... studying a martial art, but there is the undeniable fact that I am much more prone to violence now
That depends way more on the style of martial art you train at. I took Aikido, and it is a very passive, calming martial art. I hear Tai Chi is similar in that respect. I also took a harder form of karate once, and the difference in philosophy is staggering.
An aggressive martial art will lead to more aggressive feelings, a passive one might suit you better.
The PS2 was released in late 2000, and it was really obsolete by early 2004.
Um, what? Obsolete how? What has replaced it? Games still come out for it. There will be games coming out for it for the next 2 to 3 years.
Besides, when a company says 10 year life cycle, they mean they plan to continue production and support of the console and it's accesories for that long. It doesn't mean they won't have the PS4 out around 2010.
Everyone twists the facts to say their favorite console will win. We haven't even seen the pricetag for each yet. When Sony says it won't be cheap, that's not the same as saying it'll be more expensive than an Xbox 360. $300 doesn't sound 'cheap' to me. It could end up exactly the same price. Probably will be very close, they aren't that stupid.
The truth of the matter is, all three will make some good hardware. I'd say nobody has pushed the current generation to the limit yet, although some have done an excellent job. What will determine a 'winner' is which gets the best selection of games. People bought the PS2 to play FFX. The Xbox to play Halo. GC, well, I got it for Smash and Mario Kart.
Looking at how many games I've got for each system, I'd say PS2, then GC, then Xbox. I'm sure everyone is a little different. But the point is, if you sell a billion consoles at a loss, each of those people needs to buy 5-10 games to break even. So you have to have a lot of popular games on your system to make money.
Unless you are nintendo, who actual makes money everytime you buy a system.
Personally, I don't want any of them to "win". Competition is good. It was lack of competition for the Super NES that led nintendo into complacency and a poor showing for the N64. I like have three consoles around, it keeps them busy being innovative and writing cool interesting games like Katamari. I'll get all of them eventually, it let's me have only the best games. Ok, not really, but at least I have a wider selection to choose from. So the console with more good games will get more of my money.
Ok, that's just silly. Only the crudest of hacks would show up under who. There are plenty of ways to spawn processes in an attack that would show up under something like ps or top, and not under who.
Not to mention the fact that manually running who or ps is not an intrusion detection system. You want something that monitors activity and at the very least e-mails a sys admin when something strange is happening.
Wait, why am I bothering to respond to this obvious troll?
First thing I thought when looking at the article was, didn't I read Phrack #62 more than a year ago? Turns out the last issue was released: 2004-07-13. I think the biggest reason for it's decline is it has only come out once a year for the past several years. Back in the day, it may not have been monthly, but it at least came out frequently enough to generate interest.
I'd love to see a new team take over, and at the least release issues every 3-4 months.
Heck, most people don't even seem to realize there is DRM present at all!
I think that is the point. Apple's DRM is so invisible, you don't have customers asking "Why can't I do this?" because everything they want to do they can. They can make mixed CDs. They can listen to it on their iPod. They can listen to it on their computer.
iTunes works because what little DRM it has is unobtrusive. It doesn't get in people's way. If you release one that is so restrictive that people's normal usage is inhibited, it will fail.
Ok, so they spent 8 million getting peoples attention. That's nice. Did they sell 8 million worth of video cards? Or even better, did they even sell enough to make 8 million in profit from video cards? It's been a while since I felt the need to upgrade my video card. Then again, I don't have as much time to play games as I would like. And when I do, a console game is cheaper.
Certainly I like the fierce competition between Nvidia and ATI. The more they try and get an edge over the other, the better and cheaper the cards that end up in my PC or Console. I wouldn't want either to win however.
First thing I think of is go buy a $40 linksys router. If you don't have complex routing needs, and mostly just need to firewall the majority of incoming connections and route a few ports, that's all you really need.
As much as I love making little linux boxes, a dedicated firewall device is sometimes better than a full machine. Less to be hacked into.
For a little more money, you can get some more complex routers, but the concept it the same. Keep it Simple.
to track visitors you've got to look at what they do
I was helping consult a used car dealership. The guy wanted to know why he hardly got any sales from his website, but was getting "Thousands of hits a day."
So we dug in to look at the statistics some. First off, the automated web tracker place he was using told him the raw hits. So one guy looking at a single page that happened to also download severl of the pictures on that page could be 20 or more hits. Also we dug a little deeper. The top referer site seemed to be a web forum. We took a closer look and it turned out somebody from that forum (which was in spanish) had added a link to one of the images on his site. It was a picture of a car that was no longer even displayed on the site, but had never been removed from the server. So everytime anyone looked at this other web forum, which was quite busy, he got another 'hit'. To the point where something like 40% of his web traffic was people downloading this one picture while browsing someone elses forums.
So it is true what they say about lies, damn lies, and statistics. If you don't have a real person look and analyze the data to tell you what it means, all you get is a bunch of garbage that could mean anything.
You must be new here, nobody does that! I find it even funnier that the headline is: "O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures" When really it's more like, some guy who happens tp work at O'Reilly mentions online countermeasures in a blog.
But hey, why read the article when instead you can read the comments about the comments about the article on/.?
People don't use Mac OS because they happen to have a Mac Computer sitting around. They use it because they choose to. Someone has to specifically go out and buy a Mac. Even if that Mac ends up having an intel processor, it's not going to be just any old PC that can run Mac OS.
Different operating systems serve the needs and preferences of different people. What hardware it runs on is really secondary. Certainly one of the appeals of Linux is that if that toaster has a processor in it, someone will port linux to it. Just because they can. Mac or Windows are never going to be that kind of OS.
I like what they've done with OS X. It's a nice tool. I like using debian for certain types of servers. I like mandrake for certain kinds of workstations. I still use windows for other types of workstations. They all serve different functions. But when I build a machine, I hardly worry about the specific hardware involved unless that is a requirement for the machine (like needing that hot nvidia graphics card for... um, computational fluid dynamics.. yeah.)
If A != B, the interpreter will display the other message.
So when they go to court, and really examine the documents, they notice that the "real" document is embedded into the fake one. So while it may fool a person who isn't looking for it, it won't fool a real person, and they will easily be caught for their fraud.
Also, do people actually use "electronicly signed" documents for legaly binding contracts yet? I know I would be wary of doing so. Most of the world is still using the old fashioned paper trail, much easier to use in court.
Not that I'm opposed to the idea of a secure electronic system, but I know enough about cryptography to know that everything is broken given sufficient time.
This doesn't take into account the quality of any of the games.
And quality is where it really matters. There are a ton more games for the PS2 than the GameCube. But I buy about the same ammount of both. So far, there have been several titles that have tempted me to pick up a DS, but nothing at all to make me even look at the PSP. So often people buy a console for a single game they like, then look around at the others once they have it.
Personally, I like supporting a variety of consoles. Having several big companies vying for my attention means a larger variety of titles for me to choose from.
banks do have products to promote to the rest of the unwashed masses.
So what? Why do I have to waste my bandwith and storage space downloading it? Just because it was a legitimate e-mail, doesn't mean it is a legitimate way to let me know about their product. I don't care if it is Spam or a Phish, I don't want to read it, and will delete it on sight. Unless I specifically requested information from a company, I don't feel any loss.
Nobody is preventing a 15 year old kid from buying a copy of GTA, BMX XXX, or any other...
Ah, but the sad truth is, most young children aren't the ones purchasing the games. They ask their parents for it, their grandparents, whoever, and the parents purchase the games. Parents need to take the responsibility to know what they are getting their kids. There are a lot of great games that can help a child develop. GTA isn't one of them. GTA is for older teens and young adults. But if a parent doesn't look at the games they let their children play, it doesn't matter if you have to be an adult to purchase it.
While it might be good for a concerned store clerk to ask a parent if they know what they are buying for their kids, most minimum wage workers aren't concerned enough to risk upsetting a customer by asking personal questions about their parenting.
Most broadband providers, at least cable ones, block port 80. Why? Because they want to charge more for you to run 'servers' with your bandwidth. Can we get a class action lawsuit againt them for interfering with my right to free speech? Probably not, their terms of service say you shouldn't be running any 'servers' in a loosely defined way. Is my IM client a server? Is that VOIP Client a server? It's got open ports, and listens for people to connect...
As a lot of others have pointed out, most of us have the choice of broadband with similar restrictions, or one of many dialup options. Just not acceptable. I at least have a choice between DSL or Cable, if one gets too bad.
If you are primarily a gamer, like me, chances are an Xbox, PS2, and GC are 'good enough', and cost about the same as the Video Card and RAM it took to make your computer play games. Then when it comes to doing other stuff on your computer, Linux does it all.
The real reason people use Windows is because that's what they have at work. The real reason they have it at work is because there is no shared calender/exchange server equivelant for linux yet.
I've done some small business consulting, and the thing that always prevents us from deploying a linux solution is the 'I want to share my calendar to do scheduling' problem.
Firefox is a great start, OpenOffice has done great things, but until there is a good replacement for the Windows Server in corporate tasks, Windows will still rule the market.
As far as games go, consoles are really getting slick these days.
Player rewards are very important in a game. I imagine a popular game would be one that, when you accomplish a task, rewards the player with direct stimulation of the pleasure centers of the brain.
When we reach that level, we won't need to have complex story-lines or any of that, just moving a little disk into a funnel would be sufficient.
And I'd have taken over that starship if it weren't for those darn kids.
I find that a rather illogical statement, considering that Stargate and Battlestar Galactica are both doing very well on Friday, and they are even on cable which doesn't reach as many households as UPN.
I think the point is, with so few sci-fi shows on the market, why move your show to be in a spot directly competing with the other one?
If it is a choice between watching Enterprise or Battlestar Galactica, most of us are probably picking BSG. However, if they were on different nights, I'd still watch both.
Hell, what am I saying? I have the internet, I still watch both.
It does boggle my mind that the world has come to such that a show that 'only brings in 2.5 MILLION people' isn't worth producing.
While I agree that the 'spiteful employee' arguement is largely bunk, the 'employee who quit, got fired, or otherwise left unexpectedly' arguement is not.
I second this notion.
At one of my first jobs, one of my co-workers left the country suddenly to attend a family members funeral. He was gone and out of contact for a month. We needed to get at the files he was working at. Luckily, using some linux tricks, I was able to mount the hard-drive from a different machine, and get access to the files.
So no, that's not a flaw really. The fact that it's real easy to gain admin access on that machine, that's a flaw.
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I'd be willing to pay the same TV license fee that everyone in the UK pays. Only seems fair.
I want to watch Doctor Who, and right now the only way I can do it is over the internet.
Anyway: Come back tomorrow and see if google really launched a IM.
/. article about how "Google denies rumors of IM launch."
Actually, come back tomorrow to find a
Which is probably already a dupe.
... studying a martial art, but there is the undeniable fact that I am much more prone to violence now
That depends way more on the style of martial art you train at. I took Aikido, and it is a very passive, calming martial art. I hear Tai Chi is similar in that respect. I also took a harder form of karate once, and the difference in philosophy is staggering.
An aggressive martial art will lead to more aggressive feelings, a passive one might suit you better.
The PS2 was released in late 2000, and it was really obsolete by early 2004.
Um, what? Obsolete how? What has replaced it? Games still come out for it. There will be games coming out for it for the next 2 to 3 years.
Besides, when a company says 10 year life cycle, they mean they plan to continue production and support of the console and it's accesories for that long. It doesn't mean they won't have the PS4 out around 2010.
Everyone twists the facts to say their favorite console will win. We haven't even seen the pricetag for each yet. When Sony says it won't be cheap, that's not the same as saying it'll be more expensive than an Xbox 360. $300 doesn't sound 'cheap' to me. It could end up exactly the same price. Probably will be very close, they aren't that stupid.
The truth of the matter is, all three will make some good hardware. I'd say nobody has pushed the current generation to the limit yet, although some have done an excellent job. What will determine a 'winner' is which gets the best selection of games. People bought the PS2 to play FFX. The Xbox to play Halo. GC, well, I got it for Smash and Mario Kart.
Looking at how many games I've got for each system, I'd say PS2, then GC, then Xbox. I'm sure everyone is a little different. But the point is, if you sell a billion consoles at a loss, each of those people needs to buy 5-10 games to break even. So you have to have a lot of popular games on your system to make money.
Unless you are nintendo, who actual makes money everytime you buy a system.
Personally, I don't want any of them to "win". Competition is good. It was lack of competition for the Super NES that led nintendo into complacency and a poor showing for the N64. I like have three consoles around, it keeps them busy being innovative and writing cool interesting games like Katamari. I'll get all of them eventually, it let's me have only the best games. Ok, not really, but at least I have a wider selection to choose from. So the console with more good games will get more of my money.
All you need is the who command
Ok, that's just silly. Only the crudest of hacks would show up under who. There are plenty of ways to spawn processes in an attack that would show up under something like ps or top, and not under who.
Not to mention the fact that manually running who or ps is not an intrusion detection system. You want something that monitors activity and at the very least e-mails a sys admin when something strange is happening.
Wait, why am I bothering to respond to this obvious troll?
First thing I thought when looking at the article was, didn't I read Phrack #62 more than a year ago? Turns out the last issue was released: 2004-07-13. I think the biggest reason for it's decline is it has only come out once a year for the past several years. Back in the day, it may not have been monthly, but it at least came out frequently enough to generate interest.
I'd love to see a new team take over, and at the least release issues every 3-4 months.
Heck, most people don't even seem to realize there is DRM present at all!
I think that is the point. Apple's DRM is so invisible, you don't have customers asking "Why can't I do this?" because everything they want to do they can. They can make mixed CDs. They can listen to it on their iPod. They can listen to it on their computer.
iTunes works because what little DRM it has is unobtrusive. It doesn't get in people's way. If you release one that is so restrictive that people's normal usage is inhibited, it will fail.
Ok, so they spent 8 million getting peoples attention. That's nice. Did they sell 8 million worth of video cards? Or even better, did they even sell enough to make 8 million in profit from video cards? It's been a while since I felt the need to upgrade my video card. Then again, I don't have as much time to play games as I would like. And when I do, a console game is cheaper.
Certainly I like the fierce competition between Nvidia and ATI. The more they try and get an edge over the other, the better and cheaper the cards that end up in my PC or Console. I wouldn't want either to win however.
First thing I think of is go buy a $40 linksys router. If you don't have complex routing needs, and mostly just need to firewall the majority of incoming connections and route a few ports, that's all you really need.
As much as I love making little linux boxes, a dedicated firewall device is sometimes better than a full machine. Less to be hacked into.
For a little more money, you can get some more complex routers, but the concept it the same. Keep it Simple.
to track visitors you've got to look at what they do
I was helping consult a used car dealership. The guy wanted to know why he hardly got any sales from his website, but was getting "Thousands of hits a day."
So we dug in to look at the statistics some. First off, the automated web tracker place he was using told him the raw hits. So one guy looking at a single page that happened to also download severl of the pictures on that page could be 20 or more hits. Also we dug a little deeper. The top referer site seemed to be a web forum. We took a closer look and it turned out somebody from that forum (which was in spanish) had added a link to one of the images on his site. It was a picture of a car that was no longer even displayed on the site, but had never been removed from the server. So everytime anyone looked at this other web forum, which was quite busy, he got another 'hit'. To the point where something like 40% of his web traffic was people downloading this one picture while browsing someone elses forums.
So it is true what they say about lies, damn lies, and statistics. If you don't have a real person look and analyze the data to tell you what it means, all you get is a bunch of garbage that could mean anything.
If you read the actual blog
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You must be new here, nobody does that! I find it even funnier that the headline is: "O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures" When really it's more like, some guy who happens tp work at O'Reilly mentions online countermeasures in a blog.
But hey, why read the article when instead you can read the comments about the comments about the article on
People don't use Mac OS because they happen to have a Mac Computer sitting around. They use it because they choose to. Someone has to specifically go out and buy a Mac. Even if that Mac ends up having an intel processor, it's not going to be just any old PC that can run Mac OS.
Different operating systems serve the needs and preferences of different people. What hardware it runs on is really secondary. Certainly one of the appeals of Linux is that if that toaster has a processor in it, someone will port linux to it. Just because they can. Mac or Windows are never going to be that kind of OS.
I like what they've done with OS X. It's a nice tool. I like using debian for certain types of servers. I like mandrake for certain kinds of workstations. I still use windows for other types of workstations. They all serve different functions. But when I build a machine, I hardly worry about the specific hardware involved unless that is a requirement for the machine (like needing that hot nvidia graphics card for... um, computational fluid dynamics.. yeah.)
Life goes on, let's go live it.
If A != B, the interpreter will display the other message.
So when they go to court, and really examine the documents, they notice that the "real" document is embedded into the fake one. So while it may fool a person who isn't looking for it, it won't fool a real person, and they will easily be caught for their fraud.
Also, do people actually use "electronicly signed" documents for legaly binding contracts yet? I know I would be wary of doing so. Most of the world is still using the old fashioned paper trail, much easier to use in court.
Not that I'm opposed to the idea of a secure electronic system, but I know enough about cryptography to know that everything is broken given sufficient time.
This doesn't take into account the quality of any of the games.
And quality is where it really matters. There are a ton more games for the PS2 than the GameCube. But I buy about the same ammount of both. So far, there have been several titles that have tempted me to pick up a DS, but nothing at all to make me even look at the PSP. So often people buy a console for a single game they like, then look around at the others once they have it.
Personally, I like supporting a variety of consoles. Having several big companies vying for my attention means a larger variety of titles for me to choose from.
banks do have products to promote to the rest of the unwashed masses.
So what? Why do I have to waste my bandwith and storage space downloading it? Just because it was a legitimate e-mail, doesn't mean it is a legitimate way to let me know about their product. I don't care if it is Spam or a Phish, I don't want to read it, and will delete it on sight. Unless I specifically requested information from a company, I don't feel any loss.
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Why link to answers.com when the only information they have comes directly from the ad free Wikipedia?
I got a cold splash in the face last week when i told my client they should be using firefox. They responed "what's firefox"
You say that like they should have a clue. The same person probably would also ask "What's Internet Explorer?"
Or does it feel like most of Today's articles deserver to be April Fool's Jokes? Did they delay the really good jokes a week?
Nobody is preventing a 15 year old kid from buying a copy of GTA, BMX XXX, or any other...
Ah, but the sad truth is, most young children aren't the ones purchasing the games. They ask their parents for it, their grandparents, whoever, and the parents purchase the games. Parents need to take the responsibility to know what they are getting their kids. There are a lot of great games that can help a child develop. GTA isn't one of them. GTA is for older teens and young adults. But if a parent doesn't look at the games they let their children play, it doesn't matter if you have to be an adult to purchase it.
While it might be good for a concerned store clerk to ask a parent if they know what they are buying for their kids, most minimum wage workers aren't concerned enough to risk upsetting a customer by asking personal questions about their parenting.
Most broadband providers, at least cable ones, block port 80. Why? Because they want to charge more for you to run 'servers' with your bandwidth. Can we get a class action lawsuit againt them for interfering with my right to free speech? Probably not, their terms of service say you shouldn't be running any 'servers' in a loosely defined way. Is my IM client a server? Is that VOIP Client a server? It's got open ports, and listens for people to connect...
As a lot of others have pointed out, most of us have the choice of broadband with similar restrictions, or one of many dialup options. Just not acceptable. I at least have a choice between DSL or Cable, if one gets too bad.
If you are primarily a gamer, like me, chances are an Xbox, PS2, and GC are 'good enough', and cost about the same as the Video Card and RAM it took to make your computer play games. Then when it comes to doing other stuff on your computer, Linux does it all.
The real reason people use Windows is because that's what they have at work. The real reason they have it at work is because there is no shared calender/exchange server equivelant for linux yet.
I've done some small business consulting, and the thing that always prevents us from deploying a linux solution is the 'I want to share my calendar to do scheduling' problem.
Firefox is a great start, OpenOffice has done great things, but until there is a good replacement for the Windows Server in corporate tasks, Windows will still rule the market.
As far as games go, consoles are really getting slick these days.
Player rewards are very important in a game. I imagine a popular game would be one that, when you accomplish a task, rewards the player with direct stimulation of the pleasure centers of the brain.
When we reach that level, we won't need to have complex story-lines or any of that, just moving a little disk into a funnel would be sufficient.
And I'd have taken over that starship if it weren't for those darn kids.
I find that a rather illogical statement, considering that Stargate and Battlestar Galactica are both doing very well on Friday, and they are even on cable which doesn't reach as many households as UPN.
I think the point is, with so few sci-fi shows on the market, why move your show to be in a spot directly competing with the other one?
If it is a choice between watching Enterprise or Battlestar Galactica, most of us are probably picking BSG. However, if they were on different nights, I'd still watch both.
Hell, what am I saying? I have the internet, I still watch both.
It does boggle my mind that the world has come to such that a show that 'only brings in 2.5 MILLION people' isn't worth producing.
While I agree that the 'spiteful employee' arguement is largely bunk, the 'employee who quit, got fired, or otherwise left unexpectedly' arguement is not.
I second this notion.
At one of my first jobs, one of my co-workers left the country suddenly to attend a family members funeral. He was gone and out of contact for a month. We needed to get at the files he was working at. Luckily, using some linux tricks, I was able to mount the hard-drive from a different machine, and get access to the files.
So no, that's not a flaw really. The fact that it's real easy to gain admin access on that machine, that's a flaw.
Yes, Microsoft created