I keep seeing people talk about how invading a server in some cases is legal, because "the intent was good". That is an incorrect interpretation of the word intent. Intent only refers to the crime itself, i.e. did the criminal intend to break-and-enter or was it accidental.
This means that unauthorized access in the attempt to do a "good deed" is just as illegal as black-hat unauthorized access.
For this to happen, someone with the antidote virus would have to break the law to spread it and apply it. Of course, Robin Hood was considered a criminal too.
Damn, $450 bucks? Better tie a string to that thing to re-use it.
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I loved that part of the book, but it always kind of bothered me, too. Bitmaps of circles always look like crap (thanks to the jaggies) unless they are a) very high resolution or b) anti-aliased. Would the creator of the universe put a low-res, very imperfect rendering of a circle in such an important place, even as a cutesy joke?
Question: How long do we have to wait for huge fx-movies *plus* compelling story-lines!?
This will be difficult. The huge fx movies all require vast amounts of money. The people with the money insist on being involved, and their involvement inhibits the "artistic vision" of the movie maker. It's all because nobody wants to take a risk with $150 million by doing something interesting and unique when it's safer to put out a movie with all the standard cliches and hollywood endings.
How to set up your own honeypot This is another interesting article on building your own honeypot.
Or paste: http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=210
Rob's Page (left side menu),
then AnimeFu (on right column),
then AnimeNation (left side menu),
then Links (top menu),
then Hentai (top right paragraph under Misc),
then click the top advertisement (Freethought).
6 clicks to pr0n! Ok, anime pr0n, but pr0n nonetheless. Can anyone do better?
Fixed Identities - no, I don't mean you have to be "Bob Jones" on the system, but rather this: when one buys a new game (for $50), you get a serial number. Perhaps an RSA-signed message.
Well, I for one agree with you. I think most normal players (non-cheaters) want to believe the game objects and walls are solid to improve the suspension of disbelief and therefore increase the fun factor. They never consider that "running out of ammo" might merely be the client program checking a single byte of memory somewhere and finding a zero. To them, running out of ammo in the game is a real, physical outcome of firing a lot.
People who write game hacks do think differently, and would have no problem forcing that byte to stay non-zero, thus never running out of ammo.
Of course, 99% of cheaters just download the hack without knowing how it works
Not quite. They chose cheap, drifty clocks on purpose, because they assumed the machine would be calling into the NTP server on a regular basis anyway. It was an effort to bring the price down, not a conspiracy.
I agree with you completely about words, and the daughter thing was just a joke (I don't have a daughter, and if I did, she'd survive hearing bad words, I'm sure).
I was only making the point that SOME people are very offended by words and situations, and some of them will have very good lawyers. I think that the way game development is currently done is going to come crashing down someday soon.
I'm sure the women at these companies can take care of themselves. I was just joking about my hypothetical daughter. Women being offended or not wasn't my point.
My point was that there is a HUGE lawsuit just waiting to happen. I don't know anything about law, but it seems like one determined plaintiff and a good legal team could prove the existance of a "hostile work environment", whatever that is, and shake down just about any game dev house for a good amount of money. I think just dragging email archives into court would be bad enough. Most game companies I've worked at pretty much turn a blind eye to the stuff that goes on, making themselves liable. (I think)
"As it stands, the whole jig is just one disgruntled female employee away from toppling under a sexual harassment suit. Very likely, the "hostile work environment" clause of the code is fulcrum enough to bring the entire embarrassing enterprise down around the industry's ankles."
She is talking about E3, but if she only knew what kind of hostile work environment exists at your average male-dominated game development house....
At one (nameless but could be any) game company a few years back, I remember hearing guys down the hall screaming "EAT MY FUCKING MANGINA, BITCH" repeatedly while playing games. This, at 4pm on a weekday. Also, surfing fecal porn during work hours brought barely a blink from our producer.
If I ever have a daughter who's a programmer, she's going into databases.
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I keep seeing people talk about how invading a server in some cases is legal, because "the intent was good". That is an incorrect interpretation of the word intent. Intent only refers to the crime itself, i.e. did the criminal intend to break-and-enter or was it accidental.
This means that unauthorized access in the attempt to do a "good deed" is just as illegal as black-hat unauthorized access.
For this to happen, someone with the antidote virus would have to break the law to spread it and apply it. Of course, Robin Hood was considered a criminal too.
Worst. TLD. Ever.
Damn, $450 bucks? Better tie a string to that thing to re-use it.
I loved that part of the book, but it always kind of bothered me, too. Bitmaps of circles always look like crap (thanks to the jaggies) unless they are a) very high resolution or b) anti-aliased. Would the creator of the universe put a low-res, very imperfect rendering of a circle in such an important place, even as a cutesy joke?
two episodes
Nice, firm, round episodes?
Question: How long do we have to wait for huge fx-movies *plus* compelling story-lines!?
This will be difficult. The huge fx movies all require vast amounts of money. The people with the money insist on being involved, and their involvement inhibits the "artistic vision" of the movie maker. It's all because nobody wants to take a risk with $150 million by doing something interesting and unique when it's safer to put out a movie with all the standard cliches and hollywood endings.
How to set up your own honeypot
This is another interesting article on building your own honeypot.
Or paste: http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=21
OK, starting at Slashdot....let's see....
Rob's Page (left side menu),
then AnimeFu (on right column),
then AnimeNation (left side menu),
then Links (top menu),
then Hentai (top right paragraph under Misc),
then click the top advertisement (Freethought).
6 clicks to pr0n! Ok, anime pr0n, but pr0n nonetheless. Can anyone do better?
Ah, cathode ray boob humor. Good stuff.
I never thought a serious article on gene research would contain the phrase "the donkeywork of maintaining life"
Fixed Identities - no, I don't mean you have to be "Bob Jones" on the system, but rather this: when one buys a new game (for $50), you get a serial number. Perhaps an RSA-signed message.
Say hello to the Xbox.
Well, I for one agree with you. I think most normal players (non-cheaters) want to believe the game objects and walls are solid to improve the suspension of disbelief and therefore increase the fun factor. They never consider that "running out of ammo" might merely be the client program checking a single byte of memory somewhere and finding a zero. To them, running out of ammo in the game is a real, physical outcome of firing a lot.
People who write game hacks do think differently, and would have no problem forcing that byte to stay non-zero, thus never running out of ammo.
Of course, 99% of cheaters just download the hack without knowing how it works
In the voice of Comic Book Store Guy:
Take that, "The Family Guy"
only 20 nanometers, or 0.02 microns, in size
Note: When IBM gets done stretching them, they go up to 40nm.
Not quite. They chose cheap, drifty clocks on purpose, because they assumed the machine would be calling into the NTP server on a regular basis anyway. It was an effort to bring the price down, not a conspiracy.
...I Gauss not.
Yeah, but Lego's lawyers are taken apart each night to be stored in large Tupperware(tm) containers. Hard to win against that kind of thing.
FYI they look like little AIBO dogs lifting their legs.
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I agree with you completely about words, and the daughter thing was just a joke (I don't have a daughter, and if I did, she'd survive hearing bad words, I'm sure).
I was only making the point that SOME people are very offended by words and situations, and some of them will have very good lawyers. I think that the way game development is currently done is going to come crashing down someday soon.
By that logic, Duke Forever's gonna flop bigtime!
I'm sure the women at these companies can take care of themselves. I was just joking about my hypothetical daughter. Women being offended or not wasn't my point.
My point was that there is a HUGE lawsuit just waiting to happen. I don't know anything about law, but it seems like one determined plaintiff and a good legal team could prove the existance of a "hostile work environment", whatever that is, and shake down just about any game dev house for a good amount of money. I think just dragging email archives into court would be bad enough. Most game companies I've worked at pretty much turn a blind eye to the stuff that goes on, making themselves liable. (I think)
From the article:
"As it stands, the whole jig is just one disgruntled female employee away from toppling under a sexual harassment suit. Very likely, the "hostile work environment" clause of the code is fulcrum enough to bring the entire embarrassing enterprise down around the industry's ankles."
She is talking about E3, but if she only knew what kind of hostile work environment exists at your average male-dominated game development house....
At one (nameless but could be any) game company a few years back, I remember hearing guys down the hall screaming "EAT MY FUCKING MANGINA, BITCH" repeatedly while playing games. This, at 4pm on a weekday. Also, surfing fecal porn during work hours brought barely a blink from our producer.
If I ever have a daughter who's a programmer, she's going into databases.
Oh god, please no. Our population is aging, we already have more geriatic droolers than we can handle
Let's leave Sen. Strom Thurmond out of this.
Oasis: brackish pool of filthy disease-ridden sludge surrounded on all sides by a desolate wasteland under an unforgiving midday sun.
Suitable metaphor for The Company?
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Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke