Opera has indeed been around longer, and most of the ideas in FF such as tabs and mouse gestures, and wand, were done first in Opera.
It's why this vulnerability is so stupid, all the FF team had to do was copy the way Opera does it.
In order to use the password manager, you need to click on the wand, or hit ctrl & enter together.
The ctrl enter shortcut is a beautiful idea, because after recalling the password, it "clicks" the button that currently has focus, which is usually the "login" button, so most of the time it fetches the password and logs you in automatically after you hit that key combo.
Nice and simple, but nice and secure because there is no way to trick the user into doing it.
In my youth I argued about the relative merits of:
Atari VCS vs Philips Videopac
ZX81 vs Vic 20
Spectrum vs C64
ST vs Amiga
Part of the fun of being a kid is having the energy and enthusiasm to cheer lead the system you own, while dissing the system your best friend's parents bought him instead. It's fun, and just because it's now progressed onto the internet doesn't make it any less harmless then it's ever been.
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Weird how no US based P2P site has managed to use the safe harbour defence.
The first step, obviously, is learning to beat match.
Basically most music uses a factor of 4 in a bar. In order to beat match you have to start the new track at the start of a bar.
Remember bars have a multiple of 4, usually 16 or 32 beats. Learn to count beats. You can spot a bar change because something other than the beat will change.
So after 16 beats, vocals may come in, or after 32 beats you get some 303 sounds.
In order to beat match, you have to align tempo obviously, but you also have to match the start of bars. It doesn't matter that the record you're bringing in is 16 beats to the bar, and the record you are currently playing is 24 beats, as long as you start the new record at the start of a bar, at the point that a new bar begins in the current record.
Not syncing bars is a rookie mistake
No amount of hardware will help you if you don't understand the basics of beat matching on vinyl. Beat matching is a 2 stage process, and a lot of amateurs don't understand why you need to count beats as well as measure the tempo of beats.
This has, actually, nothing at all to do with Chinese farmers except for the fact that the majority of sweatshop farmers are from China. Apologies to the writer if he doesn't want to admit it, but it's the truth. Thus, the birth of the Chinese farmer.
I'd like to make a couple of points - and I'm not singling you out for this, your post struck my eye but there are plenty of others saying the same thing.
I'm curious, is there any proof of this "fact"?
We know farmers exist, we know they earn cents per hour because gold prices aren't that high. We know they don't talk much other than spamming "WTS.....", so they may be non English speakers but how do you know the majority are Chinese?
How do you know they aren't Mexicans working in an Arizona sweatshop for example? Or a bunch of school kids earning after school allowance money? Or SE Asian net cafe owners? How do you know the farmers aren't US coded bots?
I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just interested where the "fact" that gold farmers are chinese comes from.
My second point is to question what does their nationality have to do with anything? If you don't like gold farmers then say you don't like gold farmers. Saying "I don't like Chinese gold farmers" is superfluous unless you're trying to make a point about the Chinese.
If you have a problem with gang bangers then you say "I don't like gang bangers", if you say "I don't like black gang bangers" then the sentence takes on an entirely new meaning.
The constant use of chinese gold farmer, rather than gold farmer, is a form of racism whether players are doing it subconciously or not. It isn't the people crying racism that are "pulling the race card", it's the people who are unecessarily bringing race and nationality into it in the first place.
Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but I agree.
I want to play a MMORPG with my wife, and that means someone needs to offer a game with interesting combat for me, and a complex crafting system for my wife - one where she can get ingredients by exploring the massive world without needing to kill mobs in the process.
WoW was great fun for me until I quit at 60, 3-5 hour raids are not my idea of a good time, and the crafting in WoW stinks which means my wife never became interested in playing with me.
There is a huge mature market out there for a MMORPG that appeals to both men and women. Basically WoW with a better more open end game and a more complex and more player valuable crafting system, perhaps even with a crafting class, that can explore but is immune to mob attacks.
"Scanning 'remotely' (over the network or by booting a trusted OS) can be more secure, but not for the reason you cite."
The reason I cite is that by using a trusted Kernel, either via a trusted machine, or read only OS, you can be reasonably sure you are getting the real picture from the filesystem.
Stating I'm wrong for claiming this without explaining why and backing up your statement, was a pretty pointless waste of a post don't you think?
You can't hook into the filesystem and hide. If you do, you run the risk of being overwritten. The filesystem HAS to know what is on the disk and where.
All you can do is trick everything above the filesystem layer that you aren't really there. The question I've asked someone else who has raised this, is how the administrative share works on Windows. Does the admin share operate at a lower level than standard "user" shares, and hook straight into the file system?
If it uses the API on the remote machine in any way, then my method is clearly flawed.
It's a good point, but I've never seen it happen. All rootkits I've seen are visible over a share.
Rootkits are revealed on the network via firewall logs, and I've always tracked them down via this method. I suppose there may be kits that I may not be seeing, but they don't appear to be phoning home.
Remember that you can hide a file from the API, but you can't hide from NTFS itself otherwise you risk getting overwritten.
It's entirely possible that administrative shares get their file list from the disk volume itself and translate the information when it arrives using the clean kernel rather than the potentially infected API on the remote machine.
I'd be interested to know if anyone knows for certain if this is the case?
"the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware".
I assume the next step is suing the software house that produced the DRM for them. Because they, at the very least, should have known they were implementing a standard root kit with all the risks that entails.
Those of us involved with IT security know this attack vector all too well. If you want to really scan for virus and trojans on a crtical PC, you map the administrative shares C$ D$ etc to another PC, and run the virus scanner
on that machine.
That way you know for certain that you haven't been rooted, a kit can only hide from the PC it is hidden on, not another machine.
I see rootkits all the time, the main entry is through backup software exploits rather than O/S holes. (Or autorunning CDs). You will regularly see script kiddies taking advantage of a root kit placed there by other hackers.
So anyone who works in IT, especially someone who works in root kit creation, cannot claim that they were unaware of potential security problems.
It was incredibly irresponsible and pleading ignorance is no excuse.
If that is allowed it legalises copyright infringement over P2P. Most P2P apps only allows you to download snippets at a time. It doesn't give you the entire file, without you making repeated requests.
That isn't what the EU meant by caching copyrighted works.
If the books were already electronic, google may have a chance, but they would be scanning the books to make them electronic - the act of photocopying an entire book rather than a couple of pages breaches EU copyright law, and the act of OCRing it would be treated the same way.
In addition, google will have a hard time claiming fair use anyway. They are an advertising company. Any use of the books is for commercial gain. And advertising companies can't just use other people's copyrighted work for commercial gain under the guise of "fair use".
If google set up the library as a completely independent trust, with a legally binding guarantee that no company including google could data mine the users, or sell ad words then they may be in with a chance. Until then "fair use" is just a smokescreen.
so only a small fraction of a book (or a small fraction of a few pages) will be shown by Google. This is similar to a snippet for a review.
The problem is, in order to show you that snippet, they are storing the entire book on one of their hard drives. A review only contains a few paragraphs of a book, google quotes the entire thing but hides most of it, until you ask for it.
Quoting an entire book is not fair use.
I think it should be an opt-in system, no?
Indeed. I'm going to use your work without permission in a commercial business for selling ads, until you tell me not to.
That isn't ethical.
For over a decade people on the net have complained about having to opt out rather than in. Whether it is spam, realplayer taking control of your.mp3 extension, or some unwanted little app included in the installer for some unrelated program.
But now we're being told it is OK to have to opt out of someone using your work for commercial gain without permission, and it's OK to bundle a toolbar in with an unrelated VPN client.
Google are the new billionare bully on the block. Amazon are doing equally cool things with book searchs, only are doing them with the author's permission, why can't google be as equally professionally courteous?
But contracts that state 6 or 12 month periods of notice are legally enforcable.
So in the UK, board room level staff are forced into "gardening leave" if they want to jump to a competitor.
Having given their 12 months notice, they are immediately banned from the premises, and made to stay away from the office, on full pay , for the duration of their notice.
That way you aren't being deprived of a living, and any trade secrets you have, will be a year out of date by the time you get to join your new company.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not talking about an upgrade disk that converts one OS into another. I'm talking about simply an upgrade to the licence you aquire via OEM purchase.
So, you buy a PC with XP Home, a site licence then allows you to format that PC, and install XP Pro, or Server 2000 or Windows 98 if you were so inclined. The disk you use to install XP pro, or Windows 98 or whatever is the full version that will work on a cleanly formatted drive.
What you cannot do is use it on a White Box with no OS on it. Or rather you can do it, but you would be breaking the licencing agreement. You have to have paid a Windows Tax to an OEM in order to have a basic licence that is then upgraded via your site licence.
This is the standard site licence that MS sells. It is certainly the standard purchasing agreement offered to higher education.
Office is different - they don't require you to purchase an OEM version of MS Works before you can install it, it can be installed on any machine, limited only by the CALs (Client Access Licence) you've purchased if you are an Enterprise, or with no limits if you are a campus.
If you have a "campus agreement" licence then you didn't have a site licence.
You had a site upgrade licence.
What that means is you were entitled to upgrade any OEM version of Windows, to any other version of Windows.
So, you could upgrade a bunch of 98 machines to XP, or "save" some money ordering XP Home on your Dells rather than XP Pro, but you aren't allowed to install XP on a white box with no existing MS Operating System.
It is a misunderstanding many people have about the more common versions of MS site licences. It's foolish to think MS don't cover all the bases when creating such purchasing agreements. They didn't become that rich by allowing people to bypass the Windows Tax legally.
Ah, because criticising intellectual property law is just like expressing a racist view.
Well no, I never said that, it is just one of thousands of examples the exist. Any sane company will have a clause in their employee contracts that covers bringing the company into disrepute in or out of work.
Is this were you accuse me of being just like Hitler?
Good grief. Over react much? Congratulations on invoking Godwin's law. This thread is now over.
Frankly, unless these comments were made in a work environment, it's none of the employer's business if the gentleman in question is a card carrying member of the national front, american communist party, or whatever other radical group you can think of
I used the Police and racism as a random example. If you want others - the Police and Armed Forces are not allowed to be members of any political party, they are allowed to vote of course, but not be card carying members of any political group.
If you want another example, your career wouldn't last long if you went on TV and said Product X by Company Y is the best product on the market, when your firm was making a competing product.
Appear on TV as a campaigner to have dogs banned as pets while working for a Dog Food company and see how long you last.
There are a thousand examples where your free speech is curtailed by your employer even outside of work.
I do not believe that it has the equivalent of what in the US are called "at-will" states, in which you can fire anyone for any reason
No, which is why most companies stipulate probationary periods, at the end of which, if you haven't been satisfactory, you can be fired. This period may cover punctuality, technical abilities, dress code, and personality (hidden away under "effective team player"). In this example, they would argue he wasn't sufficiently "on message" regarding the corporate view on IP, making him a rebel, and a poor team player.
It's crap, but it's been the case since the concept of employment was first thought of.
If the company was an abortion clinic and the opinion expressed by the employee was anti-abortion, then there would be no uproar if they were fired.
He expressed anti copyright and IP views, while working for a firm that relies on copyright and IP. In addition he was only working there for a week, all companies insist on a probabtion period of at least a month to see if your face fits, with instant dismissal if you don't. So he is going to have trouble winning his case.
Yes it isn't nice that your freedom of speech is curtailed by your employer, but there are plenty of precedents for it - from the aforementioned abortion example, through to the Police in the UK at least not being allowed to express racist views even when not on duty.
Probably because viewing child porn isn't "victimless".
If you are sexually abused, or raped, and video/photographic images are recorded and placed on the internet, then the mental abuse doesn't ever stop.
While the actual rapists may serve jail time, the victim has to go through life feeling dirty and digusted, knowing people are masterbating to their rape on the internet.
By stating that anyone caught with such images will go to prison, some small comfort can be offered the victim.
Now, that doesn't mean to say I agree with with the idea that the any image in the browser cache equals possession. I think the prosecution should need to show a pattern of cached images to satisfy me, if I was sitting on the jury.
Images from a period of a couple of hours, once or twice = reasonable doubt - a dodgy URL or pop up. But images discovered in the cache over longer periods of time would make me believe it likely the accused was surfing these sites deliberately.
Please don't ever think downloading some child porn, or a genuine adult rape video is "victimless". It isn't. The more it is downloaded, the more the perceived demand for new content is created ("Hey, our site is popular! We need new footage for our fanbase!") , and the more the victim suffers knowing their abuse has provided entertainment to some sad bastards on the internet.
A Dimension 3000 doesn't come with an AGP or PCI-E slot. I don't think people using Intel Extreme graphics chips are the target audience for this kind of gaming. Unless online poker or Solitare suddenly require game CDs.
The point the original poster made still stands, if you buy a machine capable of gaming then a combo drive is the very least you are going to expect it to be bundled with these days.
It's obvious the honour system is designed to stop quest griefing - keeping npc quest givers or vendors permanently dead so players can't peacefully quest.
It isn't designed to stop the slaughter of players, because that is what Blizzard intended to happen on PVP servers. If you don't like ganking, play on a PVE server.
I don't understand why so many people complain about high level players killing low level players - surely that is half the point of being bigger than everybody else?
I play on a PVE server, because I've played enough PVP muds to know that every game like this is ruled by kids with tons of free time, or the unemployed. They will kill anyone they can, whenever they can.
Playing PVP muds casually after work always means sticking with a large group for safety, or sneaking about doing quests hoping the bigger players don't notice me. I correctly assumed WoW wouldn't break this rule.
The only difference in WoW between PVP and PVE servers, is that ganking and corpse camping and general abuse of opposing factions is allowed and frankly pretty much encouraged by Blizzard on PVP but not PVE. PVE still has player vs player combat, but it is honourable because you choose when and where to do it and you can't jump anyone who doesn't want to be attacked.
The fact that dishonour doesn't count against you when killing low level players, the fact there is a sticky on the BB stating that Corpse camping is perfectly acceptable shows that ganking is exactly what Blizzard intended to happen on PVP servers.
Which is why those of us who want to play for fun and relaxation, not spend hours getting angry and frustrated at bullying, have chosen Player Vs Enviroment with its optional PVP system.
throwing hardware at it alone won't fix it, since the server code would need to be changed to be able to spread over multiple servers.
Fair point, but don't you think the code should have been scalable in the first place? During the lifetime of a MMORPG there is no way of knowing how many or how few servers you will need. The code should be flexible enough to easily handle increases and decreases in cluster size.
Noone would use Active Directory, or Google, if the underlying system fell over everytime iron was added or removed.
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Opera has indeed been around longer, and most of the ideas in FF such as tabs and mouse gestures, and wand, were done first in Opera.
It's why this vulnerability is so stupid, all the FF team had to do was copy the way Opera does it.
In order to use the password manager, you need to click on the wand, or hit ctrl & enter together.
The ctrl enter shortcut is a beautiful idea, because after recalling the password, it "clicks" the button that currently has focus, which is usually the "login" button, so most of the time it fetches the password and logs you in automatically after you hit that key combo.
Nice and simple, but nice and secure because there is no way to trick the user into doing it.
In my youth I argued about the relative merits of:
Atari VCS vs Philips Videopac
ZX81 vs Vic 20
Spectrum vs C64
ST vs Amiga
Part of the fun of being a kid is having the energy and enthusiasm to cheer lead the system you own, while dissing the system your best friend's parents bought him instead. It's fun, and just because it's now progressed onto the internet doesn't make it any less harmless then it's ever been.
Weird how no US based P2P site has managed to use the safe harbour defence.
1$ is not a sensible salary. It looks to the outsider to be a tax dodge.
"Oh I only get paid 1$ but I do get a personal Boeing 747 as my deductable company car".
Buffet gets paid a sensible, fair, neither tax dodging nor fat cat salary and it is worth applauding.
Interesting that a guy who clearly has a serious talent for generating wealth, only asks for $100,000 per annum salary.
Puts the salaries of other less talented CEOs who demand far larger pay packets into perspective doesn't it?
Remember bars have a multiple of 4, usually 16 or 32 beats. Learn to count beats. You can spot a bar change because something other than the beat will change.
So after 16 beats, vocals may come in, or after 32 beats you get some 303 sounds.
In order to beat match, you have to align tempo obviously, but you also have to match the start of bars. It doesn't matter that the record you're bringing in is 16 beats to the bar, and the record you are currently playing is 24 beats, as long as you start the new record at the start of a bar, at the point that a new bar begins in the current record.
Not syncing bars is a rookie mistake
No amount of hardware will help you if you don't understand the basics of beat matching on vinyl. Beat matching is a 2 stage process, and a lot of amateurs don't understand why you need to count beats as well as measure the tempo of beats.
I'm curious, is there any proof of this "fact"?
We know farmers exist, we know they earn cents per hour because gold prices aren't that high. We know they don't talk much other than spamming "WTS
How do you know they aren't Mexicans working in an Arizona sweatshop for example? Or a bunch of school kids earning after school allowance money? Or SE Asian net cafe owners?
How do you know the farmers aren't US coded bots?
I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just interested where the "fact" that gold farmers are chinese comes from.
My second point is to question what does their nationality have to do with anything? If you don't like gold farmers then say you don't like gold farmers. Saying "I don't like Chinese gold farmers" is superfluous unless you're trying to make a point about the Chinese.
If you have a problem with gang bangers then you say "I don't like gang bangers", if you say "I don't like black gang bangers" then the sentence takes on an entirely new meaning.
The constant use of chinese gold farmer, rather than gold farmer, is a form of racism whether players are doing it subconciously or not.
It isn't the people crying racism that are "pulling the race card", it's the people who are unecessarily bringing race and nationality into it in the first place.
Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but I agree.
I want to play a MMORPG with my wife, and that means someone needs to offer a game with interesting combat for me, and a complex crafting system for my wife - one where she can get ingredients by exploring the massive world without needing to kill mobs in the process.
WoW was great fun for me until I quit at 60, 3-5 hour raids are not my idea of a good time, and the crafting in WoW stinks which means my wife never became interested in playing with me.
There is a huge mature market out there for a MMORPG that appeals to both men and women. Basically WoW with a better more open end game and a more complex and more player valuable crafting system, perhaps even with a crafting class, that can explore but is immune to mob attacks.
"Scanning 'remotely' (over the network or by booting a trusted OS) can be more secure, but not for the reason you cite."
The reason I cite is that by using a trusted Kernel, either via a trusted machine, or read only OS, you can be reasonably sure you are getting the real picture from the filesystem.
Stating I'm wrong for claiming this without explaining why and backing up your statement, was a pretty pointless waste of a post don't you think?
You can't hook into the filesystem and hide. If you do, you run the risk of being overwritten. The filesystem HAS to know what is on the disk and where.
All you can do is trick everything above the filesystem layer that you aren't really there. The question I've asked someone else who has raised this, is how the administrative share works on Windows.
Does the admin share operate at a lower level than standard "user" shares, and hook straight into the file system?
If it uses the API on the remote machine in any way, then my method is clearly flawed.
It's a good point, but I've never seen it happen. All rootkits I've seen are visible over a share.
Rootkits are revealed on the network via firewall logs, and I've always tracked them down via this method. I suppose there may be kits that I may not be seeing, but they don't appear to be phoning home.
Remember that you can hide a file from the API, but you can't hide from NTFS itself otherwise you risk getting overwritten.
It's entirely possible that administrative shares get their file list from the disk volume itself and translate the information when it arrives using the clean kernel rather than the potentially infected API on the remote machine.
I'd be interested to know if anyone knows for certain if this is the case?
Those of us involved with IT security know this attack vector all too well. If you want to really scan for virus and trojans on a crtical PC, you map the administrative shares C$ D$ etc to another PC, and run the virus scanner on that machine.
That way you know for certain that you haven't been rooted, a kit can only hide from the PC it is hidden on, not another machine.
I see rootkits all the time, the main entry is through backup software exploits rather than O/S holes. (Or autorunning CDs). You will regularly see script kiddies taking advantage of a root kit placed there by other hackers.
So anyone who works in IT, especially someone who works in root kit creation, cannot claim that they were unaware of potential security problems.
It was incredibly irresponsible and pleading ignorance is no excuse.
That isn't what the EU meant by caching copyrighted works.
If the books were already electronic, google may have a chance, but they would be scanning the books to make them electronic - the act of photocopying an entire book rather than a couple of pages breaches EU copyright law, and the act of OCRing it would be treated the same way.
In addition, google will have a hard time claiming fair use anyway. They are an advertising company. Any use of the books is for commercial gain. And advertising companies can't just use other people's copyrighted work for commercial gain under the guise of "fair use".
If google set up the library as a completely independent trust, with a legally binding guarantee that no company including google could data mine the users, or sell ad words then they may be in with a chance. Until then "fair use" is just a smokescreen.
Quoting an entire book is not fair use. Indeed. I'm going to use your work without permission in a commercial business for selling ads, until you tell me not to.
That isn't ethical.
For over a decade people on the net have complained about having to opt out rather than in. Whether it is spam, realplayer taking control of your
But now we're being told it is OK to have to opt out of someone using your work for commercial gain without permission, and it's OK to bundle a toolbar in with an unrelated VPN client.
Google are the new billionare bully on the block. Amazon are doing equally cool things with book searchs, only are doing them with the author's permission, why can't google be as equally professionally courteous?
But contracts that state 6 or 12 month periods of notice are legally enforcable.
So in the UK, board room level staff are forced into "gardening leave" if they want to jump to a competitor.
Having given their 12 months notice, they are immediately banned from the premises, and made to stay away from the office, on full pay , for the duration of their notice.
That way you aren't being deprived of a living, and any trade secrets you have, will be a year out of date by the time you get to join your new company.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not talking about an upgrade disk that converts one OS into another. I'm talking about simply an upgrade to the licence you aquire via OEM purchase.
So, you buy a PC with XP Home, a site licence then allows you to format that PC, and install XP Pro, or Server 2000 or Windows 98 if you were so inclined.
The disk you use to install XP pro, or Windows 98 or whatever is the full version that will work on a cleanly formatted drive.
What you cannot do is use it on a White Box with no OS on it. Or rather you can do it, but you would be breaking the licencing agreement. You have to have paid a Windows Tax to an OEM in order to have a basic licence that is then upgraded via your site licence.
This is the standard site licence that MS sells. It is certainly the standard purchasing agreement offered to higher education.
Office is different - they don't require you to purchase an OEM version of MS Works before you can install it, it can be installed on any machine, limited only by the CALs (Client Access Licence) you've purchased if you are an Enterprise, or with no limits if you are a campus.
If you have a "campus agreement" licence then you didn't have a site licence.
You had a site upgrade licence.
What that means is you were entitled to upgrade any OEM version of Windows, to any other version of Windows.
So, you could upgrade a bunch of 98 machines to XP, or "save" some money ordering XP Home on your Dells rather than XP Pro, but you aren't allowed to install XP on a white box with no existing MS Operating System.
It is a misunderstanding many people have about the more common versions of MS site licences. It's foolish to think MS don't cover all the bases when creating such purchasing agreements. They didn't become that rich by allowing people to bypass the Windows Tax legally.
Good grief. Over react much? Congratulations on invoking Godwin's law. This thread is now over.
If you want another example, your career wouldn't last long if you went on TV and said Product X by Company Y is the best product on the market, when your firm was making a competing product.
Appear on TV as a campaigner to have dogs banned as pets while working for a Dog Food company and see how long you last.
There are a thousand examples where your free speech is curtailed by your employer even outside of work.
No, which is why most companies stipulate probationary periods, at the end of which, if you haven't been satisfactory, you can be fired.
This period may cover punctuality, technical abilities, dress code, and personality (hidden away under "effective team player"). In this example, they would argue he wasn't sufficiently "on message" regarding the corporate view on IP, making him a rebel, and a poor team player.
It's crap, but it's been the case since the concept of employment was first thought of.
If the company was an abortion clinic and the opinion expressed by the employee was anti-abortion, then there would be no uproar if they were fired.
He expressed anti copyright and IP views, while working for a firm that relies on copyright and IP. In addition he was only working there for a week, all companies insist on a probabtion period of at least a month to see if your face fits, with instant dismissal if you don't. So he is going to have trouble winning his case.
Yes it isn't nice that your freedom of speech is curtailed by your employer, but there are plenty of precedents for it - from the aforementioned abortion example, through to the Police in the UK at least not being allowed to express racist views even when not on duty.
Probably because viewing child porn isn't "victimless".
If you are sexually abused, or raped, and video/photographic images are recorded and placed on the internet, then the mental abuse doesn't ever stop.
While the actual rapists may serve jail time, the victim has to go through life feeling dirty and digusted, knowing people are masterbating to their rape on the internet.
By stating that anyone caught with such images will go to prison, some small comfort can be offered the victim.
Now, that doesn't mean to say I agree with with the idea that the any image in the browser cache equals possession. I think the prosecution should need to show a pattern of cached images to satisfy me, if I was sitting on the jury.
Images from a period of a couple of hours, once or twice = reasonable doubt - a dodgy URL or pop up. But images discovered in the cache over longer periods of time would make me believe it likely the accused was surfing these sites deliberately.
Please don't ever think downloading some child porn, or a genuine adult rape video is "victimless". It isn't. The more it is downloaded, the more the perceived demand for new content is created ("Hey, our site is popular! We need new footage for our fanbase!") , and the more the victim suffers knowing their abuse has provided entertainment to some sad bastards on the internet.
Problem is, Amazon offer the worst deal of every mail order DVD service currently in the UK.
9.99 a month for a monthly limit of 6 DVDs.
Both Blockbuster UK , LoveFilm and 365DVD, all offer a far superior all you can eat package for 14, which at 3 a week, nets you at least 12 films.
I don't think Amazon's pricing model will work in the UK, there are already too many competitors offering better deals.
A Dimension 3000 doesn't come with an AGP or PCI-E slot. I don't think people using Intel Extreme graphics chips are the target audience for this kind of gaming. Unless online poker or Solitare suddenly require game CDs.
The point the original poster made still stands, if you buy a machine capable of gaming then a combo drive is the very least you are going to expect it to be bundled with these days.
It's obvious the honour system is designed to stop quest griefing - keeping npc quest givers or vendors permanently dead so players can't peacefully quest.
It isn't designed to stop the slaughter of players, because that is what Blizzard intended to happen on PVP servers. If you don't like ganking, play on a PVE server.
I don't understand why so many people complain about high level players killing low level players - surely that is half the point of being bigger than everybody else?
I play on a PVE server, because I've played enough PVP muds to know that every game like this is ruled by kids with tons of free time, or the unemployed. They will kill anyone they can, whenever they can.
Playing PVP muds casually after work always means sticking with a large group for safety, or sneaking about doing quests hoping the bigger players don't notice me. I correctly assumed WoW wouldn't break this rule.
The only difference in WoW between PVP and PVE servers, is that ganking and corpse camping and general abuse of opposing factions is allowed and frankly pretty much encouraged by Blizzard on PVP but not PVE.
PVE still has player vs player combat, but it is honourable because you choose when and where to do it and you can't jump anyone who doesn't want to be attacked.
The fact that dishonour doesn't count against you when killing low level players, the fact there is a sticky on the BB stating that Corpse camping is perfectly acceptable shows that ganking is exactly what Blizzard intended to happen on PVP servers.
Which is why those of us who want to play for fun and relaxation, not spend hours getting angry and frustrated at bullying, have chosen Player Vs Enviroment with its optional PVP system.
Noone would use Active Directory, or Google, if the underlying system fell over everytime iron was added or removed.