Dude, you were obviously *not* around for the Magic: The Gathering craze.
God, I don't want to know how much money I spent on those things....
Hell, I remember buying 3-4 *boxes* of cards at a time. I really should get together with some guys and play the game again. I haven't touched the cards in about 3 years.
I understand that MP3s are not intrinsically illegal, but I would venture to say that 90% or more of MP3s are illegally obtained. The people behind Napster most probably know this. That was my argument. BTW, all my friends (but *cough* not me) use the file transfer feature of ICQ to transmit warez as well as MP3s.
And this was probably the same argument the RIAA used to try and nuke Diamond for the Rio... and lost, becuase you *can* use the Rio legally, it's not illegal. Same with Napster - you can use it legally, and it was designed to be used legally - just because 90% of the people are going to use it illegally doesn't mean that the creators of it are responsible for that usage.
Whether or not you agree with that is another story.
On another note, I thought it important to address a security issue with your Quake 3 config files for the commercial release.
When you enter your CD Key, we store it in q3config.cfg in the cl_cdkey cvar. Unencrypted. Please treat your retail config files as you would the alarm code to your house, or the PIN number on your bank card. If you must send your configs to someone, please make sure to edit out the "set cl_cdkey xxx..." line.
It was brought to my attention that there was a scam with Half-Life CD Keys a while back where people were asked to e-mail their configs to HLSupport@hotmail.com or something to that effect, and I'd hate to see an innocent customer unknowingly succumb to a similar scam with Q3A.
Which makes me think of something else - because of the presense of SMS on a machine, then the security of everything the user of that machine has access to is dependant on the security of SMS - i.e. cracking SMS is the leaf node of .
Is it just me, or does the author have a thing with BackOrfice? He didn't mention anything else, like MS SMS.
If you're at an SMS infected workplace, then you basically have no privacy, so PGP will do you no good (well, if you can't guarentee that the message is secure, what good is it?), even over SSH.
(they changed the introductory CS classes at my school to use it, just recently, but what do I care, the upper level classes use C because it works:)
Several universities have done this because of deals with Sun. I know at the local University, they have Sun boxes and the putrid JavaStations everywhere, and have started teaching Java in first year.
Actually quite a good move by Sun - make the CS Graduates of the future at least somewhat familiar with thier language, to try and reinforce thier ubiquity.
... is if this is installed on a developer/tester's workstation in an e-commerce/web design shop.
What kind of information could be gleamed from them by the record of all thier internal urls?
In certain circumstances, this could be espionage.
(note : I know that now all sysadmins everywhere are banning this software, and they shouldn't have run it in the first place, but up until now, it's just been a harmless desktop toy. Who would have cared about it?)
Not possible, unless RedHat somehow becomes the sole copyright holder of those programs. Which isn't bloody likely.
Do you have any actual behaviour on the part of redhat to back up these suppositions, or is it just 'I don't like RH because they *could* do this if they wanted to'?.
It's kind of scary... why don't they just stick to providing services, instead of buying out open source companies?
A single linux distribtution does not an open source company make. Corel provides things like WP and CorelDraw for Windows, which is hardly an open source line of buisness.
Bravo to Activision and every other company releasing a Linux version of popular games.
Activision is actually publishing Q3 for Linux? I thought that Id was looking for another publisher familiar with Linux to do that. There was an old/. article just less than year ago which had Carmack asking/. for another publisher for Q3A for Linux. He had asked RHAT, but they declined.
I would find the link to the old article, but I can't search the archives beyond a few weeks back. What's up with that?
Mozilla is kind of borked with respect to forms. The delete key seems not to like me.
Anyway, to reiterate :
Not on any of the original texts, no. However, if you create a new translation/interpretation, you will have copyright over that.
The New International Version is an example - you have to pay for it. It's not available free (as in downloadable/redistributable) anywhere.
The copyright (I think) is currently helpd by a combination of the International Bible Society, The Committee on Bibile Translation, and Zondervan Publishing.
Not on any of the original texts, no. However, if you create a new translation/interpretation, you certainly will have copyright over that. The New International Version of the bible is an example - it's not available free anywhere. The copyright is currently held by a combination of the International Bible Society, the Commitee on Bible Translation, and . I think. There's info .
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Actually, if you check out 3dfx's Voodoo 5 (or 6 - not sure which), it has an *external* DC power adapter.
No...
No!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
The return of FMV games!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhh!!!
You're giving me nightmares. FMV games sucked on the Sega CD, and they would suck on DVD.
No, 'strue! Guinness contains lots of iron, which led to doctors prescribing it to pregnant women a few decades ago.
That's not *quite* true. It was prescribed to nursing women (i.e. after they had given birth).
But can you watch a VCD as well?
Pr0n is not just pictures.
That's probably because OS/X is based on NeXT, which *drumroll* Window Maker and Afterstep both clone.
Dude, you were obviously *not* around for the Magic: The Gathering craze.
God, I don't want to know how much money I spent on those things....
Hell, I remember buying 3-4 *boxes* of cards at a time. I really should get together with some guys and play the game again. I haven't touched the cards in about 3 years.
That's not quite what I meant
I meant, could MIT's page have been cracked by a disgruntled (ex)-student-kiddie?
Could thier web server have just been cracked by some kiddie with an admirably twisted sense of humour?
that they should have brough John De Lance in as his successor...
Another review at ship-of-fools.com.
Then what's FreeBS?
ZDnet?
I understand that MP3s are not intrinsically illegal, but I would venture to say that 90% or more of MP3s are illegally obtained. The people behind Napster most probably know this. That was my argument. BTW, all my friends (but *cough* not me) use the file transfer feature of ICQ to transmit warez as well as MP3s.
And this was probably the same argument the RIAA used to try and nuke Diamond for the Rio... and lost, becuase you *can* use the Rio legally, it's not illegal. Same with Napster - you can use it legally, and it was designed to be used legally - just because 90% of the people are going to use it illegally doesn't mean that the creators of it are responsible for that usage.
Whether or not you agree with that is another story.
From Here:
On another note, I thought it important to address a security issue with your
Quake 3 config files for the commercial release.
When you enter your CD Key, we store it in q3config.cfg in the cl_cdkey cvar.
Unencrypted. Please treat your retail config files as you would the alarm code
to your house, or the PIN number on your bank card. If you must send your configs
to someone, please make sure to edit out the "set cl_cdkey xxx..." line.
It was brought to my attention that there was a scam with Half-Life CD Keys a
while back where people were asked to e-mail their configs to HLSupport@hotmail.com
or something to that effect, and I'd hate to see an innocent customer unknowingly
succumb to a similar scam with Q3A.
Cheers,
-Xian
Which makes me think of something else - because of the presense of SMS on a machine, then the security of everything the user of that machine has access to is dependant on the security of SMS - i.e. cracking SMS is the leaf node of .
Yet another reason not to use crap like that.
Is it just me, or does the author have a thing with BackOrfice? He didn't mention anything else, like MS SMS.
If you're at an SMS infected workplace, then you basically have no privacy, so PGP will do you no good (well, if you can't guarentee that the message is secure, what good is it?), even over SSH.
(they changed the introductory CS classes at my school to use it, just recently, but what do I care, the upper level classes use C because it works :)
Several universities have done this because of deals with Sun. I know at the local University, they have Sun boxes and the putrid JavaStations everywhere, and have started teaching Java in first year.
Actually quite a good move by Sun - make the CS Graduates of the future at least somewhat familiar with thier language, to try and reinforce thier ubiquity.
... is if this is installed on a developer/tester's workstation in an e-commerce/web design shop.
What kind of information could be gleamed from them by the record of all thier internal urls?
In certain circumstances, this could be espionage.
(note : I know that now all sysadmins everywhere are banning this software, and they shouldn't have run it in the first place, but up until now, it's just been a harmless desktop toy. Who would have cared about it?)
Am I the only person who has never heard of this software before?
Comment ended due to lack of information.
[crap about RH & gcc/sendmail]
Not possible, unless RedHat somehow becomes the sole copyright holder of those programs. Which isn't bloody likely.
Do you have any actual behaviour on the part of redhat to back up these suppositions, or is it just 'I don't like RH because they *could* do this if they wanted to'?.
It's kind of scary... why don't they just stick to providing services, instead of buying out open source companies?
A single linux distribtution does not an open source company make. Corel provides things like WP and CorelDraw for Windows, which is hardly an open source line of buisness.
he probably meant 'loot'...
Bravo to Activision and every other company releasing a Linux version of popular games.
Activision is actually publishing Q3 for Linux? I thought that Id was looking for another publisher familiar with Linux to do that. There was an old
I would find the link to the old article, but I can't search the archives beyond a few weeks back. What's up with that?
WTF?
Mozilla is kind of borked with respect to forms.
The delete key seems not to like me.
Anyway, to reiterate :
Not on any of the original texts, no. However, if you create a new translation/interpretation, you will have copyright over that.
The New International Version is an example - you have to pay for it. It's not available free (as in downloadable/redistributable) anywhere.
The copyright (I think) is currently helpd by a combination of the International Bible Society, The Committee on Bibile Translation, and Zondervan Publishing.
More info about it is here.
Not on any of the original texts, no. However, if you create a new translation/interpretation, you certainly will have copyright over that. The New International Version of the bible is an example - it's not available free anywhere. The copyright is currently held by a combination of the International Bible Society, the Commitee on Bible Translation, and . I think. There's info .
.... which would explain the 'accidental' crippling of Lotus Notes as well.
So you want graphic artists and interface designers working on the internal code?
*shudder*