I was surprised by the amount of PowerBooks that I saw at DefCon this year, though. I'm sure those viruses and haxx0r attempts are not too far around the corner. They're just in development right now.
After all, OS X has only been out for a couple of years. Windows 9x had been out for a couple of years before they started getting hammered with viruses and 'sploits, too.
"Tony Hawk is an American whizz kid skateboarding champion, whilst I am a startlingly good-looking British male model. So why the confusion?"
"Yet, each week I receive e mail from young people from all over the world congratulating me on my skateboarding prowess and asking advice on how to do various manoeuvres."
Hmm... Apparently this guy doesn't realize that Tony Hawk is over 35 years old...
I used the Osirusoft lists for a good while. They helped me reject more spam than you can shake a stick at. I don't care about the guy's personality that runs the show (Joe), I just like his product. Just as I like OpenBSD.;)
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So, what you're saying is that you support the use of DDoS attacks to silence people who are critical of unethical (and in some states illegal) activities? Because that's exactly what happened to Joe and Osirusoft.
Agree or disagree with SPEWS, it's pretty damn sad that nobody here on/. (besides me) has commented on this. I was always under the impression that freedom of speech was important to people here...
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Bah Indeed,
While I didn't intend to troll, I don't care that I'm labeled as such. I don't mind the idea of blacklists when they are kept current and have a responsible maintainer. I feel that it is one of the best and only few effective ways to stop Spam at its source. When you are responsible for effectively censoring people you need to act in a responsible way. What I don't like is not so much a personality issue as the fact that he willingly would just let people hang on his list just to make them suffer. If you were added to his list (or any list) there are devices for getting yourself removed from the list. You have to show that you fixed your problem and are no longer open relaying (or whatever). When his devices were no longer available due to the DoS's, there was no way to get removed from the list. Even before he was DoS'd, his response was not very good but it was at least functional. If his systems were not allowing retry submissions, he should have found an alternate way to receive submissions or he should have pulled the list. Obviously those that used it were still getting updates to add IP's but he wasn't taking any removals. Those that tried to contact him directly from a different machine automatically got that IP added to his list as well. When he finally closed the list, rather than notify people, he just blocked the world. That was a DoS in and of itself. As far as supporting DoS attacks to silence people who are critical of unethical practices, I do not. I do not support DoS attacks to silence anyone, even anyone who uses a blacklist to silence anyone he sees fit. All I know is that it's got to be difficult to be critical of unethical practices when you are employing them yourself. Two wrongs do not make a right and karma's a bitch!
While I have no love for spammers or their tactics, I am happy at least that Joe Jared and his Osirusoft list is done for. Other blacklists owners were responsive and provided a genuine service. Joe is just a vindictive ass.
It is NOT a prerequisite of a P2P network to exchange illegally copyrighted works. I can have a P2P network that exchanges legal copies of files. I cannot have a warez network that distributed legal copies of files, unless you redefine what we know warez to mean.
Um... What exactly is a 'warez network'? Seems like most of that trading is done via FTP sites, web pages, IRC Bots, Usenet, whatever. Don't forget that these programs and protocols are just as neutral about what gets traded across them as P2P. The only thing that qualifies those networks as 'warez' is what people put across them. Don't punish the technology for what people use it for. Kinda like guns, IMHO.
As a sidenote, as warez is just a short form of softwares, couldn't a warez network distribute legal copies of 'freewarez'?
Anyway...I put MY favorite Inform games (those that work with the z-machine interpreter) online at this location. [freeshell.org]
Nice...
Any chance you could be coaxed into sticking Suspended up there as well? I'm pretty sure it's an Inform game as well. That's one of the first games I can recall playing. My mom brought me into it and got me started. Actually, she got me started on a lot of games. She used to copy code out of the back of Compute's Gazette to give me games to play with and to teach herself BASIC. Oh, the good ol' days. That had to have been circa '83 or so on the ol' C64. The premise was that you were a computer/robot operater in cryonic suspended animation. You're waken up when some nasty things start happening in your complex and you have to get to robots (one representing each sense) to sort things out. I remember that Poet was one craaazy dude!
Hmmm... Got me curious again, now. letsee. (Google, Google, Google...) Well, I guess there is this:
Suspended(1983), a science fiction story by Michael Berlyn.
As described on the box:
They said you would sleep for half a millennium -- not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest frozen at the planet's nerve center, an underground complex 20 miles beneath the surface. Your brain, they told you, would be wired to a network of computers; your mind would continue to operate at a minimal level, overseeing maintenance of surface-side equilibrium. And you would not awake, so they promised, until your 500 years had elapsed -- barring, of course, the most dire emergency.
Then, and only then, you would be awakened to save your planet by strategically manipulating six robots, each of whom perceives the world differently. But such a catastrophe, you have been assured, could not possibly occur.
Good morning.
I also remember being really intrigued by the box. Follow the link above. I found it really disturbing but I was still somehow quite drawn to it. Kinda like when I first discovered DOOM, I guess.
I agree with you to a certain extent, but an amazing thing happened to me last week. I stopped playing games, and I'm a HUGE game fan. In the last year I've played the following games
religiously(more than 60 hours total):
Hmmm... Maybe you forgot a zero on the end of the sixty or something, but 60 hours total?? In the last year?!?? That is far from playing religiously. That's not even an hours and a half per week! Maybe you meant 60 hours per game. There's about 17 listed and assuming you forgot some, we'll put you up at 25. While much more respectable, that's still only 1500 hours out of a possible 8766 which is only 17.1%. Sorry, not real religious. Just my opinion, though...
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>You should never generalize.
That's because all generalizations are false...
T
>P.S. Yes, the Bruce Dickinson
Tell Eddie I said hi.
Dammit. I actually had to go check out Valve's website because I thought HL2 released and nobody told me.
T
>In Hell (snip) the Italians make the cars.
In Soviet Russia... the cars make you!
Reminds me of the old Beavis & Butthead episode where they were watching Green Day's Video, "Longview".
Beavis, "Look at the monkey!"
Well, maybe for the time being...
I was surprised by the amount of PowerBooks that I saw at DefCon this year, though. I'm sure those viruses and haxx0r attempts are not too far around the corner. They're just in development right now.
After all, OS X has only been out for a couple of years. Windows 9x had been out for a couple of years before they started getting hammered with viruses and 'sploits, too.
Casio's Exlim.
"Would you mind taking a photo?"
"This is a camera? It's so cute!"
It just takes a foot in the door...
T
Swwweeeet. I've been waiting for someone to get that source code compiled... :D
T
Streaming
MPEG
Well... At least the trailer is done for it already.
T
No, no... I don't think it's Jesus. Someone else, perhaps....
But, who could it be? Hmmmm...
From the site:
"Tony Hawk is an American whizz kid skateboarding champion, whilst I am a startlingly good-looking British male model. So why the confusion?"
"Yet, each week I receive e mail from young people from all over the world congratulating me on my skateboarding prowess and asking advice on how to do various manoeuvres."
Hmm... Apparently this guy doesn't realize that Tony Hawk is over 35 years old...
\Tant
Bah to that.
;)
/. (besides me) has commented on this. I was always under the impression that freedom of speech was important to people here...
I used the Osirusoft lists for a good while. They helped me reject more spam than you can shake a stick at. I don't care about the guy's personality that runs the show (Joe), I just like his product. Just as I like OpenBSD.
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So, what you're saying is that you support the use of DDoS attacks to silence people who are critical of unethical (and in some states illegal) activities? Because that's exactly what happened to Joe and Osirusoft.
Agree or disagree with SPEWS, it's pretty damn sad that nobody here on
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Bah Indeed,
While I didn't intend to troll, I don't care that I'm labeled as such. I don't mind the idea of blacklists when they are kept current and have a responsible maintainer. I feel that it is one of the best and only few effective ways to stop Spam at its source. When you are responsible for effectively censoring people you need to act in a responsible way. What I don't like is not so much a personality issue as the fact that he willingly would just let people hang on his list just to make them suffer. If you were added to his list (or any list) there are devices for getting yourself removed from the list. You have to show that you fixed your problem and are no longer open relaying (or whatever). When his devices were no longer available due to the DoS's, there was no way to get removed from the list. Even before he was DoS'd, his response was not very good but it was at least functional. If his systems were not allowing retry submissions, he should have found an alternate way to receive submissions or he should have pulled the list. Obviously those that used it were still getting updates to add IP's but he wasn't taking any removals. Those that tried to contact him directly from a different machine automatically got that IP added to his list as well. When he finally closed the list, rather than notify people, he just blocked the world. That was a DoS in and of itself. As far as supporting DoS attacks to silence people who are critical of unethical practices, I do not. I do not support DoS attacks to silence anyone, even anyone who uses a blacklist to silence anyone he sees fit. All I know is that it's got to be difficult to be critical of unethical practices when you are employing them yourself. Two wrongs do not make a right and karma's a bitch!
T
While I have no love for spammers or their tactics, I am happy at least that Joe Jared and his Osirusoft list is done for. Other blacklists owners were responsive and provided a genuine service. Joe is just a vindictive ass.
Um... Are you referring to a Light Emitting Diode? That's different than a Liquid Crystal Display.
T
Maybe you shouldn't watch so much TV...
T
Four years separates generations?
T
Uhh... Ex-employees of the AV/Firewall software makers?
T
PICO Baby!
That is all.
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1...
{submit}
I think we are, too.
Cheers!
T
Um... What exactly is a 'warez network'? Seems like most of that trading is done via FTP sites, web pages, IRC Bots, Usenet, whatever. Don't forget that these programs and protocols are just as neutral about what gets traded across them as P2P. The only thing that qualifies those networks as 'warez' is what people put across them. Don't punish the technology for what people use it for. Kinda like guns, IMHO.
As a sidenote, as warez is just a short form of softwares, couldn't a warez network distribute legal copies of 'freewarez'?
My $0.05 (keep the change),
T
A lawyer that defends himself has a fool for a client.
T
Go Crazy?
T
Err... Sorry, not Inform. That should've read Infocom. BTW, if anyone wants to play some of these old Infocoms, telnet to:
eldorado.elsewhere.org
User: zork
pass:
L8,
T
Nice...
Any chance you could be coaxed into sticking Suspended up there as well? I'm pretty sure it's an Inform game as well. That's one of the first games I can recall playing. My mom brought me into it and got me started. Actually, she got me started on a lot of games. She used to copy code out of the back of Compute's Gazette to give me games to play with and to teach herself BASIC. Oh, the good ol' days. That had to have been circa '83 or so on the ol' C64. The premise was that you were a computer/robot operater in cryonic suspended animation. You're waken up when some nasty things start happening in your complex and you have to get to robots (one representing each sense) to sort things out. I remember that Poet was one craaazy dude!
Hmmm... Got me curious again, now. letsee. (Google, Google, Google...) Well, I guess there is this :
Ohhh! VERY COOL! And this.
Suspended(1983), a science fiction story by Michael Berlyn.
As described on the box:
They said you would sleep for half a millennium -- not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest frozen at the planet's nerve center, an underground complex 20 miles beneath the surface. Your brain, they told you, would be wired to a network of computers; your mind would continue to operate at a minimal level, overseeing maintenance of surface-side equilibrium. And you would not awake, so they promised, until your 500 years had elapsed -- barring, of course, the most dire emergency.
Then, and only then, you would be awakened to save your planet by strategically manipulating six robots, each of whom perceives the world differently. But such a catastrophe, you have been assured, could not possibly occur.
Good morning.
I also remember being really intrigued by the box. Follow the link above. I found it really disturbing but I was still somehow quite drawn to it. Kinda like when I first discovered DOOM, I guess.
L8,
T
Hmmm... Maybe you forgot a zero on the end of the sixty or something, but 60 hours total?? In the last year?!?? That is far from playing religiously. That's not even an hours and a half per week! Maybe you meant 60 hours per game. There's about 17 listed and assuming you forgot some, we'll put you up at 25. While much more respectable, that's still only 1500 hours out of a possible 8766 which is only 17.1%. Sorry, not real religious. Just my opinion, though...
T