> Can't I just keep it in my wallet or embedded in my shoes or on my car keys or something?
Is there any item you have with you 100% of the time? I think not.
And re privacy concerns, I can see where there would be problems if access to the main patient database was not carefully controlled, but the benefits to, for example, those with serious medicine allergies, would be great.
Thought I'd share a real life example of sitefinder causing non-trivial trouble with something.
After sitefinder was originaly turned on, a number of players of an certain game were crashing when they entered the game's online matchmaking lobby.
Why?
The MOTD for the game was retrieved from a webserver and copied into a fixed length buffer before being shown.
At some point in the past the game's publisher started redirecting all requests to the webserver that had the MOTD page to another, much larger in size, page. Which overflowed the buffer and crashed the game.
One of the players decided to do something about it while waiting for things to be put back to the way they were. They modified one of the game files with a hex editor, munging the domain name to a non-existing one, and distributed the modified file to a number of other players.
This stopped the crashing, until months later, long after the company fixed the MOTD page, when sitefinder came along. Then the munged domain suddenly started serving up pages, and again the game was crashing.
Now granted, the problem was 100% a result of bugs in the game, but it was still triggered by sitefinder.
Makes me wonder how many other programs are out there with similar bugs.
but completely useless for gaming. Satellite adds around 400 to 500 ms on top of whatever ping you would normally get. I'll stick with my modem, thank you very much.
In other news, online retailer Amazon.com has issued a press release on their patenting of 1-Click Emoticons. Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced, "1-Click Emoticions are the fastest, easiest way to send emoticions to more then 7 million people worldwide." No new lawsuits have, as yet, been announced.
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I saw Meet the Robinsons in 3D the other week.
Shoddy glasses?
The glasses were not paper/cardboard. They looked like plastic sunglasses.
Already wearing glasses?
I wear corrective glasses and the 3d glasses fit fine over them.
Can't move your head?
No, you don't have to keep your head still. You can turn your head without bluring or motion sickness.
The 3d effect is stunning. This is miles beyond the old cardboard red/blue glasses.
--McVerne
> Can't I just keep it in my wallet or embedded in my shoes or on my car keys or something?
Is there any item you have with you 100% of the time? I think not.
And re privacy concerns, I can see where there would be problems if access to the main patient database was not carefully controlled, but the benefits to, for example, those with serious medicine allergies, would be great.
--McVerne
Thought I'd share a real life example of sitefinder causing non-trivial trouble with something.
After sitefinder was originaly turned on, a number of players of an certain game were crashing when they entered the game's online matchmaking lobby.
Why?
The MOTD for the game was retrieved from a webserver and copied into a fixed length buffer before being shown.
At some point in the past the game's publisher started redirecting all requests to the webserver that had the MOTD page to another, much larger in size, page. Which overflowed the buffer and crashed the game.
One of the players decided to do something about it while waiting for things to be put back to the way they were. They modified one of the game files with a hex editor, munging the domain name to a non-existing one, and distributed the modified file to a number of other players.
This stopped the crashing, until months later, long after the company fixed the MOTD page, when sitefinder came along. Then the munged domain suddenly started serving up pages, and again the game was crashing.
Now granted, the problem was 100% a result of bugs in the game, but it was still triggered by sitefinder.
Makes me wonder how many other programs are out there with similar bugs.
--McVerne
The C method of rubber band shooting is quite impressive, however the description in the parent post is a little hard to follow.
For those of you interested, here is a page describing the C method in greater detail: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~alain/magictalk-wis dom/discussions/shooting_rubber_band.html
--McVerne
but completely useless for gaming. Satellite adds around 400 to 500 ms on top of whatever ping you would normally get. I'll stick with my modem, thank you very much.
They can have my .org when they pry it from my cold dead dns.
when then pry it from my cold dead fingers.
The name is Erin Gray (with an a) not Erin Grey (with an e.)
Also check out http://formen.ign.com/news/13410.html
Erin Gray has a website at http://www.eringray.com
In other news, online retailer Amazon.com has issued a press release on their patenting of 1-Click Emoticons. Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced, "1-Click Emoticions are the fastest, easiest way to send emoticions to more then 7 million people worldwide." No new lawsuits have, as yet, been announced.
--McVerne
While http://www.zone.com is non-functional the Microsoft Gaming Zone can (at least for me) be accessed using http://zone.msn.com
--McVerne