The ads I've seen in-game Anarchy Online are generally static and animated billboards and posters. For example billboards in large cities and posters on the wall in subways. Personally I think it adds realism to the environment. IMHO it's (at this point at least) minimal and tastefully done.
Don't think it would work in fantasy MMORPGS like Wow though.
What networks did you include in your study? I think that the average torrentbits user uploaded far more then they downloaded.
I think this 80/20 rule probably applies to Bittorrent 'in the wild' a-la suprnova. But not close-gated communities like torrentbits -- which had more then one type of reward system in place to encourage uploading.
There's tons of links about M$-FUD relating to DR-Dos in google ( Windows even threw up a bogus error message when run under DR-Dos):
http://www.cavcomp.demon.co.uk/halloween/fuddef. ht ml http://www.my-opensource.org/lists/myoss/1999- 05/m sg00192.html
Just google for 'accusations dr-dos' and 'dr-dos fud'
What's more important . . .
on
Meteorite Hits Girl
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· Score: 1, Interesting
. . . is that if this poor girl got hit by the meteorite -- she should now 'own it' (IMHO). Meteorites are a very valuable commodity, and this wouldn't be the first time one has been snached up quickly by those who don't deserve. . .
It's almost precisely what reversers for cracking/warez groups have been doing for 20+ years. A large group of system/network security professionals today started off reversing viruses in the MS-Dos days, and/or cracking programs for fun and profit in the warez scene.
Due to the nature of 'Open Source', end-users will likely be using the software long before a commercial company would release it. Open Source software is meant to be shared (even at it's most alpha stages). I think that most 'open source' coders put function above form, and features above stability. As coders become satisfied with their implemented feature-set -- they will go back and improve documentation/stability/correctness. A good example of this IMHO is rsync.
Please go read Eeye's excellent response. Aleph1 only allowed this to be posted to BugTraq to once again EDUCATE the public on how this type of thinking is FLAWED.
I wish slashdot had investigated this submission instead of just running with it.
No -- what you speak of will make a more 'user-friendly OS'. User friendly = loss of power. I don't care to field off any theoretial arguments on that (yet).
It's interesting how everyone was happy on the 'net before big-business moved in. Linux/Open Source/whatever doesn't 'have' to compete with Corporate America.
THe author believes that the 'network' part of the internet will supercede the 'host' part of the internet technology-wise, and compares this to our land-line phone system layout.
This is misleading -- the entire purpose of the telephone network is to connect your phone to someone elses -- that's the real value.
On the internet, the only reason for the network to exist is to provide access to the content on the hosts.
It should have been released sooner. All the 'commercial-friendly'/1 week advisory waiting period/vendor co-operation/etc 'ethics' that exist today do nothing more then alienate the white-hats knowledge of the 'black-hats' bleeding edge.
And it should have been released sooner. All the 'commercial-friendly'/1 week advisory waiting period/vendor co-operation/etc 'ethics' that exist today do nothing more then alienate the white-hats knowledge of the 'black-hats' bleeding edge.
Umm, it may be true that the resultant code from a compiled c program will be optimized very well -- but it is still very true that writing your own asm will result in MUCH less actual code to do the same work -- especially in some tight loops. Thus, this code should run faster with only 1/2 the calories.
Steve Gibson knows exactly what he is doing, look at this FUD on his website now:
"News Flash: SlashDot Discovers NanoProbes
I have been expecting this to happen, though it took longer than I expected: An entertaining discussion thread on SlashDot was launched Friday, Sept 29th, by Commander Taco. For readers of my pages who don't know, SlashDot is a popular hangout for the (younger) Linux crowd where they have lots of fun and share ideas. SlashDot's sub-head reads: "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
It tends to be light on fact and heavy on invective and misinformation - especially where anything non-Linux, Microsoft, or Windows is involved. But it is, after all just a discussion board, and it always entertains.
Reading through all of the angst this page has generated makes me wish that I had this stuff all running so that they'd have something more to play but that will happen soon enough!"
Steve does write excellent code -- and frequently his programs are more 'cutting-edge' then most others. BUT -- he knows that he is just talking about port-scanning and OS Fingerprinting.
When I questioned him at steve@grc.com, he replied twice to my inquiries with a whole lot of fluff / bloat-speak. He writes great code -- and he's not crazy. He's just using a very different marketing strategy.
Slashdot Mirror
PR disguised as a news article.
Cop cars already broadcast their GPS location in most jurisdictions.
I bought a Dell workstation about a 1.5 years ago with RedHat WS pre-installed.
The ads I've seen in-game Anarchy Online are generally static and animated billboards and posters. For example billboards in large cities and posters on the wall in subways. Personally I think it adds realism to the environment. IMHO it's (at this point at least) minimal and tastefully done.
Don't think it would work in fantasy MMORPGS like Wow though.
Here was the ruby version:
:a, :b
class Foo
attr_accessor
def add() a + b end
end
f = Foo.new
f.a = 1
f.b = 2
puts f.add
Here's the python version:
class Foo:
def __init__(self):
self.a = 0
self.b = 0
def add(self):
return (self.a + self.b)
f = Foo()
f.a = 1
f.b = 2
print f.add()
... pretty similar, no?
And for those of you who like things compact:
class Foo:
def __init__(self): self.a = self.b = 0
def add(self): return (self.a + self.b)
f = Foo()
f.a, f.b = 1, 2
print f.add()
What networks did you include in your study? I think that the average torrentbits user uploaded far more then they downloaded.
I think this 80/20 rule probably applies to Bittorrent 'in the wild' a-la suprnova. But not close-gated communities like torrentbits -- which had more then one type of reward system in place to encourage uploading.
There's tons of links about M$-FUD relating to DR-Dos in google ( Windows even threw up a bogus error message when run under DR-Dos):
. ht ml- 05/m sg00192.html
http://www.cavcomp.demon.co.uk/halloween/fuddef
http://www.my-opensource.org/lists/myoss/1999
Just google for 'accusations dr-dos' and 'dr-dos fud'
. . . is that if this poor girl got hit by the meteorite -- she should now 'own it' (IMHO). Meteorites are a very valuable commodity, and this wouldn't be the first time one has been snached up quickly by those who don't deserve. . .
It's almost precisely what reversers for cracking/warez groups have been doing for 20+ years. A large group of system/network security professionals today started off reversing viruses in the MS-Dos days, and/or cracking programs for fun and profit in the warez scene.
WHat about not being able to carbon date digital images to prove they are a specific time period?
That's something else to thing about.
Due to the nature of 'Open Source', end-users will likely be using the software long before a commercial company would release it. Open Source software is meant to be shared (even at it's most alpha stages). I think that most 'open source' coders put function above form, and features above stability. As coders become satisfied with their implemented feature-set -- they will go back and improve documentation/stability/correctness. A good example of this IMHO is rsync.
Please go read Eeye's excellent response. Aleph1 only allowed this to be posted to BugTraq to once again EDUCATE the public on how this type of thinking is FLAWED.
I wish slashdot had investigated this submission instead of just running with it.
Lots of things once believed to be black/white are really just on one extreme end of a continuum.
No -- what you speak of will make a more 'user-friendly OS'. User friendly = loss of power. I don't care to field off any theoretial arguments on that (yet). It's interesting how everyone was happy on the 'net before big-business moved in. Linux/Open Source/whatever doesn't 'have' to compete with Corporate America.
The ratio of fact / persuation is too high -- ignore this.
THe author believes that the 'network' part of the internet will supercede the 'host' part of the internet technology-wise, and compares this to our land-line phone system layout.
This is misleading -- the entire purpose of the telephone network is to connect your phone to someone elses -- that's the real value.
On the internet, the only reason for the network to exist is to provide access to the content on the hosts.
Both will be important.
"you do not understand". :)
It should have been released sooner. All the 'commercial-friendly'/1 week advisory waiting period/vendor co-operation/etc 'ethics' that exist today do nothing more then alienate the white-hats knowledge of the 'black-hats' bleeding edge.
And it should have been released sooner. All the 'commercial-friendly'/1 week advisory waiting period/vendor co-operation/etc 'ethics' that exist today do nothing more then alienate the white-hats knowledge of the 'black-hats' bleeding edge.
Umm, it may be true that the resultant code from a compiled c program will be optimized very well -- but it is still very true that writing your own asm will result in MUCH less actual code to do the same work -- especially in some tight loops. Thus, this code should run faster with only 1/2 the calories.
Steve does write excellent code -- and frequently his programs are more 'cutting-edge' then most others. BUT -- he knows that he is just talking about port-scanning and OS Fingerprinting. When I questioned him at steve@grc.com, he replied twice to my inquiries with a whole lot of fluff / bloat-speak. He writes great code -- and he's not crazy. He's just using a very different marketing strategy.