> It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
You may remember BP didn't need a submarine to pretty much destroy the bottom of the sea.
I think it's really time the *nix admins drop all of their services from the net for a day or so, just to see what remains and finally settle this "minority OS" joke once and for all.
> They need to fit immobilisers and alarm systems. Something that offers no direct benefit to the customer but increases costs.
That does offer benefit to the customer, as it makes it less likely to have his very expensive lump of metal stolen. It is also something the customer pays for, not the manufacturer.
> Registration plates are used primarily for preventing illegal activity and that's a cost to the car manufacturer.
Excuse me? I don't know where you live, but here in Belgium we pay for our own damn license plates.
First off, let's not confuse "metric" with "decimal". Metric is the system of units based on the meter. It is a decimal system, because all it's different divisions are a factor 10 apart.
Unless the aliens have developed an entirely different mathematical base, they are very likely to have turned to a decimal system. They length of measurement will probably not be a meter - that's just the randomly chosen base of the metric system - but it's very likely that it will be a decimal system, with ten tentacles to the prk'nle. Decimal just makes sense for the ease of calculation: just shift the comma the appropriate number of places to switch units.
If you want, you could perfectly use the yard as base for a decimal system. It's not going to happen because converting milliyards to kilomiles will confuse the fuck out of everyone, but it could, theoretically, be done. You'd end up with a different system from metric, but because it's a decimal system the conversion would become a whole lot easier - there would only be one conversion factor: 1 yard = 0.9144 meter, so one kiloyard would be 0.9144 kilometer; and since you'd have converted all measurements to be based off the yard, one quart would now be 0.9144 liter instead of 0.9464.
I pretty much never buy new games - they're just too damn expensive. Got the "latest" Prince - the happy-colour one - used, recently, and finished in under 12 hours. I even got a damn achievement for it. I'm sorry, 12 hours of gameplay isn't worth 60€, to me. It's not like the thing has a huge replay value. Oh, there's apparently some extra bit of content, the references towards which were already installed, but the game sends me online to buy it. I'm sorry - you expect people to pay for a game, and then pay again for the second half of the same game? Not going to happen.
Provide me with a full game, and make it a good game, and I'll happily buy extra content. Assassin's Creed did that, for me. I bought it used, played the shit out of it, and then got all the extra missions I could find. Had there not been a secondhand market, I'd have never bought the game, so now they sold DLC to someone who otherwise wouldn't have given them any money at all. I'd say that's a win for them.
AC is still in the drawer, and if there should be new content, I may well buy it. Prince is going back where it came from, being sold off towards what will hopefully be a better game.
There is no difference whatsoever between used books and used games - online gaming excepted. Don't drink the kool-aid.
So the guards had an overwhelming number of knocked-out inmates on their hands, and simply waited around until they all woke up with a splitting headache and a vile temper instead of, say, tying them up like sausages?
That's none of Bat's fault. Cleaning of the gene pool, if you ask me.
Yes, but if FISMA is the bare minimum, and other comments here seem to suggest that MS didn't have FISMA certification either at that point in time, then the pro-MS choice was just as wrong.
Either the same standards apply to everyone, or the DOI is doing shady business. What'll it be?
So if I read that right, GeoHot is now
* bound by any Sony eula, regardless of wether he ever saw it
* prohibited from opening up any Sony product even to simply replace a fuse
> the whole purpose for the vast majority of users when buying a PS3 was to have a gaming machine
Irrelevant. Why I buy their hardware is none of their business. I buy what is essentially a piece of computer equipment, I'm damn well allowed do to whatever the fuck I want to it.
> Any PS3 hack directly interferes with the notion of a fair playing session against other people.
Incorrect to the point of lying. "Any knife directly interferes with the notion of not hurting other people." How does that sound?
> All MMO's go after botters. Shouldn't I be able to run whatever software I want on my own machine?
Yes, you should. MMO's don't forbid you to run bots, they forbid you to have bots acting on their servers, as is their right. The distinction may be subtle, but it is very important.
> The olympics go after people who have too much cold medication or whatever else. Shouldn't you be allowed to take whatever your doctor recommends for your health?
In the same vein; you *are* allowed to take whatever is recommended for your health. It is also the Olympic Committee's right to decide that you are not allowed to participate if you are using stimulants. The committee does not forbid you from taking the drugs, it forbids you from participating in THEIR events if you take them. Important distinction.
> They should never have allowed 'other OS linux' on the PS3 in the first place
Regardless of that, they have, which makes their later, unilateral removal of it fraud.
> But it also lets you mess with the memory state of your machine and hack the game as you're running
There you go again with the overdrawn conclusions. Let's forbid cars - sure, they take you places, but they also let you run over people.
> Homebrew has no real value on a PS3.
Kind of obvious, given that there hasn't been much effort put into it, yet. Have a look at what you get on the Wii or DS for a look at what homebrew can add to a console. This should be encouraged, sanctioned and properly channeled instead of criminalized - it's free added value, for Pete's sake. The iToys are doing killer business with what is essentially a pseudo-homebrew app store.
> PS2 emulation, I'm not sure on, I'm betting sony didn't just take it out for the fun of it, it's probably really hard, if not impossible to do properly and provide a good experience.
Oh my, it's hard, let's not do it? Dude, what are you smoking?
FYI, the original release of the PS3 had the actual PS2 hardware built-in. Not hard, it just works. Subsequent runs had software emulation. Not 100% perfect, but worked pretty fine for most of the games I tried. So, they had two good solutions, the latter of which didn't actually cost them any more money to build the console, and they still removed it from the newest models. I cannot fathom why.
On the other hand, unlike OtherOS, PS2 emulation hasn't been retroactively removed from existing consoles, so there's really no blame to put there except a silly decision.
> the whole network experience of 40 odd million players can be easily disrupted by even a handful of people hacking
More utter bullshit. The PS3 uses the same internet as the rest of the world. You don't even need a PS3 if you want to kill PSN, just aim LOIC at the servers. If you want to bring PSN down, hacking the PS3 is pointless effort. If you're hacking the PS3, it'll probably not be to disrupt PSN.
> being able to steal stuff from the playstation store
WHAT ? Dude, you're floating on a different planet. If running custom software on the PS3 is all you need to get free stuff out of the store, I have to wonder how all those other web stores survive. Amazon, how do you manage?
Yes, your precious PS3 store is nothing but a webstore, albeit one with a horrendously slow and annoying interface. Now stop making cheap excuses for Sony, fanboi.
Which falls over in cases where someone else is root/administrator on the box you have an account on.
GP's view is a bit incomplete in any case, though - it's not the password that's saved, but an authentication token that is independent of password changes.
Drobos do something a bit similar: they report a 16 terabyte NTFS filesystem -- regardless of what disks are actually in them.
As soon as you hit the 90% real capacity mark it starts throttling your write speed. The closer to full it goes, the more it throttles. Net result is that you'll never succeed in actually filling it up to the last byte.
The difference, of course, is that this is documented behaviour. As soon as you replace one of the disks with a larger one it'll rebuild and resize the array and unthrottle your writespeed.
All in all, a very funky way of doing things, with the one downside that it can take quite a long time to mount a "16 terabyte" NTFS drive:-)
If it's involuntary for over 20 years, it's your own damn fault if you haven't gotten out yet. I did so years ago, and avoid touching MS products whenever possible, regardless of the length and sharpness of the stick.
The one thing I haven't managed yet is avoiding the secondhand ignorance. Somewhere, somehow, an idiot decided that a sharepoint instance needing 13 machines was better than the old intranet running on a decrepit host, and apparently we're to use it as a documentation engine, too. This, too, shall pass:-)
Fuck around with Unix in your spare time. Set up machines. Run services. Make your friends happy with webspaces, mailboxes and whatnot. Dump that experience on your curriculum and stress it when interviewing for jobs. You should have started doing this years ago.
Given that they are still on the now-digital antenna, I'm pretty sure there isn't, yeah:-)
I guess they might have deals with the cable operator, but I'd be surprised if the operator would willingly pay them, as that's a bit of a monopoly here.
I just looked up some details of Ophcrack on Wikipedia.
I can't help but wonder if this guy or his group shelled out for the full set of rainbow tables, or wether the hospital used alphanumeric-only passwords for their sensitive accounts.
It in no way excuses this guy, but that would deserve a good slapping.
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Guess which of the two Drupal is.
If you breach server security, you then effectively get hash(pw, salt1). thus, you don't *need* the original password to calculate x.
> It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
You may remember BP didn't need a submarine to pretty much destroy the bottom of the sea.
> The DC-8 is used as a test vehicle because its engine operations are well-documented and well-understood, NASA says.
Does that mean engine operations for other jets are *not* well-documented and/or well-understood? That would be... troubling.
> Jesus Christ on stick
Is that the new catholic... well, schtick? Not a bad move, everything is better onna stick.
So which particular scientific discipline would be the full-blown orgy ?
I think it's really time the *nix admins drop all of their services from the net for a day or so, just to see what remains and finally settle this "minority OS" joke once and for all.
> They need to fit immobilisers and alarm systems. Something that offers no direct benefit to the customer but increases costs.
That does offer benefit to the customer, as it makes it less likely to have his very expensive lump of metal stolen. It is also something the customer pays for, not the manufacturer.
> Registration plates are used primarily for preventing illegal activity and that's a cost to the car manufacturer.
Excuse me? I don't know where you live, but here in Belgium we pay for our own damn license plates.
First off, let's not confuse "metric" with "decimal". Metric is the system of units based on the meter. It is a decimal system, because all it's different divisions are a factor 10 apart.
Unless the aliens have developed an entirely different mathematical base, they are very likely to have turned to a decimal system. They length of
measurement will probably not be a meter - that's just the randomly chosen base of the metric system - but it's very likely that it will be a decimal system, with ten tentacles to the prk'nle. Decimal just makes sense for the ease of calculation: just shift the comma the appropriate number of places to switch units.
If you want, you could perfectly use the yard as base for a decimal system. It's not going to happen because converting milliyards to kilomiles will confuse the fuck out of everyone, but it could, theoretically, be done. You'd end up with a different system from metric, but because it's a decimal system the conversion would become a whole lot easier - there would only be one conversion factor: 1 yard = 0.9144 meter, so one kiloyard would be 0.9144 kilometer; and since you'd have converted all measurements to be based off the yard, one quart would now be 0.9144 liter instead of 0.9464.
The ideal may be old, but that's no reason to give it up. No longer striving for ideals is what will kill off all progress.
I pretty much never buy new games - they're just too damn expensive. Got the "latest" Prince - the happy-colour one - used, recently, and finished in under 12 hours. I even got a damn achievement for it. I'm sorry, 12 hours of gameplay isn't worth 60€, to me. It's not like the thing has a huge replay value. Oh, there's apparently some extra bit of content, the references towards which were already installed, but the game sends me online to buy it. I'm sorry - you expect people to pay for a game, and then pay again for the second half of the same game? Not going to happen.
Provide me with a full game, and make it a good game, and I'll happily buy extra content. Assassin's Creed did that, for me. I bought it used, played the shit out of it, and then got all the extra missions I could find. Had there not been a secondhand market, I'd have never bought the game, so now they sold DLC to someone who otherwise wouldn't have given them any money at all. I'd say that's a win for them.
AC is still in the drawer, and if there should be new content, I may well buy it. Prince is going back where it came from, being sold off towards what will hopefully be a better game.
There is no difference whatsoever between used books and used games - online gaming excepted. Don't drink the kool-aid.
So the guards had an overwhelming number of knocked-out inmates on their hands, and simply waited around until they all woke up with a splitting headache and a vile temper instead of, say, tying them up like sausages?
That's none of Bat's fault. Cleaning of the gene pool, if you ask me.
I agree with your general point. However, just for this:
> I waste a few hours trying to find out where the hell they moved the command in Word.
I feel I must bring you the word of the holey Google. It is good.
Also, any examples of things in OO or LO that aren't in MsW ?
I think you mean goatse rendering. I'm also not entirely convinced I want some.
Strictly speaking, a verbal contract is also legally binding. Trouble, of course, is in proving what the verbal contract entailed.
Yes, but if FISMA is the bare minimum, and other comments here seem to suggest that MS didn't have FISMA certification either at that point in time, then the pro-MS choice was just as wrong.
Either the same standards apply to everyone, or the DOI is doing shady business. What'll it be?
So if I read that right, GeoHot is now
* bound by any Sony eula, regardless of wether he ever saw it
* prohibited from opening up any Sony product even to simply replace a fuse
Well played, Sony.
> the whole purpose for the vast majority of users when buying a PS3 was to have a gaming machine
Irrelevant. Why I buy their hardware is none of their business. I buy what is essentially a piece of computer equipment, I'm damn well allowed do to whatever the fuck I want to it.
> Any PS3 hack directly interferes with the notion of a fair playing session against other people.
Incorrect to the point of lying. "Any knife directly interferes with the notion of not hurting other people." How does that sound?
> All MMO's go after botters. Shouldn't I be able to run whatever software I want on my own machine?
Yes, you should. MMO's don't forbid you to run bots, they forbid you to have bots acting on their servers, as is their right. The distinction may be subtle, but it is very important.
> The olympics go after people who have too much cold medication or whatever else. Shouldn't you be allowed to take whatever your doctor recommends for your health?
In the same vein; you *are* allowed to take whatever is recommended for your health. It is also the Olympic Committee's right to decide that you are not allowed to participate if you are using stimulants. The committee does not forbid you from taking the drugs, it forbids you from participating in THEIR events if you take them. Important distinction.
> They should never have allowed 'other OS linux' on the PS3 in the first place
Regardless of that, they have, which makes their later, unilateral removal of it fraud.
> But it also lets you mess with the memory state of your machine and hack the game as you're running
There you go again with the overdrawn conclusions. Let's forbid cars - sure, they take you places, but they also let you run over people.
> Homebrew has no real value on a PS3.
Kind of obvious, given that there hasn't been much effort put into it, yet. Have a look at what you get on the Wii or DS for a look at what homebrew can add to a console. This should be encouraged, sanctioned and properly channeled instead of criminalized - it's free added value, for Pete's sake. The iToys are doing killer business with what is essentially a pseudo-homebrew app store.
> PS2 emulation, I'm not sure on, I'm betting sony didn't just take it out for the fun of it, it's probably really hard, if not impossible to do properly and provide a good experience.
Oh my, it's hard, let's not do it? Dude, what are you smoking?
FYI, the original release of the PS3 had the actual PS2 hardware built-in. Not hard, it just works. Subsequent runs had software emulation. Not 100% perfect, but worked pretty fine for most of the games I tried. So, they had two good solutions, the latter of which didn't actually cost them any more money to build the console, and they still removed it from the newest models. I cannot fathom why.
On the other hand, unlike OtherOS, PS2 emulation hasn't been retroactively removed from existing consoles, so there's really no blame to put there except a silly decision.
> the whole network experience of 40 odd million players can be easily disrupted by even a handful of people hacking
More utter bullshit. The PS3 uses the same internet as the rest of the world. You don't even need a PS3 if you want to kill PSN, just aim LOIC at the servers. If you want to bring PSN down, hacking the PS3 is pointless effort. If you're hacking the PS3, it'll probably not be to disrupt PSN.
> being able to steal stuff from the playstation store
WHAT ? Dude, you're floating on a different planet. If running custom software on the PS3 is all you need to get free stuff out of the store, I have to wonder how all those other web stores survive. Amazon, how do you manage?
Yes, your precious PS3 store is nothing but a webstore, albeit one with a horrendously slow and annoying interface. Now stop making cheap excuses for Sony, fanboi.
Which falls over in cases where someone else is root/administrator on the box you have an account on.
GP's view is a bit incomplete in any case, though - it's not the password that's saved, but an authentication token that is independent of password changes.
Drobos do something a bit similar: they report a 16 terabyte NTFS filesystem -- regardless of what disks are actually in them.
As soon as you hit the 90% real capacity mark it starts throttling your write speed. The closer to full it goes, the more it throttles. Net result is that you'll never succeed in actually filling it up to the last byte.
The difference, of course, is that this is documented behaviour. As soon as you replace one of the disks with a larger one it'll rebuild and resize the array and unthrottle your writespeed.
All in all, a very funky way of doing things, with the one downside that it can take quite a long time to mount a "16 terabyte" NTFS drive :-)
That got you +4 Insightful. For +5 Informative, where do you go that is more trustworthy, instead?
If it's involuntary for over 20 years, it's your own damn fault if you haven't gotten out yet. I did so years ago, and avoid touching MS products whenever possible, regardless of the length and sharpness of the stick.
The one thing I haven't managed yet is avoiding the secondhand ignorance. Somewhere, somehow, an idiot decided that a sharepoint instance needing 13 machines was better than the old intranet running on a decrepit host, and apparently we're to use it as a documentation engine, too. This, too, shall pass :-)
Fuck around with Unix in your spare time. Set up machines. Run services. Make your friends happy with webspaces, mailboxes and whatnot. Dump that experience on your curriculum and stress it when interviewing for jobs. You should have started doing this years ago.
I need sleep.
I just read "Kinect Used to Help the Vaseline Impaired". You really don't want to know what my next thought was.
Given that they are still on the now-digital antenna, I'm pretty sure there isn't, yeah :-)
I guess they might have deals with the cable operator, but I'd be surprised if the operator would willingly pay them, as that's a bit of a monopoly here.
I just looked up some details of Ophcrack on Wikipedia.
I can't help but wonder if this guy or his group shelled out for the full set of rainbow tables, or wether the hospital used alphanumeric-only passwords for their sensitive accounts.
It in no way excuses this guy, but that would deserve a good slapping.