Strangely enough, I'm kinda glad to see this project die. The air car I can see being ok for those with enough brains between their ears to effectively pilot one of these and not either kill themselves or six thousand other people. I think with the Solotrek there would have been WAY too many darwin award winners. The air car I believe will have a few less, but there will still be plenty of them. You have to consider one thing. By nature, a majority of the population survives on the cobwebs between their ears. Give them an effective enough tool and they will gladly kill themselves off.
This design is also very good, save for one thing. Even though I hate big government with a passion, I think for the safety of everyone this vehicle needs a separate licencing classification of its own. I don't think the FAA needs to handle licencing of these vehicles, but I definately think that some nationwide minimum standard, agreed to by all the states (leave the fed out of this as much as possible) needs to be in place before these are sold. Once that's in place, if each state wants to up the antie and bit and tighten down the rules in their respective state, then they're welcome to. But the key rule here is one thing. Protect the population from the droves of stupid people bent on self destruction that exists in their midst.
Well, since I'm the boss of the IS/IT department, except on days when we have certain customers coming through for a tour, our guys are perty casual in their dress within reason.:) Makes them work all that much harder because most of them would stagnate in a shirt and tie environment.
Why do that? That's exactly what the stupid script kiddies who are dos'ing you want! They're trying to forcefully shut down your server, so if you do it yourself, they won. The idea is to block them out, return fire and remain online. That's how you win against them.
Yes, but this would also stop most typical script kiddies. Those are the most malicious ones. Lack of maturity combined with lots of "god complex" tend to cause them to do far more damage than a typical hacker/ddos'er. So if you shut them down or reverse dos them, then they get a taste of their own medicine and you get to laugh while they're trying to figure out why their system just took a dive.:)
So, is this a recommended download, or a "required lest you get hacked" type download? Also, when's the posting time for the updates, I haven't seen any sign of it in the ports tree yet.
When are these guys going to learn. If they don't want their music stolen, they need to produce good quality that people will flock to the stores to buy. Not this cookiecutter garbage noise they're trying to pass off as music these days. What sucks even more is the really good music is being opressed.
Exactly. Bandwidth at a University, although seemingly endless, is a precious, limited resource. So anyone P2P'ing is hogging precious bandwidth others can use for porn...er, gaming...er, studying, yea, that's what I ment.:)
Man, I'm impressed. Someone there actually used their brains instead of their pocket books to think this time. Maybe after they review this they'll find out the truth. We all know what that is.:)
Played the demo already. Not very impressed with it. They've got a lot to work on still. I mean a LOT. Aiming sucks, the AI's are stupid as dirt, and the graphics are wishy washy. This demo was rushed out the door way too quickly. Lets just hope the final version is much better. No, a whole LOT better.
Who gives a darn about the tower. We're talking 1800 square feet of reinforced bunker here. Just like those missle silos they were selling a year or so back. Can't knock it. You could lock yourself in and nobody could get you out.:) If worse came to worse, I'd just knock the blasted tower down or sell it to someone who could come in and just haul it away. Geez, that alone would pay for the place.:) That little bugger would be cozy in the winter and cool in the summer too.
Dude, it's been busted for years. The last several presidents sure haven't helped things much. Of course then again, neither has the american people. If they want their freedom and privacy so bad, they sure don't act like it, because they certainly haven't given a **** about fighting for it.
Why ban FPS's during work? If they give you a gun and a badge and a bad guy comes walking in you will have a very real and very instantanious FPS.:)
Only problem with that is, you get fragged, you don't respawn.
I still remember the artical they had a while back that told about one MIT student who had a webpage setup that would tell him which stalls in the bathroom were available.
What will be next? Internet powered self feeding services?:)
Virtual reality? Eh, I don't know about that. But I'd sure be interested to know what that thing would have to say if someone who was wearing one of those gave you the finger.:)
Ouch, this is costing them more money? Good. About time they returned some of their ill gotten gains to the consumer.:) Plus I consider this a nice twist on their new EULA that they seem to want to force on all of their customers. Must be there thought is "Sure, we're not robbing them enough with our lousy software, let's just totally alienate them with our new MS aproved hacking rules.":D
I don't hate Microsoft. I just hate their ethics, or the extreme lack thereof.
Well this is easily negated with a firewall. If it is MS that has to initiate the connection, just simply block all but the nessisary inbound ports and their little EULA becomes moot. Add the extra security of monitoring, then blocking all MS initiated outbound ports and they haven't a databyte to stand on. Unless MS wants to hire hackers to enforce their DRM, they're kinda screwed. The only people they're gonna catch are the people dumb enough to get caught.
Re:Way to fast, way to perfect
on
More MS EULA Fun
·
· Score: 0, Flamebait
That man sounds just like one of the PR people from MS. That was produced way to conviniently fast to have been written by a member of slashdot. Plus it was written by anonymous coward, which is another good hint. No self respecting slashdotter would write that. Give it up MS. Your days as the evil empire are over. It's time to bring in Barney to take your place. There's nothing more evil than Barney the purple dinosaur.:)
Well as we've seen in the past, hollywood is more apt to whine and cry to get their way than they are to use their heads. They've been doing this since day one. What makes you think they'll change now? OH sure, they've had a few great strokes of genious, like the VHS, DVD, Digital projectors (thanks to Lucas) and much more. Then there are other times you wonder what they were thinking.
Slashdot Mirror
Strangely enough, I'm kinda glad to see this project die. The air car I can see being ok for those with enough brains between their ears to effectively pilot one of these and not either kill themselves or six thousand other people. I think with the Solotrek there would have been WAY too many darwin award winners. The air car I believe will have a few less, but there will still be plenty of them. You have to consider one thing. By nature, a majority of the population survives on the cobwebs between their ears. Give them an effective enough tool and they will gladly kill themselves off.
This design is also very good, save for one thing. Even though I hate big government with a passion, I think for the safety of everyone this vehicle needs a separate licencing classification of its own. I don't think the FAA needs to handle licencing of these vehicles, but I definately think that some nationwide minimum standard, agreed to by all the states (leave the fed out of this as much as possible) needs to be in place before these are sold. Once that's in place, if each state wants to up the antie and bit and tighten down the rules in their respective state, then they're welcome to. But the key rule here is one thing. Protect the population from the droves of stupid people bent on self destruction that exists in their midst.
Well, since I'm the boss of the IS/IT department, except on days when we have certain customers coming through for a tour, our guys are perty casual in their dress within reason. :) Makes them work all that much harder because most of them would stagnate in a shirt and tie environment.
Why do that? That's exactly what the stupid script kiddies who are dos'ing you want! They're trying to forcefully shut down your server, so if you do it yourself, they won. The idea is to block them out, return fire and remain online. That's how you win against them.
Yes, but this would also stop most typical script kiddies. Those are the most malicious ones. Lack of maturity combined with lots of "god complex" tend to cause them to do far more damage than a typical hacker/ddos'er. So if you shut them down or reverse dos them, then they get a taste of their own medicine and you get to laugh while they're trying to figure out why their system just took a dive. :)
An AA meeting for what? :) Certainly not alcohol.
YAY! NO more spam. Well, ok. Less spam anyways.
So, is this a recommended download, or a "required lest you get hacked" type download? Also, when's the posting time for the updates, I haven't seen any sign of it in the ports tree yet.
Darn, does this mean I'm going to have trouble getting my daily pr0n fix?
Makes you wonder what all of them where doing.
When are these guys going to learn. If they don't want their music stolen, they need to produce good quality that people will flock to the stores to buy. Not this cookiecutter garbage noise they're trying to pass off as music these days. What sucks even more is the really good music is being opressed.
Exactly. Bandwidth at a University, although seemingly endless, is a precious, limited resource. So anyone P2P'ing is hogging precious bandwidth others can use for porn...er, gaming...er, studying, yea, that's what I ment. :)
Man, I'm impressed. Someone there actually used their brains instead of their pocket books to think this time. Maybe after they review this they'll find out the truth. We all know what that is. :)
Played the demo already. Not very impressed with it. They've got a lot to work on still. I mean a LOT. Aiming sucks, the AI's are stupid as dirt, and the graphics are wishy washy. This demo was rushed out the door way too quickly. Lets just hope the final version is much better. No, a whole LOT better.
Who gives a darn about the tower. We're talking 1800 square feet of reinforced bunker here. Just like those missle silos they were selling a year or so back. Can't knock it. You could lock yourself in and nobody could get you out. :) If worse came to worse, I'd just knock the blasted tower down or sell it to someone who could come in and just haul it away. Geez, that alone would pay for the place. :) That little bugger would be cozy in the winter and cool in the summer too.
Dude, it's been busted for years. The last several presidents sure haven't helped things much. Of course then again, neither has the american people. If they want their freedom and privacy so bad, they sure don't act like it, because they certainly haven't given a **** about fighting for it.
Why ban FPS's during work? If they give you a gun and a badge and a bad guy comes walking in you will have a very real and very instantanious FPS. :)
Only problem with that is, you get fragged, you don't respawn.
Jiffy pop nothing! We're talking about the ultimate whoopie coshion here! :)
I still remember the artical they had a while back that told about one MIT student who had a webpage setup that would tell him which stalls in the bathroom were available. What will be next? Internet powered self feeding services? :)
Virtual reality? Eh, I don't know about that. But I'd sure be interested to know what that thing would have to say if someone who was wearing one of those gave you the finger. :)
Wow, $3 trillion? Where's my share! I want my $2mil cut of the winnings. :)
Ouch, this is costing them more money? Good. About time they returned some of their ill gotten gains to the consumer. :) Plus I consider this a nice twist on their new EULA that they seem to want to force on all of their customers. Must be there thought is "Sure, we're not robbing them enough with our lousy software, let's just totally alienate them with our new MS aproved hacking rules." :D
I don't hate Microsoft. I just hate their ethics, or the extreme lack thereof.
Well this is easily negated with a firewall. If it is MS that has to initiate the connection, just simply block all but the nessisary inbound ports and their little EULA becomes moot. Add the extra security of monitoring, then blocking all MS initiated outbound ports and they haven't a databyte to stand on. Unless MS wants to hire hackers to enforce their DRM, they're kinda screwed. The only people they're gonna catch are the people dumb enough to get caught.
That man sounds just like one of the PR people from MS. That was produced way to conviniently fast to have been written by a member of slashdot. Plus it was written by anonymous coward, which is another good hint. No self respecting slashdotter would write that. Give it up MS. Your days as the evil empire are over. It's time to bring in Barney to take your place. There's nothing more evil than Barney the purple dinosaur. :)
Who said anything about dolphins? I see this as being a new way for the navy to sink stuff. Well that and spy on their enemy.
Well as we've seen in the past, hollywood is more apt to whine and cry to get their way than they are to use their heads. They've been doing this since day one. What makes you think they'll change now? OH sure, they've had a few great strokes of genious, like the VHS, DVD, Digital projectors (thanks to Lucas) and much more. Then there are other times you wonder what they were thinking.