You may never have owned a gun in your life, but someone can sure as hell shoot you with one. Windows has the ability to read and hence be exploited by WMF files regardless of whether you use them or not.
These days, if my VCR broke, I'd never get it repaired which I might have a few years ago. I'd just go out and buy a new one (That is, until I get around to building a PVR).
How long until the average Joe gets a virus and chucks his (Hopefully uninfected) data on a USB memory stick and grabs a new Dell? Getting the virus removed could very well be harder to learn to do or more expensive to get someone else to do than just grabbing a new PC. If Windows pushed the ability to transfer data between computers easily, a PC could easily become a disposable item for the general public.
Then we could get a hold of the turfed out computers, fix them up and use them. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things... (Sorry)
Nowhere in TFA or the ninjahacker page (Even though I only skimmed it) are cheat codes mentioned. The article says "hacking into popular games... to change their codes" which doesn't have ANYTHING to do with cheating, sounds more like cracking/reverse engineering. You guys are exactly right in saying using the DMCA against cheat codes is ridiculous - hence why this has nothing to do with it.
As most people have said, one of the big problems with Austrlian broadband is its availability (Or much lack thereof). Without getting into the headaches outback people must have, I live in a suburb just outside of Brisbane and can't get cable OR ADSL - I'm stuck on 128k up/down ISDN (Only 64k when the phone is being used).
Before we moved about 6 months ago we were on the several megabit cable, when we called Optus (Our ISP at the time) they told us that we couldn't get cable at our new place (Underground power lines and the companies are too lazy to put the cable tv/internet underground) but we could get ADSL.
After we moved we put in an order for ADSL, then a few days later got a call telling us that they didn't realise our estate was on pair gain and couldn't get ADSL either - oops. Note that this is AFTER we moved - so we switched to Telstra and now have the aforementioned ISDN connection. It makes me sad.
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But 'sex' doesn't rhyme with 'ten'.
You may never have owned a gun in your life, but someone can sure as hell shoot you with one. Windows has the ability to read and hence be exploited by WMF files regardless of whether you use them or not.
These days, if my VCR broke, I'd never get it repaired which I might have a few years ago. I'd just go out and buy a new one (That is, until I get around to building a PVR).
How long until the average Joe gets a virus and chucks his (Hopefully uninfected) data on a USB memory stick and grabs a new Dell? Getting the virus removed could very well be harder to learn to do or more expensive to get someone else to do than just grabbing a new PC. If Windows pushed the ability to transfer data between computers easily, a PC could easily become a disposable item for the general public.
Then we could get a hold of the turfed out computers, fix them up and use them. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things... (Sorry)
Nowhere in TFA or the ninjahacker page (Even though I only skimmed it) are cheat codes mentioned. The article says "hacking into popular games... to change their codes" which doesn't have ANYTHING to do with cheating, sounds more like cracking/reverse engineering. You guys are exactly right in saying using the DMCA against cheat codes is ridiculous - hence why this has nothing to do with it.
If Microsoft was headquartered in Canada, the world would... Uhh... Well, it'd still suck.
As most people have said, one of the big problems with Austrlian broadband is its availability (Or much lack thereof). Without getting into the headaches outback people must have, I live in a suburb just outside of Brisbane and can't get cable OR ADSL - I'm stuck on 128k up/down ISDN (Only 64k when the phone is being used).
Before we moved about 6 months ago we were on the several megabit cable, when we called Optus (Our ISP at the time) they told us that we couldn't get cable at our new place (Underground power lines and the companies are too lazy to put the cable tv/internet underground) but we could get ADSL.
After we moved we put in an order for ADSL, then a few days later got a call telling us that they didn't realise our estate was on pair gain and couldn't get ADSL either - oops. Note that this is AFTER we moved - so we switched to Telstra and now have the aforementioned ISDN connection. It makes me sad.
Acknowledging a first post is almost as bad as first posting in itself
"They don't want people to hate them anymore"
Remember, it's down the road, not across the street. Make it count.
If you stand by your decision then come out of ac - or are you just trolling knowing that you'll get modded down?