what I want to know is why they couldnt
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Doom Movie Update
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Keep the mars setting. Keep the look of the DOOM monsters Keep the space marine stuff etc
And then just replace "hellspawn" with "mutation" or something like that to placate the stupid idiot conservatives who will complain at the use of "hellspawn" in a movie.
To those idiots, get a life and a clue. Dont go see the movie if you dont like hellspawn. Dont let your kids see the movie. But dont try and force your views on other people. Unless you go to see this movie, it doesnt affect you in the slightest.
Athough on the other hand, the big question is how many people will see the crap they are slapping with the DOOM name vs how many people would go to see a true DOOM movie with the mars setting and the demons from hell and the and the space marines and stuff (if the first number is greater, simple hollywood economics dictates that the first film is what will be made)
this site http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/ has some cool looking stuff available. But you have to jump through hoops to get it.
In fact, I think that there will always be a problem with "US government" and "open source" at the same time, specifically that the government doesnt want stuff it writes internally (or has written for it by a contractor and owns copyright for) released to people, organizations and countries on that list of "people, organizations and countries we dont like right now" that it has somewhere. (the one places like cuba & iran and people like bin laden are on) because those people, organizations or countries might use this unspecified code to do unspecified "bad things".
Its the same thinking as to why there are still encryption export regulations in the US right now.
Is that old puzzle that apple had where you had to reassemble the apple logo. Man I remember messing with that in the labs at school (back when they had macs) instead of doing work.
Kerio is just a firewall (at least from reading their site) All the solitions (spybot, ad-aware, firewalls etc) will stop spyware after its already been installed).
My idea would be more like how anti-virus programs can automatically identify viruses when you try to run them. Except that it wouldnt try to detect specific programs, just to detect "potentially bad" things (like adding to the startup group or messing with the HOSTS file). Viruses, Spyware, Trojan Horses, Worms and other malware need to do at least one of these "potentially bad" things in order to gain a foothold on your system. So if the user is aware that a program wants to do something that may be a sign of a virus, they at least have the option to deny the action.
If microsoft made some changes to windows, this crap would have a harder time getting installed (or at least getting installed unnoticed)
Basicly, anything that wants to change certain things should trigger a "are you sure you want to do this" warning of some kind (with ways to change that warning into a requirement for a password or a total block of the activity). If the activity is blocked, the app requesting it gets an appropriate error (e.g. "you cant open that file" if access to a file is blocked)
The items that should be locked include: Writing to the "startup" group & other locations where you can have a program start at startup Writing to Changing critical windows sockets settings Changing the HOSTS file And there may be other things
The idea is that spyware/viruses/trojans/etc that come in totally unannounced would now not be able to do that. And spyware and such that rides alongside application programs would be easier to spot (so you can choose to use a non-spyware alternative)
Yes the cluless will just click "yes" but at least those who care wont be hit as much.
Anti-virus vendors should start detecting spyware (particularly the kind that installs itself jsut by visiting a webpage or reading an email as opposed to the kind that installs alongside programs like kazza) just like they detect viruses. After all, spyware shares a fair few characteristics with viruses, worms and trojans.
The big PC OEMs should be doing more to combat spyware.
Myself, I use Mozilla (and keep it up to date with the latest release builds) and I use Norton Antivirus to keep my system virus free. I also run Spybot and Ad-Aware regularly. And I dont install spyware-laden programs like Kazza, Real etc.
Not to mention the HUGE system requirements for the thing.
Perosnally, I am waiting for ID software to release the source code to Quake III (and presumably anything else on the same engine that they have the rights to release), although the engine is a little dated it would probobly be a very good base point for anyone wanting to build an FPS.
Basicly, the bank would give each netbank customer a physical device. This device would be specific to the customer and would contain a special hash embedded in it. Each time you log in to the netbank, it gives you a randomly generated hash (something using the current date and time as part of the randomiszation process is good). Then, you input this hash into the device and it combines it with the stored hash and prints the result. The result is then input back to the netbank along with the other banking details (and compared to a similar hash calculated securely by the bank system based on the same hash as is stored in your device)
That way, even if a hacker can get the hash you input into the banking, it wont work since the next time you access the netbank, it gives you a different hash to feed into your device. Also, just to be even more secure, the bank will record the IP address of the computer talking to it next to the hash (so when you send back the hash from your device, if the IP address isnt the one that origonally connected to the bank, it will reject it)
Re:Here's how I got my mom to verify
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Gone Phishing?
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What you should do is make a shortcut on the desktop labeled "online banking" or "bank" or something like that. Then point that as a URL shortcut to the online bank and tell the internet newbie who you are doing this for to only ever use the "bank" icon to access the online banking and to ignore anything that any email says.
Thats dead simple and easy to remember. Also, usual precautions like a good virus scanner that updates automatically (to stop worms that would mess with the hosts file).
Another thing that occured to me is that if Sony was to do this, some of their software developers (i.e. those who have made PS2 games) might turn around and get upset that these PS2 games can be played on a first party portable device from sony with no changes whatsoever. (especially if that same company is working on games for other portables and stands to loose money because of it)
Why doesnt sony (with all their laptop, consumer electronics, game console & DVD experience) produce a device that is basicly a portable DVD player with PS2 guts. It would be able to play PS2 games AND PS1 games AND all different kinds of DVDs.
I think it would be a VERY hot seller. And with sony's experience in making portable devices like laptops I am sure they can find a way to get something resembling decent battery life out of this. Heck, they could make a car version like those car DVD players you can get now. And they could make a widget that lets the portable version plug into the "airplane seat" laptop power adapter that some airlines now have.
I think that such a device would be WAY more popular than this PSP crap.
There is already an international treaty in place that basicly says that things that are launched into "space" are the responsibility of the country where the launching party is based (i.e. if an american organization launches from australia, its still an american launch)
I assume that this treaty (or some other treaty) would apply in this case and give the americans juristiction over any spacecraft launched by american organizations.
They should also make the GPS feed available (in some way that doesnt allow someone to mess with it and defeat the system) so that people can plug in things like in-car navigation or whatever. After all, what is the point of having a car with one government mandated GPS for this and a second GPS reciever for in-car navigation.
Vivendi Universal are members of both the MPAA (through Universal Pictures) and the RIAA (through Universal Music) so its not surprising that Vivendi Interactive (another arm of the same greedy corperation) would act this way
The.exe file may be there somewhere. But there is executable code essential to the running of HL2 that only exists inside valve.
I can see why valve made the retail copy require logins to steam. The big reason is (and this is especially valid given the previous leaks of HL2 related items including the code and several "beta" builds of the game and also given the pre-release leaks of games like DOOM III and Halo 2) that it stops pre-release pirated copies being spread online. This has various benifits (one of which is that it stops any word-of-mouth advertising from spreading before the big saturation marketing blitz has started)
Soemthing to remember is that to someone who hasnt read the books and/or doesnt "get" the particular style of humor Douglas Adams uses, a spaceship shaped like a running shoe might look stupid/lame.
If you want basic bricks then (depending on where you live) you can still get buckets or boxes of bricks or whatever. Plus some shops (i.e. LEGO brand shops in USA and some others in europe) have Pick-A-Brick which lets you get assorted individual pieces directly. Not to mention service packs at shop.lego.com
And if you want sets that arent highly specialized as to what you can make, start with the Designer line http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?qc=lego/system/ design er&qn=20
And (as someone else pointed out) www.briclink.com is a GREAT source of parts and sets.
Dont think it will have an impact here in australia.
Course, I havent seen any cinema that will let you take glass bottles OR alcohol into it (except for some of those special "gold class" thingos that cost a fortune and have wine and stuff available)
Why not do a netscape and release all the bits they DO own. Then, the community (which may include sun developers) can re-write all the bits they dont own (as happened with netscape and the bits that couldnt be released into the mozilla tree for various reasons)
hmmm, you can get the JAVA source code under various restrictive licences already, mabie I should pull it down and see for myself what is (c) someone other than sun:)
I have yet to see a valid argument for why SUN doesnt release J2SE under an OSI complient licence.
The argument that they want to be able to use the code in their own closed things, well they can do what OpenOffice.Org does and dual licence.
There are clearly no arguments that can be made about "other peoples code", if there was anyone elses code in there, we wouldnt get to see it at all.
As for the oft-pushed argument about forking, I said it before and I will say it again. What they need to do is to release the source code. Plus a testsuite. If you want to use the JAVA name on your particular binaries, those binaries must pass the testsuite. Releasing under a string copyleft like GPL that requires all source changes to be made public would also help stop forking because anything that is used can be added to the official sun tree.
That way, anyone can use the source for whatever they like. But if you want to call something (be it modified from the SUN code or otherwise) JAVA, you have to pass the testsuite. That way, anything that has the JAVA logo on it (or whatever) is gauranteed not to be incompatible with SUNs VM. A good cpoyleft licence would also prevent what happened with Microsoft from happening again (since any additions could be added to the SUN VM)
One thing to remember is that most ISP and free newsservers dont have anywhere near decent binary group stuff and that if you really want binaries you either need to find a newsserver that you probobly dont have permission to access but that you can access anyway because its beeen made public or you need to pay for usenet.
They have something on the informercial programs on TV here in australia called "arcade action" which looks like one of these things although instead of being a controller sized unit, its a larger unit that looks more like a traditional console. In any case, its highly unlikely that the games on this thing are endorsed by Nintendo, Namco, Konami, Atari, Capcom or whoever else.
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Keep the mars setting.
Keep the look of the DOOM monsters
Keep the space marine stuff
etc
And then just replace "hellspawn" with "mutation" or something like that to placate the stupid idiot conservatives who will complain at the use of "hellspawn" in a movie.
To those idiots, get a life and a clue.
Dont go see the movie if you dont like hellspawn.
Dont let your kids see the movie.
But dont try and force your views on other people.
Unless you go to see this movie, it doesnt affect you in the slightest.
Athough on the other hand, the big question is how many people will see the crap they are slapping with the DOOM name vs how many people would go to see a true DOOM movie with the mars setting and the demons from hell and the and the space marines and stuff (if the first number is greater, simple hollywood economics dictates that the first film is what will be made)
this site
has some cool looking stuff available.
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/
But you have to jump through hoops to get it.
In fact, I think that there will always be a problem with "US government" and "open source" at the same time, specifically that the government doesnt want stuff it writes internally (or has written for it by a contractor and owns copyright for) released to people, organizations and countries on that list of "people, organizations and countries we dont like right now" that it has somewhere. (the one places like cuba & iran and people like bin laden are on) because those people, organizations or countries might use this unspecified code to do unspecified "bad things".
Its the same thinking as to why there are still encryption export regulations in the US right now.
Is that old puzzle that apple had where you had to reassemble the apple logo.
Man I remember messing with that in the labs at school (back when they had macs) instead of doing work.
Kerio is just a firewall (at least from reading their site)
All the solitions (spybot, ad-aware, firewalls etc) will stop spyware after its already been installed).
My idea would be more like how anti-virus programs can automatically identify viruses when you try to run them.
Except that it wouldnt try to detect specific programs, just to detect "potentially bad" things (like adding to the startup group or messing with the HOSTS file). Viruses, Spyware, Trojan Horses, Worms and other malware need to do at least one of these "potentially bad" things in order to gain a foothold on your system. So if the user is aware that a program wants to do something that may be a sign of a virus, they at least have the option to deny the action.
If microsoft made some changes to windows, this crap would have a harder time getting installed (or at least getting installed unnoticed)
Basicly, anything that wants to change certain things should trigger a "are you sure you want to do this" warning of some kind (with ways to change that warning into a requirement for a password or a total block of the activity). If the activity is blocked, the app requesting it gets an appropriate error (e.g. "you cant open that file" if access to a file is blocked)
The items that should be locked include:
Writing to the "startup" group & other locations where you can have a program start at startup
Writing to
Changing critical windows sockets settings
Changing the HOSTS file
And there may be other things
The idea is that spyware/viruses/trojans/etc that come in totally unannounced would now not be able to do that.
And spyware and such that rides alongside application programs would be easier to spot (so you can choose to use a non-spyware alternative)
Yes the cluless will just click "yes" but at least those who care wont be hit as much.
Anti-virus vendors should start detecting spyware (particularly the kind that installs itself jsut by visiting a webpage or reading an email as opposed to the kind that installs alongside programs like kazza) just like they detect viruses.
After all, spyware shares a fair few characteristics with viruses, worms and trojans.
The big PC OEMs should be doing more to combat spyware.
Myself, I use Mozilla (and keep it up to date with the latest release builds) and I use Norton
Antivirus to keep my system virus free.
I also run Spybot and Ad-Aware regularly.
And I dont install spyware-laden programs like Kazza, Real etc.
Not to mention the HUGE system requirements for the thing.
Perosnally, I am waiting for ID software to release the source code to Quake III (and presumably anything else on the same engine that they have the rights to release), although the engine is a little dated it would probobly be a very good base point for anyone wanting to build an FPS.
That does sound like it would work great and help to prevent philshing.
And besides, like the USA is going to allow the "strong crypto" required to make it happen to be installed in all those airports around the world :)
Basicly, the bank would give each netbank customer a physical device.
This device would be specific to the customer and would contain a special hash embedded in it. Each time you log in to the netbank, it gives you a randomly generated hash (something using the current date and time as part of the randomiszation process is good). Then, you input this hash into the device and it combines it with the stored hash and prints the result. The result is then input back to the netbank along with the other banking details (and compared to a similar hash calculated securely by the bank system based on the same hash as is stored in your device)
That way, even if a hacker can get the hash you input into the banking, it wont work since the next time you access the netbank, it gives you a different hash to feed into your device.
Also, just to be even more secure, the bank will record the IP address of the computer talking to it next to the hash (so when you send back the hash from your device, if the IP address isnt the one that origonally connected to the bank, it will reject it)
What you should do is make a shortcut on the desktop labeled "online banking" or "bank" or something like that.
Then point that as a URL shortcut to the online bank and tell the internet newbie who you are doing this for to only ever use the "bank" icon to access the online banking and to ignore anything that any email says.
Thats dead simple and easy to remember.
Also, usual precautions like a good virus scanner that updates automatically (to stop worms that would mess with the hosts file).
Another thing that occured to me is that if Sony was to do this, some of their software developers (i.e. those who have made PS2 games) might turn around and get upset that these PS2 games can be played on a first party portable device from sony with no changes whatsoever. (especially if that same company is working on games for other portables and stands to loose money because of it)
Why doesnt sony (with all their laptop, consumer electronics, game console & DVD experience) produce a device that is basicly a portable DVD player with PS2 guts.
It would be able to play PS2 games AND PS1 games AND all different kinds of DVDs.
I think it would be a VERY hot seller. And with sony's experience in making portable devices like laptops I am sure they can find a way to get something resembling decent battery life out of this. Heck, they could make a car version like those car DVD players you can get now.
And they could make a widget that lets the portable version plug into the "airplane seat" laptop power adapter that some airlines now have.
I think that such a device would be WAY more popular than this PSP crap.
There is already an international treaty in place that basicly says that things that are launched into "space" are the responsibility of the country where the launching party is based (i.e. if an american organization launches from australia, its still an american launch)
I assume that this treaty (or some other treaty) would apply in this case and give the americans juristiction over any spacecraft launched by american organizations.
They should also make the GPS feed available (in some way that doesnt allow someone to mess with it and defeat the system) so that people can plug in things like in-car navigation or whatever.
After all, what is the point of having a car with one government mandated GPS for this and a second GPS reciever for in-car navigation.
Vivendi Universal are members of both the MPAA (through Universal Pictures) and the RIAA (through Universal Music) so its not surprising that Vivendi Interactive (another arm of the same greedy corperation) would act this way
The .exe file may be there somewhere.
But there is executable code essential to the running of HL2 that only exists inside valve.
I can see why valve made the retail copy require logins to steam.
The big reason is (and this is especially valid given the previous leaks of HL2 related items including the code and several "beta" builds of the game and also given the pre-release leaks of games like DOOM III and Halo 2) that it stops pre-release pirated copies being spread online.
This has various benifits (one of which is that it stops any word-of-mouth advertising from spreading before the big saturation marketing blitz has started)
Soemthing to remember is that to someone who hasnt read the books and/or doesnt "get" the particular style of humor Douglas Adams uses, a spaceship shaped like a running shoe might look stupid/lame.
As this is GPL, there is nothing stopping ports to other platforms :)
If the person the gift is being bought for has any interest in Space or Rockets, buying them a model rocket kit is a great way to encourage that.
Oh wait...
Using model rockets will lead to the ATF comming after you for using an "illegal explosive device" without a licence.
If you want basic bricks then (depending on where you live) you can still get buckets or boxes of bricks or whatever.
/ design er&qn=20
Plus some shops (i.e. LEGO brand shops in USA and some others in europe) have Pick-A-Brick which lets you get assorted individual pieces directly.
Not to mention service packs at shop.lego.com
And if you want sets that arent highly specialized as to what you can make, start with the Designer line
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?qc=lego/system
And (as someone else pointed out) www.briclink.com is a GREAT source of parts and sets.
Dont think it will have an impact here in australia.
Course, I havent seen any cinema that will let you take glass bottles OR alcohol into it (except for some of those special "gold class" thingos that cost a fortune and have wine and stuff available)
Why not do a netscape and release all the bits they DO own.
:)
Then, the community (which may include sun developers) can re-write all the bits they dont own (as happened with netscape and the bits that couldnt be released into the mozilla tree for various reasons)
hmmm, you can get the JAVA source code under various restrictive licences already, mabie I should pull it down and see for myself what is (c) someone other than sun
I have yet to see a valid argument for why SUN doesnt release J2SE under an OSI complient licence.
The argument that they want to be able to use the code in their own closed things, well they can do what OpenOffice.Org does and dual licence.
There are clearly no arguments that can be made about "other peoples code", if there was anyone elses code in there, we wouldnt get to see it at all.
As for the oft-pushed argument about forking, I said it before and I will say it again.
What they need to do is to release the source code.
Plus a testsuite.
If you want to use the JAVA name on your particular binaries, those binaries must pass the testsuite.
Releasing under a string copyleft like GPL that requires all source changes to be made public would also help stop forking because anything that is used can be added to the official sun tree.
That way, anyone can use the source for whatever they like. But if you want to call something (be it modified from the SUN code or otherwise) JAVA, you have to pass the testsuite. That way, anything that has the JAVA logo on it (or whatever) is gauranteed not to be incompatible with SUNs VM.
A good cpoyleft licence would also prevent what happened with Microsoft from happening again (since any additions could be added to the SUN VM)
One thing to remember is that most ISP and free newsservers dont have anywhere near decent binary group stuff and that if you really want binaries you either need to find a newsserver that you probobly dont have permission to access but that you can access anyway because its beeen made public or you need to pay for usenet.
They have something on the informercial programs on TV here in australia called "arcade action" which looks like one of these things although instead of being a controller sized unit, its a larger unit that looks more like a traditional console.
In any case, its highly unlikely that the games on this thing are endorsed by Nintendo, Namco, Konami, Atari, Capcom or whoever else.