Does anyone think its odd that you have NEVER seen the source code to other web browsers (or huge projects for that matter) that are commercial products? How do you know IE isn't 'slightly' buggy beta release with some fat on the sides? It disgusts me that a company works their ass off on a product and strives to make it open not only for their well being but for other open source projects (Gecko engine being seperate, etc).
Instead of sitting here and complaining about the release, go fix it. Ditto to all other 'this is a mistake' posts.
FYI - I was interested on how secure my cable network was (they advertise it as fast, friendly, and secure). I did a quick scan and found 73 of about 150 computers with open SMB. After checking these, 2 had C: shared and 1 had quicken and quickbook files openly avable for download. Don't be surprized - these results are average for cable networks.
these kind of contracts will not hold up in court. they can say this to scare you but in gerneral it has rarely worked. (ex, judge judy wont let that kinda crap stand up in court. If you loan me $100 and expect me to pay it back in 1 month but change your mind the next day and want it back right then, and believe you have that right because you took the money, it just happens to not be true. )
then again, if judge judy ruled the courts this RIAA and MPAA crap would be cleared up in no time. she dont take no crap.
From DigitalConvergence Webpage:
DigitalDemographics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital:Convergence. It is responsible for the creation and analysis of the largest consumer database that provides the unique combination of web tracking with all forms of media. With aggregated data from broadcasters, publishers, and educators, our licensees will always be on the cutting edge of information marketing.
Everybody knows about this cuecat junk, so I decide to see what the company webpage says. Anybody who has looked at this sees the link 'DigitalDemographics' on the left page. Either its just me, but this says that this company is collecting data from the parent companies to sell to advertisers. All the more reason not to use this (or install the software for it) - do we need another wanabe doubleclick?
w00t, i can run 15 copies of quake and frag myself as various players!
I personally find the memory cooler. Why not start up the OS, mount / to a 10-100gb ramdisk, copy the harddisk to the ramdisk, and then finish loading up. *that* would be true speed.
This could be extremely useful. IRC anybody? If the DNS server only resolves the real IP to the irc servers, couldn't this prevent stupid skript kiddies? Woot.
yeah, everybody does it, why not make it legal anyway.
it always amuses me to hear how long the goverment takes to carefully analyze the data on the disks. for christs sake, its a 100gb FTP site, thats a couple million in software (if it is full). Does it get much more complicated then this?
Sadly enough, this is amazingly true. Just before I opened up slashdot, this article caught my eye. This guy hacked a nuclear lab and yet they aren't charging him until almost a year later. They dont say if it was anything big, but the media eats these things up.
Neato is all I have to say. I didnt even notice the source code was there at first. You can claim it was an accident the letters used just 'happened' to decrypt DVDs too...
Does anybody see computer gaming becoming somthing you watch on ESPN every day for the latest frag action? It seems like more recently the gamers are becoming more reconized and those nerds who sit at home playing instead of telecommuting (You know who you are! Dirty bastards!) are coming 'out of the closet' and showing their stuff. seems pretty amazing what some people do, wish I was that good.
Gladly - dont run it. if you dont trust it, why are you even considering using it? I thought java used to be cool, but it seems to just be sluggish compared to other languages.
I don't think java is completly useless, but using it on the web just doesnt seem to work.
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt Microsoft have authenticy features for files in IE? Could this not be implanted in a useful way? This would allow any type of files to be digitally verrified.
Without trying to start too much of a flamewar, Java and Javascript will hopfully die out. Both were languages that made little sense. Java does have its advantages, but it has many disadvantages too. I personally think PHP and TCL and Python are very promising for different purposes. I would make a quake total-conversion if I had to so somthing of the such. Of course you couldnt do it in QuakeC, that would be cheating:)
You bring up an interesting subject- the only way I really see to fix this is to have the server not tell the client unless he can physically see him. Could that be implanted in games realisticly? I think if all the players have under 70ms lag it could be done (which is only a matter of time til we all have high bandwith connections).
Or, could it all be done on the client and have it say if there is a person behind the box, dont draw it at all on the screen (forget he is there). Of course there are flaws in this, and only the server can really be trusted.
you should know BSD is better then linux. oh yeah, start that flamewar of linux vs bsd... of course, any real bsd user keeps his mouth shut because he doesnt want *lamers using the os and ruining it... blah blah...
bsd license is much more free/open then GPL, just to let you know.
this is a troll comment. sue me:) i love to say 'linux sux bsd rulez'
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Does anyone think its odd that you have NEVER seen the source code to other web browsers (or huge projects for that matter) that are commercial products? How do you know IE isn't 'slightly' buggy beta release with some fat on the sides? It disgusts me that a company works their ass off on a product and strives to make it open not only for their well being but for other open source projects (Gecko engine being seperate, etc).
Instead of sitting here and complaining about the release, go fix it. Ditto to all other 'this is a mistake' posts.
Not to forget Black Holes for Dummies, to add to the ever populair for-Dummies series. Avable at your local bookseller.
FYI - I was interested on how secure my cable network was (they advertise it as fast, friendly, and secure). I did a quick scan and found 73 of about 150 computers with open SMB. After checking these, 2 had C: shared and 1 had quicken and quickbook files openly avable for download. Don't be surprized - these results are average for cable networks.
For the record, I would apply for that job. Surfing for porn, sounds like my life already.
because sombody has to get their palm slashdotted. its really just a race to see who can get apache ported.
im sure some clever bastard will make a SMP palm to handle the load tho...
these kind of contracts will not hold up in court. they can say this to scare you but in gerneral it has rarely worked. (ex, judge judy wont let that kinda crap stand up in court. If you loan me $100 and expect me to pay it back in 1 month but change your mind the next day and want it back right then, and believe you have that right because you took the money, it just happens to not be true. )
then again, if judge judy ruled the courts this RIAA and MPAA crap would be cleared up in no time. she dont take no crap.
From DigitalConvergence Webpage:
DigitalDemographics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital:Convergence. It is responsible for the creation and analysis of the largest consumer database that provides the unique combination of web tracking with all forms of media. With aggregated data from broadcasters, publishers, and educators, our licensees will always be on the cutting edge of information marketing.
Everybody knows about this cuecat junk, so I decide to see what the company webpage says. Anybody who has looked at this sees the link 'DigitalDemographics' on the left page. Either its just me, but this says that this company is collecting data from the parent companies to sell to advertisers. All the more reason not to use this (or install the software for it) - do we need another wanabe doubleclick?
w00t, i can run 15 copies of quake and frag myself as various players!
I personally find the memory cooler. Why not start up the OS, mount / to a 10-100gb ramdisk, copy the harddisk to the ramdisk, and then finish loading up. *that* would be true speed.
This could be extremely useful. IRC anybody? If the DNS server only resolves the real IP to the irc servers, couldn't this prevent stupid skript kiddies? Woot.
yeah, everybody does it, why not make it legal anyway.
it always amuses me to hear how long the goverment takes to carefully analyze the data on the disks. for christs sake, its a 100gb FTP site, thats a couple million in software (if it is full). Does it get much more complicated then this?
Lara Croft dates hardcore perl programmers? Looks like I'm goana have to take up a new hobby.
By golly, they even did this! they called it the 'open directory project'
such a remarkable idea - USERS moderate how relevant a site is to a category, not a computer.
You can even download the data and make your own directory from it - www.dmoz.org
Sadly enough, this is amazingly true. Just before I opened up slashdot, this article caught my eye. This guy hacked a nuclear lab and yet they aren't charging him until almost a year later. They dont say if it was anything big, but the media eats these things up.
Neato is all I have to say. I didnt even notice the source code was there at first. You can claim it was an accident the letters used just 'happened' to decrypt DVDs too...
Does anybody see computer gaming becoming somthing you watch on ESPN every day for the latest frag action? It seems like more recently the gamers are becoming more reconized and those nerds who sit at home playing instead of telecommuting (You know who you are! Dirty bastards!) are coming 'out of the closet' and showing their stuff. seems pretty amazing what some people do, wish I was that good.
Gladly - dont run it. if you dont trust it, why are you even considering using it? I thought java used to be cool, but it seems to just be sluggish compared to other languages.
I don't think java is completly useless, but using it on the web just doesnt seem to work.
Correct me if im wrong, but doesnt Microsoft have authenticy features for files in IE? Could this not be implanted in a useful way? This would allow any type of files to be digitally verrified.
Without trying to start too much of a flamewar, Java and Javascript will hopfully die out. Both were languages that made little sense. Java does have its advantages, but it has many disadvantages too. I personally think PHP and TCL and Python are very promising for different purposes. I would make a quake total-conversion if I had to so somthing of the such. Of course you couldnt do it in QuakeC, that would be cheating :)
You bring up an interesting subject- the only way I really see to fix this is to have the server not tell the client unless he can physically see him. Could that be implanted in games realisticly? I think if all the players have under 70ms lag it could be done (which is only a matter of time til we all have high bandwith connections).
Or, could it all be done on the client and have it say if there is a person behind the box, dont draw it at all on the screen (forget he is there). Of course there are flaws in this, and only the server can really be trusted.
you should know BSD is better then linux. oh yeah, start that flamewar of linux vs bsd... of course, any real bsd user keeps his mouth shut because he doesnt want *lamers using the os and ruining it ... blah blah...
:) i love to say 'linux sux bsd rulez'
bsd license is much more free/open then GPL, just to let you know.
this is a troll comment. sue me
were they already slashdotted? I can't read the article... sigh
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