Pardon me if I am remembering things wrong, but wasn't there a hidden "_NSAKEY" variable or something like that hidden in some WinNTs, that Microsoft never could explain?
Raid Zone: Huge dungeon inside a MMORPG, populated with enemy leaders and extremely valuable treasure. Takes a group of 5-40 players hours to finish.
Eastern Plaguelands: One of the toughest outside areas of World of Warcraft. The Plaguelands are the remnants of a country that was killed by a plauge and ravaged by undead. Everything is dead, rotting, and there are undead (skeletons, zombies) and huge maggots everywhere. The Eastern Plaguelands are home to two of the first Raid Dungeons of the endgame -- Scholomance, a destroyed city full of undead, and Stratholme, a ruined city divided into two, one half is full of corrupted paladins, the other half full of undead.
Undercity: The main town of the Forsaken. Previously the capital city Lordaeron, events in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos caused it to be destroyed by an undead Army called the scourge. Later, a "free" faction of undead, the Forsaken, took it over as their home.
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It's a bit more complex than that. One of "Tron" (Aka Boris Floricic)'s old friends, "Andy Müller-Maguhn" -- who was in the same hacking club as Tron (Who's real name was Boris Floricic) and was also a director of ICANN -- is suing for Boris Floricic (Who went by the alias "Tron")'s parents, because a German author used Tron's real name -- Boris Floricic -- as the name of the main character in a book.
The publisher said they had no case, because Wikipedia also used the name. Rather than point out to a judge that there is a distinct difference between an Encyclopedia using a name and a work of fiction using a name, they decided to go after Wikipedia.
This situation doesn't surprise me comming from Symantec however. I ditched them around NAV 2001 and never looked back, Especially when you could predict when the next antivirus version would come out because the previous version would "mysteriously" start having problems or crashing about a week before the next version release.
Nor I. I work in a small ISP's callcenter, with aorund 5 other people. Norton products are the bane of my goddamned existance. Half the time you have to disable outgoing email scanning or you just cannot send email, period. Timeout errors all the time. Not only that, try explaining to a customer that it's not your service that is down, but rather, their $200 antivirus program that isn't working properly. Not pretty.
If Norton Internet Security suspects that "something's funny" it will randomly turn off your connection. You can ping from DOS, but you can't surf via IP or Domain Names. The solution? First try turning off the Norton Firewall, if that doesn't work, try uninstalling Norton. Reinstalling TCP/IP or Winsock doesn't even help.
I really cannot tell you how many times I've gotten a random "it doesn't work" call, only to find out that they have Norton and it's causing problems. It's my first question now when someone is having oddball problems with email or DNS errors. "Ah, I see. Do you have Norton on your system by any chance?"
It is important to note that the problems only started in 2003, previous versions of Norton products were fine. In addition Symantec has posted a security warning About their own products. Seems the latest version of their product uses the same trick that Sony's rootkit used.
Oh, and did I also mention that NIS destroys Secure website access even after uninstalling it, unless you fix it by digging through it's options?
If you want a good antivirus, I suggest AVG or Avast. Both are excellent free products that are nowhere near as invasive as Norton.
Unfortuantely, President Bush has proven quite well that the Republicans are anything BUT the party of responsibility -- be it Personal Responicibility, Financial Responsibility, Military Responsibility, what have you.
Sad thing is, as much as the Republican PR machine would like you to to believe otherwise, the Democrats have been the party of at least financial responsibility for quite some time. Military Responsibility too, unfortunately -- at least the Democrats haven't sent people off to war with no plan other than "sit tight for a few years, we'll think of something."
What I don't get is why the people in the Republican party who really do have morals and ethics don't speak out against the path that Bush, Rove, and Cheney are taking their party down. It's clearly a complete 180 from where they're claiming to be. An ethical person coming out and saying "Ok, I don't care what Bush says, he's NOT a Republican, we're disowning him" would solve so many problems...
Akira Toriyama has done the character design and artwork for every Dragon Quest game in the series.
Yuji Horii has done the storyline and scenarios for every game in the series.
Koichi Sugiyama has done the music for every game in the series.
They, combined, are the "DQ Team", and are responsible for the entire series, having come together to create it after enjoying Wizardry and Ultima, but thinking they were too complex for the mainstream.
In addition Toriyama and Horii did quite a bit of work on Chrono Trigger -- Toriyama did the art and designs, Horii did the storyline and scenarios, and several experts from the original Final Fantasy team did the battle engine, music, etc.
That's why CT was so great -- it was basically a new spin on the Dragon Warrior series of games.
Bewarned, even though DQ8 is arguably the easiest game in the DQ series, it's still leaps and bounds above the difficulty arc of modern Final Fantasy games. If you've never played a DQ game before you're in for a treat, but you *will* die a few times.:)
e. For Class 5 felonies, the jury or court may choose imprisonment for one to 10 years or jail for up to 12 months and a fine of up to $2,500, either or both.
That's another interesting question... if my vehicle I work on has AI and is part of the chain of command, should we give it a rank?:P
Although you are being snarky, I believe that brings up a very interesting point. Once we DO have AI, what rights do we give it? The right to continue existing? The same rights as any human? The right to hardware upgrades? To server transfers so they don't get cabin fever?
Just how much respect will we be giving our digital "children?" And how much will we expect in return?.... I shouldn't read Slashdot at 1 AM after running out of Mountain Dew, methinks. @.@
Not really. The Saudis are more aware than most that their oil domination is rapidly going to run out. They even have a saying on the matter. "My father rode a camel. I ride a car. My son flies a jet. His son will ride a camel."
No, what I would expect more than anything is the Saudis to invest heavily in BioD and other alternative energies once they see a winner and corner that market as it emerges.
Does this count for modifying the bios (software) protection on systems such as the Playstation 2 and whatnot? Where does the limit stand between modifying software and modifying hardware that has software inside of it?
I would also point out that the PS2 comes with driver CDs. So presumably... you could modify it there, legally.
Jack uses a Cyberstalker law in Florida to threaten people who email him. Basically he cussess them out then ends it with "and don't email me back", and when they reply, he says they're harrassing him and to stop or he'll call it Cyberstalking.
Of course, like everything Jacko does, it's never gotten to court. If he actually let it get to a court of law he'd be thrown out forcibly.
Except that Tivo has been leaning towards doing the same thing that Apple is doing -- except Tivo's download service will playback on the TV, not a 3 inch iPod screen.
I wouldn't count Tivo out yet. They're pretty much primed now to capitulate on this, now that Apple has "legitimized" digitally purchasing video online,
Aren't we preaching to the converted with these kinds of books? The people are earnestly capable of switching away from Windows are probably smart enough to do that on their own, and those that choose not to, probably also have good reasons for doing so (re: gaming). I just don't think the software is quite there yet for Grandma to use a Windows alternative without relying on some heavy tech support (often a family member). In a few years, the OSes will be there, but right now I really believe these books are premature.
I had to check the date on this post. Seems like I've been hearing the same thing each time this comes up for the past 5 years. *sigh*
Here's what the source code shows, with s transposed to brackets to allow posting:
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This is the second time a Slashdot story has linked to JapanToday and been redirected to Goatsecx. Either there are some interesting trolls out there or the Japan Today admins think they're clever.
Most do. The problem is that it still takes time to ban all of them, and if HBO is hiring some of those white hat idiot script kiddies to do this for them, they probably have a few hundred IPs to come from.
Actually, the vauge wording of the DMCA pretty much says that you're not allowed to "circumvent" the DRM -- which, making a backup and then making MP3s or whatnot certainly does, since the DRM doesn't let you do that normally.
That's the major problem with the DMCA -- it's basically a rubber stamp that says "don't do anything with a computer that a company might not like."
It didn't work out very well. Made a lot of not-so-nice people fairly wealthy, though.
The people spouting off "save the children" and "think of community standards" seem to be experts in making not-so-nice people fairly wealthy. See: Any Right Wing talk show host, anyone who's ever hired Karl Rove, Tom Delay, etc.
IIRC, DS games are only 128 Megabytes (1 gigabit) in size, max. So, pretty darn big. I may be off -- it may be 1 Gigabyte (8 gigabit), but still... SD cards aren't exactly 1.44 meg floppies, ya know.;)
IIRC, ThePirateBay, probably the biggest Bittorrent "dark grey" tracker network, is hosted in Sweeden, and, well, they openly mock US companies that send them threatening letters.
Also, IIRC, Sealand, which is a floating fortress that was abandoned in international waters, apparently has a hosting company. They make it a point to host things that might be illegal in other countries (the exception being child pornogrpahy and spam).
No real text here. Just that there's a flip top cover on the top / right side that conceals 4 upside down Gamecube Ports. Don't like the modular supercontroller? Plug in a GCN controller and awaaaaay you go.
Because it's not illegal to sell R rated movies to children.
Until it is, it's not fair to the video game makers to single them out. It smacks of the old modern luddite battle cry: "Video games are for children!"
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Pardon me if I am remembering things wrong, but wasn't there a hidden "_NSAKEY" variable or something like that hidden in some WinNTs, that Microsoft never could explain?
Raid Zone: Huge dungeon inside a MMORPG, populated with enemy leaders and extremely valuable treasure. Takes a group of 5-40 players hours to finish.
Eastern Plaguelands: One of the toughest outside areas of World of Warcraft. The Plaguelands are the remnants of a country that was killed by a plauge and ravaged by undead. Everything is dead, rotting, and there are undead (skeletons, zombies) and huge maggots everywhere. The Eastern Plaguelands are home to two of the first Raid Dungeons of the endgame -- Scholomance, a destroyed city full of undead, and Stratholme, a ruined city divided into two, one half is full of corrupted paladins, the other half full of undead.
Undercity: The main town of the Forsaken. Previously the capital city Lordaeron, events in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos caused it to be destroyed by an undead Army called the scourge. Later, a "free" faction of undead, the Forsaken, took it over as their home.
I hate to break it to you, but Corporations were given "personhood" (human rights) a very, VERY long time ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
It's a bit more complex than that. One of "Tron" (Aka Boris Floricic)'s old friends, "Andy Müller-Maguhn" -- who was in the same hacking club as Tron (Who's real name was Boris Floricic) and was also a director of ICANN -- is suing for Boris Floricic (Who went by the alias "Tron")'s parents, because a German author used Tron's real name -- Boris Floricic -- as the name of the main character in a book.
The publisher said they had no case, because Wikipedia also used the name. Rather than point out to a judge that there is a distinct difference between an Encyclopedia using a name and a work of fiction using a name, they decided to go after Wikipedia.
Nor I. I work in a small ISP's callcenter, with aorund 5 other people. Norton products are the bane of my goddamned existance. Half the time you have to disable outgoing email scanning or you just cannot send email, period. Timeout errors all the time. Not only that, try explaining to a customer that it's not your service that is down, but rather, their $200 antivirus program that isn't working properly. Not pretty.
If Norton Internet Security suspects that "something's funny" it will randomly turn off your connection. You can ping from DOS, but you can't surf via IP or Domain Names. The solution? First try turning off the Norton Firewall, if that doesn't work, try uninstalling Norton. Reinstalling TCP/IP or Winsock doesn't even help.
I really cannot tell you how many times I've gotten a random "it doesn't work" call, only to find out that they have Norton and it's causing problems. It's my first question now when someone is having oddball problems with email or DNS errors. "Ah, I see. Do you have Norton on your system by any chance?"
It is important to note that the problems only started in 2003, previous versions of Norton products were fine. In addition Symantec has posted a security warning About their own products. Seems the latest version of their product uses the same trick that Sony's rootkit used.
Oh, and did I also mention that NIS destroys Secure website access even after uninstalling it, unless you fix it by digging through it's options?
If you want a good antivirus, I suggest AVG or Avast. Both are excellent free products that are nowhere near as invasive as Norton.
Unfortuantely, President Bush has proven quite well that the Republicans are anything BUT the party of responsibility -- be it Personal Responicibility, Financial Responsibility, Military Responsibility, what have you.
Sad thing is, as much as the Republican PR machine would like you to to believe otherwise, the Democrats have been the party of at least financial responsibility for quite some time. Military Responsibility too, unfortunately -- at least the Democrats haven't sent people off to war with no plan other than "sit tight for a few years, we'll think of something."
What I don't get is why the people in the Republican party who really do have morals and ethics don't speak out against the path that Bush, Rove, and Cheney are taking their party down. It's clearly a complete 180 from where they're claiming to be. An ethical person coming out and saying "Ok, I don't care what Bush says, he's NOT a Republican, we're disowning him" would solve so many problems...
Akira Toriyama has done the character design and artwork for every Dragon Quest game in the series.
:)
Yuji Horii has done the storyline and scenarios for every game in the series.
Koichi Sugiyama has done the music for every game in the series.
They, combined, are the "DQ Team", and are responsible for the entire series, having come together to create it after enjoying Wizardry and Ultima, but thinking they were too complex for the mainstream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest
In addition Toriyama and Horii did quite a bit of work on Chrono Trigger -- Toriyama did the art and designs, Horii did the storyline and scenarios, and several experts from the original Final Fantasy team did the battle engine, music, etc.
That's why CT was so great -- it was basically a new spin on the Dragon Warrior series of games.
Bewarned, even though DQ8 is arguably the easiest game in the DQ series, it's still leaps and bounds above the difficulty arc of modern Final Fantasy games. If you've never played a DQ game before you're in for a treat, but you *will* die a few times.
They'll ban it next. Azureus uses the same style of distributed trackerless system that BitComet uses.
Ah, I see this is the first time you've ran into fundamentalist Christians.
Don't worry, he was a heathen, so it's ok to hurt him. Perfectly Christian of them.
Heck, if he was gay they could have killed him and they would have probably been nominated for sainthood.
Although you are being snarky, I believe that brings up a very interesting point. Once we DO have AI, what rights do we give it? The right to continue existing? The same rights as any human? The right to hardware upgrades? To server transfers so they don't get cabin fever?
Just how much respect will we be giving our digital "children?" And how much will we expect in return?
Not really. The Saudis are more aware than most that their oil domination is rapidly going to run out. They even have a saying on the matter. "My father rode a camel. I ride a car. My son flies a jet. His son will ride a camel."
No, what I would expect more than anything is the Saudis to invest heavily in BioD and other alternative energies once they see a winner and corner that market as it emerges.
Does this count for modifying the bios (software) protection on systems such as the Playstation 2 and whatnot? Where does the limit stand between modifying software and modifying hardware that has software inside of it?
I would also point out that the PS2 comes with driver CDs. So presumably... you could modify it there, legally.
Right?
"I replied to a Jack Thompson email and all I got was this T-Shirt.
(And sued for harrassment)"
"Jack Thompson thinks I'm an Idiot Gamer.
(I think he's a Senile Douchebag)"
"Common Sense 16, Jack Thompson 0"
"Jack Thompson is a senile old moron."
"(Picture of an ambulance being chased by a car)
Jack Thompson: Turing Tragedy into Profit since 1975."
Jack uses a Cyberstalker law in Florida to threaten people who email him. Basically he cussess them out then ends it with "and don't email me back", and when they reply, he says they're harrassing him and to stop or he'll call it Cyberstalking.
Of course, like everything Jacko does, it's never gotten to court. If he actually let it get to a court of law he'd be thrown out forcibly.
Except that Tivo has been leaning towards doing the same thing that Apple is doing -- except Tivo's download service will playback on the TV, not a 3 inch iPod screen.
I wouldn't count Tivo out yet. They're pretty much primed now to capitulate on this, now that Apple has "legitimized" digitally purchasing video online,
Aren't we preaching to the converted with these kinds of books? The people are earnestly capable of switching away from Windows are probably smart enough to do that on their own, and those that choose not to, probably also have good reasons for doing so (re: gaming). I just don't think the software is quite there yet for Grandma to use a Windows alternative without relying on some heavy tech support (often a family member). In a few years, the OSes will be there, but right now I really believe these books are premature.
:P
I had to check the date on this post. Seems like I've been hearing the same thing each time this comes up for the past 5 years. *sigh*
Tux is such a freaking late bloomer.
Here's what the source code shows, with s transposed to brackets to allow posting:
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This is the second time a Slashdot story has linked to JapanToday and been redirected to Goatsecx. Either there are some interesting trolls out there or the Japan Today admins think they're clever.
Most do. The problem is that it still takes time to ban all of them, and if HBO is hiring some of those white hat idiot script kiddies to do this for them, they probably have a few hundred IPs to come from.
Actually, the vauge wording of the DMCA pretty much says that you're not allowed to "circumvent" the DRM -- which, making a backup and then making MP3s or whatnot certainly does, since the DRM doesn't let you do that normally.
That's the major problem with the DMCA -- it's basically a rubber stamp that says "don't do anything with a computer that a company might not like."
so is cheap Vodka. Are we outlawing that?
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Y'all tried, once.
It didn't work out very well. Made a lot of not-so-nice people fairly wealthy, though.
The people spouting off "save the children" and "think of community standards" seem to be experts in making not-so-nice people fairly wealthy. See: Any Right Wing talk show host, anyone who's ever hired Karl Rove, Tom Delay, etc.
IIRC, DS games are only 128 Megabytes (1 gigabit) in size, max. So, pretty darn big. I may be off -- it may be 1 Gigabyte (8 gigabit), but still... SD cards aren't exactly 1.44 meg floppies, ya know. ;)
IIRC, ThePirateBay, probably the biggest Bittorrent "dark grey" tracker network, is hosted in Sweeden, and, well, they openly mock US companies that send them threatening letters.
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http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
Also, IIRC, Sealand, which is a floating fortress that was abandoned in international waters, apparently has a hosting company. They make it a point to host things that might be illegal in other countries (the exception being child pornogrpahy and spam).
http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/sealand.cfm
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa08110
No real text here. Just that there's a flip top cover on the top / right side that conceals 4 upside down Gamecube Ports. Don't like the modular supercontroller? Plug in a GCN controller and awaaaaay you go.
Because it's not illegal to sell R rated movies to children.
Until it is, it's not fair to the video game makers to single them out. It smacks of the old modern luddite battle cry: "Video games are for children!"