Falcon4 had some pretty decent squad commands. you could point them at a target, split your group in a 4 ship arrangement (two to cover, two for ground runs, then swap), and stuff like that. they didn't always listen, but they ususally did.
I like the entire HL franchise, but I wish in HL2 you could give commands to squads like "go attack this" or "wait till a shot is fired and then go" so you could do some tactics. Even having them sometimes freak out and not listen would add to the game.
But this doesn't have anything to do with real driving. Who would talk on the phone when in a situation requiring attention? Who would CONTINUE to talk on a phone if the situation turned into one requiring attention?
Do you drive. At all? Every day I see some ass on the road, male and female alike, yakking on the phone while:
Stopping short
Dangerously turning into on coming traffic
blowing through stop signs and stop lights
Changing lanes without looking
chaning multiple lanes because they will miss their exit
ripping out of parking spaces, backwards
and so on.
No, the large majority of fellow humans you share the road with do NOT pay attention and WON'T make a determination about when they have to.
There is an off-line mode for playing Steam games for those times when your Internet connection is down/missing-in-action.
I travel and I play half-life. I found out, the hard way, that you have to go into off-line mode while still on-fscking-line. I hit the airport, found out that I had a four hour delay. Thought I'd while away the time playing Half-Life in off-line mode. Guess what? You can't select off-line mode, as far as I know, interactively.
That is my only complaint about Steam, and boy was I steamed. I actually spent the time working. Not fun. Not fun.
As a 45 year old IT person and one time manager, I would ask older IT folks about current technology that you use or plan on using. I'd also find out how current are they on the IT market in general. And I would try to figure out if the person I am talking to is willing and able to integrate with my IT department.
I don't want to generalize much, but there is a tendency for older IT folks to fall behind, often far behind, the tech curve. You know, as we get older, we have other priorities which is OK, but you want that experience they have, but you also want someone who can take your company forward. But older IT folks are also very capable to get upto speed on newer tech often quite quickly.
I wouldn't assume, either, that the young'uns are going to know the latest tech either or even be exposed to it. I do think it would be a mistake to think you could take an older IT person and put them into a mentorship role and have that work out.
What are you babbling about and what does this have to do with net neutrality? Please, wipe the drool off your chin and go back to quietly reminiscing how cool you used to be.
On topic now, it's good to see that net neutrality is getting some serious consideration. Like the GP said, when you only have 1-2 choices and they are both behaving the same way, well, you have no choice. I will say, however, that there has never really been much choice for broadband outside of bit metro areas. When there was choice for Internet access, that was mostly dial-up. It was/is cheaper to terminate a butt-load of phone lines to a modem than roll out your own cable infrastructure.
Ofcourse successful Open Source projects are often very well supported. But that's because the people working on it want it to be big and not because they're under any kind of obligation.
Exactly. An open source project that has no support either from the maintainers or the users, fails. Just because I have the source doesn't mean I have the skills or the time to learn it and maintain it. Asserting that "I have the source, go fix it yourself" is a limited view that doesn't mesh with reality. I donate my valuable asset, money, word of mouth, and forum participation to help others.
Open source projects that have both open source adn commercial support offerings are in a difficult position because they need to support the non-paying users to make sure they have a good experience and hope fully turn them into paying customers while providing better support for paying customers. So how do you support both without giving it all away?
Why does research have to have an immediately obvious purpose?
Because there are people like me who want to cut in front of people like rather than waiting 40 minutes for the best damn burrito in a 50 mile radius AND I don't want you getting mad at me for cutting in. ROFL
But seriously, there are probably immediate applicaiotns for this research. I lucked out at a car rental place and showed just before 20 other people. It was a long wait for those behind me. While I was waiting to go up, a platinum member walked in the door and right to the counter. I thought the people behind me were going to riot.
I want the news of a potential exploit that may affect me or my organizations to be presented as soon as possible, so I can take measures before the vendor releases a fix.
In many cases, knowing about an exploitable vulnerability doesn't mean you can do anything about it. That is the very heart of the full disclosure/responsible disclosure debate.
Yes. Plant your sanctimonious, entitled ass in your own living room with the TV turned off, you self-righteous prick.
So when I don't want to be distrubed by blaring noise 24/7, I am an prick. When you want to impose your noise on others, that's OK.
Let's see, since it's election day, let me take a stab in the dark and predict that you are going to vote conservative with McCain/Palin because like you, they want to impose their will on others. And like McCain/Palin, your quite quick to resort to name calling. Shit-stain.
Ever notice most liberal want to let others do what they want and most conservatives want others to do as they do?
So, other than creating a public nuisance almost certain to result in getting your face punched, what EXACTLY is the point of this device?
Don't get out much, do you? More TV's are popping up everywhere and they are getting turned up louder. The more people talk the louder the TV gets. Then people talk even louder to be heard over the TV, which in turn means the TV gets turned up. go to any bar and I will almost guarantee that the sound is way too loud and NO ONE is watching/listening.
Or goto the airport and there are TV's everywhere, also turned up. Gee, I am about to spend a few hours jammed in a noisy tube. But before that, I am going to be subjected to a noisy terminal.
I like TV, but not all the time. Don't *I* have a right to some f*cking peace and quiet?
Two, they're collision free. This means that it is impossible to find two messages that hash to the same hash value.
This is a poor definition of the second property. In any function that has a fixed length output, a collision is *guaranteed*. a 2^160 output is still finite!
The collision avoidance is that it is computationally infeasible to find, a-priori, two different inputs that will resolve to the same hash value.
Because like others have noted, it's automated. I constantly forget to turn my ringer on or off. Why is that "smart phones" are dumb? For example, on my Treo I keep a calendar. A function that should be part of the phone is to let me configure ringer action during a calendar event, like silence, so that the dame thing doesn't ring while in a meeting.
Yes, I could off, but why should I have to? The Treo knows what's going on?
While I agree with the sentiment, the fact is that TV is a "free" medium once you buy the set. You can use over the air signals. Paying for cable just gets you more channels.
I don't like commercials, but I wouldn't mind being interrupted every once in a while to see a commercial or two during a show that I get for free. The writers do a good job of making the break sensible. I am willing to pay for the entertainment with my time as long as it is reasonable. What I hate is 13 minutes of commercials for 14 minutes of show. The time it takes to watch a show is dwindling while to time to watch commercials grows. So I bought Tivo so I can skip through commercials. Screw them. I am taking my time back. If there was perhaps 10% of the show dedicated to commercials, I, and many others, might not pay for a PVR.
I think the last show I watched on-line was Burn Notice. It was broken into 4 segments with a 30 second or 1 minute commercial between shows. I didn't mind that at all.
Using 802.1X with machine based authentication--requiring a certificate issued from your company CA, you can control which devices accesses your network. For anything that doesn't support 802.1X natively (printers, net cams, etc), you can white list the MAC on a port.
How about a script that hammers suitably random fake domain names continuously (different ones every time)? If the scammers^W advertisers are paying per impression this will majorly hurt their pockets.
Wouldn't that actually help. The impression revenue is probably tied to ad's that are *presented*. If you simply did a bunch of look-ups on fake names, all you would get are A records to the ad page. You would then have hit the web server, download the page and any elements. Then the advertisers would be paying per impression.
HTTPS also includes a certificate-based indentifying system.
More precisely, SSL/TLS authenticates the server you are talking to based on it's domain name and the certificates common name provided one of the following is true:
The servers certificate is signed by a trusted CA. A trusted CA means the CA certificate is in the browsers (in the case of a web browser) certificate store.
OR The servers certificate is self-signed, and a copy of that self-signed certificate is in the browsers certificate store. Hopefully you got the self-signed certificate via a trusted source.
You could summ up the difference this way. DNSSEC ensures you IP addressed attached to a hostname resovled via DNS is authentict. SSL Ensures that you are actually talking to the intended host.
Force Ubuntu to invoke the copy right on *every* launch: from the GPL 2.0
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
It too bad though. What would happen if Mozilla decided not to cave? Ubuntu would have either had to decide to suck it up or not distribute Firefox. Ubuntu users would have installed Firefox anyway.
This is bullshit whining from a small, but vocal, group. Mozilla should have told Ubuntu to pack sand.
Gasp, you mean expressing an opinion that runs counter to the majority of/. audience can get me karma? Crap, I can write a bot to do that. Let me see, Microsoft Good. Linux Bad. DRM good, RMS bad.
I thought the ads were very funny. They didn't have a message, which is probably why they were pulled, but yeah, I sat through both twice because I missed some jokes from my own laughter.
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Off-line mode only works if you go into off-line mode *while still on-line*. A little bit of trail and error would have told you that.
Falcon4 had some pretty decent squad commands. you could point them at a target, split your group in a 4 ship arrangement (two to cover, two for ground runs, then swap), and stuff like that. they didn't always listen, but they ususally did.
I like the entire HL franchise, but I wish in HL2 you could give commands to squads like "go attack this" or "wait till a shot is fired and then go" so you could do some tactics. Even having them sometimes freak out and not listen would add to the game.
Do you drive. At all? Every day I see some ass on the road, male and female alike, yakking on the phone while:
and so on.
No, the large majority of fellow humans you share the road with do NOT pay attention and WON'T make a determination about when they have to.
There is an off-line mode for playing Steam games for those times when your Internet connection is down/missing-in-action.
I travel and I play half-life. I found out, the hard way, that you have to go into off-line mode while still on-fscking-line. I hit the airport, found out that I had a four hour delay. Thought I'd while away the time playing Half-Life in off-line mode. Guess what? You can't select off-line mode, as far as I know, interactively.
That is my only complaint about Steam, and boy was I steamed. I actually spent the time working. Not fun. Not fun.
As a 45 year old IT person and one time manager, I would ask older IT folks about current technology that you use or plan on using. I'd also find out how current are they on the IT market in general. And I would try to figure out if the person I am talking to is willing and able to integrate with my IT department.
I don't want to generalize much, but there is a tendency for older IT folks to fall behind, often far behind, the tech curve. You know, as we get older, we have other priorities which is OK, but you want that experience they have, but you also want someone who can take your company forward. But older IT folks are also very capable to get upto speed on newer tech often quite quickly.
I wouldn't assume, either, that the young'uns are going to know the latest tech either or even be exposed to it. I do think it would be a mistake to think you could take an older IT person and put them into a mentorship role and have that work out.
What are you babbling about and what does this have to do with net neutrality? Please, wipe the drool off your chin and go back to quietly reminiscing how cool you used to be.
On topic now, it's good to see that net neutrality is getting some serious consideration. Like the GP said, when you only have 1-2 choices and they are both behaving the same way, well, you have no choice. I will say, however, that there has never really been much choice for broadband outside of bit metro areas. When there was choice for Internet access, that was mostly dial-up. It was/is cheaper to terminate a butt-load of phone lines to a modem than roll out your own cable infrastructure.
Ofcourse successful Open Source projects are often very well supported. But that's because the people working on it want it to be big and not because they're under any kind of obligation.
Exactly. An open source project that has no support either from the maintainers or the users, fails. Just because I have the source doesn't mean I have the skills or the time to learn it and maintain it. Asserting that "I have the source, go fix it yourself" is a limited view that doesn't mesh with reality. I donate my valuable asset, money, word of mouth, and forum participation to help others.
Open source projects that have both open source adn commercial support offerings are in a difficult position because they need to support the non-paying users to make sure they have a good experience and hope fully turn them into paying customers while providing better support for paying customers. So how do you support both without giving it all away?
Why does research have to have an immediately obvious purpose?
Because there are people like me who want to cut in front of people like rather than waiting 40 minutes for the best damn burrito in a 50 mile radius AND I don't want you getting mad at me for cutting in. ROFL
But seriously, there are probably immediate applicaiotns for this research. I lucked out at a car rental place and showed just before 20 other people. It was a long wait for those behind me. While I was waiting to go up, a platinum member walked in the door and right to the counter. I thought the people behind me were going to riot.
I want the news of a potential exploit that may affect me or my organizations to be presented as soon as possible, so I can take measures before the vendor releases a fix.
In many cases, knowing about an exploitable vulnerability doesn't mean you can do anything about it. That is the very heart of the full disclosure/responsible disclosure debate.
Yes. Plant your sanctimonious, entitled ass in your own living room with the TV turned off, you self-righteous prick.
So when I don't want to be distrubed by blaring noise 24/7, I am an prick. When you want to impose your noise on others, that's OK.
Let's see, since it's election day, let me take a stab in the dark and predict that you are going to vote conservative with McCain/Palin because like you, they want to impose their will on others. And like McCain/Palin, your quite quick to resort to name calling. Shit-stain.
Ever notice most liberal want to let others do what they want and most conservatives want others to do as they do?
So, other than creating a public nuisance almost certain to result in getting your face punched, what EXACTLY is the point of this device?
Don't get out much, do you? More TV's are popping up everywhere and they are getting turned up louder. The more people talk the louder the TV gets. Then people talk even louder to be heard over the TV, which in turn means the TV gets turned up. go to any bar and I will almost guarantee that the sound is way too loud and NO ONE is watching/listening.
Or goto the airport and there are TV's everywhere, also turned up. Gee, I am about to spend a few hours jammed in a noisy tube. But before that, I am going to be subjected to a noisy terminal.
I like TV, but not all the time. Don't *I* have a right to some f*cking peace and quiet?
Two, they're collision free. This means that it is impossible to find two messages that hash to the same hash value.
This is a poor definition of the second property. In any function that has a fixed length output, a collision is *guaranteed*. a 2^160 output is still finite!
The collision avoidance is that it is computationally infeasible to find, a-priori, two different inputs that will resolve to the same hash value.
>>>Twitter as a potential terrorist tool.
Judas Priest.
What does Twitter have to do with a 80's hair band?
Because like others have noted, it's automated. I constantly forget to turn my ringer on or off. Why is that "smart phones" are dumb? For example, on my Treo I keep a calendar. A function that should be part of the phone is to let me configure ringer action during a calendar event, like silence, so that the dame thing doesn't ring while in a meeting.
Yes, I could off, but why should I have to? The Treo knows what's going on?
what do pediatric studies have to do with this topic? If you can type "lookup something" just post the damn link.
PEOPLE DON'T WANT ADS SHOVED IN THEIR FACES!
While I agree with the sentiment, the fact is that TV is a "free" medium once you buy the set. You can use over the air signals. Paying for cable just gets you more channels.
I don't like commercials, but I wouldn't mind being interrupted every once in a while to see a commercial or two during a show that I get for free. The writers do a good job of making the break sensible. I am willing to pay for the entertainment with my time as long as it is reasonable. What I hate is 13 minutes of commercials for 14 minutes of show. The time it takes to watch a show is dwindling while to time to watch commercials grows. So I bought Tivo so I can skip through commercials. Screw them. I am taking my time back. If there was perhaps 10% of the show dedicated to commercials, I, and many others, might not pay for a PVR.
I think the last show I watched on-line was Burn Notice. It was broken into 4 segments with a 30 second or 1 minute commercial between shows. I didn't mind that at all.
Because IF they are right AND this vulnerability will expose every IP device on the network to a DoS, THEN it's pretty fricking dangerous.
Using 802.1X with machine based authentication--requiring a certificate issued from your company CA, you can control which devices accesses your network. For anything that doesn't support 802.1X natively (printers, net cams, etc), you can white list the MAC on a port.
Verizon does the same thing ...
How about a script that hammers suitably random fake domain names continuously (different ones every time)? If the scammers^W advertisers are paying per impression this will majorly hurt their pockets.
Wouldn't that actually help. The impression revenue is probably tied to ad's that are *presented*. If you simply did a bunch of look-ups on fake names, all you would get are A records to the ad page. You would then have hit the web server, download the page and any elements. Then the advertisers would be paying per impression.
Take a gander at what IBM does, numb nuts. they make some stuff, but a large part of thier business is consulting which involves reselling. Geeze.
IBM has hardly that kind of pull now a days. They are mostly a services and hardware reseller.
More precisely, SSL/TLS authenticates the server you are talking to based on it's domain name and the certificates common name provided one of the following is true:
You could summ up the difference this way. DNSSEC ensures you IP addressed attached to a hostname resovled via DNS is authentict. SSL Ensures that you are actually talking to the intended host.
Force Ubuntu to invoke the copy right on *every* launch: from the GPL 2.0
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
It too bad though. What would happen if Mozilla decided not to cave? Ubuntu would have either had to decide to suck it up or not distribute Firefox. Ubuntu users would have installed Firefox anyway.
This is bullshit whining from a small, but vocal, group. Mozilla should have told Ubuntu to pack sand.
Gasp, you mean expressing an opinion that runs counter to the majority of /. audience can get me karma? Crap, I can write a bot to do that. Let me see, Microsoft Good. Linux Bad. DRM good, RMS bad.
I thought the ads were very funny. They didn't have a message, which is probably why they were pulled, but yeah, I sat through both twice because I missed some jokes from my own laughter.