumiko Takahashi for you. She likes nipples, I guess.
Except that the Drej had deliberately weakened the force field. When they realized they didn't have the full map, they wanted Cael to escape, so he could lead them to the Titan.
Still, a pretty cheesy movie. Fun eye candy, though.
I suspect that the 'embargo' in the story refers to an encryption embargo. Encryption products are still considered munitions by US export laws, and unless you wanna play Ollie North, shipping strong encryption (and possibly any encryption whatsoever, I'm not sure) to certain nations is verboten. Iran is definitely one of those nations.
You're both right. And that's the conundrum. If you trust the client, you permit cheating. If you don't trust the client, you run into insurmountable performance problems.
Diablo II deals with cheating by not trusting the client all - according to Blizzard, in realm games all that's sent to the server is your mouse and keyboard actions. They can get away with this only because the game environment is extraordinarily more constrained than that of, say, an FPS.
About the lack of development of the Logan/Sabretooth connection: considering how much they deveoped the Weapon X project without coming anywhere near to resolving it, I think it's pretty clear that they want to do a sequel that's focused on Weapon X. In fact, since that's what Logan's walking out to go look into, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the very next movie. If so, and if they make the sequel (and the box-office returns so far look very promising in that respect) you'll have all the Logan/Sabretooth backstory you could want.
Actually, it could also be going for the meme-virus effect. Having heard of this, I'm tempted to download Napster and get a few cuckoo eggs of my own.:) I wonder how many other Net users who don't think that copyright is inherently evil will do the same?
It's hard to get through amidst all the meth recipes which are popping up on the board, but hopefully we can have a proper discussion on this...
It could be argued that tough drug laws are what's keeping the black man down - that it's not drugs but the illegality of drugs that make the inner cities such a violent place. When was the last time you heard of drugstore owners gunning each other down in the street over cigarette sales? Package store owners doing drive-bys on each other's stores? Now I'm probably going too far with that argument, but surely it merits a moment's thought.
I'm not so sure that bandwidth is a limiting factor. The transport protocols of WAP may well be superseded in the next year and a half.
However, WML, the markup language, will be useful for some time to come. The reason for that is simple: screen size.
A typical phone has maybe two to three square inches of screen size, the NeoPoint being a notable exception. On devices that size, there's no way you're going to get full-fledged HTML to look like anything but crap. Display technology is irrelevant to this - you can't make text smaller than a certain size without making it unreadable.
Therefore, if you want your content to look good on a mobile, you're going to need to reformat it anyway. Might as well use WML while you're at it.
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Re:Prodigies in math, music -- programming?
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Except that programming is really, fundamentally speaking, a variety of applied math.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because the studios are robbing the artists blind doesn't mean that it's okay for the "fans" to do so as well. (In quotes, because true fans don't rip off their artists.)
I agree that the RIAA needs a kick in the ass. But surely there's got to be some way to do that without hurting the artists as well.
Seems to me any processor is going to generate heat. The better the design, the less heat. But any processor is going to get hotter when you crank up the clock speed, and conversely will not run so hot at lower clock speeds. At some clock speed, the processor will be adequately cooled by ordinary convection - if you cranked that 450MHz Athlon down to, oh, I don't know, 100-200 MHz, it wouldn't need a heat sink either.
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And there I go misusing the word hacker. I know better. :p I should take a break.
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And the vendor is still sitting there with its fingers in its ears up to the elbows.
There is something to be said for publishing the existence of the hack without detailed instructions. That should be the second step, after contacting the vendor directly.
But there's still far too many vendors who won't bestir themselves even at that step. Would you rather have 50 million hackers next week with no patch to come for months, or 50 million hackers AND a patch tomorrow?
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You are a fool, sir. Suppose someone discovers an exploit in a program you're using. They do the responsible thing and privately tell the vendor. The vendor sticks their fingers in their ears and goes "La, la, la, I can't hear you." What then? How is our responsible exploit-finder supposed to tell you without telling everyone else? Now, if the vendor does the Right Thing and releases a patch promptly, then there's no problem. But experience has shown that many vendors won't get off their ass until you light a fire under them. And the only way to do that is to publish the exploit.
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They even used to scan players' hard drives for ShowEQ until they had to back down in the face of a massive uproar over the privacy issues involved.
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Failure of SETI doesn't prove that there isn't intelligent life out there. But it could prove that what is out there doesn't particularly want to say anything to us. Maybe there's an interstellar war on. :)
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As far as I can tell, SETI isn't hoping to pick up leakage from communcations amongst aliens. What they're looking for is a signal that was specifically intended, by the putative aliens, to be picked up by other species such as ourselves. An alien species that wanted to be detected, we assume, would not attempt to obfuscate their signal.
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If all you've seen so far is Akira and Ghost in the Shell, I can't blame you. They're okay, but definitely not the best anime has to offer. On the other hand, I agree with you about the insane fans...
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I'll grant you most of those, but if by nge you mean Neon Genesis Evangelion, you really need to watch that one again, this time with your brain turned on.
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I don't remember any nipples in Evangelion, or Lain, or Kimagure Orange Road, to pick three at random. Sure, Ranma 1/2 was full of 'em, but that's just Rumiko Takahashi for you. She likes nipples, I guess.
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You must've seen a different Sailor Moon than the one I'm thinking of.
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Still, a pretty cheesy movie. Fun eye candy, though.
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I suspect that the 'embargo' in the story refers to an encryption embargo. Encryption products are still considered munitions by US export laws, and unless you wanna play Ollie North, shipping strong encryption (and possibly any encryption whatsoever, I'm not sure) to certain nations is verboten. Iran is definitely one of those nations.
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Diablo II deals with cheating by not trusting the client all - according to Blizzard, in realm games all that's sent to the server is your mouse and keyboard actions. They can get away with this only because the game environment is extraordinarily more constrained than that of, say, an FPS.
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About the lack of development of the Logan/Sabretooth connection: considering how much they deveoped the Weapon X project without coming anywhere near to resolving it, I think it's pretty clear that they want to do a sequel that's focused on Weapon X. In fact, since that's what Logan's walking out to go look into, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the very next movie. If so, and if they make the sequel (and the box-office returns so far look very promising in that respect) you'll have all the Logan/Sabretooth backstory you could want.
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Actually, it could also be going for the meme-virus effect. Having heard of this, I'm tempted to download Napster and get a few cuckoo eggs of my own. :) I wonder how many other Net users who don't think that copyright is inherently evil will do the same?
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It could be argued that tough drug laws are what's keeping the black man down - that it's not drugs but the illegality of drugs that make the inner cities such a violent place. When was the last time you heard of drugstore owners gunning each other down in the street over cigarette sales? Package store owners doing drive-bys on each other's stores? Now I'm probably going too far with that argument, but surely it merits a moment's thought.
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What's a Palm VII? You certainly can't call phone numbers with it.
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In what way? I don't get what you're saying at all.
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No, Chuck's an archangel. And not very good at Quake.
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However, WML, the markup language, will be useful for some time to come. The reason for that is simple: screen size.
A typical phone has maybe two to three square inches of screen size, the NeoPoint being a notable exception. On devices that size, there's no way you're going to get full-fledged HTML to look like anything but crap. Display technology is irrelevant to this - you can't make text smaller than a certain size without making it unreadable.
Therefore, if you want your content to look good on a mobile, you're going to need to reformat it anyway. Might as well use WML while you're at it.
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Except that programming is really, fundamentally speaking, a variety of applied math.
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I agree that the RIAA needs a kick in the ass. But surely there's got to be some way to do that without hurting the artists as well.
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Waaaaai! 3 in Three was awesome! Someone had it on a Mac, and gods know how much class time I wasted on it. *_*
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As it happens, Toon is still in print. This doesn't invalidate your general point, of course.
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Seems to me any processor is going to generate heat. The better the design, the less heat. But any processor is going to get hotter when you crank up the clock speed, and conversely will not run so hot at lower clock speeds. At some clock speed, the processor will be adequately cooled by ordinary convection - if you cranked that 450MHz Athlon down to, oh, I don't know, 100-200 MHz, it wouldn't need a heat sink either.
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