Considering that the slides are not complete without the presentation:
"For privacy, we can make the RFID chips annihilate themselves."
The word "auto-destruct" leads me to this interpretation... It doesn't make sense to talk about the "auto-destruction" of privacy but it makes perfect sense to talk about RIF chips destroying themselves.
What's my torrent doing on the front page of Slashdot?
I did get to see a late night Slashdot effect in action... Went from being connected to 20 seeds to about 110 leechers...
Tim
Re:Oh man. Don't COpy That Floppy...
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Random Humor
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· Score: 4, Informative
That version of Neverwinter Nights was an online game that was a feature of AOL. AOL actually had several, and some were pretty good, but they shut them all down a long while back.
There's actually a few people who have survived rabies. At least some of them had the rabies vaccine, but too late to prevent the onset of symptoms. Apparently the survivors were generally insane or brain-damaged...
In the beginning the protagonist is walking through an abandoned London and then running from some Infected and Godspeed You! Black Emperor is rocking out in the background with "East Hastings."
I didn't see a single electric thing in the Supermarket. The cash registers were off, as was the refrigeration. There were no electric lights in sight either, although it was quite bright inside - perhaps they were catching a good angle of sunlight?
I tried them for a short time a while back... never understood the attraction. In bog standard IE, if I want to go back, I gesture my mouse up to the top left of the screen. If I want to open in new window, I right click and gesture my mouse to the right and down a little. What's the big attraction in making different mouse movements and calling them something different?
One thing that struck me about this expansion was that the missions were in general a lot more interesting and varied. There were fewer of the plain "destroy all the enemy bases" missions, but they didn't make them all the standard "hero and some men, no base, only found reinforcements" RPG missions that were always the alternative either. For example, there's a mission where you have to assault an enemy base. You have a base, but no gold mine. You find gold in the enemy base to build reinforcements. You also have a squad of stealth assassin/saboteur type guys that you have to sneak around to defeat some of the base's defenses. Pretty cool.
That said, I found it rather easy... I have to replay it on the Hard setting.
I know it is rather hard for them to prevent the maphack in the first place but some sort of automatic detection would help a lot. Instead they just wait fo a bunch of people to complain...
Blizzard so far has made very good games but there is a feeling I get like their position of making these good games is very tenuous... For example, Warcraft III and Starcraft are basically only affected by one cheat (maphack) due to the nature of the game, but instead of fixing it Blizzard basically does nothing about it...
Actually, in pound-me-in-the-ass prison it's usually the white guys getting the pounding...
Tim
Re:Shielding RFID against security
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RFID Explained
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The RFID scanners only work on a rather small radius... Carpeting the entire store with them sounds too troublesome to be worth it. if the bottom of a shopping cart is about two feet off the ground hanging scanners from the ceiling probably won't work, as they would be hitting people in the head. And you couldn't have a wide aisle covered without putting scanners on the floor or obstructing the aisle.
I couldn't actually find a reference for my "locking socket" conjecture although I have heard of people seeing them in public places where the management doesn't want you removing power to their equipment...
I did, however, find a reference for putting a lock through the holes to prevent someone from plugging in the equipment in the first place: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_389.html Tim
-You get on another train but it crashes very quick, throwing you into a water level. You fight a big alien fish.
-You fight some assassins (very badass black clad women).
-You are caught in a trap by some grunts. They throw you in a garbage compactor.
-You escape and have to go through a Rube Goldberg waste processing facility.
-You discover that the facility has been experimenting on the aliens.
-For a long time you fight your way across the surface towards the Lambda Core.
-The military decides this is a clusterfuck and starts pulling out.
-You find an elevator that takes you down to the Lambda Core and a scientist lets you in.
-You have to fight your way through aliens to turn on the Lambda Reactor in several steps.
-The reactor powers teleporters, which you use to get to the top of the reactor.
-At the top you load up on weaponry and go through a big teleporter to the alien world of Xen.
-You walk around on Xen for a while.
-You kill the mother of the headcrabs.
-You walk through a Xen factory for a while.
-You destroy the boss of the aliens.
-The GMan (Blue suited man you saw throughout the game) talks with you while you teleport through some Xen scenes. He offers you a choice between working for him or death. If you work for him he says "I'll be seeing you up ahead" and the game ends. (Apparently he puts you in cryogenic sleep and wakes you up decades later to play Half Life 2) If you chose not to work for him he teleports you to a room with about 50 Alien grunts (most of them are sprites though, since that was a bit beyond the hardware of the day.)
What's funny about that whole topic is that for the short time I was in Boy Scouts before I gave up on Scouting or at least my troop being horrible, it was a bastion of barely-repressed homosexuality...
"Read this part very carefully: This is NOT legal advice. I am NOT a lawyer, much less a lawyer licensed to practice in your jurisdiction."
Are you a law student or some sort of legal worker then? They're the only ones I've ever seen who really really want to make sure that they are not giving out legal advice.
On locking: You know the holes that you see in almost every plug? There are special sockets with little rods that insert into those holes at the turn of a key and lock the plug in place.
Slashdot Mirror
Your article, or at least the way you condensed it, doesn't make any sense.
Tim
They are WORM - Write Once Read Many, like a CD-ROM... Can't be reused.
Tim
Considering that the slides are not complete without the presentation:
"For privacy, we can make the RFID chips annihilate themselves."
The word "auto-destruct" leads me to this interpretation... It doesn't make sense to talk about the "auto-destruction" of privacy but it makes perfect sense to talk about RIF chips destroying themselves.
Tim
It's the only thing besides the Google cache that's free and can survive the Slashdot effect...
Tim
What's my torrent doing on the front page of Slashdot?
I did get to see a late night Slashdot effect in action... Went from being connected to 20 seeds to about 110 leechers...
Tim
That version of Neverwinter Nights was an online game that was a feature of AOL. AOL actually had several, and some were pretty good, but they shut them all down a long while back.
Tim
There's actually a few people who have survived rabies. At least some of them had the rabies vaccine, but too late to prevent the onset of symptoms. Apparently the survivors were generally insane or brain-damaged...
Tim
In the beginning the protagonist is walking through an abandoned London and then running from some Infected and Godspeed You! Black Emperor is rocking out in the background with "East Hastings."
Tim
I didn't see a single electric thing in the Supermarket. The cash registers were off, as was the refrigeration. There were no electric lights in sight either, although it was quite bright inside - perhaps they were catching a good angle of sunlight?
Tim
for DAYS. You're behind the times. Look on bytemonsoon.com or suprnova.org, probably still plenty of people seeding it.
Tim
I tried them for a short time a while back... never understood the attraction. In bog standard IE, if I want to go back, I gesture my mouse up to the top left of the screen. If I want to open in new window, I right click and gesture my mouse to the right and down a little. What's the big attraction in making different mouse movements and calling them something different?
Tim
One thing that struck me about this expansion was that the missions were in general a lot more interesting and varied. There were fewer of the plain "destroy all the enemy bases" missions, but they didn't make them all the standard "hero and some men, no base, only found reinforcements" RPG missions that were always the alternative either. For example, there's a mission where you have to assault an enemy base. You have a base, but no gold mine. You find gold in the enemy base to build reinforcements. You also have a squad of stealth assassin/saboteur type guys that you have to sneak around to defeat some of the base's defenses. Pretty cool.
That said, I found it rather easy... I have to replay it on the Hard setting.
Tim
I know it is rather hard for them to prevent the maphack in the first place but some sort of automatic detection would help a lot. Instead they just wait fo a bunch of people to complain...
Tim
Blizzard so far has made very good games but there is a feeling I get like their position of making these good games is very tenuous... For example, Warcraft III and Starcraft are basically only affected by one cheat (maphack) due to the nature of the game, but instead of fixing it Blizzard basically does nothing about it...
Tim
Fucking use map settings maps ruined Starcraft and half-ruin Warcraft III.
Tim
Actually, in pound-me-in-the-ass prison it's usually the white guys getting the pounding...
Tim
The RFID scanners only work on a rather small radius... Carpeting the entire store with them sounds too troublesome to be worth it. if the bottom of a shopping cart is about two feet off the ground hanging scanners from the ceiling probably won't work, as they would be hitting people in the head. And you couldn't have a wide aisle covered without putting scanners on the floor or obstructing the aisle.
Tim
I couldn't actually find a reference for my "locking socket" conjecture although I have heard of people seeing them in public places where the management doesn't want you removing power to their equipment...
I did, however, find a reference for putting a lock through the holes to prevent someone from plugging in the equipment in the first place: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_389.html
Tim
-You get on another train but it crashes very quick, throwing you into a water level. You fight a big alien fish.
-You fight some assassins (very badass black clad women).
-You are caught in a trap by some grunts. They throw you in a garbage compactor.
-You escape and have to go through a Rube Goldberg waste processing facility.
-You discover that the facility has been experimenting on the aliens.
-For a long time you fight your way across the surface towards the Lambda Core.
-The military decides this is a clusterfuck and starts pulling out.
-You find an elevator that takes you down to the Lambda Core and a scientist lets you in.
-You have to fight your way through aliens to turn on the Lambda Reactor in several steps.
-The reactor powers teleporters, which you use to get to the top of the reactor.
-At the top you load up on weaponry and go through a big teleporter to the alien world of Xen.
-You walk around on Xen for a while.
-You kill the mother of the headcrabs.
-You walk through a Xen factory for a while.
-You destroy the boss of the aliens.
-The GMan (Blue suited man you saw throughout the game) talks with you while you teleport through some Xen scenes. He offers you a choice between working for him or death. If you work for him he says "I'll be seeing you up ahead" and the game ends. (Apparently he puts you in cryogenic sleep and wakes you up decades later to play Half Life 2) If you chose not to work for him he teleports you to a room with about 50 Alien grunts (most of them are sprites though, since that was a bit beyond the hardware of the day.)
Tim
What's funny about that whole topic is that for the short time I was in Boy Scouts before I gave up on Scouting or at least my troop being horrible, it was a bastion of barely-repressed homosexuality...
Tim
"Read this part very carefully: This is NOT legal advice. I am NOT a lawyer, much less a lawyer licensed to practice in your jurisdiction."
Are you a law student or some sort of legal worker then? They're the only ones I've ever seen who really really want to make sure that they are not giving out legal advice.
Tim
On locking: You know the holes that you see in almost every plug? There are special sockets with little rods that insert into those holes at the turn of a key and lock the plug in place.
Tim
BitTorrent seems like a great solution to deal with the Slashdot effect, if the editors ever showed any signs of caring about dealing with it.
I can't see the pinball!
Tim
Too bad Highlift went down the toilet...
Tim
Mains current to the hand is NOTHING!
Tim