Hobbyists. Cryptographers. Computer scientists to research the following: - Real-time ray-tracing implementations - Hardware based physics engines. - Hardware based compression algorithms i.e. fractal compression. - Hardware based encryption - Real-time Accelerated video compression/decompression - Genetic algorithms - Neural networks. - AI
Yes they have the right to try to lock down their servers, and we have the right to punish them in every way possible for locking out legitimate uses of their product. One of the fundamental tenets of the GPL is to maintain the rights of the end users to do what they want with the software they have received. They do not have the right to shut down other peoples servers.
That's what you're missing. It's MY software, I bought it with MY money, I can use it the way I want to. They do NOT have the right to restrict how I use my software.
The fact that they were using it to play pirated copies is a real shame. There are many more reasons to have a reverse engineered server than mere piracy. If it were as simple as you say then why is the EFF into it?
Oh and I did work on an a multiplayer first person RTS: It was called Island of Zaran, and it was based on the Half-Life engine. (It was a buggy mess so I gave up. That and Hellgate London came out which implemented most of the ideas I was shooting for.)
I'm the author of 2 or 3 polished maps, including Traps & Towers TD for WC3. I love the power of the editor, however, the server does not allow modified clients and blizzard does not allow users to run their own servers. One of the rather severe drawbacks with WC3 is the lack of client side storage space for map driven save game data. Another is the lack of the ability to chain to another map in multiplayer. With those two capabilities you could implement a full up version of Neverwinter Nights. A modified server would handle these.
So unfortunately, your example only serves to reinforce my point.
Nope, they were all Blood elves or humans. Troll female hair is nasty lookin.
I played WoW for 2-3 months (for free), and now I'm done with it and am back to serving the sadomasochists at Funcom (AnarchyOnline.com). I would really like to be able to host my own MMO server with available source.
Saying an MMO should not be open source is to espouse security through obscurity.
So hypothetically speaking if a group of very intelligent computer users were able to fake IP addresses of several important people in China, and make it look like they posted stuff like that, or porn, we could get their entire government to turn over?
So THAT's why the US Army is so interested in online warfare.
They were one of the early abusers of the DMCA hammer, and they used it to shut down reverse engineering of the server protocol that would have allowed widespread modifications of the Diablo 2 engine.
If there is no randomness in the universe, then everything in the universe is deliberate, and this is the entire basis for intelligent design. The only way to logically dispute intelligent design is by proving that randomness exists somewhere in the universe. That sound rather odd to me. I don't know much about this "Intelligent Design" you speak of, but I believe in a God that created the universe to allow humans to have free will. The existence of randomness merely proves that God did not create us as automatons.
How do I reconcile God being omniscient and having randomness? Simple: God exists across the time dimension. He can see the results of all our decisions, but if he interacts with us he may not be able to predict all the results of his interactions.
The server at www.c64web.com is taking too long to respond. Already slashdotted. What is that thing hosted on? A C-64? Dude at least upgrade to a C-128!
That is actually an excellent plan. Sell the computers to schools at half price with a clause in the contract that requires them not to reflash the BIOS (where the botnet is stored). That way you have computers distributed all around the country, and you could have about 40 thousand Dells. Buy up OLPCs, infect them, send them to the children in Africa, etc and the attacked country can't just block the US.
So in the grand/. tradition:
Step 1: Buy computers and infect with US Army botnet. Step 2: Sell/give computers to schools around the world Step 3: Sell advertising space on the boot splash screen. Step 4: ??? (spam your enemies to death) Step 5: Profit.
encrypting the local store for plausible deniability, are pretty much incompatible with certain convenience features of BitTorrent You're right. Good point.
Would it ruin plausible deniability to have a stenographically hidden (i.e. truecrypt) directory pointing to a set of files that you want to directly access? Something along the lines of a file system driver so it appears as a file system folder.
Chewing up 2x the hard disk space IS a huge waste:(
Let's make our own platform that's easier to use than DX9. Games are the one market that aren't minor upgrades of last years code. A lot of games are written from scratch. Combine a CD bootable distribution with a really easy to use and powerful gaming library and a couple of gaming companies could get a lot of people familiar with Linux.
Gamers are fickle. We're always after teh new shiny. Wouldn't take that much to get us dual booting. Heck a lot of us have several boxes and we could run Linux full time on one of em.
The 'car' has to haul around those bigass wings. Cars like vw beetles haul around surfboards all the time. Airplane wings are designed to be very light. Putting them on the sides where they create a blind spot rather then telescoping or mounting them on top is the part that doesn't make sense to me...
What I see is that this is going to cause a backlash *against* Blender development for Windows. Brilliant! We need a few more truly awesome Linux only applications and games. Even better would be an application that could not possibly run on Windows with decent performance because of several Windows architecture shortcomings.
I've run Redhat, Debian, and Gentoo, but right now I've been running just windows because I'm so lazy. If a killer game came out that had awesome gameplay and say raytraced graphics, it would force me to get off the stick and install Linux again. That and a sweet IDE in combination with a really comprehensive well documented and easy to use set of libraries would be enough to get me developing stuff in Linux.
One of the problems I have now that I'm older is that it's not fun anymore to whip up a little program to do something. Back in the day on Turbo C the program was compiled and running before you could get your finger off of the run button. Nowadays the environments I've used are dog slow and not well integrated, so getting a quick little draw graphics type app running is too much like work.
or about the severely retarded (and I mean severely - minimally functional vs a funny-looking slow guy who can't make it on his own) having their rights downgraded due to missing critical elements of a human mind? Retarded peoples rights are downgraded. If they injure or kill someone they are not held legally responsible for their actions. They are denied other rights in order to protect them from being injured or from injuring themselves.
If I ever am severely brain damaged I would rather be terminated than continue living. Making that call for someone else is really really hard. See the cases of families deciding when to pull the plug.
The property issue isn't. If you argue that man can be owned, well, the last time that happened it took a civil war to kill of that idea. Decide whether or not it is man, and you will know based on the Declaration of Independence whether or not it has the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
Actually I get into a mode where I de-emphasize my central vision and concentrate on my peripheral when playing top down arcade shooters. If I'm looking around the screen normally I tend to get hit because I miss something coming at me from behind or from the bottom corners.
Peripheral vision is much faster than straight ahead, and it is what allows me to shoot fast moving objects in FPSs as they fly by me (Natural Selection). I don't even have time to move my eyes to track the object, it's an instinctual twitch movement that allows me to occasionally hit them.
So no, I may not be able to count your fingers, but I can tell which direction they're moving faster than if I was looking straight at them.
Actually it was the GGOD, not the Flames Under Dome that killed the Hindenberg occupants.
If they offered a $75 cross-country trip in a hydrogen zeppelin I'd take it. There's no reason that a hydrogen zeppelin can't be made safe for the occupants. Just design the thing so that if it goes up in flames it's no big deal. So long as the envelope won't completely combust within 1 minute it works just right handily as a parachute, and hydrogen burns UP not down. After all, we have cannons firing inside our cars throwing metal slugs weighing a pound ore more thousands of times a second.
You kinda proved my point. I was trying to say that if you make it simple they will come. If they can make it easier to do both legit and non-legit via Freenet, they can come out ahead. The other issue is performance. Freenets architecture should be able to compete on performance too because more hosts should be available than on BT.
My point is that active content is being comprehensively blocked due to abuse. Designing your site to require it for navigation or critical content is completely FUBAR.
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Hobbyists.
Cryptographers.
Computer scientists to research the following:
- Real-time ray-tracing implementations
- Hardware based physics engines.
- Hardware based compression algorithms i.e. fractal compression.
- Hardware based encryption
- Real-time Accelerated video compression/decompression
- Genetic algorithms
- Neural networks.
- AI
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
And there you have it folks, the birth of a new Slashdot meme.
... and a pony.
Yes they have the right to try to lock down their servers, and we have the right to punish them in every way possible for locking out legitimate uses of their product. One of the fundamental tenets of the GPL is to maintain the rights of the end users to do what they want with the software they have received. They do not have the right to shut down other peoples servers.
That's what you're missing. It's MY software, I bought it with MY money, I can use it the way I want to. They do NOT have the right to restrict how I use my software.
The fact that they were using it to play pirated copies is a real shame. There are many more reasons to have a reverse engineered server than mere piracy. If it were as simple as you say then why is the EFF into it?
Oh and I did work on an a multiplayer first person RTS: It was called Island of Zaran, and it was based on the Half-Life engine. (It was a buggy mess so I gave up. That and Hellgate London came out which implemented most of the ideas I was shooting for.)
I'm the author of 2 or 3 polished maps, including Traps & Towers TD for WC3.
I love the power of the editor, however, the server does not allow modified clients and blizzard does not allow users to run their own servers.
One of the rather severe drawbacks with WC3 is the lack of client side storage space for map driven save game data. Another is the lack of the ability to chain to another map in multiplayer. With those two capabilities you could implement a full up version of Neverwinter Nights. A modified server would handle these.
So unfortunately, your example only serves to reinforce my point.
Nope, they were all Blood elves or humans. Troll female hair is nasty lookin.
I played WoW for 2-3 months (for free), and now I'm done with it and am back to serving the sadomasochists at Funcom (AnarchyOnline.com). I would really like to be able to host my own MMO server with available source.
Saying an MMO should not be open source is to espouse security through obscurity.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
So hypothetically speaking if a group of very intelligent computer users were able to fake IP addresses of several important people in China, and make it look like they posted stuff like that, or porn, we could get their entire government to turn over?
So THAT's why the US Army is so interested in online warfare.
Don't forget people, Blizzard is evil.
They were one of the early abusers of the DMCA hammer, and they used it to shut down reverse engineering of the server protocol that would have allowed widespread modifications of the Diablo 2 engine.
Blizzard does not allow mods like Valve does.
How do I reconcile God being omniscient and having randomness? Simple: God exists across the time dimension. He can see the
results of all our decisions, but if he interacts with us he may not be able to predict all the results of his interactions.
The rating of the parent (currently at +4 with no negative mods) is even more informative than the content of his post.
Would someone please mod parent either funny, insightful, or informative so I can know which it is?
The idea of a C64 with an IP address just cracks me up.
1/2 off my next computer if it runs a Botnet from the US Army? I'd be tempted.
Tons of people run SETI at home et al.
Just make it so that the portion of the BIOS EEProm that contains the botnet can't be reflashed without having a US Army private key.
That is actually an excellent plan.
/. tradition:
Sell the computers to schools at half price with a clause in the contract that requires them not to reflash the BIOS (where the botnet is stored). That way you have computers distributed all around the country, and you could have about 40 thousand Dells. Buy up OLPCs, infect them, send them to the children in Africa, etc and the attacked country can't just block the US.
So in the grand
Step 1: Buy computers and infect with US Army botnet.
Step 2: Sell/give computers to schools around the world
Step 3: Sell advertising space on the boot splash screen.
Step 4: ??? (spam your enemies to death)
Step 5: Profit.
Would it ruin plausible deniability to have a stenographically hidden (i.e. truecrypt) directory pointing to a set of files that you want to directly access? Something along the lines of a file system driver so it appears as a file system folder.
Chewing up 2x the hard disk space IS a huge waste
We actually don't need to port DX9 to Windows.
Let's make our own platform that's easier to use than DX9. Games are the one market that aren't minor upgrades of last years code. A lot of games are written from scratch. Combine a CD bootable distribution with a really easy to use and powerful gaming library and a couple of gaming companies could get a lot of people familiar with Linux.
Gamers are fickle. We're always after teh new shiny. Wouldn't take that much to get us dual booting. Heck a lot of us have several boxes and we could run Linux full time on one of em.
Laser bounce from a satellite in orbit?
Only way I could see to MITM attack it would be to put a blimp drone or maneuver a satellite between the two.
I've run Redhat, Debian, and Gentoo, but right now I've been running just windows because I'm so lazy. If a killer game came out that had awesome gameplay and say raytraced graphics, it would force me to get off the stick and install Linux again. That and a sweet IDE in combination with a really comprehensive well documented and easy to use set of libraries would be enough to get me developing stuff in Linux.
One of the problems I have now that I'm older is that it's not fun anymore to whip up a little program to do something. Back in the day on Turbo C the program was compiled and running before you could get your finger off of the run button. Nowadays the environments I've used are dog slow and not well integrated, so getting a quick little draw graphics type app running is too much like work.
(not saying that would be more fun, just saying you might like them)
If I ever am severely brain damaged I would rather be terminated than continue living. Making that call for someone else is really really hard. See the cases of families deciding when to pull the plug.
The property issue isn't. If you argue that man can be owned, well, the last time that happened it took a civil war to kill of that idea. Decide whether or not it is man, and you will know based on the Declaration of Independence whether or not it has the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
Actually I get into a mode where I de-emphasize my central vision and concentrate on my peripheral when playing top down arcade shooters. If I'm looking around the screen normally I tend to get hit because I miss something coming at me from behind or from the bottom corners.
Peripheral vision is much faster than straight ahead, and it is what allows me to shoot fast moving objects in FPSs as they fly by me (Natural Selection). I don't even have time to move my eyes to track the object, it's an instinctual twitch movement that allows me to occasionally hit them.
So no, I may not be able to count your fingers, but I can tell which direction they're moving faster than if I was looking straight at them.
Actually it was the GGOD, not the Flames Under Dome that killed the Hindenberg occupants.
If they offered a $75 cross-country trip in a hydrogen zeppelin I'd take it. There's no reason that a hydrogen zeppelin can't be made safe for the occupants. Just design the thing so that if it goes up in flames it's no big deal. So long as the envelope won't completely combust within 1 minute it works just right handily as a parachute, and hydrogen burns UP not down. After all, we have cannons firing inside our cars throwing metal slugs weighing a pound ore more thousands of times a second.
You kinda proved my point.
I was trying to say that if you make it simple they will come.
If they can make it easier to do both legit and non-legit via Freenet, they can come out ahead. The other issue is performance. Freenets architecture should be able to compete on performance too because more hosts should be available than on BT.
My point is that active content is being comprehensively blocked due to abuse.
Designing your site to require it for navigation or critical content is completely FUBAR.