"Why should you have to BUY something to protect your company. You already paid a whole heck of a lot for your Microsoft servers"
Because the DOJ would have MS's ass for bundling email virus scanning solutions with the os, thereby depriving lots of poor old 3rd party email scanners from lots of profit.
Like other people here, I once thought it would be cool to write a virus. The trouble is that I *still* think it would be cool.
Now before you get all uppity, I should tell you that the effects of my virus would be something like hooking all the text output apis and doing the equiv. of s/icrosoft/icro$oft/g.
The reason I think it would feel good is an expansion of the reason programming is good. Programming is good because you are creating something and feeling ubercool because you had an effect on the computer (at its most basic). Now imagine having that effect on *lots* of computers all over the world. You see?
Also when I say "write a virus" I mean old-school style, written in x86 asm. It's lame trick getting users to spread the code through email- you should write some little app that is so cool people will actually spread it for you.
The reason I have never done this is because the authors of viruses and worms always seem to get caught. But how? Is it because they put messages in their vbscript source which can be traced to handles of known people ? I don't see how working out where the virus was first uploaded to is any help, especially if someone anonymously ftpd it somewhere while using a spoofed ip...
These kids apparently confessed- a foolish move but one that can be blamed on the intimidation they faced while still young.
I used to mud "responsibly" on games like Mist, and everything was under control, then they introduced the "rent" system. I remember playing Mozart the night before an exam because if I didn't, I wouldn't have had enough gold and my items would have been lost.
When I think about how pumped full of adrenaline I get playing FPSs normally, (You think an area is clear and suddenly you get shot from behind, you spin round, changing weapons, the blood still ringing in your ears and your heart on overdrive), I wonder how many game tournaments I could play FOR MONEY before I had a heart attack....
Seriously- I mean when the stakes are higher and not getting shot equates to real money- what kind of state are you going to be in? Would this make the game better or worse? Too damn real if you ask me- probably real life marines get less stressed in combat.
You are addicted to cigarettes, just a lower level of nicotine than most people. I can't think of any reason you'd like filling your lungs with acrid irritant smoke other than you liked the nicotine. Same goes for people who don't inhale- they get the nicotine through the skin inside the mouth, like cigar smokers.
And yes, I'm a twenty a day man and not proud, so I am not just being a self-righteous arse here.
" And Metal Gear Solid 2 won't be exclusive for much longer. "
Last I heard Konami were scrapping their metal gear solid x (xbox) plans, but then I also heard that there would be no dc shenmue 2 non-Japanese and we got that so...
(I love that "uber rooly" phrase- I stole it from some Young People)
People have to consider that you really don't want beings that are exactly half human/animal, because what we want are girls with wings *and nothing else* or cat-girls anime style. If you don't get to control the exact mix then your angelic winged girl could have a beak and the cat-girl could have cat-breath.
Thanks for the info on the cure for cancer thing. I am using it on the 3 computers I have which still run windows and have emailed everyone in my address book about it.
Has slashdot done a story on this? If they haven't they really should, so more people get involved. I am sure there is more chance of something positive coming out of it than the seti@home project...
I just realized that hardcore seti geeks are so mad that if they personally actually met some aliens they would get really excited...
alien: how are you gentlemen! We are aliens!
seti geek: omg! fuck! real aliens!
alien: take us to your leader!
seti geek: do you have alien computers?
alien: indeed
seti geek: are they really advanced compared to ours ?
alien: indeed
seti geek: Do you mind if I run seti@home on them ?
"Snuff flicks, kiddie porn, etc DO have a fairly big market"
Nobody has yet given any evidence that a single genuine snuff film has ever been made. You do know that the whole thing started as a Blair-Witch style publicity stunt for some low-budget flick ?
"I mean do you want your child to develope crushes on a CG person?"
Hell yeah, at least then they can't stalk them.
Plus, imagine if CGs get as popular as real stars and as realistic, but now they're *interactive*. What I wouldn't give just to have 6 degrees of freedom with the camera in the "One more time" video, let alone telling Britneeeeeeee what to do...
Where FFTSW went wrong is in advertising itself as "Final Fantasy" just because it had a character called "Cid" in it. If it had focused on Chocobos, moogles, Bahamut and a bloke with an oversized weapon it would have ruled.
Now square has lost a bit of credability with gamers for blatantly tying a losing movie into their winning franchise.
I am thinking of going back to see the movie and taking my dualshock controller with me. I'll sit in the middle of the front row and for the whole movie I'll bash the button and shout "Come on, come on" and see if anyone gets it.
As yet another person who just finished installing 100 Base T to every room in his new house I would agree with all the posters here who say that blah blah they were lazy so they only ran one cable to each room (most of my computers are in one room which has the 16 port switch, adsl etc in it to minimize dealing with wires through doors), but hey, you want more than one device in the ancillary rooms, just put a small switch on the end of the cable instead.
Tom actually does address this though. The thing is designed for corporate environments, not/. houses, and the advantages over a regular switch are that users will not unplug the switch or steal it. So OK, if I had employees who stole or unplugged switches (then called support) I would fire their lame asses, but that's just me.
The real question is why this essentially boring, aimed at businesses product is being discussed on/., or Tom's Hardware ?
I have seen TH grow from a cool hardware site no-one knew about to the popularity it enjoys today and can only worry about the negative effect that popularity is having, specifically taking it up the arse for sponsers' dollars.
As a self-confessed hardware disassembler how can you not have a magnetic screwdriver and full set of hex bits ?
You start off with at least 8 sizes of flat-head, then 8 sizes of each of pozidrive and phillips, and that's your *basic* set...
Then you add in 8 sizes each of every "security" type you can get your hands on, starting on the ultra-common "TX", moving on to things like the tri-wing, and on to the *really* obscure stuff.
Now you can dismantle everything in sight: No games console, PVR, computer or bus shelter will be safe when you are around!
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this should be marked "insightful". Dumb, trigger-happy moderators. How can someone be so quick to use up their 10 points?
graspee
"Why should you have to BUY something to protect your company. You already paid a whole heck of a lot for your Microsoft servers"
Because the DOJ would have MS's ass for bundling email virus scanning solutions with the os, thereby depriving lots of poor old 3rd party email scanners from lots of profit.
graspee
Like other people here, I once thought it would be cool to write a virus. The trouble is that I *still* think it would be cool.
Now before you get all uppity, I should tell you that the effects of my virus would be something like hooking all the text output apis and doing the equiv. of s/icrosoft/icro$oft/g.
The reason I think it would feel good is an expansion of the reason programming is good. Programming is good because you are creating something and feeling ubercool because you had an effect on the computer (at its most basic). Now imagine having that effect on *lots* of computers all over the world. You see?
Also when I say "write a virus" I mean old-school style, written in x86 asm. It's lame trick getting users to spread the code through email- you should write some little app that is so cool people will actually spread it for you.
The reason I have never done this is because the authors of viruses and worms always seem to get caught. But how? Is it because they put messages in their vbscript source which can be traced to handles of known people ? I don't see how working out where the virus was first uploaded to is any help, especially if someone anonymously ftpd it somewhere while using a spoofed ip...
These kids apparently confessed- a foolish move but one that can be blamed on the intimidation they faced while still young.
graspee
I used to mud "responsibly" on games like Mist, and everything was under control, then they introduced the "rent" system. I remember playing Mozart the night before an exam because if I didn't, I wouldn't have had enough gold and my items would have been lost.
graspee
When I think about how pumped full of adrenaline I get playing FPSs normally, (You think an area is clear and suddenly you get shot from behind, you spin round, changing weapons, the blood still ringing in your ears and your heart on overdrive), I wonder how many game tournaments I could play FOR MONEY before I had a heart attack....
Seriously- I mean when the stakes are higher and not getting shot equates to real money- what kind of state are you going to be in? Would this make the game better or worse? Too damn real if you ask me- probably real life marines get less stressed in combat.
graspee
You are addicted to cigarettes, just a lower level of nicotine than most people. I can't think of any reason you'd like filling your lungs with acrid irritant smoke other than you liked the nicotine. Same goes for people who don't inhale- they get the nicotine through the skin inside the mouth, like cigar smokers.
And yes, I'm a twenty a day man and not proud, so I am not just being a self-righteous arse here.
graspee
" And Metal Gear Solid 2 won't be exclusive for much longer. "
Last I heard Konami were scrapping their metal gear solid x (xbox) plans, but then I also heard that there would be no dc shenmue 2 non-Japanese and we got that so...
graspee
The site is so unpopular it's not even /.ed right now!
graspee
"...you will be able to run Microsoft Government Simulator 2002..."
That program is already running
graspee
"There is no G3 cube"
Funny thing- when you said that, my imac started to bend...
graspee
(I love that "uber rooly" phrase- I stole it from some Young People)
People have to consider that you really don't want beings that are exactly half human/animal, because what we want are girls with wings *and nothing else* or cat-girls anime style. If you don't get to control the exact mix then your angelic winged girl could have a beak and the cat-girl could have cat-breath.
graspee
Very handy for taking out sensors linked to explosive devices, shooting seagulls, shooting radios on guards' belts etc.
(hint to the clueless- mgs2)
graspee
Thanks for the info on the cure for cancer thing. I am using it on the 3 computers I have which still run windows and have emailed everyone in my address book about it.
Has slashdot done a story on this? If they haven't they really should, so more people get involved. I am sure there is more chance of something positive coming out of it than the seti@home project...
graspee
"The sound path is playstation -> vcr -> stereo -> SB PCI 64"
Ouch. The PS2 has optical out so you could put that directly into your soundcard.
I just realized that hardcore seti geeks are so mad that if they personally actually met some aliens they would get really excited...
alien: how are you gentlemen! We are aliens!
seti geek: omg! fuck! real aliens!
alien: take us to your leader!
seti geek: do you have alien computers?
alien: indeed
seti geek: are they really advanced compared to ours ?
alien: indeed
seti geek: Do you mind if I run seti@home on them ?
graspee
"Snuff flicks, kiddie porn, etc DO have a fairly big market"
Nobody has yet given any evidence that a single genuine snuff film has ever been made. You do know that the whole thing started as a Blair-Witch style publicity stunt for some low-budget flick ?
Collect evidence before you assume.
graspee
"I'd be surprised if there aren't any shows for children presented by Pokemon characters"
A little out-of-touch with the youth scene perhaps ?
"And this week, chart hits is guest-presented by Charmander and Pikachu!"
"Pika pika!"
"Char Char Char! Chaaar!"
"Pika-P. Chuuuuuuuuuuuu."
graspee
"At least with real people ... there is the possibility to emulate them."
Yeah but you need a really fast computer.
graspee
"I mean do you want your child to develope crushes on a CG person?"
Hell yeah, at least then they can't stalk them.
Plus, imagine if CGs get as popular as real stars and as realistic, but now they're *interactive*. What I wouldn't give just to have 6 degrees of freedom with the camera in the "One more time" video, let alone telling Britneeeeeeee what to do...
graspee
Where FFTSW went wrong is in advertising itself as "Final Fantasy" just because it had a character called "Cid" in it. If it had focused on Chocobos, moogles, Bahamut and a bloke with an oversized weapon it would have ruled.
Now square has lost a bit of credability with gamers for blatantly tying a losing movie into their winning franchise.
I am thinking of going back to see the movie and taking my dualshock controller with me. I'll sit in the middle of the front row and for the whole movie I'll bash the button and shout "Come on, come on" and see if anyone gets it.
graspee
"I read that George Harrison passed away...RIP to an incredibly talented man."
Was he found in his Maine home? Will he be sorely missed? Was he truly a British Icon ?
PS Moderators- I *know* it's true. Have a sense of humour please...
graspee
"As anime is now all done entirely by computers..."
Not true and goddess forbid that it ever would be so. I like my chibi chix and big mex hand-crafted thank-you very much...
graspee
As yet another person who just finished installing 100 Base T to every room in his new house I would agree with all the posters here who say that blah blah they were lazy so they only ran one cable to each room (most of my computers are in one room which has the 16 port switch, adsl etc in it to minimize dealing with wires through doors), but hey, you want more than one device in the ancillary rooms, just put a small switch on the end of the cable instead.
/. houses, and the advantages over a regular switch are that users will not unplug the switch or steal it. So OK, if I had employees who stole or unplugged switches (then called support) I would fire their lame asses, but that's just me.
/., or Tom's Hardware ?
Tom actually does address this though. The thing is designed for corporate environments, not
The real question is why this essentially boring, aimed at businesses product is being discussed on
I have seen TH grow from a cool hardware site no-one knew about to the popularity it enjoys today and can only worry about the negative effect that popularity is having, specifically taking it up the arse for sponsers' dollars.
graspee
As a self-confessed hardware disassembler how can you not have a magnetic screwdriver and full set of hex bits ?
You start off with at least 8 sizes of flat-head, then 8 sizes of each of pozidrive and phillips, and that's your *basic* set...
Then you add in 8 sizes each of every "security" type you can get your hands on, starting on the ultra-common "TX", moving on to things like the tri-wing, and on to the *really* obscure stuff.
Now you can dismantle everything in sight: No games console, PVR, computer or bus shelter will be safe when you are around!
graspee
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