Seems like the Whitehouse would be more interested in having their views on the matter come up higher in the search engines than other views. That is - NOT be blocked from searches.
Right now if you google for "iraq" and "whitehouse", http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/ is the top link. Second link is also on whitehouse.gov Amusingly, http://www.whitehouse.org (an anti-bush site) comes up second in the list of sites. If whitehouse.gov manages to push itself out of the robots lists, then guess which site people will see most often?
Try and do this with a $50 game. People will want to try it first and see what it's like before they fork out the money. Now try it with a $5 game.
Also, how many people that bought the game from the demo page actually tried out the demo? That is, how good was your "pitch" of the demo? Did people try it?
A lot of us techno weenies don't know jack about how to deal with some of the other realities of a company you know. There's a reason why in modern society you don't fix your own car, build your own house, grow your own food, etc. And there's a reason why in a modern company everyone doesn't know everything about each task, speciality, or knowledge collection that collectively defines a type of worker, a work group, division, etc.
It's not because the game leaked, but because the underlying systems that ensure that players can't easily cheat, warez the game, or access the personal information of other players.
Part of what was compromised was probably the code that handles CD key authentication, user online authentication, etc. So clearly warez and such for this game could be hugely rampant.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that handles Valve's anti cheat system. So clearly the cheats that override that system could be hugely rampant.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that is the game's engine. So clearly there could be cheat authors easily creating wall hacks, aim bots, and any number of other cheats.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that handles purchasing the game over Steam. So clearly there could be some risk of credit card and online commerce fraud, personal information leaks, etc.
Look at it this way. The blueprints and plans for the bank got stolen. Thieves are studying them now. The bank is going over the blueprints with a fine toothed comb to fix the obvious (and not so obvious) weaknesses which are more clear when you have the plans.
Probably rewriting the CD key authentication, the server authentication system, and a number of hooks so it's not so easy for cheaters to break into things.
Soooo.... don't get me wrong, but the name of that package always sounded really dumb to me. I mean too cute, and.... dumb.
I've never checked it out because of that.
But I'm just a "coffee black, no cream or sugar" kinda guy. Maybe straight espresso. But none of these foo-foo coffee drinks (of which this one has the name of).
Tell me it's a good project and that the dumb name does not reflect the real seriousness of the package.
Forget the underlying OS. Give us ATM machines that have half smart USER INTERFACES!
I'm 6 foot tall. I have to crouch down to line up the manual buttons with the screen prompts- basicaly because the buttons are not flush with the screen.
Every time I go to my credit union's ATM with my card, it asks me, "English or Spanish?" - FIGURE IT OUT! Remember my preferences FFS!
I mean really - they put braille on the buttons - like that helps you read the screen.
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Right now if you google for "iraq" and "whitehouse", http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/ is the top link. Second link is also on whitehouse.gov Amusingly, http://www.whitehouse.org (an anti-bush site) comes up second in the list of sites. If whitehouse.gov manages to push itself out of the robots lists, then guess which site people will see most often?
Try and do this with a $50 game. People will want to try it first and see what it's like before they fork out the money. Now try it with a $5 game.
Also, how many people that bought the game from the demo page actually tried out the demo? That is, how good was your "pitch" of the demo? Did people try it?
GM ran audio recordings in cars too, and via dealerships were able to get the data for use in research.
Actually the results were pretty interesting. Your average driver usually says something like, 'oh god', 'shit', etc. right before a crash.
Except in extremely rural parts of the country, in which the last thing recorded was often, "WATCH THIS!"
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/pc/index.htm
:^)
Now when is someone going to do like a "Tenebrae" version with OpenGL, etc?
Just played all the way through it. I'm sold. I'll be buying it :^)
Love that closing "advertisement" at the end. Pretty funny !
The other bad line from the obviously bias'ed submitter is...
Of course this is another headache for admins still patching for last month's RPC flaw.
If admins at some site STILL haven't patched yet, they are - uh - morons. It takes all of about 2 minutes to do it. OK, 3 if you gotta reboot.
Millions of geeks get "real world" training daily from books, TV shows, sometimes girlfriends (or boyfriends) and even Mom!
:^)
How to dress...
How to talk to girls...
How to bath regularly...
A lot of us techno weenies don't know jack about how to deal with some of the other realities of a company you know. There's a reason why in modern society you don't fix your own car, build your own house, grow your own food, etc. And there's a reason why in a modern company everyone doesn't know everything about each task, speciality, or knowledge collection that collectively defines a type of worker, a work group, division, etc.
Trust me. The company is in lockdown as far as the internet goes. This is not made up.
It's not because the game leaked, but because the underlying systems that ensure that players can't easily cheat, warez the game, or access the personal information of other players.
Part of what was compromised was probably the code that handles CD key authentication, user online authentication, etc. So clearly warez and such for this game could be hugely rampant.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that handles Valve's anti cheat system. So clearly the cheats that override that system could be hugely rampant.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that is the game's engine. So clearly there could be cheat authors easily creating wall hacks, aim bots, and any number of other cheats.
Part of what was compromized was probably the code that handles purchasing the game over Steam. So clearly there could be some risk of credit card and online commerce fraud, personal information leaks, etc.
Look at it this way. The blueprints and plans for the bank got stolen. Thieves are studying them now. The bank is going over the blueprints with a fine toothed comb to fix the obvious (and not so obvious) weaknesses which are more clear when you have the plans.
I don't think they are rewriting the whole thing.
Probably rewriting the CD key authentication, the server authentication system, and a number of hooks so it's not so easy for cheaters to break into things.
Soooo.... don't get me wrong, but the name of that package always sounded really dumb to me. I mean too cute, and .... dumb.
I've never checked it out because of that.
But I'm just a "coffee black, no cream or sugar" kinda guy. Maybe straight espresso. But none of these foo-foo coffee drinks (of which this one has the name of).
Tell me it's a good project and that the dumb name does not reflect the real seriousness of the package.
Those are for the LINUX version of the dedicated server. Valve's had a HLDS LINUX version for a long time.
The peope that stole their source and released it have taken something argueably worth millions, and released it.
That's not an annoying defacement of a website. That's a premeditated attack on a large viable company. It's the 9/11 of the software industry.
http://www.myg0t.com
http://www.myg0t.com probably has their fingers in this somehow.
They had a post up about the leak on their forums, but then they took it down. Odd, since basically ANYTHING goes on their forums.
With who?
http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
Play all you want.
Press Secretary: "I'd like to announce today that VP Cheney in an undisclosed location for the duration of the event."
Press: "*cough*camper*cough*"
Press Secretary: "Contrary to recent press reports, president Bush is in fact, not AFK."
Meh. Who needs buttons?
...we'll be able to buy all this stuff on E-Bay in a year!
Forget the underlying OS. Give us ATM machines that have half smart USER INTERFACES!
I'm 6 foot tall. I have to crouch down to line up the manual buttons with the screen prompts- basicaly because the buttons are not flush with the screen.
Every time I go to my credit union's ATM with my card, it asks me, "English or Spanish?" - FIGURE IT OUT! Remember my preferences FFS!
I mean really - they put braille on the buttons - like that helps you read the screen.
...is not spend your tmie ranting about how evil MS is or how bad or what not.
Spend your time and energy making sure everyone patches. This is so simple to beat. Just patch.
When is Micro$haft going to stop releasing crappy stuff that makes us have to patch our copy of...
:^)
linux
Oh.
Never mind
j/k