I believe this is being "fixed" by allowing each side to unpause the game, no matter who paused. Of course, this could be taken advantage of if you want a legitimate pause and your opponent unpauses while you're on the crapper.
As others have already mentioned, it's easy to sniff the packets going to/from your console with a PC. From there you can create "radar", maps, translators, etc. Basically any information that's sent and received, whether or not your actual console displays them on screen, can be accessed and even possibly altered. Some companies use some form of encryption to make this more difficult, but since it's at the cost of network performance, it's usually not very sophisticated.
I recently started playing PS2 Online, and was psyched to finally start playing Madden 2003 against other players on the 'net, earning points to my profile, etc. I figured, "how can someone possibly cheat with this game anyway?" In my first game, as the final seconds ticked down, I saw myself as being the victor as my opponent -- who was ranked very highly in the game -- tried to kick a 50+ yard field goal. As the ball soared well short of the goalposts and the whistle blew, I thought for sure I was getting my first win online, and against a high-ranked player no less. Then, suddenly, "CONNECTION TERMINATED". At first I thought it was bad luck, until I experienced this a few more times and learned that cheaters were hitting their console reset button if they were going to lose a game, thereby not having their scores reported. That soured my taste for ranked online console gaming right there.
Not as good, but still damn funny was One Crazy Summer. If you're a fan of Better Off Dead, see this movie. I worked in a video store one summer where we could play whatever we wanted on the in-store TV's while we worked, so long as they were PG or PG-13. I think I saw both these movies, along with Summer School about 150 times.
This movie was recommended to me, and though I was a bit hesitant at first by the title, I was blown away.
The basic premise is that a rare violin is on the auction block. As we are shown certain people bidding on the violin, the story takes us in the past to where the violin was significant to their heritage and why they wanted it so badly. I was particilarly pleased to see them use the actual languages of the times (with subtitles) and not a woman with a Chinese accent, for example.
Nice add. I thought the cinematography in this movie should have been up for an Oscar (I didn't check -- maybe it was?). Those scenes with DaFoe's character reenacting the firefights -- brilliant.
Thanks for mentioning this one -- I added it to my list that I'm posting here.
The depth of the characters in this movie blew me away, each with their own set of quirks and manerisms. I've often hoped that someone would write novels based on the gang in Sneakers, but alas I don't think it will ever be.
Exactly. The way I see it, CPU manufacturers should want people to try to overclock their processors! Overclocking means the CPU runs more risk of failing, which means another CPU will be bought to replace it. Overclocking is all at the end-users' risk anyhow! Just because a person can overclock a CPU doesn't mean he's not going to go out and get the next fastest processor when it comes out and overclock that.
The only good thing Intel could announce about this technology is that they're trying to protect the consumers from frying their CPU's while doing something they may not have the expertise to do.
In a previous article, there was talk about the possibility of hackers placing small Dreamcasts on corporate networks for packet sniffing and whatnot. If they can make a webserver as small as an RJ45 connector, what's stopping someone from making one that can spy on the network?
If somehow someone puts one of those in your network closet (or heck, anywhere on the network), good luck finding it -- it's a connector for godsakes!
Let's say the revisit to those good signals comes up with something that's pretty definitive (yeah, yeah, insert Contact reference here)....what next? Let's assume that we get a signal that is determinted to contain what seems like a cryptic language of sorts. So the SETI team sets out to find masters in cryptography and linguistics to translate the message. First of all, would the SETI team announce that finding? Would we all get to hear the signal, assuming they translate it into audible form?
Now let's assume SETI breaks the news -- they've found a difinitive signal and have proven it to originate well out of our solar system. Now the cryptographers and linguistics pro's are on the case. How long before the public cries foul and demands the transmission be released to the public so we can all take a crack at it (SETI@Home2?).
Now skip forward a bit and someone translates the message. What then? Do we all just sort-of say, "hey...cool" and carry on with what we're doing? I guess it would depend on what the message said. Let's say the SETI team translates the message, and the news it's transmitting ain't pretty -- would they tell the world?
So, pray tell me, what's the difference between a mechanic building their own IROC-Z and me copying MS-Windows?
The difference is this: When you build your own IROC-Z (*shiver*...please tell me someone wouldn't do this), you're doing the work of actually building the car. Now, if you actually went out of your way to look at some source code of MS Windows and program yourself your own replica of MS Windows, then you're making an accurate analogy.
Now, if you use that replica of MS Windows for your own personal use, I don't think anyone could lay a finger on you legally. But if you went ahead and sold it, you'd be looking for trouble. Same thing with the IROC -- if you turned around and tried to sell it as an IROC, you're probably be looking over your shoulder for the long arm of the law. Same goes for artwork -- if you'r caught trying to sell a known forgery of a legitimately known piece of art, you'd probably get mightly screwed.
How would you like it if you had to 'activate' your car every time you moved or made an upgrade to it?
Um, this kinds of logic just doesn't apply to software. Unless you live in the ST:TNG universe, you can't replicate your car so that more than one person can drive it at a time.
I remember playing this game multiplayer with friends, and it soon grew to be unfun when people figured out that you could easily "hide" under the cover of a tree (since it's a top-down game), and nail other players who barely had a chance to figure out where the gunfire was coming from.
It was fun for a while, then of course grew boring once you saw how feeble their attempts were at finding you.
Speaking of that solar powered calculator, I have a couple of tiny solar-powered casio games that I got, I dunno, 20 years ago...? I believe one was called "Mummy's Maze"; they folded like a woman's compact and were very small. Probably the last time I played them was 18 years ago. Anyway, I was digging through junk in my folks' basement a couple of weeks ago, and there they were, beaten to hell but totally intact. I put the game up to the light for about 10 seconds, and it came back to life. I was blown away
...when I'd download these games from some of my favorite BBS's, using a 300-1200 baud modem, then just copy them to those 5 1/2" floppies. Taking a hole puncher to the other side of the floppy to use side two...ah, the memories. I must've had thousands of games back then, even the ones I'd never play.
What a time to try selling these things, right when the Northeast US has been hit by blizzard-like snows. Not so Segway-friendly, I imagine. Probably the #1 reason why I thought they were a bad idea in the first place.
I signed up for a.NAME domain, stupidly through Network Solutions, for a fairly high price. This was because other registries such as Go Daddy weren't registering domains under.NAME at the time (I hear they do now). I was being all hasty about things, and decided to nab my.NAME ASAP with NetSol.
The price NetSol charges, like with anything else, is outrageous, but that's not the worst of it. When I tried to have the domain transferred to Go Daddy (much, much cheaper), I found that I can't! In fact, what I believe happens is that once you apply for your.NAME domain (i.e., john.smith.name), NetSol takes ownership of "smith.name", and you're given the right to use the "john" subdomain -- it can't be transferred! (or, at least, they're not allowing it)
NetSol also makes you purchase email hosting with the domain, and tries to tack on some web hosting. Simply put, DO NOT go through NetSol for this service. (I can hear the collective, "Well DUH!" now)
This is why I'm letting my.NAME domain dry up and die, and will continue to handle my email the way I always have. There's no way in hell I'm paying NetSol's outrageous prices until I'm able to transfer to some other registry.
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I believe this is being "fixed" by allowing each side to unpause the game, no matter who paused. Of course, this could be taken advantage of if you want a legitimate pause and your opponent unpauses while you're on the crapper.
I recently started playing PS2 Online, and was psyched to finally start playing Madden 2003 against other players on the 'net, earning points to my profile, etc. I figured, "how can someone possibly cheat with this game anyway?" In my first game, as the final seconds ticked down, I saw myself as being the victor as my opponent -- who was ranked very highly in the game -- tried to kick a 50+ yard field goal. As the ball soared well short of the goalposts and the whistle blew, I thought for sure I was getting my first win online, and against a high-ranked player no less. Then, suddenly, "CONNECTION TERMINATED". At first I thought it was bad luck, until I experienced this a few more times and learned that cheaters were hitting their console reset button if they were going to lose a game, thereby not having their scores reported. That soured my taste for ranked online console gaming right there.
And yeah, I was born in '71 :)
The basic premise is that a rare violin is on the auction block. As we are shown certain people bidding on the violin, the story takes us in the past to where the violin was significant to their heritage and why they wanted it so badly. I was particilarly pleased to see them use the actual languages of the times (with subtitles) and not a woman with a Chinese accent, for example.
Nice add. I thought the cinematography in this movie should have been up for an Oscar (I didn't check -- maybe it was?). Those scenes with DaFoe's character reenacting the firefights -- brilliant.
The depth of the characters in this movie blew me away, each with their own set of quirks and manerisms. I've often hoped that someone would write novels based on the gang in Sneakers, but alas I don't think it will ever be.
The only good thing Intel could announce about this technology is that they're trying to protect the consumers from frying their CPU's while doing something they may not have the expertise to do.
Just curious -- how long does it usually take before they create the RPM's for each release? They don't seem to be available for 1.3 yet.
If somehow someone puts one of those in your network closet (or heck, anywhere on the network), good luck finding it -- it's a connector for godsakes!
...that the person sending their log of sites visited gives a rat's ass if people know he's looking at porn.
Now let's assume SETI breaks the news -- they've found a difinitive signal and have proven it to originate well out of our solar system. Now the cryptographers and linguistics pro's are on the case. How long before the public cries foul and demands the transmission be released to the public so we can all take a crack at it (SETI@Home2?).
Now skip forward a bit and someone translates the message. What then? Do we all just sort-of say, "hey...cool" and carry on with what we're doing? I guess it would depend on what the message said. Let's say the SETI team translates the message, and the news it's transmitting ain't pretty -- would they tell the world?
The difference is this: When you build your own IROC-Z (*shiver*...please tell me someone wouldn't do this), you're doing the work of actually building the car. Now, if you actually went out of your way to look at some source code of MS Windows and program yourself your own replica of MS Windows, then you're making an accurate analogy.
Now, if you use that replica of MS Windows for your own personal use, I don't think anyone could lay a finger on you legally. But if you went ahead and sold it, you'd be looking for trouble. Same thing with the IROC -- if you turned around and tried to sell it as an IROC, you're probably be looking over your shoulder for the long arm of the law. Same goes for artwork -- if you'r caught trying to sell a known forgery of a legitimately known piece of art, you'd probably get mightly screwed.
Um, this kinds of logic just doesn't apply to software. Unless you live in the ST:TNG universe, you can't replicate your car so that more than one person can drive it at a time.
It was fun for a while, then of course grew boring once you saw how feeble their attempts were at finding you.
...why?!
Speaking of that solar powered calculator, I have a couple of tiny solar-powered casio games that I got, I dunno, 20 years ago...? I believe one was called "Mummy's Maze"; they folded like a woman's compact and were very small. Probably the last time I played them was 18 years ago. Anyway, I was digging through junk in my folks' basement a couple of weeks ago, and there they were, beaten to hell but totally intact. I put the game up to the light for about 10 seconds, and it came back to life. I was blown away
...when I'd download these games from some of my favorite BBS's, using a 300-1200 baud modem, then just copy them to those 5 1/2" floppies. Taking a hole puncher to the other side of the floppy to use side two...ah, the memories. I must've had thousands of games back then, even the ones I'd never play.
I always lemented that there wasn't a -u option
Hmm...
# fsck /dev/hda0
/dev/hda0 is mounted.
Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.
(AH! I notice you specified the '-u' option. Proceeding anyway...)
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
The difference being that the jocks were typically being assholes for the sake of being assholes. The geeks are do it for revenge.
(Modified my original post)
"Hey, who gives a crap what your life is like now, how f'ing cool is this going to be when you're 31?!"
What a time to try selling these things, right when the Northeast US has been hit by blizzard-like snows. Not so Segway-friendly, I imagine. Probably the #1 reason why I thought they were a bad idea in the first place.
They're trying to nab one more "customer" by having the person in the "Reply-To" click the link in the message that's supposedly sent from them.
The price NetSol charges, like with anything else, is outrageous, but that's not the worst of it. When I tried to have the domain transferred to Go Daddy (much, much cheaper), I found that I can't! In fact, what I believe happens is that once you apply for your .NAME domain (i.e., john.smith.name), NetSol takes ownership of "smith.name", and you're given the right to use the "john" subdomain -- it can't be transferred! (or, at least, they're not allowing it)
NetSol also makes you purchase email hosting with the domain, and tries to tack on some web hosting. Simply put, DO NOT go through NetSol for this service. (I can hear the collective, "Well DUH!" now)
This is why I'm letting my .NAME domain dry up and die, and will continue to handle my email the way I always have. There's no way in hell I'm paying NetSol's outrageous prices until I'm able to transfer to some other registry.