When the steering wheel is not in contact by two hands for more than 1 second, car goes into neutral, if untouched for more than 5 seconds an electrical shock given to the driver and passenger through the seat.
Can also accompany by beeping and flashing lights to warn others that announce the driver as an idiot that is putting him and everyone else in danger.
This would also work great for those falling asleep at the wheel
lol, I knew of his earlier exploits, didn't know of his more recent attempts at getting radioactive materials. Isn't it just californium in most smoke detectors?
"Then name me five non-exotic diseases for which Big Pharma has provided actual cures. I'll wait."
You mean besides all the ones that antibiotics cures? Or how about rabies if caught soon enough? Granted, I agree with you mostly, as there is no money in producing a cure to something, treatment and suppression of symptoms is where the cash is at. And the big pharms know it.
I wonder if them getting involved in politics is what is causing them to be more of a target that previously?
Think about it, it wasn't that long ago they where untouchable, but since they formed their own party they are actively in court all the time, getting their equipment confiscated, or some other blow dealt against them.
Try some of the jackie chan instant green teas. No sugar, has the caffeine your are lookign for plus a healthy dose of ECGC. With out all the bad stuff from sodas/coffee.
First, as Isaid, WoW is different, I think D2 realm is but not sure on open. SC/BW, Warcraft2 bnet, Warcraft 3 all operate in everyone connects to everyone.
Lets start with yourself a dlink, linksys, or netgear router.
By default on some of the above routers, people cant even join the games you create. (needing to disable some high security options or forwarding ports needed)
But that is a whole different issue, and you stll have to have everyone from behind the same firewall connect with each other through battle net.
So you create a game on fastest, and now your friends to join the game(from behind the same router), a few things can happen. - Can't join game, either an error of can not find game, latency to high, etc. - Everyone can join, but game is way way to lagy. - Game starts, but everyone drops
I have seen this happen just a few months ago. (all of us LAN, but 1 person remote, had to setup what was once called bnetd and give my friend reg file to add my external IP for a bnet server, it was as pretty much expected so I had everything ready)
"If everyone is playing from the same room then the connection doesn't go over the internet at all."
That is not how it works now for SC, and they have said nothing to suggest that it will work the way you describe.
As it is now, when several people in the same room are behind a single router you have lag, and possible a lot other issues such as dropping players, unable to join each other games, etc. They use the public interface of your router to make a connection, and everyone makes a connection to everyone. Most firewalls/routes can't handle that very well. In WoW, each person connects to a central server, and never a connection to each other. So being behind the same router only slows you down by sharing bandwidth.
Right now, blizzards asks for you to open/forward ports from the outside interface to the PC in question, you can not do that for all PC's involved. A good amount of firewalls/routers you don't need to, but plenty you do, more so if you are creating games to join.
Simplified: It's like setting up multiple servers each running a webserver, you forward port 80 to one machine, but none of the others can be connected too.
Volume for starters. And the fact they produce mostly colored diamonds for a higher resale. If your manufacturing diamonds, your cost is the same no matter the grade or color, so why sell for low grade when you can sell for jewelry?
Whats wrong with man made diamonds for jewelry purposes?
If the diamond industry wasn't putting so much into marketing natural diamonds as real, and manufactured diamonds as subpar or fake, the prices could drop a lot. As anyone with funding could start producing large quantities driving the prices lower, and more R&D into producing them. And the cost of diamonds that are used for jewelry are mostly be the labor in cutting them.
When Russia entered the market. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond And read under "Mining, sources and production" for most of it. It doesn't due justice to how that market opening up lowered prices
But really there are 6 major players now, not just one. However De Beers still is nearly 40% of the market.
I for one would love to see diamonds become as common and cheap as catseyes or obsidian so that it can be used more for its non jewel properties more.
textbooks are written by teachers, usualy a couple teach each book. Some colleges not even encourage but require some teachers to make book so often.
The ones raping the school system/students are the book publishers. They push the new versions out, refuse to print older ones, and push for new sets of books brought at high prices every few years.
If cali, by themselves pushed their weight around to get books they want, at reasonable prices (150 is way to much per book), reprints of the book, they could.
Most places don't accept that and force you to have someone they say on your dime look over the item in question.
A car I could not sell at 1.5k, got taxed as if it was 7.5k. That was in Va, and UT looks to be the same. Don't remember Cali, but I think it was the same as well.
I recall reading about a theory where the moon impacted with earth, and earth gained it's core and the moon didn't have enough energy to escape, and ended up trap in orbit. Best I can find is Giant impact hypothesis, but I think it was a variation of this.
Something like that could explain mass extinction, and forcing more change with creating tides, seasons, etc. Not to mention, taking a mostly iron core could change gravity enough here where larger animals have a harder time. And look around at other planets, how many have a liquid cores, strong magnetic field, and active tectonic plates. I recall neither Mars or Venus, and so far they are the most like earth out of all other celestial bodies we have found.
It doesn't have to be another PC on his NAT'ed network. Could be the windows iso he downloaded had a calling home backdoor feature. But I agree, getting attacked from outside a NAT'ed environment is unlikely. Using an unpatched IE on some warez site could lead him in that direction as well. But I would have a look around at the other PC's on the network.
And I rarely do an image of a system, between yearly system reinstalls of my windows box, there is new releases of everything (graphics/sound/nic/chipset drivers, OpenOffice, Firefox, opera, etc) where it is nice to have a clean system up rather than have to stack on more updates that leave traces.
The way it should be handled is each county is in charge of it's own domains, in a higherarchy sort of way. Let me see if I can explain it clear enough. Each country is in charge of their own.com/.gov/etc, Each would resolve to their own country specific top level domain, including the US. TO get to another countries.com you would add the TLD on after. In this way, it would disperse the authority to each local government yet US would still control.
From USA I type in www.microsoft.com, another country would need to type www.microsoft.com.us, or have the.com(or what ever they want to use) registered for their country.
If I don't get what I want, they don't get what they want (My money)
I don't want a game that phones home I don't want to keep a CD in the drive (resorting to using daemon tools or no CD cracks) I don't want DRM crapware installed
They want my money, but they seam to get that people want no strings attached game. And as I haven't heard of this game before, I will try it, if I like it I will buy it. Lets see if they actually made a fun game that I am looking for. If it meets my requirements, and is fun, I may get more than on copy, and my friends too for lan play.
Just something interesting that I noticed with implying 32GB being small . . .
With the avg song ~4mb in size, thats about 8,000 songs. At say an average price of $1.00 a song. . . . Wow, no wonder RIAA is crusading agaisnt fileshares, They think everyone with an MP3 player owes them $250 per gig!
Do people really use that music space for music? My entire music collection sits at about 12gigs, and that includes things from soundtacks, duplicates, music for wife/kids, audio books, and stuff I have only because I'm a packrat who doesn't delete anything. Seriously, I bought a $50 4gb RCA mp3 player that holds all the music I want, and I haven't changed it in a year. Thats nearly a 1000's songs, 10x greater than the radio stations apparent playlist.
Wow, MS must like it when ever someone running a lot of *nix(FreeBSD) servers switches to Windows or in this case, drops out. Now they can report being more successful because they own a larger percentage of websites.
If an ATM is on a TCP/IP network that is VPN'ed to another network that has access to the net. Then that ATM is effectively connected to the network. Sure they can block all ports and protocols but what they need. But I have seen so few companies employ an "allow whitelist only" for network or VPN.
Again, if the ATM (or any machine) is connected to a network that has net access, then you are one PEBKAC away from it not making a difference. Someone downloads maleware/tojan/worm, server gets hacked, etc.
"People that think the EULAs are about anything other than a good faith effort at notifying you of the disclaimers on the product are out of control paranoid. They put other stuff in because they can; they don't care much about it."
Umm, are you reading the same news? Blizzard sewing a bot maker millions was decided because of the EULA (not the TOS for the wow account) Blizzard destroyed bnetd! And also shutdown warcraft2 for linux project(still required CD).
The kid part has to work, they can not be accountable for agreeing to a contract of any kind. (ask all those 12 CD's for $.01, then buy 12 more at full price companies)
EULA's should not be legal for anything but "good faith effort at notifying you of the disclaimers", but they are so much more than that, and the courts have almost* always upheld them unless their was something in it that was not legal. And even then, some of them was still upheld, just that part was removed.
How the hell did clicking through an installer prompt after I purchased my copy became a leagaly binding contract? I would love to know, all I see is some huge jumps that somehow made it happen, jumps big enough that should have sent red-flags off everywhere, and judges looking to reverse it.
*Using the world almost because I am sure somewhere, it has not been upheld.
EULA's have been uphead al lthe time, Just look at what blizzard has been doing.
Heck, look at EFF history of dealing with shrinkwrap EULA's. Thye lose almost all the time!
I stopped funding the EFF because thye lost some big ones, and why give them more cash to set presidence doing the opposite of what I/we want to accomplish.
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When the steering wheel is not in contact by two hands for more than 1 second, car goes into neutral, if untouched for more than 5 seconds an electrical shock given to the driver and passenger through the seat.
Can also accompany by beeping and flashing lights to warn others that announce the driver as an idiot that is putting him and everyone else in danger.
This would also work great for those falling asleep at the wheel
lol, I knew of his earlier exploits, didn't know of his more recent attempts at getting radioactive materials. Isn't it just californium in most smoke detectors?
Some people never learn . . . .
"Then name me five non-exotic diseases for which Big Pharma has provided actual cures. I'll wait."
You mean besides all the ones that antibiotics cures? Or how about rabies if caught soon enough? Granted, I agree with you mostly, as there is no money in producing a cure to something, treatment and suppression of symptoms is where the cash is at. And the big pharms know it.
Better yet for small business or home is to use something like IPCop, setup transparent proxy and clamav, and also edit it's hosts file.
But those things are a real frigging pain. I just re-install windows now days.
I'm not finding references to Holy Hand grenades that fit with your statement, could ya include links and such please?
I wonder if them getting involved in politics is what is causing them to be more of a target that previously?
Think about it, it wasn't that long ago they where untouchable, but since they formed their own party they are actively in court all the time, getting their equipment confiscated, or some other blow dealt against them.
Try some of the jackie chan instant green teas. No sugar, has the caffeine your are lookign for plus a healthy dose of ECGC. With out all the bad stuff from sodas/coffee.
You think so huh?
First, as Isaid, WoW is different, I think D2 realm is but not sure on open. SC/BW, Warcraft2 bnet, Warcraft 3 all operate in everyone connects to everyone.
Lets start with yourself a dlink, linksys, or netgear router.
By default on some of the above routers, people cant even join the games you create. (needing to disable some high security options or forwarding ports needed)
But that is a whole different issue, and you stll have to have everyone from behind the same firewall connect with each other through battle net.
So you create a game on fastest, and now your friends to join the game(from behind the same router), a few things can happen.
- Can't join game, either an error of can not find game, latency to high, etc.
- Everyone can join, but game is way way to lagy.
- Game starts, but everyone drops
I have seen this happen just a few months ago. (all of us LAN, but 1 person remote, had to setup what was once called bnetd and give my friend reg file to add my external IP for a bnet server, it was as pretty much expected so I had everything ready)
"If everyone is playing from the same room then the connection doesn't go over the internet at all."
That is not how it works now for SC, and they have said nothing to suggest that it will work the way you describe.
As it is now, when several people in the same room are behind a single router you have lag, and possible a lot other issues such as dropping players, unable to join each other games, etc. They use the public interface of your router to make a connection, and everyone makes a connection to everyone. Most firewalls/routes can't handle that very well. In WoW, each person connects to a central server, and never a connection to each other. So being behind the same router only slows you down by sharing bandwidth.
Right now, blizzards asks for you to open/forward ports from the outside interface to the PC in question, you can not do that for all PC's involved. A good amount of firewalls/routers you don't need to, but plenty you do, more so if you are creating games to join.
Simplified: It's like setting up multiple servers each running a webserver, you forward port 80 to one machine, but none of the others can be connected too.
Doesn't seam to effect me, as I wont buy the game with out LAN.
I hope other people vote with their wallets so when they come out with Diablo 3, Blizzard will include LAN.
Volume for starters. And the fact they produce mostly colored diamonds for a higher resale. If your manufacturing diamonds, your cost is the same no matter the grade or color, so why sell for low grade when you can sell for jewelry?
Whats wrong with man made diamonds for jewelry purposes?
If the diamond industry wasn't putting so much into marketing natural diamonds as real, and manufactured diamonds as subpar or fake, the prices could drop a lot. As anyone with funding could start producing large quantities driving the prices lower, and more R&D into producing them. And the cost of diamonds that are used for jewelry are mostly be the labor in cutting them.
When Russia entered the market. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond And read under "Mining, sources and production" for most of it. It doesn't due justice to how that market opening up lowered prices
But really there are 6 major players now, not just one. However De Beers still is nearly 40% of the market.
I for one would love to see diamonds become as common and cheap as catseyes or obsidian so that it can be used more for its non jewel properties more.
Now just in case Blizzard actually listens to it's customers, there is a petition started yesterday.
http://www.petitiononline.com/LANSC2/petition.html
But only 25k people have signed so far.
No Lan support for Stacraft 2 (or Diablo 3) then I wont be buying it.
I advise you all to do the same, and I don't even have to tell my friends not to as we all only play LAN.
Blizzard games I own.
1 Warcraft 1
1 Warcraft 2
1 Diablo 1
1 Warcraft 2 Bnet
2 Starcraft
2 Broodwar
2 Diablo 2
2 Diablo 2 LoD
2 Warcraft 3
2 Warcraft 3 frozen thrones.
Oh, and try playing with a few people behind 1 router/firewall. It doesn't work so well on most game patch levels and on most routers/firewalls.
textbooks are written by teachers, usualy a couple teach each book. Some colleges not even encourage but require some teachers to make book so often.
The ones raping the school system/students are the book publishers. They push the new versions out, refuse to print older ones, and push for new sets of books brought at high prices every few years.
If cali, by themselves pushed their weight around to get books they want, at reasonable prices (150 is way to much per book), reprints of the book, they could.
Most places don't accept that and force you to have someone they say on your dime look over the item in question.
A car I could not sell at 1.5k, got taxed as if it was 7.5k. That was in Va, and UT looks to be the same. Don't remember Cali, but I think it was the same as well.
I recall reading about a theory where the moon impacted with earth, and earth gained it's core and the moon didn't have enough energy to escape, and ended up trap in orbit. Best I can find is Giant impact hypothesis, but I think it was a variation of this.
Something like that could explain mass extinction, and forcing more change with creating tides, seasons, etc. Not to mention, taking a mostly iron core could change gravity enough here where larger animals have a harder time. And look around at other planets, how many have a liquid cores, strong magnetic field, and active tectonic plates. I recall neither Mars or Venus, and so far they are the most like earth out of all other celestial bodies we have found.
It doesn't have to be another PC on his NAT'ed network. Could be the windows iso he downloaded had a calling home backdoor feature. But I agree, getting attacked from outside a NAT'ed environment is unlikely. Using an unpatched IE on some warez site could lead him in that direction as well. But I would have a look around at the other PC's on the network.
And I rarely do an image of a system, between yearly system reinstalls of my windows box, there is new releases of everything (graphics/sound/nic/chipset drivers, OpenOffice, Firefox, opera, etc) where it is nice to have a clean system up rather than have to stack on more updates that leave traces.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
The way it should be handled is each county is in charge of it's own domains, in a higherarchy sort of way. Let me see if I can explain it clear enough. Each country is in charge of their own .com/.gov/etc, Each would resolve to their own country specific top level domain, including the US. TO get to another countries .com you would add the TLD on after. In this way, it would disperse the authority to each local government yet US would still control.
From USA I type in www.microsoft.com, another country would need to type www.microsoft.com.us, or have the .com(or what ever they want to use) registered for their country.
If I don't get what I want, they don't get what they want (My money)
I don't want a game that phones home
I don't want to keep a CD in the drive (resorting to using daemon tools or no CD cracks)
I don't want DRM crapware installed
They want my money, but they seam to get that people want no strings attached game. And as I haven't heard of this game before, I will try it, if I like it I will buy it. Lets see if they actually made a fun game that I am looking for. If it meets my requirements, and is fun, I may get more than on copy, and my friends too for lan play.
Just something interesting that I noticed with implying 32GB being small . . .
With the avg song ~4mb in size, thats about 8,000 songs. At say an average price of $1.00 a song. . . . Wow, no wonder RIAA is crusading agaisnt fileshares, They think everyone with an MP3 player owes them $250 per gig!
Do people really use that music space for music? My entire music collection sits at about 12gigs, and that includes things from soundtacks, duplicates, music for wife/kids, audio books, and stuff I have only because I'm a packrat who doesn't delete anything. Seriously, I bought a $50 4gb RCA mp3 player that holds all the music I want, and I haven't changed it in a year. Thats nearly a 1000's songs, 10x greater than the radio stations apparent playlist.
Wow, MS must like it when ever someone running a lot of *nix(FreeBSD) servers switches to Windows or in this case, drops out. Now they can report being more successful because they own a larger percentage of websites.
If an ATM is on a TCP/IP network that is VPN'ed to another network that has access to the net. Then that ATM is effectively connected to the network. Sure they can block all ports and protocols but what they need. But I have seen so few companies employ an "allow whitelist only" for network or VPN.
Further the worm W32.Welchia.Worm (as stated by the previous poster spreads over the network looking for two different vulnerabilities. Which tells me it wasn't an infected flash drive
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2003-081815-2308-99
Again, if the ATM (or any machine) is connected to a network that has net access, then you are one PEBKAC away from it not making a difference. Someone downloads maleware/tojan/worm, server gets hacked, etc.
"People that think the EULAs are about anything other than a good faith effort at notifying you of the disclaimers on the product are out of control paranoid. They put other stuff in because they can; they don't care much about it."
Umm, are you reading the same news? Blizzard sewing a bot maker millions was decided because of the EULA (not the TOS for the wow account) Blizzard destroyed bnetd! And also shutdown warcraft2 for linux project(still required CD).
The kid part has to work, they can not be accountable for agreeing to a contract of any kind. (ask all those 12 CD's for $.01, then buy 12 more at full price companies)
EULA's should not be legal for anything but "good faith effort at notifying you of the disclaimers", but they are so much more than that, and the courts have almost* always upheld them unless their was something in it that was not legal. And even then, some of them was still upheld, just that part was removed.
How the hell did clicking through an installer prompt after I purchased my copy became a leagaly binding contract? I would love to know, all I see is some huge jumps that somehow made it happen, jumps big enough that should have sent red-flags off everywhere, and judges looking to reverse it.
*Using the world almost because I am sure somewhere, it has not been upheld.
EULA's have been uphead al lthe time, Just look at what blizzard has been doing.
Heck, look at EFF history of dealing with shrinkwrap EULA's. Thye lose almost all the time!
I stopped funding the EFF because thye lost some big ones, and why give them more cash to set presidence doing the opposite of what I/we want to accomplish.