The problem is the precedent they are setting here.
Essentially, they are claiming a right to redirect your traffic without your consent. Sure this may only affect you today, until the ISPs decide they need to redirect irc traffic for a full day to stop the botnet.
Or a week.
Or what happens when the botnet escalates itself to web sites? Suddenly its not just port 6667 being blocked.
In this case, our silent will be taken as an implied consent. That will weaken any future attempts even when you are no longer silent.
I've had fewer problems with my laptop since installing vista than I ever had with linux.
Pretty much everything worked 'out-the-box' -- including video (although I ultimately had to go download the vista drivers from ATI to get any kind of acceleration), sound, even suspend/sleep (although, microsoft renaming hibernate to sleep confused me at first).
There are plenty of places where microsoft seems to suck across the board.. but vista sleeping and waking up works just fine.
BTW - this sleeping is a feature that I never did get 100% working properly in linux -- and what I WAS able to get working right required I bounce around a few websites ultimatly doing my own research... whereas it seems to work now in vista just fine?
On the one hand, the "competition" of CoH is getting your next level, your next power, your next super power...
But for me, it's all about watching my wife go nuts when she manages to heal me just in time to save me before I die in a mission we've been working together.
It's all about yapping at my friends through teamspeak or typing at them while we're running to the next mission zone.
It's all about playing around with various templates, and suggesting various combinations to friends.
When was the last time you ran md5 against an image? One of the earlier uses of steganography was getting messages out of a contained environment where an image of 'something' innocuous was just that, innocuous.
For that, the 'signature method' (visual inspection) was 'gee, this is a neat picture of a cloud'.
For this method, the 'signature method' (execution/'strings'/'.?grep') is 'gee, it says "hello world"'.
Either way, it limits arousal of suspicion.
The point isn't to hide against continued analysis (earlier copies of executable?) but to make the contents seem 'uninteresting'.
I had given that some thought, too. But as was earlier suggested, we do see #6 interact (kill!) the baby.
However, this is NOT to say she didn't somehow inject the chip within the first "dates", and then go away, with the REST of his interactions with her being totally in his mind.
After all, what better way to "infiltrate the defense machiens" than to have Balthar do it? I think a "new blonde" Walking into the security facility would certainly raise more than a few eyebrows...
I do agree with you, that the nods to Blade Runner were nice:)
If you were bothered by them using 'solar system', how about using the word 'the'. Isn't that stricly english? Ok, the argument might be that they speak the same language, root and all.
However, they developed the word 'computer'... 'faster than light'... words that wouldn't necessarily have evolved the same way.
'Solar System' is so overused, now, I would dare suggest it has become idiomatic to mean any planetary system...
In other words, they were using words like we use words to accomplish one thing: communicate. Would you have been happier with them speaking, the entire time, in a language none of us understood? Guess we could've read the subtitles...
I think it is fallacy to make a generalization like '[...] you probably didn't know that [the Sun has an actual name] and neither did the writers.'
The mechanism by which their consciousness is uploaded, might very well be a form of their religion. They may not even upload at all?
Why nitpick about this one part? Why not nitpick about the fact that they even HAD ftl? Or that the computers were non-networked, yet the ship still flew? yadda yadda
My point being that even though BG had "robots", this show was definitely more about the people than the technology. You didn't see Adama or anyone else stop every single time and explain how everything they were holding was working. No, they interacted like a bunch of scared humans trying to survive somehow.
I don't consider the lack of answer on this front to be an error. I consider it a (hopefully) mysterious element to these somewhat enigmatic Cylons.
I would be tickled pink if the story was that the Cylons figured out "metaphyiscally" how to upload their consciousness -- and assumed they had found "God".
- eyeglasses:
How many of you have pierced tongues? What useful purpose does that serve? Borderline none to some of us. Likewise, eyeglasses may just be a continued form of style for them? Adama also seemed to have a penchant for not liking technology...
- cancer:
Just because we can big big robots, doesn't mean we can kill small cells. Hell, I woke up with the sniffles indicating an onset of the flu this morning, yet can drive to work. Two different technologies, advancing at different rates.
- warhead We have no idea how old those warheads were, or how the storage was, etc. .. And given that the armsdealer was cylon, how do we know he didn't somehow RIG that warhead to drop? Adama killed a humanoid cylon. These are cylons who may very well have given up raw mass and strength, for more subtle ways of killing humans (pheremones, for the blonde; rigging traps, like the warhead that dropped...)
And I don't understand your complaint about the differing speeds. You ahve slower than light for promixity motion, you ahve faster than light for the macro motion.
Or, as a semi-mechanical device, she was capable of producing pheremones, hormones, etc. that would overload him? She DID land Baltar, as well... She certainly didn't look the type to be getting into armed combat...
Granted, just by looks alone, she could grab a whole room-load of us... But if she's specifically designed as the spy/diplomat/agent type, she could very well have "forced" that diplomat into becoming completely unresponsive (and unable to activate any alarms or whatever he may have, etc.)
He does compare the user interface of the ipod to the user interface of the zen, comparing it to palmos and wince. I am right there with him/her on this comparison.
And with the ipod, you'd be amazed to discover there are other software solutions for it. While I can't speak for the mac side of the house (and everyone I've talked to about itunes has been fairly happy with it), I know for certain on the PC side, there's EphPod and Media Jukebokx, both of which I've used. Granted, I believe both use the base driver that apple provides... but that driver seems to work perfectly fine for me.
I've owned a number of creative's portable mp3 products (zen, nomad, etc). I must say, this ipod and its interface have them all beat, hands down (so long as you skirt the cost issue =)
Goodness, wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Forget to toggle that 'post anonymously' checkbox? Duplicating stuff as an homage because you enjoyed it when you were, that IS a feat. Especially when it is trivial to do better now.
If "they" can write a program so "advanced" as to trap keystrokes (imagine a smiley here...) then surely they have the ability to write a program to find your private key.
Granted, many have commented on mechanisms to bypass this... second PC to do {de,en}cryption, sneakernetted, etc. . . But how many of us go *that* far to ensure our privacy?
I have a hard enough time dealing with the need to use pgp to ensure my privacy. I don't feel I should have to go to *any* measures to ensure it.
Well, then, they'll just take their broken robot BACK home, build larger lego pieces of out solid metal, put him/her/it back together again. The next time you try to go into your porn magazine store and you see this guy guarding you because you are underage, let's see you kick him/her/it THEN!:)
> * ISP thinks you are spreading pirated moviesthrough Usenet
Not to split hairs... the ISP didn't necessarily think the person was spreading pirated movies. The ISP, as a corporate entity, has just as much 'right' to fear lawyers as we do. There's a provision in the DMCA that basically says "if tell you a user is pirating, you *must* do something or we'll sue you into oblivion". The ISP didn't throw these people in Jail. The ISP didn't call out the police. The ISP didn't even terminate the account.
I think the ISP did a fairly reasonable thing. They directly cut off any ability for the users to further pirate. If the users had been home to see their service had been disconneted, its entirely possible this entire thing would've been resolved within 24 hours.
Now, another debate is whether or not the DMCA should give anyone the 'ability' to demand an ISP take this kind of action... I find that reprehensible.
When was the last time you peered up at the sky and saw the direct feed? or were even able to make sense of it with just your eyes (like you could the car)? You can't. DirecTV is offering a service. You are paying for the service. A better analogy (perhaps?) would be if you were to paint your car with an *invisible* paint. You then offered a service whereby you would let people look at your invisible car through goggles that can see invisible cars. You'd be pretty pissed if people started hacking together their own goggles and came and looked at your car.
I haven't yet seen the movie, so I haven't formulated my own opinion of the movie... but I did have critical observation to make here.
Yes, I know this is Malda's site. Yes, I know that gives him "creative" rights to do whatever he wants. But come on. Butting in on someone else's review? Ugh.
That descends even below whatever line of decency any of us might have any hope of sharing.
Sorry, moderate me as off topic, but this just annoyed me. Get your own damn site to review, taco!
This doesn't read like a review. If Michael had a hard time installing it, go to a different machine. Or don't review it at all. Tell us you had problems installing it. Tell us the company wasn't real helpful. But to give scores like you did? That's UNHELPFUL.
I had no problems installing it. I rather enjoyed the game.
But this article reads almost like a flame-attempt due to frustration at installation.
>Go buy a cheapass PC like a duran. Add the following...
Well, I've got this setup mostly. The problem isn't in getting the PC to do something. The problem is in all the other components that the PC can't do quite yet. For instance, at its simplest, the cable tuner. I don't know of a way to tune those digital channels that Time Warner scrambles without using one of their Cable Boxes. Which means that integration now becomes the issue. There doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon standard for doing remote controls. (My living room is a testament to this messy remote-control issue...)
I don't know of a card or software that'll drive my 5.1 DTS system, either. I.e., no card has the digital-in and 6-speaker out. Which means I have to sacrifice audio quality.
Just a few examples where the all-heralded PC won't completely meet the requirements.
Something I witnessed yesterday that made very little sense... the Palm Vx we purchased cost roughly $300. The IPaq I purchased cost roughly $500. Ok, I can understand this. The palm only has 8M memory, only a 33mhz dragonball, monochromatic; the ipaq has 16M memory, a 206Mhz proc, 4086 colors.
Then, I look around a little more. What do I see? a Handspring Prism device. Looked to me to be basically a Palm-alike... but it cost $500?
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um, if this page is already under attack, it doesn't matter WHAT you do.
I don't think you quite understand.
So long as the form is being submitted via ssl, it doesn't matter what text you put on this otherwise unencrypted page.
The plaintext stays local until you hit submit. At that point, since you are submitting via ssl, the form contents are encrypted.
Many FedLine terminals (what banks use to "key" in the Wire Transfer information) only allow floppies, for some obscure security reason.
The problem is the precedent they are setting here.
Essentially, they are claiming a right to redirect your traffic without your consent. Sure this may only affect you today, until the ISPs decide they need to redirect irc traffic for a full day to stop the botnet.
Or a week.
Or what happens when the botnet escalates itself to web sites? Suddenly its not just port 6667 being blocked.
In this case, our silent will be taken as an implied consent. That will weaken any future attempts even when you are no longer silent.
I've had fewer problems with my laptop since installing vista than I ever had with linux.
.. but vista sleeping and waking up works just fine.
... whereas it seems to work now in vista just fine?
Pretty much everything worked 'out-the-box' -- including video (although I ultimately had to go download the vista drivers from ATI to get any kind of acceleration), sound, even suspend/sleep (although, microsoft renaming hibernate to sleep confused me at first).
There are plenty of places where microsoft seems to suck across the board
BTW - this sleeping is a feature that I never did get 100% working properly in linux -- and what I WAS able to get working right required I bounce around a few websites ultimatly doing my own research
First "airplane" only lifted off the ground for 15 minutes (I think?)
...
Which would you rather do? Ride a stagecoach for months to cross the country? or Fly for 15 minutes
I think you see where I'm going with this.
For the record, the first month of CoH is free.
...
On the one hand, the "competition" of CoH is getting your next level, your next power, your next super power
But for me, it's all about watching my wife go nuts when she manages to heal me just in time to save me before I die in a mission we've been working together.
It's all about yapping at my friends through teamspeak or typing at them while we're running to the next mission zone.
It's all about playing around with various templates, and suggesting various combinations to friends.
When was the last time you ran md5 against an image? One of the earlier uses of steganography was getting messages out of a contained environment where an image of 'something' innocuous was just that, innocuous.
For that, the 'signature method' (visual inspection) was 'gee, this is a neat picture of a cloud'.
For this method, the 'signature method' (execution/'strings'/'.?grep') is 'gee, it says "hello world"'.
Either way, it limits arousal of suspicion.
The point isn't to hide against continued analysis (earlier copies of executable?) but to make the contents seem 'uninteresting'.
Once upon a time, the idea of putting people on boats for month-long trips seemed insane ...
I think someone earlier posted the result of those actual endeavours...
I had given that some thought, too. But as was earlier suggested, we do see #6 interact (kill!) the baby.
...
:)
However, this is NOT to say she didn't somehow inject the chip within the first "dates", and then go away, with the REST of his interactions with her being totally in his mind.
After all, what better way to "infiltrate the defense machiens" than to have Balthar do it? I think a "new blonde" Walking into the security facility would certainly raise more than a few eyebrows
I do agree with you, that the nods to Blade Runner were nice
If you were bothered by them using 'solar system', how about using the word 'the'. Isn't that stricly english? Ok, the argument might be that they speak the same language, root and all.
... 'faster than light' ... words that wouldn't necessarily have evolved the same way.
...
However, they developed the word 'computer'
'Solar System' is so overused, now, I would dare suggest it has become idiomatic to mean any planetary system...
In other words, they were using words like we use words to accomplish one thing: communicate. Would you have been happier with them speaking, the entire time, in a language none of us understood? Guess we could've read the subtitles
I think it is fallacy to make a generalization like '[...] you probably didn't know that [the Sun has an actual name] and neither did the writers.'
The mechanism by which their consciousness is uploaded, might very well be a form of their religion. They may not even upload at all?
Why nitpick about this one part? Why not nitpick about the fact that they even HAD ftl? Or that the computers were non-networked, yet the ship still flew? yadda yadda
My point being that even though BG had "robots", this show was definitely more about the people than the technology. You didn't see Adama or anyone else stop every single time and explain how everything they were holding was working. No, they interacted like a bunch of scared humans trying to survive somehow.
I don't consider the lack of answer on this front to be an error. I consider it a (hopefully) mysterious element to these somewhat enigmatic Cylons.
I would be tickled pink if the story was that the Cylons figured out "metaphyiscally" how to upload their consciousness -- and assumed they had found "God".
- eyeglasses: ...
. ...)
How many of you have pierced tongues? What useful purpose does that serve? Borderline none to some of us. Likewise, eyeglasses may just be a continued form of style for them? Adama also seemed to have a penchant for not liking technology
- cancer:
Just because we can big big robots, doesn't mean we can kill small cells. Hell, I woke up with the sniffles indicating an onset of the flu this morning, yet can drive to work. Two different technologies, advancing at different rates.
- warhead
We have no idea how old those warheads were, or how the storage was, etc. .
And given that the armsdealer was cylon, how do we know he didn't somehow RIG that warhead to drop?
Adama killed a humanoid cylon. These are cylons who may very well have given up raw mass and strength, for more subtle ways of killing humans (pheremones, for the blonde; rigging traps, like the warhead that dropped
And I don't understand your complaint about the differing speeds. You ahve slower than light for promixity motion, you ahve faster than light for the macro motion.
Or, as a semi-mechanical device, she was capable of producing pheremones, hormones, etc. that would overload him? She DID land Baltar, as well... She certainly didn't look the type to be getting into armed combat ...
... But if she's specifically designed as the spy/diplomat/agent type, she could very well have "forced" that diplomat into becoming completely unresponsive (and unable to activate any alarms or whatever he may have, etc.)
Granted, just by looks alone, she could grab a whole room-load of us
While I might be feeding a troll here ...
... but that driver seems to work perfectly fine for me.
He does compare the user interface of the ipod to the user interface of the zen, comparing it to palmos and wince. I am right there with him/her on this comparison.
And with the ipod, you'd be amazed to discover there are other software solutions for it. While I can't speak for the mac side of the house (and everyone I've talked to about itunes has been fairly happy with it), I know for certain on the PC side, there's EphPod and Media Jukebokx, both of which I've used. Granted, I believe both use the base driver that apple provides
I've owned a number of creative's portable mp3 products (zen, nomad, etc). I must say, this ipod and its interface have them all beat, hands down (so long as you skirt the cost issue =)
Goodness, wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Forget to toggle that 'post anonymously' checkbox?
Duplicating stuff as an homage because you enjoyed it when you were, that IS a feat. Especially when it is trivial to do better now.
If "they" can write a program so "advanced" as to trap keystrokes (imagine a smiley here...) then surely they have the ability to write a program to find your private key.
Granted, many have commented on mechanisms to bypass this... second PC to do {de,en}cryption, sneakernetted, etc. . . But how many of us go *that* far to ensure our privacy?
I have a hard enough time dealing with the need to use pgp to ensure my privacy. I don't feel I should have to go to *any* measures to ensure it.
But oh well.
Well, then, they'll just take their broken robot BACK home, build larger lego pieces of out solid metal, put him/her/it back together again. The next time you try to go into your porn magazine store and you see this guy guarding you because you are underage, let's see you kick him/her/it THEN! :)
> * ISP thinks you are spreading pirated moviesthrough Usenet
... the ISP didn't necessarily think the person was spreading pirated movies. The ISP, as a corporate entity, has just as much 'right' to fear lawyers as we do. There's a provision in the DMCA that basically says "if tell you a user is pirating, you *must* do something or we'll sue you into oblivion". The ISP didn't throw these people in Jail. The ISP didn't call out the police. The ISP didn't even terminate the account.
... I find that reprehensible.
Not to split hairs
I think the ISP did a fairly reasonable thing. They directly cut off any ability for the users to further pirate. If the users had been home to see their service had been disconneted, its entirely possible this entire thing would've been resolved within 24 hours.
Now, another debate is whether or not the DMCA should give anyone the 'ability' to demand an ISP take this kind of action
Wait a minute. Because in one part of his life he does something you disagree with, he should "rot in jail" (as the parent said)?
... but it certainly isn't jailtime :/
Sure, none of us necessarily like the spamware he writes. But that has nothing to do with him being erroneously and illegally incarcerated (imho).
slight OT: I don't know what the proper solution to spamware-elimination is
When was the last time you peered up at the sky and saw the direct feed? or were even able to make sense of it with just your eyes (like you could the car)? You can't. DirecTV is offering a service. You are paying for the service. A better analogy (perhaps?) would be if you were to paint your car with an *invisible* paint. You then offered a service whereby you would let people look at your invisible car through goggles that can see invisible cars. You'd be pretty pissed if people started hacking together their own goggles and came and looked at your car.
I haven't yet seen the movie, so I haven't formulated my own opinion of the movie ... but I did have critical observation to make here.
Yes, I know this is Malda's site. Yes, I know that gives him "creative" rights to do whatever he wants. But come on. Butting in on someone else's review? Ugh.
That descends even below whatever line of decency any of us might have any hope of sharing.
Sorry, moderate me as off topic, but this just annoyed me. Get your own damn site to review, taco!
oh wait. . .
This doesn't read like a review. If Michael had a hard time installing it, go to a different machine. Or don't review it at all. Tell us you had problems installing it. Tell us the company wasn't real helpful. But to give scores like you did? That's UNHELPFUL.
I had no problems installing it. I rather enjoyed the game.
But this article reads almost like a flame-attempt due to frustration at installation.
>Go buy a cheapass PC like a duran. Add the following ...
...)
Well, I've got this setup mostly. The problem isn't in getting the PC to do something. The problem is in all the other components that the PC can't do quite yet. For instance, at its simplest, the cable tuner. I don't know of a way to tune those digital channels that Time Warner scrambles without using one of their Cable Boxes. Which means that integration now becomes the issue. There doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon standard for doing remote controls. (My living room is a testament to this messy remote-control issue
I don't know of a card or software that'll drive my 5.1 DTS system, either. I.e., no card has the digital-in and 6-speaker out. Which means I have to sacrifice audio quality.
Just a few examples where the all-heralded PC won't completely meet the requirements.
Something I witnessed yesterday that made very little sense ... the Palm Vx we purchased cost roughly $300. The IPaq I purchased cost roughly $500. Ok, I can understand this. The palm only has 8M memory, only a 33mhz dragonball, monochromatic; the ipaq has 16M memory, a 206Mhz proc, 4086 colors.
... but it cost $500?
Then, I look around a little more. What do I see? a Handspring Prism device. Looked to me to be basically a Palm-alike
What am I missing here?