Other people have pointed this out, I'm sure, but the sircam worm has NOTHING to do with Outlook. Any windows user who opens an infected file becomes infected, and then starts sending out the worm. It prowls cached web files to discover emails, not Outlook-related crap.
Contrary to the story, even web-based email isn't safe. I use Yahoo, and it'll scan it for you--and correctly identify--but it still has the option to download the infected file.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sir cam.worm@mm.html is a good writup by Norton.
There are few studies of the effects of gaming, but some traits are increasingly obvious: gamers are often independent, strategic-thinkers and problem solvers.
Gaming doesn't produce those traits in gamers; people with those traits are more prone to an interest in games.
To use another example: while stamp collecting may be an excercise in patience, people with patience are more likely to take up stamp collecting...patience isn't an "effect" of stamp collecting.
Just a note: I only refer to MySQL since I've never dealt with PostreSQL.
One of MySQL's solutions to replication (before it added replication features) was an option to keep update logs which contained all INSERT commands it ran on a DB. To update a slave database you would simply feed the mysql client the updatelog.
A practical solution could be cycling the update log every hour, then having the slave databases fetch the hour update, etc...
Again, I have no idea if PostreSQL supports this, but just for reference here's the MySQL manual links:
I know jack shit about hard science myself, but Slashdot did recently run an article about space probes possibly travelling with magnetic solar "windsails".
Same thing, but on a larger intergalatic scale? Oh come on--you have to wonder.
None of these sites will tell you "all the great places to grab some dope or pickup som". iSONEWS will not tell you where or how to download CD images.
The comparisions extend even further--the Ecstasy drug testing sites will tell you which pills have DXM or other harmful chemicals, and iSONEWS will often report on any releases that have bad cracks or install problems.
When a pirated copy of Stars Wars Episode I was released last spring, every news agency--newspaper, magazine, tv--ran a story on it. Lucasfilm sent iSONEWS a happy little email about our reporting that, although I HIGHLY doubt they bothered to send CNN or ABCNews a letter.
The fact of the matter is iSONEWS is nothing more than a news and reporting site that covers events the mainstream media usually does not.
Through a deal with DoD we have a search very similiar to the old Dupecheck.com for 0-Day (ripped) releases.
The iSONEWS database, though, is manually updated and maintained seperate of other scene release databases.
One of dupecheck's problems, at least legally, was that its release listing consisted of directory names from FTP sites. This is a lot more information than just saving the name of the game (for various reasons).
Sega is definitely aware of emulation. Shenmue--one of their upcoming Dreamcast games--contains an arcade in the game where a few classic genesis games are playable in their entirety. Rumor has it that these games are run on an emulator--it certainly doesn't make sense to recode all of them.
Both Midway and Namco have released "classic" titles for the Dreamcast, each with a few of their old arcade titles. I'm sure Sega is considering releasing their own "Sega Classics", since if a few crappy arcade games can sell, surely a GD-ROM packed with Genesis games would. Heck, little kids that weren't around at the days of Genesis could probably be lulled into buying an all-in-one Sonic series game.
With the Playstation emulator Bleem!Cast on the way for Dreamcast (I'm assuming Sega licensed this, as all console companies control release titles--someone correct me if I'm wrong) Sega could certainly seek assistance from the Bleem! programmers if needed. Someone else mentioned that, legally, Sega cannot re-release games they did not develop (Konami games was used in the example). If Sega's allowing Bleem!Cast to be released then surely they're prepared for a legal battle with Sony. If that's the case I don't see why they wouldn't release games by other developers...legally one form of emulation is no different than another.
And about the 17-year old that created romnet/swapoo: if he gets in real trouble I'm sure his new employers will bail him out;)
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Other people have pointed this out, I'm sure, but the sircam worm has NOTHING to do with Outlook. Any windows user who opens an infected file becomes infected, and then starts sending out the worm. It prowls cached web files to discover emails, not Outlook-related crap.
r cam.worm@mm.html is a good writup by Norton.
Contrary to the story, even web-based email isn't safe. I use Yahoo, and it'll scan it for you--and correctly identify--but it still has the option to download the infected file. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.si
There are few studies of the effects of gaming, but some traits are increasingly obvious: gamers are often independent, strategic-thinkers and problem solvers.
Gaming doesn't produce those traits in gamers; people with those traits are more prone to an interest in games.
To use another example: while stamp collecting may be an excercise in patience, people with patience are more likely to take up stamp collecting...patience isn't an "effect" of stamp collecting.
Just a note: I only refer to MySQL since I've never dealt with PostreSQL.
One of MySQL's solutions to replication (before it added replication features) was an option to keep update logs which contained all INSERT commands it ran on a DB. To update a slave database you would simply feed the mysql client the updatelog.
A practical solution could be cycling the update log every hour, then having the slave databases fetch the hour update, etc...
Again, I have no idea if PostreSQL supports this, but just for reference here's the MySQL manual links:
21.1 Database replication with update log
21.3 The update log
I know jack shit about hard science myself, but Slashdot did recently run an article about space probes possibly travelling with magnetic solar "windsails".
Same thing, but on a larger intergalatic scale? Oh come on--you have to wonder.
The drug analogy has already been discussed, so both these posts are redundant.
There are plenty of sites that deal with drugs: www.erowid.org and www.lycaeum.org are good examples, as well as the many sites that report on Ectasy pill testing such as www.dancesafe.org and www.bluelight.nu.
None of these sites will tell you "all the great places to grab some dope or pickup som". iSONEWS will not tell you where or how to download CD images.
The comparisions extend even further--the Ecstasy drug testing sites will tell you which pills have DXM or other harmful chemicals, and iSONEWS will often report on any releases that have bad cracks or install problems.
Bah, specific or not it's still news reporting.
When a pirated copy of Stars Wars Episode I was released last spring, every news agency--newspaper, magazine, tv--ran a story on it. Lucasfilm sent iSONEWS a happy little email about our reporting that, although I HIGHLY doubt they bothered to send CNN or ABCNews a letter.
The fact of the matter is iSONEWS is nothing more than a news and reporting site that covers events the mainstream media usually does not.
Yes and no.
Through a deal with DoD we have a search very similiar to the old Dupecheck.com for 0-Day (ripped) releases.
The iSONEWS database, though, is manually updated and maintained seperate of other scene release databases.
One of dupecheck's problems, at least legally, was that its release listing consisted of directory names from FTP sites. This is a lot more information than just saving the name of the game (for various reasons).
Sega is definitely aware of emulation. Shenmue--one of their upcoming Dreamcast games--contains an arcade in the game where a few classic genesis games are playable in their entirety. Rumor has it that these games are run on an emulator--it certainly doesn't make sense to recode all of them. Both Midway and Namco have released "classic" titles for the Dreamcast, each with a few of their old arcade titles. I'm sure Sega is considering releasing their own "Sega Classics", since if a few crappy arcade games can sell, surely a GD-ROM packed with Genesis games would. Heck, little kids that weren't around at the days of Genesis could probably be lulled into buying an all-in-one Sonic series game. With the Playstation emulator Bleem!Cast on the way for Dreamcast (I'm assuming Sega licensed this, as all console companies control release titles--someone correct me if I'm wrong) Sega could certainly seek assistance from the Bleem! programmers if needed. Someone else mentioned that, legally, Sega cannot re-release games they did not develop (Konami games was used in the example). If Sega's allowing Bleem!Cast to be released then surely they're prepared for a legal battle with Sony. If that's the case I don't see why they wouldn't release games by other developers...legally one form of emulation is no different than another. And about the 17-year old that created romnet/swapoo: if he gets in real trouble I'm sure his new employers will bail him out ;)