Without an implicit grant of access the internet fails to work. This is demonstratable thus: how am I to know what computers I am allowed to access if I cannot connect to them to see if I am allowed to access them?
If there is an implicit denial of access then no one is allowed to connect to anyone as you cannot find out who you are allowed to connect to without connecting to them first.
Therefore on the public internet, and it is public whatever you may think as everyone and anyone can gain access to it, there is an implicit grant of access unless technical means are used to restrict it.
The problem here is that the company was using his game without telling him
So you have to ask permission every time you want to link something? Rediculous.
giving him credit
Credit is in the titlescreen of the game, even the authors URL.
or considering that maybe, just maybe, he might not want them to use his bandwidth
If he doesn't want to use bandwidth he shouldn't make resources publicly available to the public internet.
All this being said, the game author is also within his rights to block, by technical means, these actions from happening as it is his web server after all.
Errr... if I put up a file, for me and my friends, and Yahoo decides to put it up on their front page, (without permission or credit) then I'm out (depending on the size of the file) several thousand dollars. (Due to hosting costs) this is wrong.
The only thing wrong about it is you failing to use technical means to keep this file private for only you and your friends via password or some such, as well as negotiating a poor hosting contract with your provider which would make you liable for something of this magnatude.
You gamble that a file you post will not be downloaded much, but it's only a gamble. If you put something out there for public consumption and the public consumes it then it is not the publics fault for doing so for how is the public to know what contract you have with your hosting provider? How is the public to know you will be harmed if the public accesses resources you explicitly provide to the public? It's rediculous.
The whole idea of "bandwidth theft" is a fallacy on its face.
I watched the poseidon video capture of the rescue, the alarm looks to have been sounded 11 seconds after the girl was unconscious. The lifeguard doesn't actually dive in until the 30th seconds. Where was the lifeguard for 19 seconds? Is this typical? Seems a little long for a lifeguard who should be right poolside to me.
The problem is that the vast majority of attacks come from asian countries, mostly china. Since chinese people really have no use for visiting any sites I run or host, why not ban chinas IP space to protect myself?
If the chinese don't want to be banned they should act like responsible internet citizens and be security conscious.
I discount every blurb from a microsoftie when it has two or more instances of the word "innovation" contained therein.
This particular one has three.
Why does everything spoken by anyone associated in any way with microsoft have to have so many copies of the word "innovation" in it? I submit to you that their use of the english language is as "innovative" as they are, simple rehashes and reusing the same old tired components, perhaps rearranged in a different way, with nothing actually new.
Microsofties: quit using the word "innovation", it just makes you look like a drone in the collective.
Originally I blew this off as a bunch of prudes getting steamed over some mods for a game, but now its been shown that this is a built in 'feature'.
Built in feature, if you mod your game, enter a cheat code and then spend a lot of time trying to unlock that particular scene.
It was not intended to be in the final game, it was disabled and can only be enabled by modifying the game. How can you call this "built in" when you need to patch your game to activate it?
You're new here right? The editors stopped reading the submissions when they were all replaced by cyborg monkeys to cut costs. The old addage states that an infinite amount of monkeys at an infinite amount of typewriters can compose the complete works of Shakespere, so of course 6 or 7 cyborg monkeys can do the same, right?
...as one of the 400k. I bought a 1.25ghz mac mini when Tiger came out, overclocked it to 1.5ghz, added 1 gig of ram, and now it's my daily use internet, email, etc machine.
Mac OS X is extremely nice compared to Windows/Linux (gentoo, ubuntu, debian, etc). I just wish the thing had a little better video chipset. A Radeon 9200 will play WoW, just not as well as the 9800 Pro on my PC.
Now to look for a good KVM, anyone know of a good one that supports USB kb/mice and dsub/dvi monitors?
We are (all?) human. We (all?) interact with computers. Some of us have been doing it for a long time, in my case over 20 years. It's not like we have absolutely no clue about the subject matter.
You're talking like the article is about quantum mechanics and we're all arm-chair physicists or something. Seriously, what's wrong with you?
Please quote where I told anyone how to write better software.
What's that? You can't? Because I didn't? Thought so.
I simply stated that instead of throwing around flames why don't you discuss the topic at hand? That's what comments are for: to discuss things and not to flame.
If anyone here seems to lack understanding of the topic it is you as you have demonstrated nothing except your ability to string profanities together to form almost passable sentences.
You'll also note that my UID is slightly smaller than yours by around 15000. I think I should be commenting on why "the hell" people like you feel the need to come to slashdot and flood the comments with useless garbage instead of participating in the discussion.
So arrogant you americans, the Atlantic Charter was conceived and negotiated by FDR and Winston Churchill, it was not a sole US "invention". FDR came up with the name "United Nations" but do not kid yourself that the US was the only country involved.
As for the League of Nations the US wasn't even a member because it was so ineffective! I wouldn't even want to claim responsibility for that mess.
What White Wolf are saying is that if people run and use White Wolf games at conventions and charge people money to play for a *profit*, then they need to obtain a license to make said profit using White Wolf's material as the key engine for doing so. You can still play not-for-profit for the once off cost of buying the source material.
Not entirely true, charging a fee to simply cover expenses of the venue (and therefore still not for profit) seemed to also require a license fee, which was the big issue.
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Without an implicit grant of access the internet fails to work. This is demonstratable thus: how am I to know what computers I am allowed to access if I cannot connect to them to see if I am allowed to access them?
If there is an implicit denial of access then no one is allowed to connect to anyone as you cannot find out who you are allowed to connect to without connecting to them first.
Therefore on the public internet, and it is public whatever you may think as everyone and anyone can gain access to it, there is an implicit grant of access unless technical means are used to restrict it.
The problem here is that the company was using his game without telling him
So you have to ask permission every time you want to link something? Rediculous.
giving him credit
Credit is in the titlescreen of the game, even the authors URL.
or considering that maybe, just maybe, he might not want them to use his bandwidth
If he doesn't want to use bandwidth he shouldn't make resources publicly available to the public internet.
All this being said, the game author is also within his rights to block, by technical means, these actions from happening as it is his web server after all.
Errr... if I put up a file, for me and my friends, and Yahoo decides to put it up on their front page, (without permission or credit) then I'm out (depending on the size of the file) several thousand dollars. (Due to hosting costs) this is wrong.
The only thing wrong about it is you failing to use technical means to keep this file private for only you and your friends via password or some such, as well as negotiating a poor hosting contract with your provider which would make you liable for something of this magnatude.
You gamble that a file you post will not be downloaded much, but it's only a gamble. If you put something out there for public consumption and the public consumes it then it is not the publics fault for doing so for how is the public to know what contract you have with your hosting provider? How is the public to know you will be harmed if the public accesses resources you explicitly provide to the public? It's rediculous.
The whole idea of "bandwidth theft" is a fallacy on its face.
The credit to the author is in the titlescreen of the game, even his own URL. Why duplicate work?
If you don't want people accessing resources you make publicly available on the public internet then don't make them publicly available.
I watched the poseidon video capture of the rescue, the alarm looks to have been sounded 11 seconds after the girl was unconscious. The lifeguard doesn't actually dive in until the 30th seconds. Where was the lifeguard for 19 seconds? Is this typical? Seems a little long for a lifeguard who should be right poolside to me.
The problem is that the vast majority of attacks come from asian countries, mostly china. Since chinese people really have no use for visiting any sites I run or host, why not ban chinas IP space to protect myself?
If the chinese don't want to be banned they should act like responsible internet citizens and be security conscious.
You already have MacOS X :D
Not only that, but if they're hackable, or have been hacked into, they're not secure.
Yeah, people tried that with BNET, look what happened. Lawsuits and lawyers, fun times for all.
Until all games are subscription based and you never get an option to purchase it, ie: MMORPGs.
Yeah, "flamebait", OK there crackhead mod. Where's the flames if this is such "flamebait"?
It's hard to talk about a subject without actually saying what it is, that being said I humbly appologize for my overuse of the I word.
I discount every blurb from a microsoftie when it has two or more instances of the word "innovation" contained therein.
This particular one has three.
Why does everything spoken by anyone associated in any way with microsoft have to have so many copies of the word "innovation" in it? I submit to you that their use of the english language is as "innovative" as they are, simple rehashes and reusing the same old tired components, perhaps rearranged in a different way, with nothing actually new.
Microsofties: quit using the word "innovation", it just makes you look like a drone in the collective.
Which suicides are these?
Originally I blew this off as a bunch of prudes getting steamed over some mods for a game, but now its been shown that this is a built in 'feature'.
Built in feature, if you mod your game, enter a cheat code and then spend a lot of time trying to unlock that particular scene.
It was not intended to be in the final game, it was disabled and can only be enabled by modifying the game. How can you call this "built in" when you need to patch your game to activate it?
Right, because 1 year (M=17, AO=18) makes so much difference.
You're new here right? The editors stopped reading the submissions when they were all replaced by cyborg monkeys to cut costs. The old addage states that an infinite amount of monkeys at an infinite amount of typewriters can compose the complete works of Shakespere, so of course 6 or 7 cyborg monkeys can do the same, right?
The proof is slashdot. You be the judge.
One screen only, synergy has been recommended many times however I only have on 21" monitor.
...as one of the 400k. I bought a 1.25ghz mac mini when Tiger came out, overclocked it to 1.5ghz, added 1 gig of ram, and now it's my daily use internet, email, etc machine.
Mac OS X is extremely nice compared to Windows/Linux (gentoo, ubuntu, debian, etc). I just wish the thing had a little better video chipset. A Radeon 9200 will play WoW, just not as well as the 9800 Pro on my PC.
Now to look for a good KVM, anyone know of a good one that supports USB kb/mice and dsub/dvi monitors?
We are (all?) human. We (all?) interact with computers. Some of us have been doing it for a long time, in my case over 20 years. It's not like we have absolutely no clue about the subject matter.
You're talking like the article is about quantum mechanics and we're all arm-chair physicists or something. Seriously, what's wrong with you?
Please quote where I told anyone how to write better software.
What's that? You can't? Because I didn't? Thought so.
I simply stated that instead of throwing around flames why don't you discuss the topic at hand? That's what comments are for: to discuss things and not to flame.
If anyone here seems to lack understanding of the topic it is you as you have demonstrated nothing except your ability to string profanities together to form almost passable sentences.
You'll also note that my UID is slightly smaller than yours by around 15000. I think I should be commenting on why "the hell" people like you feel the need to come to slashdot and flood the comments with useless garbage instead of participating in the discussion.
Since you seem to know oh so much about usability why don't you suggest an alternative instead of throwing around flamebait on slashdot?
So arrogant you americans, the Atlantic Charter was conceived and negotiated by FDR and Winston Churchill, it was not a sole US "invention". FDR came up with the name "United Nations" but do not kid yourself that the US was the only country involved.
As for the League of Nations the US wasn't even a member because it was so ineffective! I wouldn't even want to claim responsibility for that mess.
What, someone can't *just* install their OS anymore?
And who cares what my web page says? Linux is still not a copy of minix. You fail at life.
What White Wolf are saying is that if people run and use White Wolf games at conventions and charge people money to play for a *profit*, then they need to obtain a license to make said profit using White Wolf's material as the key engine for doing so. You can still play not-for-profit for the once off cost of buying the source material.
Not entirely true, charging a fee to simply cover expenses of the venue (and therefore still not for profit) seemed to also require a license fee, which was the big issue.