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  1. Microsoft has gone this route for many years on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    With buffer overflows, over and over it's said they can be tested for, that there's no just reason for buffer overflows in this day and age.

    The fact is it takes more money, more time, and can easily be patched if one pops up.

  2. The silence for the Whales will be deafening on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 2

    About time...

    I've always thought with all the evidence of HAARP damaging the Whales many heredity traits, they should of been shut down a very long time ago.

  3. Re:Computer Science is not IT and at times not cod on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    What does installing video card have anything to do with CS? Or web pages?

    That site you linked to list several different areas of IT janitorial jobs under "Computer Science". Most of that list has as much to do with Computer Science as construction worker has to do with Physics.

    Coming out of that course they should of known the basics of a computer, how to build a computer if need be, it was in the syllabus -no matter what Computer Science is suppose to be. It was a Community College you purchase your degrees. It was after the fact that I realized that.

    I haven't been to school since around '96 when I created my web page it was only in HTML, Java was just coming out.
    I'm retired, before most of my jobs require schooling/training, mostly in house; as I'm sure most of you are required.

  4. Re:In a way... on Game Industry Fights Rising Development Costs · · Score: 1

    Now they'll finally have enough money to hire decent writers!

    BattleField 4 (BF4)... (a sore spot)

    Origin and Dice had the money, then dropped the ball in so many ways, that many are quitting BF4 or going back to BF3. Between the connection issues, bad color, unbelievable issues on a patch; things that would work prior don't anymore. It's become: christ! what the hell are up going to break this time.

    You mean EA and DICE.
     

    I honestly don't know anymore. It was said EA would be Origin total change, you could go to EA.com and go straight to Origin it's not like that now so whatever. they've changed their minds guess the EA.com domain name didn't fetch that much.

    I loved the Battlefield series, from 1942 all the way to BFBC 2. Even the bad games like BF:Vietnam and BF2142 weren't that bad... until Battlefield 3.

    BF3 broke the gameplay shockingly, the weapon upgrades were horribly overpowered and you'd get XP no matter what you did, so basically someone who was bad at the game just had to keep sucking until they got the heavy barrel.
     

    Played BFBC2 cause my clan was, and I just didn't care for it, put a lot of time into it as well. I gave it to my son to see if he liked.

    I was CoD all the way. Played the hell out of CoD 4 have hundreds of custom maps. Ran a MW2 server through AlterIWNet, Black Ops was a lot of fun yet it's hard to come close to, so MW3 didn't even try so I quit there wasted my money on it I felt.

    The clan was going to BF3 so sure give it a try, and after playing it awhile I had found my game. I play BF3 all the time.
    Hours played are very high but I'm retired, ya a game I didn't have to be a shooter to be good (and I was a lousy shooter), I could take flags and be the top scorer, and where I stayed playing Conquest large maps taking flags.

    With me BF3 is very enjoyable - I've heard from many 2142 was one of the better BF series.

    Any body ever play Battlefield 2? I never hear of it, my son turn me onto it, I played it for just a little while as we went to CoD. I was never any good as I had no clue what I was doing but sure looked like it could of been fun.

  5. Re:Like many pipe dreams... on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    ... only optimum conditions are envisioned. I did not see any attention paid to less than optimum conditions. As such, this project fails before it even starts.

    According to article and videos; optimum conditions are without asphalt road ways. All through those videos I was waiting for the structure of the road this pieces of glass would be laid on. Never came up and I see it as another major expense.

    The glass can't shift - asphalt out, can't be put on lines of concrete road ways (expansion/contraction).

    Never did they refer to it, as after the hook is set, monies collected, it's mentioned a whole new roadway must be prepared for these things. (Or close). Point- remove the asphalt you have a sand and rocks to allow drainage, which would unsettle the area shifting the glass.

    So you remove the asphalt and replace it with concrete, there no savings there, it's a very expensive and time consuming process.

    I wish them luck, but I don't see this happening. -- Get with the Army to build you a test road, I've seen them do it a few times.

  6. Re:Pipe Dream I suspect on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    they claim that they wont need to be plowed because they are heated. if that claim is true studded tires and snow plows shouldn't be on them really

    IF the claims they make are all true then i think it has potential

    People put on snow tires as a part of Fall, wither needed nor not. They will have them on when they cross these plates, as they aren't global yet or even city wide. You can't ask someone to remove their studs before crossing over them - you can detour them.

  7. Computer related is glutted it's Medical field now on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    The words floating around /. and elsewhere there's going to be/is a glut of these with Computer Related degrees. If they listen to all these helpful hints, most should be looking at the Medical career, (where I started); as it's going to be big.

    The way the hospitals are growing here (Three cities, three Hospitals) I tend to agree, never saw those with medical background buy land like they are now.

    Also with or without obamacare there is no more single physician clinics anymore, they've had to be brought into the fold by the Hospital support clinics, just to survive.

    Yep, getting ready for us baby boomer's :}

  8. Re:Computer Science is not IT and at times not cod on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 0

    Computer Science is not IT and at some time / schools not even coding, web site work and more.

    My Computer Science class:
    We didn't do much, the instructor had been there for 35 years and had it down; sitting in his office all day. We would go to class in hopes he might take that day to give a lecture. I had an appointment elsewhere and missed the one lecture in two weeks.

    We were meant to teach ourselves, doing the current big things networking, and building web pages. Networking was well used playing Doom.

    Oh ya, many were just flat screwed, one friend of mine graduated after that class, then called me to ask how to install a video card, I really mad at that point, and made some uneventful calls.

    When it was over my saving grace was I knew enough to know I was good, as were two others. One other mentioned he was taking Computer Science and Dell hired him out of class.

    One of my jobs in that class was to grab all of the old IBM 5150 PC computers, doing so I found the class used to teach programing chips, that would been very nice to train in. Had to of been taught in Assembly Language to even start. The IBM 5150 PC were given out to whoever wanted them, I got two.

    This happened at Columbia Basin College http://www.columbiabasin.edu/a...

  9. In a way... on Game Industry Fights Rising Development Costs · · Score: 1

    Now they'll finally have enough money to hire decent writers!

    BattleField 4 (BF4)... (a sore spot)

    Origin and Dice had the money, then dropped the ball in so many ways, that many are quitting BF4 or going back to BF3. Between the connection issues, bad color, unbelievable issues on a patch; things that would work prior don't anymore. It's become: christ! what the hell are up going to break this time.

    Acquiring the name of BrokenField, even BattleField Friends is taking pot shots at the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... you can also read the discontent in the comments to the video.

    You can even give them them money in advanced as did thousands of BF3 players did for BF4, and they still release crap. Not many now will allow Origin the luxury of getting much money at all prior to another game release. Many will watch it on Twitch,TV what ever the game and then make up their minds to send Origin money or not.

    Money works but you also need good programmers, and to beta test a patch; something Dice seems to bypass in the name of speed to get the patch out, how much time does one need to test it at least once on a computer across the street.

    You can see this in a macroculture on Reddit

    (BF3 Group) http://www.reddit.com/r/battle... - I'm back to BF3, BF4 sucked/wasn't any fun/too many bugs. BF3 is a much better game.

    (BF4 Group) http://www.reddit.com/r/battle... -I'm getting tired of this crap and giving up on BF4, or I quit! it's back to BF3 for me.

    So many definitions for macroculture, I'm using this one http://www.ask.com/answers/307...

  10. Oh wow I know that place - feeling on Chernobyl, In Games and In Real Life · · Score: 1

    I've played games in an area, that I later recognized on TV or Google Earth years later. Finial Fantasy is a game like that, I can set battlefield or areas explored and the real life structure together; at least I did once seeing the structure on TV and knew it instantly. A game like Finial Fantasy you will know that area very well.

    As mentioned CoD4 used Pripyat for many scenes for the single player. but only the swimming pool and buildings (Troop barracks) in the Multiplayer game play; only one map of Pripyat.

  11. While I've never been ticketed, I always ride on the side of the left lane (against traffic).

    So you're one of those jerks I have to move my bike into traffic to go around as you head towards me in my lane because you don't have the survival instincts of all other mammals? Or is it that you're a sociopath?

    This just in:
    "Alec Baldwin was handcuffed by police Tuesday after he allegedly rode his bike the wrong way on Fifth Avenue and argued with officers "
    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...

    Reading that article it hit me you don't live where I do.

    I live in a fairly rural area, it's not a big city; riding against traffic you don't run into others. I'm not a "cyclist" I ride to places when they are a short distance, or through the parks.

    That said I ride against traffic to see what's coming, I don't trust the other person, and want a chance to get out of their way when the cross onto the shoulder.

  12. Re:stupid people will do stupid things on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    IAAC (I Am A Cyclist). However I think that people who treat riding a bike as if they own the road are asking for trouble.

    Stupid people will do stupid things regardless of the mode of transportation.

    There's a blind intersection I drive past a lot, it's downhill and a stop sign at the bottom. A cyclist all decked out in riding gear (took it seriously) ran that stop sign, and I just missed them, it was damn close. While I think about that incident, it's not their welfare that was of concern; it was that they were willing to go through my windshield to maintain speed.

  13. Being overtaken while riding through an intersection is usually far more dangerous than being overtaken further up the road where there are far less distractions for the driver doing the overtaking.

    It's a law to ride in the right lane. While I've never been ticketed, I always ride on the side of the left lane (against traffic).
    If someone doesn't see me, and going to run me over, I want to see it coming and a chance to avoid it.

  14. Re:So where do we bury it.... on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    Geiger counters are fun. You scare the crap out of people by walking around with one set to a very sensitive scale with the speaker on full.

    Coleman lantern mantles will set that puppy off big time http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p...

    The story was someone couldn't make it past a radiation monitor (and no reason why). Questioning them it was found they had been camping that weekend and changed out a mantle.

    Now the mantles are used as sources, or show the public common things that are radioactive http://www.straightdope.com/co...

  15. Re:So where do we bury it.... on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    Washington State, the proposed waste site was called Gable mountain, while it was shutdown over night - I found out why with this reply "These sensors recorded recent movement in the supposedly sable basalt. One fault had been generated by an earthquake estimated at 5.5 on the Richter scale that had occurred within the last 2000 years. To geologists with nuclear disposal on their minds, that was far too recent, and the Gable Mountain project was abandoned. "
    http://www.northcolumbiamonthl...

    Not Oak Ridge this area puts it to shame "The most contaminated nuclear waste site in America" http://digitaljournal.com/news... and everybody lives down stream...

    Washington state is on the edge of a plate, https://www.windows2universe.o... while Oklahoma is in the center and should be fairly stable, I had thought till I read your PDF.

    I can't say every, but almost all of the (U.S.) nuclear reactors store their spent fuel on site. With the closer of Yucca Mountain there is no place is available or planned for nuclear waste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... you can see the problem developing.

  16. So where do we bury it.... on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    This area was tested for nuclear waste disposal, Yucca Mountain won out.
    This area is a basalt range, and no problem for future earthquakes (claimed), yes we have Mt.s St. Helen but that's the edge of two plates.

    Politics and other things I'm not privy to moved the burial site away, but if Oklahoma is having earthquake warnings, not sure what to say actually.

  17. Re:Back in the pre-internet days on Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect In Our Search Data · · Score: 1

    Pre-Gore days yes, NSA was discussed much

    I remember talk of the 8 key words that would have a message treated differently, it's certainly grown, just consider any message set over seas to be "treated differently" these days.

    Cain and abel ? it's a advanced password recovery tool
    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/c...

    4.3 Key Words & Search Terms
    Cain and abel Scammers

    Can't post the list (Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.)

  18. a penny a page on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    A very long time ago HowStuffWorks had an article I took as filler: http://computer.howstuffworks.... and even snubbed the thought of paying to view what one wants me to see, but it may be upon us. At which point I'll ignore anybody who request a credit card to participate pretty much what I do now.

    Damnedest thing I found this with: a penny a page to view site:\howstuffwork
    The \ was an accident and required.

  19. Re:IP baning does not work well on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 2

    I am serious about pinball and you really can't cheat there and if you try to do some the other players will see you doing it.

    You grab a few ashtrays that are always around and set the front legs on them, your leveling the playing field (which has gotten steeper though the years).
    Level it just before the tilt pendulum hit's it's limit. Then play your game, it's much slower and not as much fun but you can rack up some points as long as you don't move the machine too much and tilt it.

  20. Re:IP baning does not work well on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    A modem reboot won't reset SteamID.

    Ipconfig /flushdns ?

  21. I'm not a cheater, but my style begs to. on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    IDKFA was more than a phrase, it's how I started my games. http://www.gamefaqs.com/ is my source of faq's and other unknown tricks of a game.

    My son brought me into CoD, he's good, and cheat free. I not only set an example by following his lead but I see no sense in cheating in these types of games and honestly I'm one that would benefit from doing so. I'm not a good shooter, if in an engagement I'll almost always lose be in on foot, armor, or aircraft. (were talking CoD or BF3).

    I have a lot of BF3 friends and know a few cheat on the sly. Coming over a hill from an obscure direction (jet crashed) when one of my friends picked me off, it was slick and shouldn't of happened. They knew me after the kill and I figure they knew they had been caught, but I said nothing.

    Even if I were to turn them in nothing shows they were cheating, they maintain an approvalable battle record.

    I say this affirming the fact that some are cheating but not for progression, or any spectacular Rambo stuff. Just doing so in the back ground gaining very little from it.

  22. My support for AlterIW.Net was to catch/ban cheats on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    ie: CoD MW2, It's not easy, then you toss in recoil of the weapon and it just becomes a war of words, very hard to prove. We had two people who's function was to judge weapon recoil and only they could ban or bless the player.

    For me it was also important to recognize a good player, as my son was banned from just about every server he played on, he's just freaking good. This is an old clip I made proving an accused cheater was really just a good player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    But just goes to show just how hard it is to nail a cheater. What one thinks is a cheat, is another being very good.

  23. "covered by large copper heatsinks" on Mini Gaming PCs — Promising, But Not Ready · · Score: 1

    What ever it's missing it's more than made up for in the heat sink. And mayhaps more than half the products price.

  24. Re:flash is dead on New Zero-Day Flash Bug Affects Windows, OS X, and Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    Here is a serious answer -> All iPads, iPhones and newer Macs don’t use Flash. You don’t even need a browser, but can download hundreds of games, many of them for free. Most of those free ones are far better than anything using Flash. Many of those games even work without an Internet connection, which none of the Flash-based games do.

    Adobe quite writing Flash for android a few years ago, youtube works just fine, it breaks some sites but in the long run better for it.

    February 23, 2012
    "Adobe has published roadmap for its Flash Player and its desktop counterpart, Adobe AIR. Overall the company expects Flash to cater predominantly to gaming and premium video markets. And as stated before, mobile version will no longer be developed."

    Some replied to me about not being on a Win8 system as it was different somehow, the above was posted before Metro: "Less clear is the path got Windows 8, as to if and how Adobe will be integrated with the Metro interface. "

    "Mobile Support
    Adobe will discontinue support for mobile devices and 11.1 will be the last version, though bug fixes could be released."... "This means that Flash will not have any presence in the fastest growing computing segment. "

    All quotes from http://mobiletechpundit.blogsp... as posted nothing changed, I don't care for spelling lessons, but it's just badly written.

    Adobe lays out the future for Flash: a platform for the next 5-10 years - as an Adobe PDF natch
    http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www...

  25. Re:Don't forget this Flash 0-day on US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    That simply sounds like you are using something else than Windows 8. The Windows updates for the Flash plugin are only delivered in Windows 8.

    Win7, it's always said the ActiveX plug in wasn't installed no matter the Win version.

    I still use the old Opera that has short-cuts, I type in Flash as a URL and go to
    http://download.macromedia.com... Link will download install_flash_player.exe

    None of this oh damn I installed Mcafee by mistake :}