OK I'm a bit confused, eveyone is saying that this is a DMCA case, but when I read the complaint, I don't see where DMCA is explicitly mentioned.
See Paragraph 3: "This is an action for patent infringment arising under the Patent Laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C SS 271 cl seq. and for copyright infringement arising under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. S 1201." The last part of the sentence describes one of the most commonly used portions of the DMCA. This is confirmed in Paragraph 24 of the complaint, where the actual law gets cited.
Not that it matters, since a half-decent lawyer could nail the plaintiff for filing frivilous lawsuits.
The nice thing about a one ship vs. hundreds of ships battle is that as you attack the enemy, their firepower continues to go down because they lose ships. You've got 100% firepower until you're defeated.
Not quite: The Gravtron beam (in the mid-tech level) performs both regular damage and internal damage at the same time. If you get hit by that, your firepower will drop slightly (but damage gets repaired after combat anyway).
There are more powerful weapons that do more damage, but that is one of the few weapons that can punch through armor.
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I am seriously starting to wonder about the legality of pop-up ads and internet spyware.
IANAL, but pop-up ads are legal (even though they are annoying as hell). As soon as the advertisers run any form of executable code to place the ad in the background, or use any "kick-through" style of features, they are entering the realm of criminal hacking.
While laws vary from country to country, it can be quite easy to turn this to your advantage - damages caused by this activity can be recovered through the court system (although you may have to bring it to the local repair shop to confirm the amount of damages).
If you feel really lucky, perform the litigation in your own home town and convince the judge that the case is within the local jurisdiction. After all, if they hacked *your* computer, that's where the tort occurred...
After observing a large number of games, the major problem with game AIs is that the developer puts very little effort into the AI itself. While there are a few good/excellent AI systems out there, these are the exception and not the rule.
Naturally, the AI has the shortest time frame in the software engineering, but there is no reason it should remain stagnent across the future patches. From these patches, the developers can identify the shortfalls of the old AI, and correct them. This is very rarly done, and is only performed across versions.
It's also very difficult to find a game with a decent or challenging AI, since mose formal reviews ignore that portion of the review entirly. Most people will look for the 9/10 IGN Review award as opposed to the real deal in the message boards (the AI in the game is a cheating piece of c***).
whenever you respond, the spammer gets more money, since the "response rate" will rise, and yur e-mail address will be marked as "active".
Not exactly. In some cases, the spammers blast out e-mails while forgetting to include any unique identifiers for the e-mail. As a result, you can lie by sending an e-mail address such as postmaster@localhost.
After being fed a seeded address, the spammers will begin spamming the company hosting them (or possibly themselves), and will immediatly get kicked from "legitimate" services.
There is a company called VMware, which has made a virtual machine that allows Windows to run under Linux. It is a commercial application, but it is one of the most reliable programs out there.
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Not that it matters, since a half-decent lawyer could nail the plaintiff for filing frivilous lawsuits.
There are more powerful weapons that do more damage, but that is one of the few weapons that can punch through armor.
While laws vary from country to country, it can be quite easy to turn this to your advantage - damages caused by this activity can be recovered through the court system (although you may have to bring it to the local repair shop to confirm the amount of damages).
If you feel really lucky, perform the litigation in your own home town and convince the judge that the case is within the local jurisdiction. After all, if they hacked *your* computer, that's where the tort occurred...
After observing a large number of games, the major problem with game AIs is that the developer puts very little effort into the AI itself. While there are a few good/excellent AI systems out there, these are the exception and not the rule.
Naturally, the AI has the shortest time frame in the software engineering, but there is no reason it should remain stagnent across the future patches. From these patches, the developers can identify the shortfalls of the old AI, and correct them. This is very rarly done, and is only performed across versions.
It's also very difficult to find a game with a decent or challenging AI, since mose formal reviews ignore that portion of the review entirly. Most people will look for the 9/10 IGN Review award as opposed to the real deal in the message boards (the AI in the game is a cheating piece of c***).
After being fed a seeded address, the spammers will begin spamming the company hosting them (or possibly themselves), and will immediatly get kicked from "legitimate" services.
It may be an in-joke that we don't understand. Anybody care to explain it?