But often when the stats are pubicly availabe, you see stat whores: People who focus on making their stats look good instead of _actaully_ preforming well in-game. They often hide from dangerous scenarios to avoid getting killed, steal team-mates kills, or stick to specific weapons to boost their weapon-specific stats. So in general, public stats are fun, but reveal some immaturity in certain players.
For almost free (at least a fair amount cheaper than USB keychains) loyou have alot of (probably) better options:
1) Web storage (encrypted to your heart's content) 2) Floppies/cds (yes, they arent great for long term, but if you make semi-frequient backups, that should be no problem.) 3) Hard copies. Just take the files down to kinkos/office depot/whatever and print the entire work off. (re-entry might be hard, but non-recoverable data corruption would be harder, also sometimes editing by hand is a nice alternative, especially if you've been staring at a moniter all day.) 4) If you have more than one computer (office/home/etc.) you could back the files up on each machine. The odds of both HDs failing simultaniously is rediculously low.
And if you've got the cash for a USB keychain, you might as well just buy another hard drive.
1. Some decent games that can grow in popularity (Yes I know there are issues other than people "just doing it.") 2. A good (cross-platform) Winamp alternative w/ a comparable plugin system 3. Something for retagging and organizing an mp3 collection (possibly even something w/ a database to identify songs against) 4. Anti-virus
VoIP is not going to be easy to regulate. This makes only slightly more sense then regulating something like... say, IRC. The only reason government has a need to intervene with VoIP in any way is to provide 911 services and possibly wiretapping.
What? Old versions of software have bugs? Even Microsoft programs? Whoa! This is like, the biggest news since, that story about what your Linux distro says about you.
I can say the hughes box is very nice. Two tuners, standard direct tv interface, and everything you'd expect from a TiVo. My only complaint is the lack of caller id that some direct tv boxes carry now.
Gotta remember though, the Mozilla team has designed Firefox with security in mind, and obvious signs of prevention of these things are already in place.
1) Switch from IE to Firefox as prevention. This should stop most spyware/adware.
2) Filter known spyware/adware at the firewall/proxy level.
3) Depending on the type of organization, limit user's power's to prevent the spyware from installing itself.
4) If these are all cloned machines that aren't attached to an individual/all user documents are stored on a central server, consider doing regular formats.
How many car manufacturers are going to be putting some untested software into cars. Not only from a safety/reliability standpoint, but they also probably want to keep the locks closed on access to the software, and open source wouldn't work with this model.
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But often when the stats are pubicly availabe, you see stat whores: People who focus on making their stats look good instead of _actaully_ preforming well in-game. They often hide from dangerous scenarios to avoid getting killed, steal team-mates kills, or stick to specific weapons to boost their weapon-specific stats. So in general, public stats are fun, but reveal some immaturity in certain players.
For almost free (at least a fair amount cheaper than USB keychains) loyou have alot of (probably) better options:
1) Web storage (encrypted to your heart's content)
2) Floppies/cds (yes, they arent great for long term, but if you make semi-frequient backups, that should be no problem.)
3) Hard copies. Just take the files down to kinkos/office depot/whatever and print the entire work off. (re-entry might be hard, but non-recoverable data corruption would be harder, also sometimes editing by hand is a nice alternative, especially if you've been staring at a moniter all day.)
4) If you have more than one computer (office/home/etc.) you could back the files up on each machine. The odds of both HDs failing simultaniously is rediculously low.
And if you've got the cash for a USB keychain, you might as well just buy another hard drive.
Yes, this article is very informative and interesting, but I have one complaint:
The source code is often organized in confusing and/or excessively complicated ways. There are also non-standard typedefs.
XMMS is decent, but seeing as I primarily use windows... not much use
1. Some decent games that can grow in popularity (Yes I know there are issues other than people "just doing it.")
2. A good (cross-platform) Winamp alternative w/ a comparable plugin system
3. Something for retagging and organizing an mp3 collection (possibly even something w/ a database to identify songs against)
4. Anti-virus
VoIP is not going to be easy to regulate. This makes only slightly more sense then regulating something like... say, IRC. The only reason government has a need to intervene with VoIP in any way is to provide 911 services and possibly wiretapping.
It was an amzing movie. The visual effects, story, voices, everything!
And the soundtrack! How has nobody mentioned the soundtrack? It was fabulous.
This movie definately matched its title.
The way the summary describes it, doesn't just about any company that does internation business violate this patent?
Javascript and possibly http headers could take care of that.
auto redirect all hits to a coral cache
and maybe slashdot could post coralized links the in the articles
But where does he store the candy?
Card games, some sort of parser, math tools, maybe a text-based web browser. Think back to some of your CS 101 days.
What? Old versions of software have bugs? Even Microsoft programs? Whoa! This is like, the biggest news since, that story about what your Linux distro says about you.
Man, what wouldn't I give for the "Frank" mask from that movie.
I can say the hughes box is very nice. Two tuners, standard direct tv interface, and everything you'd expect from a TiVo. My only complaint is the lack of caller id that some direct tv boxes carry now.
oh... and yeah... $1000
I bet this would be a little easy to snap the colored bricks off and put them in the right spot... cheaters delight
Gotta remember though, the Mozilla team has designed Firefox with security in mind, and obvious signs of prevention of these things are already in place.
1) Switch from IE to Firefox as prevention. This should stop most spyware/adware.
2) Filter known spyware/adware at the firewall/proxy level.
3) Depending on the type of organization, limit user's power's to prevent the spyware from installing itself.
4) If these are all cloned machines that aren't attached to an individual/all user documents are stored on a central server, consider doing regular formats.
This is almost support enough for why this software SHOULD be open. Much more exposure would ensure less error.
How many people on slashdot have been alive this long?
How many car manufacturers are going to be putting some untested software into cars. Not only from a safety/reliability standpoint, but they also probably want to keep the locks closed on access to the software, and open source wouldn't work with this model.
It would have been nice to have provided a link explaing what "Settlers of Catan" is other than some informationless Microsoft site.
Step 1. Make porn site (and cover your tracks
Step 2. Report porn site
Step 3. PROFIT!!!! and making porn
I think this belongs more as an ask slashdot, "What are the ethics of edu-hacking?"
I thought on FM it involved distance transmitted and anything more than a few 100 feet needed to be liscensed.