That's so not true for me. For me, good quality graphics are great for immersion, and a nice bonus on top of a solid foundation of gameplay. They're anything but mutually exclusive, and a major problem I dislike WoW is because it feels like I'm playing an interactive cartoon.
Not to forget the already announced "Diablo 3" from the makers of Diablo -- Hellgate London. A sort of spiritual successor to the game, with a much needed refresh in the environment and game style. To be released this summer. A sci-fi post apocalyptic Action RPG (= Diablo genre) set in a semi-instanced world with heavy RPG elements that can be played like an FPS. You can play it 100% cooperatively too, like some guy wanted here, and PVP would be consensual. The downside to the Slashdot crowd is probably lacking support for other operating systems than Windows. At least it won't require DirectX 10 though, but only support it. Hopefully it can eventually be made to work reasonably well in software like Cedega.
For random passwords, I guess 8 characters are still OK, but it's worse if you pick "smart" combinations of words and numbers, like "computers4life" or "jennifer2007". With dictionary attacks adapted for these lengths, they'd only need to check for the first 8 and it would be "computer" and "jennifer" in this case. If you further adapt the attack to only look for e.g. ratios of 4:4 with first 4 being a word and remaining 4 being random, and so on for 5:3, 6:2, 7:1, and 8:0, you also catch circumstances where users have picked passwords like "love4u2007", which would be caught in the "4:4" attack as "love" + "4u20". Maybe that's still secure enough, but this sounds a bit risky when using word passwords, even when mixing with numbers to avoid dictionary attacks, especially with this limitation.
From about 10 years of experiences of online games...
The video covers a little experiment in SL where a reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if some unspoken human rules apply in the virtual world
No... And a "no" to if many people care for that either. SL may be "special", cool or whatever, but it's still just a game with awful graphics and a lot of virtual hookers.
The law doesnt work like that in western Europe. The court reaches a verdict in your favor or disfavor, period.
You're wrong, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice has still not wrapped up the work and decided about economical compensations for the large number of computers withheld as part of the investigation. This according to reports related to these news but in a Swedish newspaper.
This matter is more complex since these guys were an ISP and the police had to take a lot of irrelevant hosts with them, belonging to the ISP's customers.
So if the charges are thrown out because there is no real law in Sweden precluding their activities, could they sue the prosecutor for malicious prosecution, or attempt to get him disbarred (much like the prosecutor in the Duke rape case)?
Yes, that is still being investigated by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice.
No, it's not because of the name. I don't get why some bring that up. It's because of the attention they've been getting internationally. But just like the guy administering ISONews saw coming, I don't think another name would have helped. In other news, the Swedish Pirate Party is a perfectly legitimate political party.
They're not trying to copyright it, but use the DMCA against people publishing it. It doesn't need to be copyrighted for that; what they're protecting is the AACS mechanism.
But whatever, it's stupid anyway, because publishing the number isn't even a "circumvention method", because other tools are necessary to decrypt the disc than just that stupid number. I think they should only be able to go after more complete "solutions" for that. This feels like a waay to broad target to use the DMCA against.
Agreed; what DMCA is about is "circumvention devices", and alone, that number is useless. I can fully 100% understand them if they're going after some upcoming software that makes it super easy to remove copy protections by using this method, but the number alone...? It's a different thing with credit card numbers again, because then the numbers alone *can* be used for bad things. Here you need the decryption algorithm too and all that.
I can't even compare this case with distributing a serial number for a software, because most software have facilities like menu options saying "Enter license code" and then once again they're circumvention devices even standing on their own legs. But not in this case.
I don't think you can copyright 14 bytes. But the issue is not copyright, it is the violation of DMCA by providing a tool necessary to break any sort of copyright protection measures.
I'm not sure how the DMCA really applies though. I mean, can I start suing people for spreading a password of mine that was inadvertely leaked? If it's like 4 characters too? 3? I mean, at some point, it starts getting ridiculous and in this case I feel it already is.:-(
All primary web browsers are security challenged. Or do you intend to dispute various security issues in e.g. Firefox in the past, just to pick the main OSS browser? I really haven't seen *that* many exploits for IE 7 yet.
Well, it's part because the power consumption is due to graphics card load, which won't slow down the OS in general, so it's mainly a problem for laptops. But I thought these were already intended to use the "regular" Aero interface, and not Glass.
Modern desktop operating systems have mediocre to poor design from a security perspective. They could be built a lot better [...]
Yes, but could they be guaranteed to be secure? You'd need a better example than a relatively simplistic software like Qmail to cover enterprise applications like office applications, content management systems,...
They could be built a lot better, only they're not because it is far more profitable to not improve the security and focus on features instead (flashy window animations sell better than being bulletproof).
Exactly, and why Utopia is still merely an utopia.
I really, really hope the Internet Radio Equality Act will go through ASAP for this, or it'll likely become a devastating blow to most serious Internet radio stations out there.:-/
I mean, I believe Windows still has a place in various environments where it's hard to find competing well-tried products, but if there's some environment I can't understand why one would use it, it's in aids for development nations. They don't need the hottest nVidia drivers for gaming, they don't need advanced CAD applications for construction, they just need the standard stuff, that many Linux distros today offers perfectly fine. They can even get full office suites, and then I think they're starting to push their needs for these low cost computers already.
It doesn't seem like an overly big problem thus far, at least when compared to IE 6. ActiveX being disabled by default goes a long way for this, having to be activated for the sites that use it (compare to Firefox that enforce manual allowing of extension installs on other places than addons.mozilla.org), and it's also no longer integrated with the shell.
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Big badaboom!
Actually, forget about the developers!
That's so not true for me. For me, good quality graphics are great for immersion, and a nice bonus on top of a solid foundation of gameplay. They're anything but mutually exclusive, and a major problem I dislike WoW is because it feels like I'm playing an interactive cartoon.
Not to forget the already announced "Diablo 3" from the makers of Diablo -- Hellgate London. A sort of spiritual successor to the game, with a much needed refresh in the environment and game style. To be released this summer. A sci-fi post apocalyptic Action RPG (= Diablo genre) set in a semi-instanced world with heavy RPG elements that can be played like an FPS. You can play it 100% cooperatively too, like some guy wanted here, and PVP would be consensual. The downside to the Slashdot crowd is probably lacking support for other operating systems than Windows. At least it won't require DirectX 10 though, but only support it. Hopefully it can eventually be made to work reasonably well in software like Cedega.
For random passwords, I guess 8 characters are still OK, but it's worse if you pick "smart" combinations of words and numbers, like "computers4life" or "jennifer2007". With dictionary attacks adapted for these lengths, they'd only need to check for the first 8 and it would be "computer" and "jennifer" in this case. If you further adapt the attack to only look for e.g. ratios of 4:4 with first 4 being a word and remaining 4 being random, and so on for 5:3, 6:2, 7:1, and 8:0, you also catch circumstances where users have picked passwords like "love4u2007", which would be caught in the "4:4" attack as "love" + "4u20". Maybe that's still secure enough, but this sounds a bit risky when using word passwords, even when mixing with numbers to avoid dictionary attacks, especially with this limitation.
From about 10 years of experiences of online games...
The video covers a little experiment in SL where a reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if some unspoken human rules apply in the virtual world
No... And a "no" to if many people care for that either.
SL may be "special", cool or whatever, but it's still just a game with awful graphics and a lot of virtual hookers.
The law doesnt work like that in western Europe. The court reaches a verdict in your favor or disfavor, period.
You're wrong, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice has still not wrapped up the work and decided about economical compensations for the large number of computers withheld as part of the investigation. This according to reports related to these news but in a Swedish newspaper.
This matter is more complex since these guys were an ISP and the police had to take a lot of irrelevant hosts with them, belonging to the ISP's customers.
So if the charges are thrown out because there is no real law in Sweden precluding their activities, could they sue the prosecutor for malicious prosecution, or attempt to get him disbarred (much like the prosecutor in the Duke rape case)?
Yes, that is still being investigated by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice.
No, it's not because of the name. I don't get why some bring that up. It's because of the attention they've been getting internationally. But just like the guy administering ISONews saw coming, I don't think another name would have helped. In other news, the Swedish Pirate Party is a perfectly legitimate political party.
They're not trying to copyright it, but use the DMCA against people publishing it. It doesn't need to be copyrighted for that; what they're protecting is the AACS mechanism.
But whatever, it's stupid anyway, because publishing the number isn't even a "circumvention method", because other tools are necessary to decrypt the disc than just that stupid number. I think they should only be able to go after more complete "solutions" for that. This feels like a waay to broad target to use the DMCA against.
Agreed; what DMCA is about is "circumvention devices", and alone, that number is useless. I can fully 100% understand them if they're going after some upcoming software that makes it super easy to remove copy protections by using this method, but the number alone...? It's a different thing with credit card numbers again, because then the numbers alone *can* be used for bad things. Here you need the decryption algorithm too and all that.
I can't even compare this case with distributing a serial number for a software, because most software have facilities like menu options saying "Enter license code" and then once again they're circumvention devices even standing on their own legs. But not in this case.
I don't think you can copyright 14 bytes. But the issue is not copyright, it is the violation of DMCA by providing a tool necessary to break any sort of copyright protection measures.
:-(
I'm not sure how the DMCA really applies though. I mean, can I start suing people for spreading a password of mine that was inadvertely leaked? If it's like 4 characters too? 3? I mean, at some point, it starts getting ridiculous and in this case I feel it already is.
You're saying you upgrade all your drivers, but then say you only needed to upgrade the wireless drivers?
h tml
Anyway, I'm not sure what Forceware drivers you're on, but I highly recommend 158.18 if your graphics card is supported:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.18.
Eeh...?? That's not Aero's fault, but has to be some sort of Compaq driver issue.
Why is pretty simple -- my Aero is not sharing your behavior.
I just checked on Vista: HD movie played at 10% CPU consumption with Aero Glass.
Well, you need the 8800 drivers. :-p
;-)
Vista was released before the Geforce 8800 wide availability, so you have quite high expectations.
You should be able to get them after a Windows Update check.
You've been using Gnome for too long. It's Allow or Cancel here. :-p
All primary web browsers are security challenged. Or do you intend to dispute various security issues in e.g. Firefox in the past, just to pick the main OSS browser? I really haven't seen *that* many exploits for IE 7 yet.
Well, it's part because the power consumption is due to graphics card load, which won't slow down the OS in general, so it's mainly a problem for laptops. But I thought these were already intended to use the "regular" Aero interface, and not Glass.
OK, let's see if they'll get to keep Flickr then...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN04222
Modern desktop operating systems have mediocre to poor design from a security perspective. They could be built a lot better [...]
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Yes, but could they be guaranteed to be secure? You'd need a better example than a relatively simplistic software like Qmail to cover enterprise applications like office applications, content management systems,
They could be built a lot better, only they're not because it is far more profitable to not improve the security and focus on features instead (flashy window animations sell better than being bulletproof).
Exactly, and why Utopia is still merely an utopia.
If we didn't catch diseases or keep injuring ourselves, we wouldn't need healthcare.
I really, really hope the Internet Radio Equality Act will go through ASAP for this, or it'll likely become a devastating blow to most serious Internet radio stations out there. :-/
I mean, I believe Windows still has a place in various environments where it's hard to find competing well-tried products, but if there's some environment I can't understand why one would use it, it's in aids for development nations. They don't need the hottest nVidia drivers for gaming, they don't need advanced CAD applications for construction, they just need the standard stuff, that many Linux distros today offers perfectly fine. They can even get full office suites, and then I think they're starting to push their needs for these low cost computers already.
1) Security (or lack thereof)
It doesn't seem like an overly big problem thus far, at least when compared to IE 6. ActiveX being disabled by default goes a long way for this, having to be activated for the sites that use it (compare to Firefox that enforce manual allowing of extension installs on other places than addons.mozilla.org), and it's also no longer integrated with the shell.
It has already seen Pluto! Twice, even! (one, two)
:-p
What are we going all the way there for again??