Then your covered. I was pretty supicious when I tried the beta (MS) but it did do a decent job. I'll keep my toolset varied though, its an arms race and every product slips up at some point.
With the Counter Strike Source elements I'd say eye-candy is definitely overlooked. I never played Counter Strike, but the models, sound sequences, textures and sprites used in the updated Source version are amazing.
Especially if you compare them to the HL2SDK (read: HL2DM) stuff.
If by 'bright areas' they mean Quake 4 is taking a hint from the terrible failure of the dark, corridor crawlers I think thats a good thing. Maybe Tribes 2 spoiled me with the wide open areas but getting stuck in a underground garage to 'fight' is really getting old.
At least the MP which is all I bother to play anymore. You get a team together, set up a Ventrillo server and you can have a pretty good time (and still manage to have a wife and family unlike the Evercrack games).
No, actually it was a legitimate fix and wasn't related to the memory leak issues related elsewhere:
I was able to fix it with an entry in about:config called browser.cache.memory.capacity
The memory issue he was bringing up wouldn't apply to normal usage so I wouldn't consider it a code-side issue and his fix was simple and direct.
As for the other poster, no we don't have to be C++ programmers. Just willing to help, which obviously your not. Thats the other great thing about OSS, your not required to do jack-shit. So relax and just sit there.
Did you report it along with your fix? Because not everyone uses the image looper quite that much and this could slip through the cracks without someone pointing it out.
I'm sure they'd like to have as much working flawlessly as possible, so they'd probably really appreciate this kind of feedback. I'll assume you did report it (or at least verify someone else already had) and leave it at "this is the beauty of OSS" even the users have their part in the process (is IE displaying PNG's or CSS properly yet?).
And I was personally had hoped Lucas and Spielberg knew the significance of that (and maybe artistically and personally had been doing some of the same).
Lucas himself claims in latest Wired "to have a stack of ideas piling up on his desk for "highly abstract, esoteric" films even more daring than his 1971 debut, THX 1138".
Revisiting a classic set of movies a few decades after the original should have been a opportunity to showcase their sophistication and growth, but they turned out more fizzle then a bang. I guess success can be creative failure.
I'll be curious to see if Lucas can climb out from under the machine he's built and make the kinds of films he claims to have intended to. Spielberg I have no hope for.
Just like all those DVD players were 100% region protected.
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Well, from reading the front page of the site:
Why hold the Hack IIS 6.0 Challenge?
1. Most security breaches are caused by not following basic security guidelines and best practices. We want to put IIS 6.0 to the test to see if it is highly secure when you implement it correctly.
2. Because it's a fun way to engage with you, our audience!
3. It's a chance to share knowledge and demonstrate how to protect your system against hack attempts. Coming in our July issue, we'll publish an article "How to Set Up a Hackproof IIS" featuring Roger Grimes' recap of the contest, and sharing the secrets of how he created an impenetrable IIS environment.
I'm guessing since our good buddy Mr. Grimes' is planning on a 'recap' and 'sharing the secrets of how he created an impenetrable IIS' your answer is a resounding NO.
its called advertising. A lot of sites seem to be able to support themselves using it (erm...Slashdot?). Then if they don't want the ads (erm..) they can pay.
1) Alienate your user base
2) Charge said alienated user base for the privilege of participating.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Of course with an organized (technical) and disefranchised user base it takes...how much work to put together a new website? $100 for a decent server with enough bandwidth to get you started?
Thats the thing I love about the web, the speed at which you can accompish things is astounding. Nothing is irreplacable.
I was more expressing my shock after reading the dozens of totally uninformed posts. Yours (even with the typo) was on the mark. Sometimes I just don't get Slashdot.
Then we are essentially in agreement. I couldn't argue that large-scale corporate crime isn't a serious issue.
I simply believe (pretty much as you said) a rapist is compelled to cross a line that breaches some very clear rules in society. A child rapist doubly (if that distinction can even tactfully be made). GPS tracking is humane compared to what the family or even community of a victim would like to do.
As for corporate criminals its a much more thorny issue because politician, bankers, big business commits it all the time. That certainly doesn't make it right...but this is what we've got to work with.
I don't know that the idea of tracking child molesters is technically feasable or if it will have any usefull impact (tracking known child molesters in the area after the fact?), but I'm certainly willing to find out.
Watch your daughter recover from a sexual abuse situation, or try to recover from the abuse and her consequent murder. Then tell me which you'd rather happen? You lose all your money or watch the happy healthy life of someone you love slide through the cracks.
I don't totally disagree with you, but the are different kinds of damage and *both* should be punished. Without a doubt. But accordingly. This law (might) suit the targeted crime, but that doesn't mean that we need to 'make the playing ground' fair for pedophiles by requiring everyone to be tracked.
It goes without saying that people with influence are unfairly coddled, but thats a separate issue in my mind. Its certainly no argument for the equitable treatment of child molesters.
Read it. I'll do your research it looks like a revision of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration program requiring offenders when repeatedly fail to register as such to submit to electronic monitoring.
The original article suggests that there are more stipulation, namely the 11 years or younger and other more vaguely suggested (for people convicted of certain sex crimes).
If you'd like to debate further your going to have to do your own research. I'm mainly shocked that the majority of people responding didn't take the time to read a 485 word article and instead chose to make heated arguments directly responding to timothy's poorly worked synopsis.
Maybe, but you'll have to follow the facts more closely. This sounds like a trial that could catch a lot of attention. Jeb being who he is aside, the whole debate is going to be new.
Standardizing would certainly be a good thing and if this does catch on it might happen at a federal level (which would probably be the best place for it).
And as far as worrying about what the age of the rape victim is, I hesitate to take that in to too serious concern. I'd be more worried about the parameters used to define (ie statutory vs. forcible vs. exposure, etc) the offense. There would certainly need to be some hard and fast rules, because there is an obvious and very big slippery slope.
But in my opinion rapists, as in violent, forced rape, don't have a lot of my sympathy. They take a lot away from their victims, their victims families and their victims current and future lovers. Their is a high price on both sides.
*Your* wife, or daughter or mother or best friend gets raped you'll want to cut the mans balls off yourself. GPS is a walk in the park compared to what a lot of victim and their relations would like to have happen. Who's 9 year old daughter needs to be found in the woods with the throat slit and clear signs of sexual abuse before you get angry? In some ways this law is a measure appoach to a social problem we don't have a solution to. Of course in politics nothing is ever as simple as it seems, I'll watch and we'll see what happens. I don't suspect the technology is seriously there, but its early.
Its like no-one actually bothered reading the article. Your points stand, but this is ridiculous how many posters are talking about things totally unrelated to the article.
But the article isn't about sex offenders. Its about child molesters, in fact its about "people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger".
There could be all sorts of problems with a system like this. Even purely technical. But every comment I see seems to be hung up on the Slashdotified synopsis and your user number is way to low for me to believe you don't know better then to go by what a Slashdot editor can distill a story to (rubbish in most cases).
Read the article and come back with a comment based on it, not timothy's ridiculously misworded short on it.
Because the article clearly states that the law applies "people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger".
I know that shiny submit button is so appealing but do yourself a favor and read first. Its a short article and there are plenty of good questions, but your not even in the right time-zone.
Its about child molesters. Slippery slope arguments can certainly be made either way but formulating a highly moderated argument against something when even your own subject line makes it clear you didn't get past the (typically) poorly written synopsis is plain sad.
The article itself is short, take the 3 minutes to read it then open a real discussion.
It establishes a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life behind bars for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger, with lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite after they are freed.
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Then your covered. I was pretty supicious when I tried the beta (MS) but it did do a decent job. I'll keep my toolset varied though, its an arms race and every product slips up at some point.
BHODemon should let you peak at your browser help objects and remove those that don't belong.
With the Counter Strike Source elements I'd say eye-candy is definitely overlooked. I never played Counter Strike, but the models, sound sequences, textures and sprites used in the updated Source version are amazing.
Especially if you compare them to the HL2SDK (read: HL2DM) stuff.
If by 'bright areas' they mean Quake 4 is taking a hint from the terrible failure of the dark, corridor crawlers I think thats a good thing. Maybe Tribes 2 spoiled me with the wide open areas but getting stuck in a underground garage to 'fight' is really getting old.
At least the MP which is all I bother to play anymore. You get a team together, set up a Ventrillo server and you can have a pretty good time (and still manage to have a wife and family unlike the Evercrack games).
As for the other poster, no we don't have to be C++ programmers. Just willing to help, which obviously your not. Thats the other great thing about OSS, your not required to do jack-shit. So relax and just sit there.
For what its worth we (your Linux overlords) have the same trouble and I ended up running the 32 bit version on the 64 bit platform.
Meh.
Did you report it along with your fix? Because not everyone uses the image looper quite that much and this could slip through the cracks without someone pointing it out.
I'm sure they'd like to have as much working flawlessly as possible, so they'd probably really appreciate this kind of feedback. I'll assume you did report it (or at least verify someone else already had) and leave it at "this is the beauty of OSS" even the users have their part in the process (is IE displaying PNG's or CSS properly yet?).
Thats all there really is to say. Skewed, yes.
*Is* there such a thing as watching too much 24?
And I was personally had hoped Lucas and Spielberg knew the significance of that (and maybe artistically and personally had been doing some of the same).
Lucas himself claims in latest Wired "to have a stack of ideas piling up on his desk for "highly abstract, esoteric" films even more daring than his 1971 debut, THX 1138".
Revisiting a classic set of movies a few decades after the original should have been a opportunity to showcase their sophistication and growth, but they turned out more fizzle then a bang. I guess success can be creative failure.
I'll be curious to see if Lucas can climb out from under the machine he's built and make the kinds of films he claims to have intended to. Spielberg I have no hope for.
Just like all those DVD players were 100% region protected.
Imagine how she'd have felt if instead she found your raped and discarded body.
I'm willing to bet your mother recovered from the finacial loss a lot more quickly then she would have from that.
its called advertising. A lot of sites seem to be able to support themselves using it (erm...Slashdot?). Then if they don't want the ads (erm..) they can pay.
But its a funny story.
This idea is brilliant.
1) Alienate your user base
2) Charge said alienated user base for the privilege of participating.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Of course with an organized (technical) and disefranchised user base it takes...how much work to put together a new website? $100 for a decent server with enough bandwidth to get you started?
Thats the thing I love about the web, the speed at which you can accompish things is astounding. Nothing is irreplacable.
I was more expressing my shock after reading the dozens of totally uninformed posts. Yours (even with the typo) was on the mark. Sometimes I just don't get Slashdot.
Then we are essentially in agreement. I couldn't argue that large-scale corporate crime isn't a serious issue.
I simply believe (pretty much as you said) a rapist is compelled to cross a line that breaches some very clear rules in society. A child rapist doubly (if that distinction can even tactfully be made). GPS tracking is humane compared to what the family or even community of a victim would like to do.
As for corporate criminals its a much more thorny issue because politician, bankers, big business commits it all the time. That certainly doesn't make it right...but this is what we've got to work with.
I don't know that the idea of tracking child molesters is technically feasable or if it will have any usefull impact (tracking known child molesters in the area after the fact?), but I'm certainly willing to find out.
Watch your daughter recover from a sexual abuse situation, or try to recover from the abuse and her consequent murder. Then tell me which you'd rather happen? You lose all your money or watch the happy healthy life of someone you love slide through the cracks.
I don't totally disagree with you, but the are different kinds of damage and *both* should be punished. Without a doubt. But accordingly. This law (might) suit the targeted crime, but that doesn't mean that we need to 'make the playing ground' fair for pedophiles by requiring everyone to be tracked.
It goes without saying that people with influence are unfairly coddled, but thats a separate issue in my mind. Its certainly no argument for the equitable treatment of child molesters.
Read it. I'll do your research it looks like a revision of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration program requiring offenders when repeatedly fail to register as such to submit to electronic monitoring.
The original article suggests that there are more stipulation, namely the 11 years or younger and other more vaguely suggested (for people convicted of certain sex crimes).
If you'd like to debate further your going to have to do your own research. I'm mainly shocked that the majority of people responding didn't take the time to read a 485 word article and instead chose to make heated arguments directly responding to timothy's poorly worked synopsis.
Maybe, but you'll have to follow the facts more closely. This sounds like a trial that could catch a lot of attention. Jeb being who he is aside, the whole debate is going to be new.
Standardizing would certainly be a good thing and if this does catch on it might happen at a federal level (which would probably be the best place for it).
And as far as worrying about what the age of the rape victim is, I hesitate to take that in to too serious concern. I'd be more worried about the parameters used to define (ie statutory vs. forcible vs. exposure, etc) the offense. There would certainly need to be some hard and fast rules, because there is an obvious and very big slippery slope.
But in my opinion rapists, as in violent, forced rape, don't have a lot of my sympathy. They take a lot away from their victims, their victims families and their victims current and future lovers. Their is a high price on both sides.
*Your* wife, or daughter or mother or best friend gets raped you'll want to cut the mans balls off yourself. GPS is a walk in the park compared to what a lot of victim and their relations would like to have happen. Who's 9 year old daughter needs to be found in the woods with the throat slit and clear signs of sexual abuse before you get angry? In some ways this law is a measure appoach to a social problem we don't have a solution to. Of course in politics nothing is ever as simple as it seems, I'll watch and we'll see what happens. I don't suspect the technology is seriously there, but its early.
Its like no-one actually bothered reading the article. Your points stand, but this is ridiculous how many posters are talking about things totally unrelated to the article.
But the article isn't about sex offenders. Its about child molesters, in fact its about "people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger".
There could be all sorts of problems with a system like this. Even purely technical. But every comment I see seems to be hung up on the Slashdotified synopsis and your user number is way to low for me to believe you don't know better then to go by what a Slashdot editor can distill a story to (rubbish in most cases).
Read the article and come back with a comment based on it, not timothy's ridiculously misworded short on it.
Because the article clearly states that the law applies "people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger".
I know that shiny submit button is so appealing but do yourself a favor and read first. Its a short article and there are plenty of good questions, but your not even in the right time-zone.
Its not sex offenders the article is talking about, it applies to "people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger".
Now make your 'reasoning' work.
There are plenty of arguements for and against this law, but so many of you are so far off the market its absolutely amazing.
Its not even a long article.
The article itself is short, take the 3 minutes to read it then open a real discussion.