I personally feel laptops aren't good enough for serious gaming. Even though you connect a mouse, the keyboard still cannot match up to a regular size keyboard. There is the issue of heat and needing to be hooked up for max CPU freq and display brightness. Don't get me wrong - I love gaming laptops - they make great machines for development and running VMware images but in general I laugh at the idea of gaming laptops (upgrades? *smirk*).
Gaming netbook though in my opinion borders on ridiculous. The N10 has a 10.2" screen. Checking the AH in wow sure. Using counterstrike as an expensive chat client while you idle in the start zone? Sure. Playing Solitaire and Bejewelled? Sure. Serious gaming? F that.
SKU is a common acronym used by many in the software industry a lot of time without actually knowing what it stands for. Like RADAR. Like SKU. One need not be in retail to use that acronym.
Yep the MINI Cooper Diesel is rated at 72mpg and from the forum posts I've read gets between 56 and 60 mpg. Keep in mind that this Ford will get less than the factory rated 65mpg. Yes, astonishing for the US but not so for Europe. Europeans have far more options on the fuel efficient spectrum that Americans do.
Pretty sure I caught the most important part - "keyloggers". Sure he didn't profit from his little adventure but that doesn't make what did any right. He abused his privileges and there is the whole privacy question because of the passwords he stole.
How many passwords do you think an average college kid uses for the several accounts he or she has? (Facebook, credit card, bank, email, student services, slashdot account) - I am going to bet that it's usually going to be ONE.
Now because Mr. Vigilante decided to better the security system out of his good heart, it doesn't change the fact the has actively inconvenienced several people while doing it. Also tell me what's a best safeguard against physical access is?
Let me give you an idea: "We don't want students installing keyloggers so let's just take away all install privileges" GREAT IDEA! "Let's do it" and you will still find someone who out of the good nature of their heart will put in a trojan or a keylogger and then write a 600 page document. The ends don't justify the means here.
If you still don't get it, here's an analogy: I want to complain about my company's sprinkler system. I set fire to a bunch of stuff, make life miserable for an entire floor of people - smoke, heat and all. I also make the fire department show up when they could be doing something else somewhere where they are needed more. The sprinklers don't go off but hey I am cool, I am writing a 16 page document to explain I did it for the good of the company.
His intentions appear good but no way it makes what he did unforgivable. Unless he gets punished which is sad for him, that's going to set a dangerous precedent and we all know that's the excuse the authorities will use.
Read the parent post at all? He didn't say anything about being asked for money. I am sure his response for such a demand would be as you've stated for obvious and sane reasons.
It's not hypothetical hate as much as it is obvious / common sense not that I expect a 20 year old kid to have much of it - still the kid f'ed up and has to pay for it.
Not only did he break rules but he did it maliciously (no grey area here) when he used keyloggers. I can see what would happen if I did the same thing where I work - they'd fire me, throw my ass in a federal pound me in the ass prison and generally my life would be ruined
What we have here is a not a hacker, not a white hat or a black hat hacker. We have a script kiddie. Sadly most of the posters before you seem to have already started making a hero out of this "vigilante".
From the article: Det. Michel Villeneuve of the Ottawa Police high-tech crime unit said yesterday that a suspect used Keylogger software and magnetic stripe-card reader software to acquire students' information.
Using keylogger software is not White hat material sorry. You install a keylogger on a random machine and watch people come in and access their email / student accounts and then later go "me l33t haxor?"
Computing access in schools is a privilege and I see an abuse of privilege here by installing keyloggers. Sorry but physical access to machines means all security is out of the window. Sure the admins can install a variety of tools to detect keyloggers but there's always going to be one program that will escape detection.
Should I blame Soulskill? Such a verbose summary and no mention of keylogging software.
Microsoft now says that it will shut down developer Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) following the end of work on the company's upcoming RTS Halo Wars.
People use AoE as a generic term but there were several releases of which I loved AoE, AoE2: The Rise of Kings and Age of Mythology. AoM was one of the best selling RTSes for a good time (and so were the AoE* titles).
It's a shame that the staff is mostly being let go. Who's next? Bungie?
No possibility of a resonance cascade they said. Put the crystal thing into the spectrometer they said. The whole thing blew up my place of employment and I started Unforeseen Consequences with nothing but a crowbar for a while.
Moral: Keep your crowbars close and your guns closer and don't trust the scientists.
It's a pretty good game...
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Review: Spore
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· Score: 5, Interesting
But I have a major complaint - while you are exploring the deep stretches of the galaxy and traveling to unknown locations using blackholes, you get these fucking annoying alerts
"Please eradicate diseased stuff on Planet X" - I can totally keep doing that when I am near the planet but on the other side of the galaxy? Fuck you . You get penalized for ignoring those requests/quests.
Your homeworld gets attached by alien UFOs - I mean what's the point in having your homeworld surrounded by 50 allied alien races if they cannot come to your aid while you are on the other side of the galaxy?
Those gripes aside, the space age is pretty much as is the rest of the game.
We charge this 15% restocking fee for all returns for refund to encourage customers to purchase products they intend to keep. We offer RMA Replacement without any restocking fee to support customers who have received a defective product.
Insulting? More like them keeping their costs down so they can run their business better and provide a better service overall. Think much?
Better? Maybe. Different? Definitely.
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Google Turns 10
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· Score: 1
All I can think of is all those job search results, those infidelity results, all that porn, those movies, lyrics, wallpapers, did i mention porn, fedex-ups-usps-dhl tracking, spell checking, simple calculations, unit conversions, product comparisons, cracks, telling time, tracking flights, spying on your neighbors, caching ability and a lot more stuff has certainly been very convenient for me and a few million other people.
It doesn't matter if you graduated from one a good school or a mediocre school if that's history assuming you gained your experience after you got your Masters degree. If you got your Master's while / after those 4 years of experience, it's not really going to help you in getting a new job (except maybe in Canada where you get a better chance of immigrating but still won't help your job).
[Yes I have an MS and 5.5 years of experience and I can tell you companies don't care about my MS now]
The organisers hope that 'Formula Zero,' like Forumula 1, can become a forum for competing technology as much as anything else, helping green consumer cars to become better."
Can't sleep from jetlag and/. editors are my new favorite punching bag:o. (I heart you T, just not kdawson:o).
Even with the current state of things, griefers have a field day annoying the bloody fuck out of casual gamers and serious gamers alike. I can only imagine what will happen if 10000 casual gamers sign on and see all the collection and simple rescue quests are done and what remains is an epic battle requiring 300 players to complete (LFG 299 PST). This is going to be really hard (to balance enjoyment, leveling progress and eliminate griefing) if worlds are persistent.
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I personally feel laptops aren't good enough for serious gaming. Even though you connect a mouse, the keyboard still cannot match up to a regular size keyboard. There is the issue of heat and needing to be hooked up for max CPU freq and display brightness. Don't get me wrong - I love gaming laptops - they make great machines for development and running VMware images but in general I laugh at the idea of gaming laptops (upgrades? *smirk*).
Gaming netbook though in my opinion borders on ridiculous. The N10 has a 10.2" screen. Checking the AH in wow sure. Using counterstrike as an expensive chat client while you idle in the start zone? Sure. Playing Solitaire and Bejewelled? Sure. Serious gaming? F that.
In Soviet Russia, Data Center cool you.
The Russians can see your servers from their houses.
SKU is a common acronym used by many in the software industry a lot of time without actually knowing what it stands for. Like RADAR. Like SKU. One need not be in retail to use that acronym.
SKU you.
Yep the MINI Cooper Diesel is rated at 72mpg and from the forum posts I've read gets between 56 and 60 mpg. Keep in mind that this Ford will get less than the factory rated 65mpg. Yes, astonishing for the US but not so for Europe. Europeans have far more options on the fuel efficient spectrum that Americans do.
Pretty sure I caught the most important part - "keyloggers". Sure he didn't profit from his little adventure but that doesn't make what did any right. He abused his privileges and there is the whole privacy question because of the passwords he stole.
How many passwords do you think an average college kid uses for the several accounts he or she has? (Facebook, credit card, bank, email, student services, slashdot account) - I am going to bet that it's usually going to be ONE.
Now because Mr. Vigilante decided to better the security system out of his good heart, it doesn't change the fact the has actively inconvenienced several people while doing it. Also tell me what's a best safeguard against physical access is?
Let me give you an idea: "We don't want students installing keyloggers so let's just take away all install privileges" GREAT IDEA! "Let's do it" and you will still find someone who out of the good nature of their heart will put in a trojan or a keylogger and then write a 600 page document. The ends don't justify the means here.
If you still don't get it, here's an analogy: I want to complain about my company's sprinkler system. I set fire to a bunch of stuff, make life miserable for an entire floor of people - smoke, heat and all. I also make the fire department show up when they could be doing something else somewhere where they are needed more. The sprinklers don't go off but hey I am cool, I am writing a 16 page document to explain I did it for the good of the company.
His intentions appear good but no way it makes what he did unforgivable. Unless he gets punished which is sad for him, that's going to set a dangerous precedent and we all know that's the excuse the authorities will use.
Looks like they found a nice scapegoat given your new information. Poor guy will get nailed harder than he deserves.
Read the parent post at all? He didn't say anything about being asked for money. I am sure his response for such a demand would be as you've stated for obvious and sane reasons.
It's not hypothetical hate as much as it is obvious / common sense not that I expect a 20 year old kid to have much of it - still the kid f'ed up and has to pay for it.
Not only did he break rules but he did it maliciously (no grey area here) when he used keyloggers. I can see what would happen if I did the same thing where I work - they'd fire me, throw my ass in a federal pound me in the ass prison and generally my life would be ruined
What we have here is a not a hacker, not a white hat or a black hat hacker. We have a script kiddie. Sadly most of the posters before you seem to have already started making a hero out of this "vigilante".
From the article: Det. Michel Villeneuve of the Ottawa Police high-tech crime unit said yesterday that a suspect used Keylogger software and magnetic stripe-card reader software to acquire students' information.
Using keylogger software is not White hat material sorry. You install a keylogger on a random machine and watch people come in and access their email / student accounts and then later go "me l33t haxor?"
Computing access in schools is a privilege and I see an abuse of privilege here by installing keyloggers. Sorry but physical access to machines means all security is out of the window. Sure the admins can install a variety of tools to detect keyloggers but there's always going to be one program that will escape detection.
Should I blame Soulskill? Such a verbose summary and no mention of keylogging software.
And there goes my toilet bowl...I mean shit...I mean....
Microsoft now says that it will shut down developer Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) following the end of work on the company's upcoming RTS Halo Wars.
People use AoE as a generic term but there were several releases of which I loved AoE, AoE2: The Rise of Kings and Age of Mythology. AoM was one of the best selling RTSes for a good time (and so were the AoE* titles).
It's a shame that the staff is mostly being let go. Who's next? Bungie?
No possibility of a resonance cascade they said. Put the crystal thing into the spectrometer they said. The whole thing blew up my place of employment and I started Unforeseen Consequences with nothing but a crowbar for a while.
Moral: Keep your crowbars close and your guns closer and don't trust the scientists.
But I have a major complaint - while you are exploring the deep stretches of the galaxy and traveling to unknown locations using blackholes, you get these fucking annoying alerts
"Please eradicate diseased stuff on Planet X" - I can totally keep doing that when I am near the planet but on the other side of the galaxy? Fuck you . You get penalized for ignoring those requests/quests.
Your homeworld gets attached by alien UFOs - I mean what's the point in having your homeworld surrounded by 50 allied alien races if they cannot come to your aid while you are on the other side of the galaxy?
Those gripes aside, the space age is pretty much as is the rest of the game.
We charge this 15% restocking fee for all returns for refund to encourage customers to purchase products they intend to keep. We offer RMA Replacement without any restocking fee to support customers who have received a defective product.
Insulting? More like them keeping their costs down so they can run their business better and provide a better service overall. Think much?
I love you - you posted what i was going to post in a very concise manner. Soulskill == kdawson?
Slashdot isn't just for news - it's more for discussion but imho, this is a fucking stupid topic. Suck it up and pay the tax.
Google doesn't want you to say Google.
All I can think of is all those job search results, those infidelity results, all that porn, those movies, lyrics, wallpapers, did i mention porn, fedex-ups-usps-dhl tracking, spell checking, simple calculations, unit conversions, product comparisons, cracks, telling time, tracking flights, spying on your neighbors, caching ability and a lot more stuff has certainly been very convenient for me and a few million other people.
Your mileage may vary.
Chromium is open source. Chrome isn't.
That's actually mikerowesoft.com
It doesn't matter if you graduated from one a good school or a mediocre school if that's history assuming you gained your experience after you got your Masters degree. If you got your Master's while / after those 4 years of experience, it's not really going to help you in getting a new job (except maybe in Canada where you get a better chance of immigrating but still won't help your job).
[Yes I have an MS and 5.5 years of experience and I can tell you companies don't care about my MS now]
Lenovo offers laptops with Suse preinstalled (I wiped it and installed Ubuntu but I digress) that are actually cheaper than similar Windows offerings.
Dear Castro,
Bush sucks. Thanks for the cigars.
Hugs,
Hugo.
PS: No you can't have my Hummer.
The organisers hope that 'Formula Zero,' like Forumula 1, can become a forum for competing technology as much as anything else, helping green consumer cars to become better."
Can't sleep from jetlag and /. editors are my new favorite punching bag :o. (I heart you T, just not kdawson :o).
Even with the current state of things, griefers have a field day annoying the bloody fuck out of casual gamers and serious gamers alike. I can only imagine what will happen if 10000 casual gamers sign on and see all the collection and simple rescue quests are done and what remains is an epic battle requiring 300 players to complete (LFG 299 PST). This is going to be really hard (to balance enjoyment, leveling progress and eliminate griefing) if worlds are persistent.