Could I get some decent Shoot Em Ups for the 360 please? I would love a remake of Blazing Lazers. Maybe the best game ever made?
I would really like to see more classic console games ported to XBLA, but it looks like they are trying to get away from that. Would love to see Blaster Master and maybe a Rygar remake...
The fact that you put that much thought into it probably means that it's an effective advertisement, from Microsoft's point of view.
Personally, I don't know that I would watch this then run out and drop $500 on Vista, or whatever it costs these days, but it was interesting to watch. I wouldn't be opposed to more commercials featuring the richest man on earth just bumbling around suburbia like an idiot. Spilling coffee on his pants, microwaving a pizza at 7-11 or trying to activate Windows. You know? The normal bullshit that Joe Sixpack deals with.
Yeah it would be nice to be able to rate the person you are interacting with. Like if he has incomplete or screwed with files give him a low rating, etc. Then you could choose to search for Matallica songs only from users with a +3 rating for instance. Even better might be a trust type of system, where you can choose to not interact with certain IP's, but also choose to not interact with the bad people your friend has found too. That could lead to a central host that everyone could donate "bad" IPs to. That host could rank their badness by how many people have submitted it. That seems like it would be even more effective. People could choose to use that service or not, so it's not censorship. But, until Napster fixes simpler things, like returning more than 100 hits per search, or taking less than an hour to index a few hundred songs for it's library, this will likely never happen.
People who say you should be using PGP for any sensitive communications are right.
Recently I have been searching for an instant messaging type software that uses strong encryption for windows. Eventually I found one called BetweenUS which seemed exactly what I wanted. It can use an agreed upon password mode with Triple DES or Blowfish, or it can use your PGP keyring and keys from any version > 5.0. I thought this was really cool. After reading all about it, I went to download but found the product had been sold to another company that no longer supports it. I did manage to finally find a copy, but now I am curious why it just got dropped. Does anyone know anything about it? It seems great, supports encrypted file transfers, instant messanges, and chat with up to 25 people in a channel (or 100 with a server component that is also discontinued). Or maybe does anyone know about something *BETTER* than this? Thanks
And there have been numerous occasions when it appears that telco company employees did some monitoring all on their own.
It was my understanding that the telco has the right to monitor any communications over their network if they perceive someone as a threat to their network (Or perhaps for any reason?). And they don't need permission from anybody. I read this in the book "Masters Of Deception" about the hacker group of the same name from New York.
Your estimates of hundreds of terabytes is way off. They say on their site that the whole archive including web pages from 1996-Current, and a limited ammount of FTP and Usenet is only ~14TB. That's not bad.
I consider pinging my system to be the electronic equivalent of jiggling my front doorknob to see if the door will open: Is it "fair use" of my front door?
It is not even comparable. Someone pinging your system isn't going to open any door, regardless of your security. You're probably one of those people that compares downloading mp3s to stealing cars, aren't you?
I wasn't saying this was something that I could do. I was simply saying I have seen far harder things accomplished with complete anonymity, by people who aren't so stuck on themselves. I could really care less about his little project in particular. Here are some essays and information from the "University of Reverse Engineering". They make cphack look like little kid stuff. They even have some Linux software cracking..:)
Reading the FAQ for the guy who wrote (or helped write) cphack, it seems almost like the whole point of the thing was to get famous from it, and talk about all the job offers and scholarships he's had to turn down. You see a lot of people doing this kind of thing lately. Getting "busted" for some sort of hacking/cracking/hacktivising/crapping or whatever other PC term you have for this these days, then turning around and becoming a computer security advisor to the news. Trying to get their name mentioned in as many articles as possible. He says he didn't want use a pseudonym because that reeks of the unprofessionalism associated with "WarEZ d00DZ". There are kiddy cracking groups that could have written this thing over a weekend. When I say cracking, I mean the by-passing of copy protection schemes on commercial software for the purpose of pirating that software. Not breaking into systems.
I thought all of this stuff was settled way back in the day when people started making hardware emulators (or clones if you prefer) of the Atari 2600. Like the 2600 addon you could get with the Intellivision (II), and the 2600 system marketed by montgomery wards.. and probably others. I know Atari had some big problem with that, but then they lost in court. Is a hardware emulator so much different legally than a software one?
I used to work in a store at the mall. We sold all different kinds of knives.. some good quality knives (Benchmade, Spyderco, Cold Steel, Boker) and some different swords. These swords were all junk. Some barely could keep from falling apart when handled.
But still, the same type of people would come in every day. Long haired, black trench coats, unshaven. Usually with the same type of girl friend. Big fat girls dressed all sexy because the fantasy life of AOL's chat rooms have led them to believe they are beautiful.
They would ask to see some cheap ass sword, and I would hand it to them knowing already what comes next.. then they would swing it all around, and stare down the blade, and then usually hold it in two hands. They would ask all kinds of fun questions about it, like who the swordsmith is.. (usually the PROC), and if it was "battle ready".
After working there a while longer, I stopped showing people like that swords, and started making up more of the answers to the questions they asked. That made me feel a little better.
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Could I get some decent Shoot Em Ups for the 360 please? I would love a remake of Blazing Lazers. Maybe the best game ever made?
I would really like to see more classic console games ported to XBLA, but it looks like they are trying to get away from that. Would love to see Blaster Master and maybe a Rygar remake...
The fact that you put that much thought into it probably means that it's an effective advertisement, from Microsoft's point of view.
Personally, I don't know that I would watch this then run out and drop $500 on Vista, or whatever it costs these days, but it was interesting to watch. I wouldn't be opposed to more commercials featuring the richest man on earth just bumbling around suburbia like an idiot. Spilling coffee on his pants, microwaving a pizza at 7-11 or trying to activate Windows. You know? The normal bullshit that Joe Sixpack deals with.
You're forgetting Windows ME.
Yeah it would be nice to be able to rate the person you are interacting with. Like if he has incomplete or screwed with files give him a low rating, etc. Then you could choose to search for Matallica songs only from users with a +3 rating for instance. Even better might be a trust type of system, where you can choose to not interact with certain IP's, but also choose to not interact with the bad people your friend has found too. That could lead to a central host that everyone could donate "bad" IPs to. That host could rank their badness by how many people have submitted it. That seems like it would be even more effective. People could choose to use that service or not, so it's not censorship. But, until Napster fixes simpler things, like returning more than 100 hits per search, or taking less than an hour to index a few hundred songs for it's library, this will likely never happen.
This was 100 times in one year. The first year even. That seems like kind of a lot.
People who say you should be using PGP for any sensitive communications are right.
Recently I have been searching for an instant messaging type software that uses strong encryption for windows. Eventually I found one called BetweenUS which seemed exactly what I wanted. It can use an agreed upon password mode with Triple DES or Blowfish, or it can use your PGP keyring and keys from any version > 5.0. I thought this was really cool. After reading all about it, I went to download but found the product had been sold to another company that no longer supports it. I did manage to finally find a copy, but now I am curious why it just got dropped. Does anyone know anything about it? It seems great, supports encrypted file transfers, instant messanges, and chat with up to 25 people in a channel (or 100 with a server component that is also discontinued). Or maybe does anyone know about something *BETTER* than this? Thanks
And there have been numerous occasions when it appears that telco company employees did some monitoring all on their own.
It was my understanding that the telco has the right to monitor any communications over their network if they perceive someone as a threat to their network (Or perhaps for any reason?). And they don't need permission from anybody. I read this in the book "Masters Of Deception" about the hacker group of the same name from New York.
Your estimates of hundreds of terabytes is way off. They say on their site that the whole archive including web pages from 1996-Current, and a limited ammount of FTP and Usenet is only ~14TB. That's not bad.
I consider pinging my system to be the electronic equivalent of jiggling my front doorknob to see if the door will open: Is it "fair use" of my front door?
It is not even comparable. Someone pinging your system isn't going to open any door, regardless of your security. You're probably one of those people that compares downloading mp3s to stealing cars, aren't you?
I wasn't saying this was something that I could do. I was simply saying I have seen far harder things accomplished with complete anonymity, by people who aren't so stuck on themselves. I could really care less about his little project in particular. Here are some essays and information from the "University of Reverse Engineering". They make cphack look like little kid stuff. They even have some Linux software cracking.. :)
Reading the FAQ for the guy who wrote (or helped write) cphack, it seems almost like the whole point of the thing was to get famous from it, and talk about all the job offers and scholarships he's had to turn down. You see a lot of people doing this kind of thing lately. Getting "busted" for some sort of hacking/cracking/hacktivising/crapping or whatever other PC term you have for this these days, then turning around and becoming a computer security advisor to the news. Trying to get their name mentioned in as many articles as possible. He says he didn't want use a pseudonym because that reeks of the unprofessionalism associated with "WarEZ d00DZ". There are kiddy cracking groups that could have written this thing over a weekend. When I say cracking, I mean the by-passing of copy protection schemes on commercial software for the purpose of pirating that software. Not breaking into systems.
I thought all of this stuff was settled way back in the day when people started making hardware emulators (or clones if you prefer) of the Atari 2600. Like the 2600 addon you could get with the Intellivision (II), and the 2600 system marketed by montgomery wards.. and probably others. I know Atari had some big problem with that, but then they lost in court. Is a hardware emulator so much different legally than a software one?
I used to work in a store at the mall. We sold all different kinds of knives.. some good quality knives (Benchmade, Spyderco, Cold Steel, Boker) and some different swords. These swords were all junk. Some barely could keep from falling apart when handled.
But still, the same type of people would come in every day. Long haired, black trench coats, unshaven. Usually with the same type of girl friend. Big fat girls dressed all sexy because the fantasy life of AOL's chat rooms have led them to believe they are beautiful.
They would ask to see some cheap ass sword, and I would hand it to them knowing already what comes next.. then they would swing it all around, and stare down the blade, and then usually hold it in two hands. They would ask all kinds of fun questions about it, like who the swordsmith is.. (usually the PROC), and if it was "battle ready".
After working there a while longer, I stopped showing people like that swords, and started making up more of the answers to the questions they asked. That made me feel a little better.