The crypt() function takes two arguments: a key and some salt characters. But the MD5/SHA1 functions I have seen only take one argument. So how do you salt an MD5/SHA1 hash? Is it enough to do md5 (username . password)?
I'm actually named after a sword, not an AI. Unfortunatly I didn't count on the fact that Bungie would return to the same mythos to pick names for AIs in future games.
Anyone fancy posting a link to the actual download, rather than yet another javascript-implemented, advert-laden bullshit fest, registration required download portal?
Yes, I can't wait for the day when we all have Internet connections capable of carrying 1280 * 960 * 24 bits * 60 frames/sec = 211 MB/s of video data. Oh, don't forget the 44 KHz * 16 bits * 6 channels necessary for audio. And it must have zero latency, so that user input has an immediate, and immediatly displayed, effect on the game world (even while everyone else on your street is maxing out their pipes, leaching music and movies off BitTorrent)--so you can forget about ever playing a game against anyone on a different continent.
Even then, cheaters would programs to analyses the video feed as it comes in, recognising enemy players and aiming and firing at them.
I never played a game where it kicked legitimate cheaters. The worst was with a mod called True Combat: it would kick *everyone* from the server, a few minutes after they joined, for alleged cheating!
I wouldn't have cared, except that it was impossible to turn off once turned on. Even removing the commands that enabled it from the server's config files and restarting the server didn't do it. I know this sounds crazy, and if I came accross someone raving about how it posessed his PC I too would discount that someone as an idiot... nevertheless, that was my experience with it.
How much have 3d Realms sunk into the DNF cesspit so far, and is this number greater or less than the amount of money that they could possibly hope to make when they release the final game?
I have better things to do than pissing away my life's savings in a series drawn out court battles purely to prove to corporate apologists like you what every sane and right-thinking person can deduce from common sense--or are you offering to fund my defence? Furthermore, I'm under no obligation to inform Apple, or anyone else, what I do with my property.
Please don't oversimplify what I am trying to say. I realise I don't own the copyright of the software. When I say "my property", I refer to the copy of the software that I bought, and that I now own, along with the right to use it in any way I see fit.
Contract law says you're bound to the terms of the license.
Show me. The only contract I enter into is that which details the exchange of my money for a copy of their software. Any bullshit EULA that may be supplied will be used as kindling or toilet paper, depending on whether I am cold or need a shit at the time.
Just because someone else hasn't spent years learning all about computers, and just wants to plug their laptop into their network without understanding all the underlying principles of wireless transmission and security doesn't mean you have to leech, steal and generally take advantage of them.
It doesn't take years to read the fine manual that came with the wireless access point in the first place!
I also find it interesting that you introduced the topic of software piracy into this discussion. A guilty conscience, perhaps?
Finally, copyright presumably comes from the idea that the right to produce copies of a work are exclusively reserved to the copyright holder of that work, until the copyright expires.
It is not true that I have no right to copy it. I can make backups, obviously i must "copy" to install and therefore use it, and I can make other ephermal copies as are created during the normal running of the program (eg, a copy in RAM).
I agree with the sentiment of the other comment that replied to yours. I suggest you try shilling for the copyright cartels somewhere else.
And I wouldn't dream of breaking the law. The law, however, says nothing about forcing me to cowtow to an arbitary set of conditions set by the publisher that attempt to restrict how I use my own property, after my business with the publisher is concluded.
There's no new law required here. If you buy a license to use OS X, you're bound by the terms of that license if you use the product.
Bullshit. If I buy a copy of OS X (or any software, any data, any THING) then I can do whatever I want with my property, within the bounds of The Law.
Copyright law says I can't turn around and start selling my own copies. Copyright law doesn't say that I should cowtow to the every whim of the person I bought the software from.
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The crypt() function takes two arguments: a key and some salt characters. But the MD5/SHA1 functions I have seen only take one argument. So how do you salt an MD5/SHA1 hash? Is it enough to do md5 (username . password)?
Yes.
This leaves an opening for another company to say,
:p
"Hey, we let the customers handle all the costs, and we undercut the other fellows".
It's called competition.
Is 'theft' actually a crime at all? Or when a layman says 'theft', should he strictly speaking use the word 'larceny'?
I'm actually named after a sword, not an AI. Unfortunatly I didn't count on the fact that Bungie would return to the same mythos to pick names for AIs in future games.
Never mind, here's a link for UK readers.
Anyone fancy posting a link to the actual download, rather than yet another javascript-implemented, advert-laden bullshit fest, registration required download portal?
This is the kind of thinking that Excel induces. :)
Oh, I forgot to mention that with this idea, to run even a modest, 32 player server, would require 6784 GB of bandwidth.
Yes, I can't wait for the day when we all have Internet connections capable of carrying 1280 * 960 * 24 bits * 60 frames/sec = 211 MB/s of video data. Oh, don't forget the 44 KHz * 16 bits * 6 channels necessary for audio. And it must have zero latency, so that user input has an immediate, and immediatly displayed, effect on the game world (even while everyone else on your street is maxing out their pipes, leaching music and movies off BitTorrent)--so you can forget about ever playing a game against anyone on a different continent.
Even then, cheaters would programs to analyses the video feed as it comes in, recognising enemy players and aiming and firing at them.
I never played a game where it kicked legitimate cheaters. The worst was with a mod called True Combat: it would kick *everyone* from the server, a few minutes after they joined, for alleged cheating!
I wouldn't have cared, except that it was impossible to turn off once turned on. Even removing the commands that enabled it from the server's config files and restarting the server didn't do it. I know this sounds crazy, and if I came accross someone raving about how it posessed his PC I too would discount that someone as an idiot... nevertheless, that was my experience with it.
How much have 3d Realms sunk into the DNF cesspit so far, and is this number greater or less than the amount of money that they could possibly hope to make when they release the final game?
It was so good at its job that Valve ditched it in favour of their own anti-cheating system (which is also shit, but that's another point).
You can just revoke rights granted to a licensee on a whim. Otherwise the GPL (and similar Free Software licenses) would be rather pointless.
Don't you know about the Linux port? :)
It's called the FFII. In future there will be a European branch of the EFF.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Code for web standards, then fixup for IE.
I have better things to do than pissing away my life's savings in a series drawn out court battles purely to prove to corporate apologists like you what every sane and right-thinking person can deduce from common sense--or are you offering to fund my defence? Furthermore, I'm under no obligation to inform Apple, or anyone else, what I do with my property.
Please don't oversimplify what I am trying to say. I realise I don't own the copyright of the software. When I say "my property", I refer to the copy of the software that I bought, and that I now own, along with the right to use it in any way I see fit.Show me. The only contract I enter into is that which details the exchange of my money for a copy of their software. Any bullshit EULA that may be supplied will be used as kindling or toilet paper, depending on whether I am cold or need a shit at the time.
It's called Survivor. :)
I also find it interesting that you introduced the topic of software piracy into this discussion. A guilty conscience, perhaps?
Finally, copyright presumably comes from the idea that the right to produce copies of a work are exclusively reserved to the copyright holder of that work, until the copyright expires.
It is not true that I have no right to copy it. I can make backups, obviously i must "copy" to install and therefore use it, and I can make other ephermal copies as are created during the normal running of the program (eg, a copy in RAM).
I agree with the sentiment of the other comment that replied to yours. I suggest you try shilling for the copyright cartels somewhere else.
And I wouldn't dream of breaking the law. The law, however, says nothing about forcing me to cowtow to an arbitary set of conditions set by the publisher that attempt to restrict how I use my own property, after my business with the publisher is concluded.
Copyright law says I can't turn around and start selling my own copies. Copyright law doesn't say that I should cowtow to the every whim of the person I bought the software from.