Unless you have root, you can't do much damage to a system.
It's impossible to get root on a *nix system without permission, because it is designed that way.
You don't need to be running as root for worms to propogate themselves. One of the first worms ran amok through *nix machines in the early 90's, and was written by Robert Morris Jr. (son of Robert Morris Sr. at the NSA).
If you haven't read the Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, you should. Not much about worms, but the last chapter deals with the one I mentioned above.
I believe how it works is that every 1000 years, the Earth Simulator comes out of his hole. If he sees his shadow, then it is 1000 more years of global warming.
It is my belief that if God had not intended for us to make discoveries via stem cell research, then He would not have given us the intelligence to do so.
Using that logic, God intends us to watch Full House, blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, and cut our hair with the Flo-Bee.
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Everyone complains about the lack of creativity in games, and how there is little room for innovation in such a hit/profit oriented market.
I applaud Nintendo for taking their hit series in a new direction, and for having the guts to do something different for a change (no I don't count Dragon's Lair to be in the same category)
The artists should be filing lawsuits against the people who wrote and recorded their music. If that hadn't happened, MP3.com couldn't have made the artist's music freely available and others couldn't have exploited them on napster.
> Do we really want to cause the death of an industry for the sake of cheap electricity?
Industries shouldn't be kept around just because they currently exist. It's inefficient, and a bad way to rationalize any decision. Cheap electricity would benfit people far more than the temporary inconvenience it would cause people in the power industry, although, as you pointed out, there are serious dangers that come up. The dangers are reason enough to go against walkman fisson reactors.
The change that they're testing first is the addition of a luminosity gene from a jellyfish, and later an alteration that will make them sterile so they can mate with non-altered moths and create sterile offspring
Hmm... that sounds like some supicious pyramid schemes I've heard in the past.
MS has already said they weren't going to let devs go "port happy" and port all the popular PC games to the xbox without siginificant improvements.
Also, this has been said a million times, but Windows-PC games are not compatible with the xbox at all. Developing a game with the WinPC's DirectX and the Xbox's directX will be similar, but there are still some significant differences.
We could ship them off with all the hair dressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, secuirity guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name it. They're going to colonize another planet.
I can remember watching the Challenger take off on TV as a kid. They had a live camera on Christa McAuliffe's students and parents, and it was an extremely sad moment when the shuttle exploded, and half the students cheered thinking that was part of a normal shuttle takeoff.
I can only imagine what those people felt after they realized what actually happened.
Most of you probably know that Daily Radar is made up of a lot of people from PC Gamer magazine. In an ad run by babbages (and its associated companies) in the January issue of PC Gamer, a graphic was used from Age of Empires. I run an Age of Empires fan site, and it is pretty common for the game's promotional images put out by Ensemble Studios and Microsoft to be available for use in promoting the game.
Anyway, the picture used in the ad was of a rider on a horse, waving a sword in the air. The problem was that the picture was obviously lifted directly from my web site, because I noticed a few obvious changes I had made to the graphic in order to fit the site. Age of Empires Heaven has a "heaven" theme to it, so I stuck wings on the rider's back, and some artist idiot at babbages/gamestop.com/software etc. lifted this graphic and stuck it into the ad, despite the fact that there are no winged riders in the game.
Here's what I'm talking about. It will show both pictures. I'm not exactly sure what the legal issues are with that, because I didn't create the rider, I just made the wings. Obviously, they shouldn't have used it, though.
I got a good laugh out of it, and an apology from babbages, btw.
I run a large Age of Empires 2 fan site, and we have had our share of dealing with ad companies.
The main problem in trying to make money is not necessarily that banner ads don't bring in enough money, but that bandwidth costs so much.
We recently leased a second server from our hosting company only because we needed to extra bandwidth that came with the package. It will be nice in the future if bandwith costs are brought down further. That way, you would definitely see an increase in the number of "hobby" and "fan". Right now, if you grow too fast, you will pretty much run yourself out of buisness.
One issue that many doomsayers overlook is economic freedom. Choosing your own way of earning/spending money is one of the most important freedoms you can have. It isn't protected by the US Constitution, and is usually the first privledge to be hindered by taxes.
In a free economic society, the rich do have more power than the poor, and that is why the government needs to have certain safeguards in place to promote opportunity and productivity through education.
Politcal freedom, expressive freedom, etc. are all fostered in a place of economic freedom ( read Milton Friedman ), and hindered without it.
If the rogues had wanted to do serious damage to high levelers, they should have given them better weapons and stats, thus leaving all previous accomplishments suspect.
Anyone notice that Myst didn't have any games listed that were influenced by it? With the exception of its sequel, Riven, I can't think of any games either. Just because it is the top selling game of all time, doesn't mean it is influential. Case in point, n'SYNC sells more records than Radiohead does, but a band like Radiohead will inspire many more people to get into music than n'SYNC will.
Games like Myst are enjoyed by many, but try finding a game developer who liked it.
Anyone who claims information has no limiting factor, obviously hasn't had to pay a huge bandwidth bill recently.
I run a collection of fan sites for PC Games with a few other guys, and it costs a decent amount of money to send out 50 gigs of data per week. With that plus two servers, we're already talking over $1000 per month. Sure, this may sound cheap for as many people who get to enjoy the site, but since we can't charge for anything due to competition, you're lucky if you can make money with any amount of traffic.
Just read any gaming news site these days, and you'll see the networks folding like lawn chairs, because banner ads just don't sell well enough. There are isloated cases where they work (this site probably does ok with them), but for the most part, our information is HEAVILY limited by distribution costs.
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No one runs *nix as root.
Unless you have root, you can't do much damage to a system.
It's impossible to get root on a *nix system without permission, because it is designed that way.
You don't need to be running as root for worms to propogate themselves. One of the first worms ran amok through *nix machines in the early 90's, and was written by Robert Morris Jr. (son of Robert Morris Sr. at the NSA).
If you haven't read the Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, you should. Not much about worms, but the last chapter deals with the one I mentioned above.
I believe how it works is that every 1000 years, the Earth Simulator comes out of his hole. If he sees his shadow, then it is 1000 more years of global warming.
Washizu
It is my belief that if God had not intended for us to make discoveries via stem cell research, then He would not have given us the intelligence to do so.
Using that logic, God intends us to watch Full House, blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, and cut our hair with the Flo-Bee.
Everyone complains about the lack of creativity in games, and how there is little room for innovation in such a hit/profit oriented market.
I applaud Nintendo for taking their hit series in a new direction, and for having the guts to do something different for a change (no I don't count Dragon's Lair to be in the same category)
Ben
The artists should be filing lawsuits against the people who wrote and recorded their music. If that hadn't happened, MP3.com couldn't have made the artist's music freely available and others couldn't have exploited them on napster.
> Do we really want to cause the death of an industry for the sake of cheap electricity?
Industries shouldn't be kept around just because they currently exist. It's inefficient, and a bad way to rationalize any decision. Cheap electricity would benfit people far more than the temporary inconvenience it would cause people in the power industry, although, as you pointed out, there are serious dangers that come up. The dangers are reason enough to go against walkman fisson reactors.
"Hey mister... would you buy Duke 4Ever for me? Please?" Don't worry, we'll all be 100 before Duke4Ever comes out.
The change that they're testing first is the addition of a luminosity gene from a jellyfish, and later an alteration that will make them sterile so they can mate with non-altered moths and create sterile offspring
Hmm... that sounds like some supicious pyramid schemes I've heard in the past.
MS has already said they weren't going to let devs go "port happy" and port all the popular PC games to the xbox without siginificant improvements. Also, this has been said a million times, but Windows-PC games are not compatible with the xbox at all. Developing a game with the WinPC's DirectX and the Xbox's directX will be similar, but there are still some significant differences.
We could ship them off with all the hair dressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, secuirity guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name it. They're going to colonize another planet.
I can remember watching the Challenger take off on TV as a kid. They had a live camera on Christa McAuliffe's students and parents, and it was an extremely sad moment when the shuttle exploded, and half the students cheered thinking that was part of a normal shuttle takeoff.
I can only imagine what those people felt after they realized what actually happened.
Most of you probably know that Daily Radar is made up of a lot of people from PC Gamer magazine. In an ad run by babbages (and its associated companies) in the January issue of PC Gamer, a graphic was used from Age of Empires. I run an Age of Empires fan site, and it is pretty common for the game's promotional images put out by Ensemble Studios and Microsoft to be available for use in promoting the game.
Anyway, the picture used in the ad was of a rider on a horse, waving a sword in the air. The problem was that the picture was obviously lifted directly from my web site, because I noticed a few obvious changes I had made to the graphic in order to fit the site. Age of Empires Heaven has a "heaven" theme to it, so I stuck wings on the rider's back, and some artist idiot at babbages/gamestop.com/software etc. lifted this graphic and stuck it into the ad, despite the fact that there are no winged riders in the game.
Here's what I'm talking about. It will show both pictures. I'm not exactly sure what the legal issues are with that, because I didn't create the rider, I just made the wings. Obviously, they shouldn't have used it, though.
I got a good laugh out of it, and an apology from babbages, btw.
I run a large Age of Empires 2 fan site, and we have had our share of dealing with ad companies.
The main problem in trying to make money is not necessarily that banner ads don't bring in enough money, but that bandwidth costs so much.
We recently leased a second server from our hosting company only because we needed to extra bandwidth that came with the package. It will be nice in the future if bandwith costs are brought down further. That way, you would definitely see an increase in the number of "hobby" and "fan". Right now, if you grow too fast, you will pretty much run yourself out of buisness.
Do I have to pay a licensing fee to use my eyes now?
One issue that many doomsayers overlook is economic freedom. Choosing your own way of earning/spending money is one of the most important freedoms you can have. It isn't protected by the US Constitution, and is usually the first privledge to be hindered by taxes.
In a free economic society, the rich do have more power than the poor, and that is why the government needs to have certain safeguards in place to promote opportunity and productivity through education.
Politcal freedom, expressive freedom, etc. are all fostered in a place of economic freedom ( read Milton Friedman ), and hindered without it.
If the rogues had wanted to do serious damage to high levelers, they should have given them better weapons and stats, thus leaving all previous accomplishments suspect.
Anyone notice that Myst didn't have any games listed that were influenced by it? With the exception of its sequel, Riven, I can't think of any games either. Just because it is the top selling game of all time, doesn't mean it is influential. Case in point, n'SYNC sells more records than Radiohead does, but a band like Radiohead will inspire many more people to get into music than n'SYNC will.
Games like Myst are enjoyed by many, but try finding a game developer who liked it.
Anyone who claims information has no limiting factor, obviously hasn't had to pay a huge bandwidth bill recently.
I run a collection of fan sites for PC Games with a few other guys, and it costs a decent amount of money to send out 50 gigs of data per week. With that plus two servers, we're already talking over $1000 per month. Sure, this may sound cheap for as many people who get to enjoy the site, but since we can't charge for anything due to competition, you're lucky if you can make money with any amount of traffic. Just read any gaming news site these days, and you'll see the networks folding like lawn chairs, because banner ads just don't sell well enough. There are isloated cases where they work (this site probably does ok with them), but for the most part, our information is HEAVILY limited by distribution costs.