From what I've heard on forums, every time you turn on the PS3 it tries to connect to PSN and let it know what game IDs have been run. So if you run some homebrew code they will see an unknown code and from there banning your MAC address on PSN is trivial. If they did remote destructs that would be the end of Sony as a company.
I want my OtherOS back. I made a point of not formatting the drive when applying the update that originally killed it, so it *should* still be there. I've just been biding my time, waiting for someone smarter than me to make it possible.
The homebrew jailbreak is so easy to install anyone can do it. But I still haven't run into an OtherOS bootloader. Are they out there yet?
I've had Rhea and it was excellent, if somewhat expensive. It's a very lean meat, and you can't just cook it as though it were a fatty steak of equal volume but if you get it right it's fantastic stuff.
Daath, Yes, there are people who believe that the are essentially lesser beings than others due to religion or tradition. The idea that they could be more than that does not occur to them because they and the culture that surround them have been indoctrinated from birth that this is the way of the universe. And both of the latter two sentences can apply, as it's cyclical. Ignorance leads to a behavior which encourages ignorance.
Look at the belief in the Abrahamic god vs. the belief in Santa. Same evidence for both. Yet one belief persists and the other does not because ignorance is perpetuated until the former belief is instilled in the next generation.
You don't sit in the dark to see ghosts. You sit in the light. Most "apparitions" appear as indistinct shadows in the light, not glowy things in the dark.
One of the 'For Good Reason' podcasts talked ghost hunting a while back.
Regarding the beliefs: I'm talking about religious beliefs. Since there is precisely the same proof of your deity as there is for Ganesh, Xenu, etc. unless you can show some method to validate the claims of your religion that that others can not possibly use (like the oft-used circular 'my religion is true because my religion says it is').
This is not even in the ball-park of a belief that the earth is round because of the substantial evidence available.
Centuries ago Thor and Mercury were as "real" as Jesus. Eventually he'll join them in the attic of myths.
Atheism is not an ideology any more than not believing in Tarot cards is one.
Stalin and Mao changed the figure of authority from an unquestionable man in the sky to one in a mansion. They made a religion of themselves and their politics.
The dogmatic faith of their ideologies was the danger, not the fact that they didn't believe in gods.
That is what make any religious or political ideology dangerous, dogma and the belief in it.
As those with seminary training could attest, but usually do not, the history of the myth creation is well documented. From the translation errors that made Mary a virgin, to hell actually being Jerusalem's trash heap, and Mark's original portrayal of crazy apocalypse Jesus.
You can even read Mark Twain's own account of how the type of conduct in churches went from hellfire and intimidation to lovey dovey Jesus in his lifetime because they had to change to keep pace with society's rejection of biblical hate.
If your two thousand year old belief system is so great you can reconcile the talking serpent, then the talking bush, then the talking donkey with your centuries of theologians. And the claim that "nobody takes that literally" is a bullshit dodge, when you can find countless sites extolling the absolute literal and inerrant truth of the bible.
It certainly says this, which is a steaming pile of BS on it's own.
Matthew 16:17-18 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
But it's irrelevant. Unless any one of you zombie leprechaun worshipers can validate your own religion and successfully invalidate the others without them using the same trick to invalidate your own, you're just spewing hot air.
So a scammer gives you a half million dollar cheque, the bank clears it, and you forward it? Screw that! Goodbye Mr. Scammer. Goodbye Corrupt Bank with useless funds verification system. I'd be off to a nice tropical country where my money would go a lot farther, and live out my days in relative comfort.
Is there a good (and current) Linux alternative to Fraps? Since I have multiplatform games I'd prefer not having to boot into Windows just to record the output.
With companies maintaining and sharing huge databases they can build a profile of you quite easily.
Consider the following situation, which parallels in in a way.
A friend's girlfriend loved to hang out in an IRC channel. She thought she was "stranger proof" because she limited the amount of information she shared in any one conversation. Some of the items she revealed were public, while others were revealed in "private" conversations. She (erroneously) assumed that some of the private conversations were with individuals sharing no connection with each other. After hanging out in the channel for a couple of weeks she got a phone call -- from Australia. One of the channel members created profiles of other users and data mined their conversations in order to identify them. Coupled with the ability to search the net for the consistent use of handles that many become attached to, he was able to track down people rather easily.
For him it was a game. For others it's business.
We don't always know who owns the services we use, and rarely have any idea of who the data is shared with. If company A owns sites B and C, they have the data on you that both sites generate.
While he was working with a small group of people who were likely to share information with people they interacted with regularly, having a huge dataset encompassing thousands of your interactions with other sites is just as useful to a company with the means to examine the data.
And privacy policies don't mean squat without someone keeping them honest. Imagine how many sites out there use them as honey traps.
Eventually you will see a pop up in games saying "You've established a large community of online friends. Would you like to stay in contact with them? Please subscribe to our contact list service."
They're going to monetize everything.
Indie game devs are the past, present, and future of gaming. Support them instead.
When reporting pedophiles using a hosting service I worked for we had regular contact with the police and heard horror stories of converted farms and other properties turned into child porn factories. At the time it was very hard for the police to get action taken against organizations in Eastern Europe and Russia, and it was a big deal when my friend got a call from Interpol to say that one of the tips was used to nail a large operation. Granted, this was a decade ago, but there were people then who would pay to get their fix from a single source and I'm sure there are now. Just like any person who prefers a "private" torrent site to limit their IP exposure.
I use a 1200x1900 vertical layout and the inability to move the Unity bar makes it unappealing to me. I'll be sticking to a combo of Cardapio and Docky until something better comes along.
The article says nothing about what level the rep was at. Anyone here who has released an iPhone app can tell you that the developer reps have their share of morons who will reject apps they can't figure out, have moral objection to, or mistakenly think it falls under some amorphous guideline. I smell overcooked ham, and expect that this will be overturned in short order.
Disclaimer: I still think Apple is a collection of evil douchebags.
Terrorists robbed you of nothing. People looking for an excuse to put the populace under their thumb took your rights away. They just convinced people it was the only way to be safe.
I wonder what magnitudes it's visible at. Last week I saw a light traversing the sky at ISS speeds, at -1 or -2 magnitude, except it was on a NE to SW vector... and I've only observed the ISS pass over on a west to east path.
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From what I've heard on forums, every time you turn on the PS3 it tries to connect to PSN and let it know what game IDs have been run.
So if you run some homebrew code they will see an unknown code and from there banning your MAC address on PSN is trivial. If they did remote destructs that would be the end of Sony as a company.
I want my OtherOS back. I made a point of not formatting the drive when applying the update that originally killed it, so it *should* still be there.
I've just been biding my time, waiting for someone smarter than me to make it possible.
The homebrew jailbreak is so easy to install anyone can do it. But I still haven't run into an OtherOS bootloader. Are they out there yet?
I've had Rhea and it was excellent, if somewhat expensive.
It's a very lean meat, and you can't just cook it as though it were a fatty steak of equal volume but if you get it right it's fantastic stuff.
Daath,
Yes, there are people who believe that the are essentially lesser beings than others due to religion or tradition.
The idea that they could be more than that does not occur to them because they and the culture that surround them have been indoctrinated from birth that this is the way of the universe.
And both of the latter two sentences can apply, as it's cyclical. Ignorance leads to a behavior which encourages ignorance.
Look at the belief in the Abrahamic god vs. the belief in Santa. Same evidence for both. Yet one belief persists and the other does not because ignorance is perpetuated until the former belief is instilled in the next generation.
Some human "persons" don't understand that they have that right until you explain it to them.
Look at the caste systems.
You don't sit in the dark to see ghosts. You sit in the light.
Most "apparitions" appear as indistinct shadows in the light, not glowy things in the dark.
One of the 'For Good Reason' podcasts talked ghost hunting a while back.
I wasn't claiming you were self important, but thanks for the extreme paranoia.
You can actually look up my ICQ, 181574. It was a statement of ironic amusement that we put value on low UID numbers.
But hey, you're the one freaking out because you actually have Slashdot send you inbox notifications.
I have a 6 digit ICQ number that starts with 1.
Every couple of years I log into it to feel important and see what the latest trends in spam are.
I'm sorry you don't own a dictionary of the ability to understand basic concepts.
Atheism is identical to aleprechaunism except for the entity it does not accept as real.
Would you say that the lack of belief in leprechauns leads to genocide?
Oops on the typo.
Regarding the beliefs: I'm talking about religious beliefs. Since there is precisely the same proof of your deity as there is for Ganesh, Xenu, etc. unless you can show some method to validate the claims of your religion that that others can not possibly use (like the oft-used circular 'my religion is true because my religion says it is').
This is not even in the ball-park of a belief that the earth is round because of the substantial evidence available.
Centuries ago Thor and Mercury were as "real" as Jesus. Eventually he'll join them in the attic of myths.
Ideology being the key.
Atheism is not an ideology any more than not believing in Tarot cards is one.
Stalin and Mao changed the figure of authority from an unquestionable man in the sky to one in a mansion. They made a religion of themselves and their politics.
The dogmatic faith of their ideologies was the danger, not the fact that they didn't believe in gods.
That is what make any religious or political ideology dangerous, dogma and the belief in it.
As those with seminary training could attest, but usually do not, the history of the myth creation is well documented. From the translation errors that made Mary a virgin, to hell actually being Jerusalem's trash heap, and Mark's original portrayal of crazy
apocalypse Jesus.
You can even read Mark Twain's own account of how the type of conduct in churches went from hellfire and intimidation to lovey dovey Jesus in his lifetime because they had to change to keep pace with society's rejection of biblical hate.
If your two thousand year old belief system is so great you can reconcile the talking serpent, then the talking bush, then the talking donkey with your centuries of theologians. And the claim that "nobody takes that literally" is a bullshit dodge, when you can find countless sites extolling the absolute literal and inerrant truth of the bible.
It certainly says this, which is a steaming pile of BS on it's own.
Matthew 16:17-18
16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
But it's irrelevant. Unless any one of you zombie leprechaun worshipers can validate your own religion and successfully invalidate the others without them using the same trick to invalidate your own, you're just spewing hot air.
So a scammer gives you a half million dollar cheque, the bank clears it, and you forward it?
Screw that! Goodbye Mr. Scammer. Goodbye Corrupt Bank with useless funds verification system.
I'd be off to a nice tropical country where my money would go a lot farther, and live out my days in relative comfort.
Wow, looks nice. I did a quick check on youtube to see if it works with Minecraft as well and it does. Yay!
Is there a good (and current) Linux alternative to Fraps?
Since I have multiplatform games I'd prefer not having to boot into Windows just to record the output.
With companies maintaining and sharing huge databases they can build a profile of you quite easily.
Consider the following situation, which parallels in in a way.
A friend's girlfriend loved to hang out in an IRC channel. She thought she was "stranger proof" because she limited the amount of information she shared in any one conversation. Some of the items she revealed were public, while others were revealed in "private" conversations. She (erroneously) assumed that some of the private conversations were with individuals sharing no connection with each other.
After hanging out in the channel for a couple of weeks she got a phone call -- from Australia. One of the channel members created profiles of other users and data mined their conversations in order to identify them. Coupled with the ability to search the net for the consistent use of handles that many become attached to, he was able to track down people rather easily.
For him it was a game. For others it's business.
We don't always know who owns the services we use, and rarely have any idea of who the data is shared with. If company A owns sites B and C, they have the data on you that both sites generate.
While he was working with a small group of people who were likely to share information with people they interacted with regularly, having a huge dataset encompassing thousands of your interactions with other sites is just as useful to a company with the means to examine the data.
And privacy policies don't mean squat without someone keeping them honest. Imagine how many sites out there use them as honey traps.
Eventually you will see a pop up in games saying "You've established a large community of online friends. Would you like to stay in contact with them? Please subscribe to our contact list service."
They're going to monetize everything.
Indie game devs are the past, present, and future of gaming. Support them instead.
When reporting pedophiles using a hosting service I worked for we had regular contact with the police and heard horror stories of converted farms and other properties turned into child porn factories.
At the time it was very hard for the police to get action taken against organizations in Eastern Europe and Russia, and it was a big deal when my friend got a call from Interpol to say that one of the tips was used to nail a large operation.
Granted, this was a decade ago, but there were people then who would pay to get their fix from a single source and I'm sure there are now. Just like any person who prefers a "private" torrent site to limit their IP exposure.
I use a 1200x1900 vertical layout and the inability to move the Unity bar makes it unappealing to me.
I'll be sticking to a combo of Cardapio and Docky until something better comes along.
The article says nothing about what level the rep was at.
Anyone here who has released an iPhone app can tell you that the developer reps have their share of morons who will reject apps they can't figure out, have moral objection to, or mistakenly think it falls under some amorphous guideline.
I smell overcooked ham, and expect that this will be overturned in short order.
Disclaimer: I still think Apple is a collection of evil douchebags.
Terrorists robbed you of nothing. People looking for an excuse to put the populace under their thumb took your rights away. They just convinced people it was the only way to be safe.
Forget Blender. Sculptris.
Maybe not for a 4 year old but a little kid can have a blast with Sculptris.
I hadn't even realized HA had added it. Nice.
I wonder what magnitudes it's visible at.
Last week I saw a light traversing the sky at ISS speeds, at -1 or -2 magnitude, except it was on a NE to SW vector... and I've only observed the ISS pass over on a west to east path.
I wonder if that was it.