All MAC adresses were originally designed to be unique. Each manufacturer has a different number, followed by an identifier for the card which is unique to that manufacturer.
This 50 year old fart is just to old to compete with young polished gamers. But writing an 'aimbot' is something I could do. It is also a 'hack' in the classic sense. People have been doing things like that for years. In one sense, it is part of the game. For the life of me, I can't see why it is considered cheating.
My only cavil is that such things should be written by the user, not passed around to script kiddies - that does spoil things for both classes of player. I think the ASUS drivers fall into that category.
UN International law assigns responsibility for all space launches to the national government of the launching facility. If, for example, he took a nuke with him, the U.S.A. would be considered to have broken international law.
So, whatever government permits a launch from their territory is responsible for any consequences.
It can't be Libel. It's true. Anybody who has been dead for 300 years is going to be well past the smelly stage. Mundie, however, is still alive and will therefore smell more. Case closed.
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You are looking at things through Slashdot colored glasses. Mundie wasn't referring to monopoly vendors or even competing vendors offering products implementing the same standard. He was referring to competing vendors all trying to push slightly different standards, with no clear winner. Interoperability is a costly problem. Transferring files between Macs and PCs causes problems all the time, and that's just two platforms.
Err... No. Not quite. There is not much trouble talking/transferring to either MACs or Windoze from an open source unix or linux. You are complaining about between one closed platform and another.
>Ya BSD is still trying to hack together working SMP, they won't have support for ECN for a long time.
I've been running SMP BSD for years now, I wish you would stop bitching about it. It is rock solid reliable, worked from day one and never stopped working despite (at least) monthly rebuilds. As for performance, I haven't found a promblem with it.
He didn't make a threat. He didn't say "I have a gun". He said - after a gun was mentioned - that if it was a gun "you'd be dead". That is not interpretable as a threat. Only as a statement of fact and a warning that a line has been crossed.
>Deeply linking int a site == monetary theft (users can skip many levels of ads and jump right to relevant web page.
Easy to fix. Session cookies that control how you are allowed to move around a site. If you have "value" and wish to protect it, then do so. Let others who want to be philanthropic do so.
>100% usage is great for monster crunching of big things and complex equations, etc. But if you want a faster reaction time you cannot be 100% committed.
Yes you can.
My machine (like lots of others) runs multiple setiathome's giving 100% cpu utilisation with no lack of responsiveness. They are not even set to "idle-only".
>don't get mad because your country is fucked up. and don't make me laugh about australia being on the forefront of anything that has to do with technology.
I'm not mad (in either sense of the word. Australia has always been at the 'technological forefront'. So I'll provide a reference for you, and you can decide if you would like to retract.
>You mean...the price of the book? That's all they pay in American. Or have megacorps tricked you into believe it's illegal to loan people copyrighted work without them getting another cut?
That was based on an article I read about this issue and apparently in some countries (can't remember which ones) an additional copyright fee is applied for libraries, sometimes by book sometimes by each loan. My memory may be in error.
>While I have no problem at all with an author making as much as they can off their work (or anyone off of their own creative work), the idea that their "estate" can mooch for another 50+ years is sickening. They didn't create it, they only benefit by accident of association. Get a life! Create your own work and make a living for yourself instead of mooching!
If you think Virgina Heinlein didn't help Robert Heinlein write his SF, then you are crazy. She looked after him (a semi-invalid) while he wrote. You think she should be destitute when he dies?
If she hadn't been desperate for money, then the film rights for Starship Troopers would not have been so abused.
>I must apologize to Mr. Ellison that I've never bought a single one of his works. Instead, I read em for free at the library. I've enjoyed them lots but never paid a dime (except maybe in late fees).
Err... In most countries, the library pays the copyright fee. So, most likely, you have paid.
> I am a SF reader and you can be damn sure I'll NEVER buy anything from you again (I buy a lot of Asimov and Clarke and little else anyways).
Then you can hardly call yourself an SF reader, can you? I only like a little of HE stuff, but anyone who doesn't recognise the name is not an SF rreader, just a wannabe.
>And another thing, whats his deal with dragging dead authors like Asimov and Heinlein into this? I don't know what their opinions would have been on this matter, maybe they would have agreed with him, but they definately had a tendency to look at things in an unconventional way, so I think they might have embraced their works being distributed on the web, via the technology that they found so fascinating.
Try reading their books and you have a pretty good idea of what they would think. Why do you think that Starship Bloopers was made after Heinlein died?
Libraries and second hand shops do not infringe on copyright. They don't duplicate the material and in many countries the libraries pay a copyright fee in addition to the price of the volume
Ellison is NOT wrong
Please check your facts before you open your mouth.
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All MAC adresses were originally designed to be unique. Each manufacturer has a different number, followed by an identifier for the card which is unique to that manufacturer.
My only cavil is that such things should be written by the user, not passed around to script kiddies - that does spoil things for both classes of player. I think the ASUS drivers fall into that category.
It is possible they are an idiot. It is also possible that they are an idealist.
You mean RMS is Bill Gates? Sheesh, I never knew that...
So, whatever government permits a launch from their territory is responsible for any consequences.
They are working on a whole new concept of this (idea sharing and teleconferencing).
It can't be Libel. It's true. Anybody who has been dead for 300 years is going to be well past the smelly stage. Mundie, however, is still alive and will therefore smell more. Case closed.
Err... No. Not quite. There is not much trouble talking/transferring to either MACs or Windoze from an open source unix or linux. You are complaining about between one closed platform and another.
I've been running SMP BSD for years now, I wish you would stop bitching about it. It is rock solid reliable, worked from day one and never stopped working despite (at least) monthly rebuilds. As for performance, I haven't found a promblem with it.
What gave you the ridiculous idea that the Olympic games are not comercial?
He didn't make a threat. He didn't say "I have a gun". He said - after a gun was mentioned - that if it was a gun "you'd be dead". That is not interpretable as a threat. Only as a statement of fact and a warning that a line has been crossed.
Dunno why you would say that. It is one of the few new or non-obvious points brought up so far in this thread.
Or before you are shot to death by the National Guard (accompanied by tanks) during a student anti-war protest on your own campus grounds?
My, how quickly we forget our own histories.
Easy to fix. Session cookies that control how you are allowed to move around a site. If you have "value" and wish to protect it, then do so. Let others who want to be philanthropic do so.
Yes you can.
My machine (like lots of others) runs multiple setiathome's giving 100% cpu utilisation with no lack of responsiveness. They are not even set to "idle-only".
There is a definition I was taught in school 40 years ago. It includes 'irritability' and 'reproduction'.
I'm not mad (in either sense of the word. Australia has always been at the 'technological forefront'. So I'll provide a reference for you, and you can decide if you would like to retract.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/scif un/timelin e.htm
That was based on an article I read about this issue and apparently in some countries (can't remember which ones) an additional copyright fee is applied for libraries, sometimes by book sometimes by each loan. My memory may be in error.
Harry Harrison is going to be pissed at you....
If you think Virgina Heinlein didn't help Robert Heinlein write his SF, then you are crazy. She looked after him (a semi-invalid) while he wrote. You think she should be destitute when he dies?
If she hadn't been desperate for money, then the film rights for Starship Troopers would not have been so abused.
It is pretty stupid to try and impute his motives without reading it.
No, I didn't call you stupid, I called an act of yours stupid. Seperate matter.
Err... In most countries, the library pays the copyright fee. So, most likely, you have paid.
Then you can hardly call yourself an SF reader, can you? I only like a little of HE stuff, but anyone who doesn't recognise the name is not an SF rreader, just a wannabe.
Try reading their books and you have a pretty good idea of what they would think. Why do you think that Starship Bloopers was made after Heinlein died?
And you scored a '4' - what on Earth for...
Ellison is NOT wrong
Please check your facts before you open your mouth.