"...the corrupt California legislature have failed due to opposition of big financial institutions and insurers, who are big contributors to the Democrats who run the place. We need something like this at a national level as well, but I'm not going to hold my breath till we get one through a Congress that lives with its hand out continually."
Kind of contradicted yourself there. You call California democrats corrupt and failed at privacy legislature. Then you say we need this at the national level, but that they are seeking handouts. Well the nation congress is Republican!
Also on this dem vs rep and privacy, D. Feinstein (Dem from Califorinia) is trying to get a national law to force companies to notify you for security lapses that let your financial info leak.
MS as been challenging google for a while. For those of us in the not so uber geek clan(IE users), this has been known. Whenever a page fails it takes you to a msn search page. Nice features that lures some away, but the content sucks and results are not as good as googles. The Google search engine is the best and others try to compete, which is a good thing. Good luck MS but my homepage remains faithfully to google.com.
I can't tale gate anymore? Really 300 ft is a long distance. Hell when I leave 10 to 15 feet between cars someone will cut in. Good idea but not practical at distances discussed.
I heard about this a while back. There are already a few mods for BF that use Vietnam as a theme. However, they are not the greatest (better than I can do though). The BF engine is good and needs a few more tweaks, but this will be a very cool game and EA will suck another $50 from me.
" Kids these days are spoiled. Back in the good 'ol days when we all had 14.4 modems and we had to walk fifty miles in snow and ice just to pick it up. If we wanted to talk on the phone, tough luck!
Too bad today's internet sucks!"
Ha...hell my first modem was a 900...I thought that screamed at the time. I remember upgrading to 14.4 and thinking it was the shiznit. There will be others who remember having a 300 modem.
Before too many people bag on AOL, they did do something right. They gave us unlimited access for $9.99/mo. (Too bad their networked crashed!) But this did drive competition to offer unlimited access for a fair price.
Walmarts were typically found in smaller towns where they can crush competitors easily. Then they started moving into medium size towns and crushed the competition again (Kmart, Montgomery Wards, etc...)./end Troll
Having stated this, I do not think that Walmarts typical, in store, customers would rent dvds online. Walmart may be able to steal all of Netflicks clientel. I, however find this doubtful.
Most 'net renters are "early adoptors" and renting dvds online is still in its infancy. I do not think that Walmart can attract these customers since these customers realize how evil Walmart is and would most likely die if their friends found out they use Walmart services.
Duke Nukem Forever will go down in gaming lore as the best game that never was.
What kind of business people take their fight into the open public? If the publisher or the developer is that bad, word gets around the industry and no one wants to work with them.
By having this war of words in public forums, it really makes both sides look like morons and probably have just committed their companies to death.
Just kill DNF and move on. Try to save your companies and reputation.
"What is neighborly fun for Conry is outright theft to needlepoint companies
and the artists who create the patterns. Sales at the South Carolina design
shop Pegasus have dropped as much as $200,000 a year--or 40%--since 1997, in
part because of such swapping, said founder Jim Hedgepath. He and a handful
of companies and pattern designers are gathering evidence to wage a legal
battle against the homemakers.
"They're housewives and they're hackers," Hedgepath said. "I don't care if
they have kids. I don't care that they are grandmothers. They're bootlegging
us out of business.""
OK from this quote sales have dropped 40% since 1997 and Hedgepath states/implies they are all grandmothers/blue hairs. Maybe this 40% drop is due to death. Hell I don't know about you but my grandmother never touched a computer until 2000. She still only knows how to check email, forward feelgood chain letters and play a game or two of solitare.
I really wouldn't want some IM client grabbing random/semi random people of similar interests. I think it will lead to another IM spam engine and more virii.
Sell those Ebay stocks...They are about to pay out millions on Billions due to another in wrong patent. It is just like one click shopping from amazon, logical idea but not really patentable IMHO.
As long as there are benchmarks, companies will write drivers to get the best score. I would say about 95% of consumers purchase (buying high end cards) based on benchmark scores. Of course you would write a driver that gives the best score to increase your sales. nVidia is just very good, and way better than ATI, at writing drivers that exploit many of the benchmarks now in use.
Is it a bad thing? Not from nVidia's view and ATI is jealous that their code monkeys are falling behind (or understaffed).
Does it make the benchmark invalid? Yes. But it does not matter since 3DMARK has become a "standard." Both card companies will try to exploit the benchies to get the best score and take the "performance crown" and the sales that come with it.
They lost my money and my future business because of the tax software registration/lock down fiasco. They showed the software industry about how much the general public will take in terms of software liscensing.
Since their server is almost dead, I managed to pull this off before/. effect kills it.
Cybercrime's Scope: Interpreting "Access" and "Authorization" in Computer Misuse Statutes
ORIN S. KERR George Washington University - Law School
GWU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 65 New York University Law Review, Vol. 78, November 2003
Abstract: In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal laws that prohibit unauthorized access to computers. These new laws attempt to draw a line between criminality and free conduct in cyberspace. No one knows what it means to "access" a computer, however, nor when access becomes "unauthorized." The few courts that have construed these terms have offered divergent interpretations, and no scholars have yet addressed the problem. Recent decisions interpreting the federal statute in civil cases suggest that any breach of contract with a computer owner renders use of that computer an unauthorized access. If applied to criminal cases, this approach would broadly criminalize contract law on the Internet, potentially making millions of Americans criminals for the way they write e-mail and surf the Web.
This Article presents a comprehensive inquiry into the meaning of unauthorized access statutes. It begins by explaining why legislatures enacted unauthorized access statutes, and why early beliefs that such statutes solved the problem of computer misuse have proved remarkably naïve. Next, the Article explains how the courts have construed these statutes in an overly broad way that threatens to criminalize a surprising range of innocuous conduct involving computers. In the final section, the Article offers a normative proposal for interpreting "access" and "authorization." This section argues that courts should reject a contract theory of authorization, and should narrow the scope of unauthorized access statutes to circumvention of code-based restrictions on computer privileges. The section justifies this proposal on several grounds. First, the proposal will best mediate the line between securing privacy and protecting the liberty of Internet users. Second, the proposal mirrors criminal law's traditional treatment of crimes that contain a consent element. Third, the proposed approach is consistent with the basic theories of punishment. Fourth, the proposed interpretation avoids possible constitutional difficulties that may arise under the broader constructions that courts recently have favored.
Shacknews reviewer was horrible!!! First starts off saying that he was going to be objective, then all he did was kiss valves arse! Better make sure you wipe that brown off your face buddy!
As for the game itself, I am stoked, it should be cool. It may be the first game (of many to come, Doom III, etc...) that really uses the technology of yesterday's hardware, not last centuries.
I know very little about this so correct me if I am wrong. The only way to really let each user have complete control over email, would be for each user to have there own mail server and/or domain. This is why most people let their ISP's handle their mail. And you would still get crap from bulk mailers, spammers.
That someone had not done this already. Since the Gaming industry is a multi-Billion dollar a year business, I would think that there would sites like that and more pages like this games.slashdot.org. I also am a bit suprised that there are not more posts here. But then again, gamers are playing games not reading/.
"1) having a mandated monthly portability surcharge"
Isn't this the "universal connectivity" charge they have had on our bills for the year and a half?
Check your statement, we have been paying for this service even though the companies are not providing it.
[I]The problem is that voice chat isn't widespread enough in CS to make it feasable as a means of communication. Which means only a few people got it, and half of them do it to piss you off.[/I]
Really? Many of the servers I play on have many people using Voice.
While some people can be annoying, it is very helpful and makes gameplay unique. Other games would benefit more if they added it. I believe that this is one of the main reasons why CS has stuck around so long, and has such a robust following. If bf1942 had chat I would probably not play CS very much.
As for insults in CS, that has always been there. That is part of the fun.
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"...the corrupt California legislature have failed due to opposition of big financial institutions and insurers, who are big contributors to the Democrats who run the place. We need something like this at a national level as well, but I'm not going to hold my breath till we get one through a Congress that lives with its hand out continually."
Kind of contradicted yourself there. You call California democrats corrupt and failed at privacy legislature. Then you say we need this at the national level, but that they are seeking handouts. Well the nation congress is Republican!
Also on this dem vs rep and privacy, D. Feinstein (Dem from Califorinia) is trying to get a national law to force companies to notify you for security lapses that let your financial info leak.
MS as been challenging google for a while. For those of us in the not so uber geek clan(IE users), this has been known. Whenever a page fails it takes you to a msn search page. Nice features that lures some away, but the content sucks and results are not as good as googles. The Google search engine is the best and others try to compete, which is a good thing. Good luck MS but my homepage remains faithfully to google.com.
I can't tale gate anymore? Really 300 ft is a long distance. Hell when I leave 10 to 15 feet between cars someone will cut in. Good idea but not practical at distances discussed.
I heard about this a while back. There are already a few mods for BF that use Vietnam as a theme. However, they are not the greatest (better than I can do though). The BF engine is good and needs a few more tweaks, but this will be a very cool game and EA will suck another $50 from me.
" Kids these days are spoiled. Back in the good 'ol days when we all had 14.4 modems and we had to walk fifty miles in snow and ice just to pick it up. If we wanted to talk on the phone, tough luck! Too bad today's internet sucks!" Ha...hell my first modem was a 900...I thought that screamed at the time. I remember upgrading to 14.4 and thinking it was the shiznit. There will be others who remember having a 300 modem. Before too many people bag on AOL, they did do something right. They gave us unlimited access for $9.99/mo. (Too bad their networked crashed!) But this did drive competition to offer unlimited access for a fair price.
/Troll
/end Troll
Walmarts were typically found in smaller towns where they can crush competitors easily. Then they started moving into medium size towns and crushed the competition again (Kmart, Montgomery Wards, etc...).
Having stated this, I do not think that Walmarts typical, in store, customers would rent dvds online. Walmart may be able to steal all of Netflicks clientel. I, however find this doubtful.
Most 'net renters are "early adoptors" and renting dvds online is still in its infancy. I do not think that Walmart can attract these customers since these customers realize how evil Walmart is and would most likely die if their friends found out they use Walmart services.
Duke Nukem Forever will go down in gaming lore as the best game that never was.
What kind of business people take their fight into the open public? If the publisher or the developer is that bad, word gets around the industry and no one wants to work with them.
By having this war of words in public forums, it really makes both sides look like morons and probably have just committed their companies to death.
Just kill DNF and move on. Try to save your companies and reputation.
I don't care now....
"What is neighborly fun for Conry is outright theft to needlepoint companies and the artists who create the patterns. Sales at the South Carolina design shop Pegasus have dropped as much as $200,000 a year--or 40%--since 1997, in part because of such swapping, said founder Jim Hedgepath. He and a handful of companies and pattern designers are gathering evidence to wage a legal battle against the homemakers. "They're housewives and they're hackers," Hedgepath said. "I don't care if they have kids. I don't care that they are grandmothers. They're bootlegging us out of business."" OK from this quote sales have dropped 40% since 1997 and Hedgepath states/implies they are all grandmothers/blue hairs. Maybe this 40% drop is due to death. Hell I don't know about you but my grandmother never touched a computer until 2000. She still only knows how to check email, forward feelgood chain letters and play a game or two of solitare.
I really wouldn't want some IM client grabbing random/semi random people of similar interests. I think it will lead to another IM spam engine and more virii.
Sell those Ebay stocks...They are about to pay out millions on Billions due to another in wrong patent. It is just like one click shopping from amazon, logical idea but not really patentable IMHO.
"Oh no! Banned from other ubi.com games! Shadowbane is such a flaming pile of poop that Ubi is in fact doing these people a favor."
Just about sums up what I have heard about UBI's games and about Shadowbane.
As long as there are benchmarks, companies will write drivers to get the best score. I would say about 95% of consumers purchase (buying high end cards) based on benchmark scores. Of course you would write a driver that gives the best score to increase your sales. nVidia is just very good, and way better than ATI, at writing drivers that exploit many of the benchmarks now in use.
Is it a bad thing? Not from nVidia's view and ATI is jealous that their code monkeys are falling behind (or understaffed).
Does it make the benchmark invalid? Yes. But it does not matter since 3DMARK has become a "standard." Both card companies will try to exploit the benchies to get the best score and take the "performance crown" and the sales that come with it.
They lost my money and my future business because of the tax software registration/lock down fiasco. They showed the software industry about how much the general public will take in terms of software liscensing.
Since their server is almost dead, I managed to pull this off before /. effect kills it.
Cybercrime's Scope: Interpreting "Access" and "Authorization" in Computer Misuse Statutes
ORIN S. KERR
George Washington University - Law School
GWU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 65
New York University Law Review, Vol. 78, November 2003
Abstract:
In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal laws that prohibit unauthorized access to computers. These new laws attempt to draw a line between criminality and free conduct in cyberspace. No one knows what it means to "access" a computer, however, nor when access becomes "unauthorized." The few courts that have construed these terms have offered divergent interpretations, and no scholars have yet addressed the problem. Recent decisions interpreting the federal statute in civil cases suggest that any breach of contract with a computer owner renders use of that computer an unauthorized access. If applied to criminal cases, this approach would broadly criminalize contract law on the Internet, potentially making millions of Americans criminals for the way they write e-mail and surf the Web.
This Article presents a comprehensive inquiry into the meaning of unauthorized access statutes. It begins by explaining why legislatures enacted unauthorized access statutes, and why early beliefs that such statutes solved the problem of computer misuse have proved remarkably naïve. Next, the Article explains how the courts have construed these statutes in an overly broad way that threatens to criminalize a surprising range of innocuous conduct involving computers. In the final section, the Article offers a normative proposal for interpreting "access" and "authorization." This section argues that courts should reject a contract theory of authorization, and should narrow the scope of unauthorized access statutes to circumvention of code-based restrictions on computer privileges. The section justifies this proposal on several grounds. First, the proposal will best mediate the line between securing privacy and protecting the liberty of Internet users. Second, the proposal mirrors criminal law's traditional treatment of crimes that contain a consent element. Third, the proposed approach is consistent with the basic theories of punishment. Fourth, the proposed interpretation avoids possible constitutional difficulties that may arise under the broader constructions that courts recently have favored.
Keywords: cybercrime, computer crime, unauthorized access, code
/.'ed after 2 posts!
I would like to read, so please post text and/or mirror.
Shacknews reviewer was horrible!!! First starts off saying that he was going to be objective, then all he did was kiss valves arse! Better make sure you wipe that brown off your face buddy!
As for the game itself, I am stoked, it should be cool. It may be the first game (of many to come, Doom III, etc...) that really uses the technology of yesterday's hardware, not last centuries.
I know very little about this so correct me if I am wrong. The only way to really let each user have complete control over email, would be for each user to have there own mail server and/or domain. This is why most people let their ISP's handle their mail. And you would still get crap from bulk mailers, spammers.
"I mean, they can't seriously expect me to cough up $30 every four months for a couple new maps+weapons, can they?"
You paid $30? It was set for $20 retail.
They do need more patches and before they should release new expansion packs for cost.
"Leave the new maps, weapons and features for the modders, or BF1943."
This is being done already, good luck finding a server that has custom maps on it though.
That someone had not done this already. Since the Gaming industry is a multi-Billion dollar a year business, I would think that there would sites like that and more pages like this games.slashdot.org. I also am a bit suprised that there are not more posts here. But then again, gamers are playing games not reading /.
"1) having a mandated monthly portability surcharge" Isn't this the "universal connectivity" charge they have had on our bills for the year and a half? Check your statement, we have been paying for this service even though the companies are not providing it.
Why did you bring this movie up...I was trying to forget that it was ever made!!!
Nothing too new hear. It is just Bush protecting us from ourselves.
[I]The problem is that voice chat isn't widespread enough in CS to make it feasable as a means of communication. Which means only a few people got it, and half of them do it to piss you off.[/I] Really? Many of the servers I play on have many people using Voice. While some people can be annoying, it is very helpful and makes gameplay unique. Other games would benefit more if they added it. I believe that this is one of the main reasons why CS has stuck around so long, and has such a robust following. If bf1942 had chat I would probably not play CS very much. As for insults in CS, that has always been there. That is part of the fun.