It's fundamentally no different from having a live cop recognize your mug.
The degree to which technology is involved can be regulated in certain places.
In Vegas, for example, it's not illegal to count cards, altho casinos will reserve the right to kick you out of the premises if they find out you are doing that. It is illegal to use devices to aid you in counting cards, however.
Unless privacy groups become more vocal and powerful than they currently are, it's unlikely that they will outlaw it. Forms of protests will be met with the age old "if you have nothing to hide..." argument, and before long, the terrorists issue will be brought into the discussion and so forth. And eventually, the technology will cross the ocean to the US and then we will see so pretty nifty flamewars in slashdot.
Your ISP has to contact AOL and let them know your ip/subnet is no longer part of a dynamic netblock. AOL postmaster helpdesk is quite useful and understanding (at least they were when I contacted them). Other RBL for dynamic IP addresses will also remove you from their blocks provided you have a valid PTR for your IP and the netblock is assigned properly in ARIN or the registrar of your region.
PTR have a few gotchas. I've run into provider that filter dynamic ips by doing pattern matching againts PTR, so if you have, for example, "mail.madslocation.net" you might get blocked by somebody filtering "*adsl*".
a) secure from **AA (as long as you don't let them into your peer-group)
How did they get into DC++ hubs? A lot of them are private, yet for p2p apps to really work (for activities that are frowned upon by the *AA's) you need to appeal a large group of people (if I'm only interested in sharing with a small group of people, I can always set an ftp server) so infiltration will always be relatively easy.
The only way you are truly going to be secure, is by masking the origin IP, like FreeNet does, and then you are going to run into the same problems freenet has: too few peers/poor performance (chicken and egg problem).
Do X-Box games run in user space or as the kernel?
I believe I read somewhere that xbox games execute in priviledged mode to gain performance, and since security is not really an issue when every game has to be digitally signed and will not run concurrently with anything else, it makes sense.
Why is anybody surprised? Microsoft has said from day one that modified xboxes were not going to be allowed to connect to xbl.
I think he was also involved in the World of Ultima games (Savage Empires and Martian Dreams), which were offshoots of Ultima VI.
Or at least, he was a character in both games, and not exactly a cameo part. He was the avatar's sidekick in Martian Dreams (a great game) and I think he was a villain in Savage Empire (didn't play it).
There is a similar quote in Head of State where the person running against Chris Rock for president used to say: "God bless America. And no place else"
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The new LSL Magna Cum Laude is horrible however
I'll say. You go from one boring mini-game to another mini-game and back to the first mini-game... Like playing a boring "Strip Simon Says".
Getting caught by the SEC means JAIL TIME for rich white men.
But the thing is... you have to get caught by SEC. I always wondered about this one:
SEC: How did you know about the merger? Me: An angel came to me in a dream and told me to buy MergingCo, so I did. SEC: That sounds awfully convenient... Me: Can you prove any wrongdoing? SEC: Why, yes. You just confessed. You and the angel will go to jail for insider trading.
I just switched to Ubuntu and found out I couldn't "su" into root even tho I could access all the config tools by using my password as the root password.
In the end, I opened a root console and did "passwd root" and re-entered my own password. Now I can su normally. I still don't know why.
I always tell friends : buy a mac, and with the money saved by not paying the MS tax, buy yourself a 199$ PS2 for gaming
Whoa... "buy a mac" and "save money" are usually two conecpts that I don't see together...;-)
But seriously, that is just what I'm trying to do. I've managed to "wean" myself from PC games (got me an Xbox and a GC) and as soon as I get confortably away from a couple of Windows only apps, I'll switch either to OSX or some flavor of Linux (I've got Ubuntu on my secondary desktop and its really sweet).
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Does it help maintain my sanity? You bet!
Are you sure? Most of the moms I've met (including my own) are expert at guilt tripping.
I just thank god my mom want's nothing to do with computers, and I solved most of my dad's problem by setting a non-admin account for him.
It's fundamentally no different from having a live cop recognize your mug.
The degree to which technology is involved can be regulated in certain places.
In Vegas, for example, it's not illegal to count cards, altho casinos will reserve the right to kick you out of the premises if they find out you are doing that. It is illegal to use devices to aid you in counting cards, however.
Unless privacy groups become more vocal and powerful than they currently are, it's unlikely that they will outlaw it. Forms of protests will be met with the age old "if you have nothing to hide..." argument, and before long, the terrorists issue will be brought into the discussion and so forth. And eventually, the technology will cross the ocean to the US and then we will see so pretty nifty flamewars in slashdot.
I've run into this issue with AOL before.
Your ISP has to contact AOL and let them know your ip/subnet is no longer part of a dynamic netblock. AOL postmaster helpdesk is quite useful and understanding (at least they were when I contacted them). Other RBL for dynamic IP addresses will also remove you from their blocks provided you have a valid PTR for your IP and the netblock is assigned properly in ARIN or the registrar of your region.
PTR have a few gotchas. I've run into provider that filter dynamic ips by doing pattern matching againts PTR, so if you have, for example, "mail.madslocation.net" you might get blocked by somebody filtering "*adsl*".
Hope this helps.
a) secure from **AA (as long as you don't let them into your peer-group)
How did they get into DC++ hubs? A lot of them are private, yet for p2p apps to really work (for activities that are frowned upon by the *AA's) you need to appeal a large group of people (if I'm only interested in sharing with a small group of people, I can always set an ftp server) so infiltration will always be relatively easy.
The only way you are truly going to be secure, is by masking the origin IP, like FreeNet does, and then you are going to run into the same problems freenet has: too few peers/poor performance (chicken and egg problem).
I pre-ordered mine from Buy.com and it's no longer available. My order went from "sent to warehouse" to "on order".
No notification was sent (that I know of).
Great, now my withdrawal symptoms will get worse.
Great, now I have to against my slashdotter instincts and go check TFA.
Whoohoo! Now I can pass the time until my copy of World of Warcraft arrives. (Open beta ended yesterday).
I thought you were going to say "as a camp counselor I used knoppix to save a childs life when they where drowning; it makes a great rescue cd!"
I tought he was going to say that he saved a child from being skewered by Jason Voorhees.
Actually, celibacy can also mean "The unmarried state of life". See more here
I don't know anyone who ordered SuSE Pro 9.2 either (thanks to torrents)
But will you be able to use normal update channels?
I can get Redhat Enterprise via torrent or just plain FTP, but if I'm not going to be able to "up2date" or "yum" it, then I have no use for it.
the characters in the comic don't look like you guys?
We should save that question for when Slashdot interviews the Megatokyo guys.
Do X-Box games run in user space or as the kernel?
I believe I read somewhere that xbox games execute in priviledged mode to gain performance, and since security is not really an issue when every game has to be digitally signed and will not run concurrently with anything else, it makes sense.
Why is anybody surprised? Microsoft has said from day one that modified xboxes were not going to be allowed to connect to xbl.
Man... You'd better not consider relocating to DC.
/clueless tourist
Uh? You mean those smelly-yet-picturesque folks sleeping in bus stops? I was told those were secret service agents in disguise.
I've been using Directnic.com for a while now (couple of years) and never had any trouble. I even use their directdns service for one of my domains.
I don't think they have domain locking, tho.
Lucky for everyone else, a BSD license will make it easy to implement in every other router box and make it cheap. Or so I hope.
I think he was also involved in the World of Ultima games (Savage Empires and Martian Dreams), which were offshoots of Ultima VI.
Or at least, he was a character in both games, and not exactly a cameo part. He was the avatar's sidekick in Martian Dreams (a great game) and I think he was a villain in Savage Empire (didn't play it).
Great, now I'm nostalgic...
"God Bless America, and America only!"
There is a similar quote in Head of State where the person running against Chris Rock for president used to say: "God bless America. And no place else"
The new LSL Magna Cum Laude is horrible however
I'll say. You go from one boring mini-game to another mini-game and back to the first mini-game... Like playing a boring "Strip Simon Says".
Getting caught by the SEC means JAIL TIME for rich white men.
But the thing is... you have to get caught by SEC. I always wondered about this one:
SEC: How did you know about the merger?
Me: An angel came to me in a dream and told me to buy MergingCo, so I did.
SEC: That sounds awfully convenient...
Me: Can you prove any wrongdoing?
SEC: Why, yes. You just confessed. You and the angel will go to jail for insider trading.
IANAL.
I just switched to Ubuntu and found out I couldn't "su" into root even tho I could access all the config tools by using my password as the root password.
In the end, I opened a root console and did "passwd root" and re-entered my own password. Now I can su normally. I still don't know why.
I always tell friends : buy a mac, and with the money saved by not paying the MS tax, buy yourself a 199$ PS2 for gaming
;-)
Whoa... "buy a mac" and "save money" are usually two conecpts that I don't see together...
But seriously, that is just what I'm trying to do. I've managed to "wean" myself from PC games (got me an Xbox and a GC) and as soon as I get confortably away from a couple of Windows only apps, I'll switch either to OSX or some flavor of Linux (I've got Ubuntu on my secondary desktop and its really sweet).
That's why a third party will never be viable..
You silly... Everybody knows a third party candidate wins whenever the Washington Generals beat the Globetrotters.
That's nothing. *My* father installed SP2 against my recommendation, and the next day a burglar broke into his house and stole most of the silverware!
Since installing firefox, nobody has broken into his house again.
With a single comma, you can get a much more apathetic motto:
"Vote or don't, bitch!"
Sadly, that's the attitude of a lot young ones today.
I've heard of cablemodem users whose IP's are assigned via DHCP and expire/change sometimes as often as every 30 minutes.
;-)
Actually, I've read about it here on Slashdot, so take it with a grain of salt.