What's worse is that the development of the Itanic has caused the PHBs at other companies to ditch perfectly good, mature architectures such as MIPS, SPARC, HPPA, Alpha... Alas, we barely knew ye...
Furthermore, other systems are designed to help prevent account hijacking. For example, no one can steal my mail account details because the authentication takes place over SSL. Does Steam protect my account details in a similar manner?
I have two hypothetical situations for you to consider.
1. Alice buys HL2 retail. Alice is annoyed by the necessity of having the DVD in the drive to play. Alice downloads a No CD crack. Alice is banned.
How can you justify this course of events?
2. Bob decides to try and guess activation keys for HL2 in the hope of coming up lucky. Valve ban his account. Bob can now no longer his other Steam games, that he obtained legitimately.
Has any one ever done any research and/or analysis of the network protocols that Steam, and other games use for player authentication?
What happens if your account details are sniffed? Here's what--someone else has control of your account! They can change the email address and password, even play online using cheats, getting your account banned from online play for 5 years.
Only if you're fool enough to upgrade your entire kernel just to fix a security problem! Wait for your vendor to provide patches, then apt-get upgrade (or use whatever tool your system provides).
Well, what do you expect? IE is an ESSENTIAL part of the operating system!
I just set an ACL denying permission to execute both iexplore.exe and msimn.exe. Takes care of those stupid apps like Messenger and Mirc that insist on shelling iexplore manually rather than (properly) using OpenURL too.
In fact, you can remove OE alltogether, even from an XP machine: check KB article 263837.
1. Yes, for online games. Single player and LAN games don't require you to be logged into Steam.
2. Presumably you can do this using offline mode. Of course, you must authenticate the game during installion on each PC--so your little brother will have access to your Steam account, and will be able to get you banned from online play (say, by cheating).
More annoying, Steam has to be run as an administrator. When will Windows programmers get it through their thick heads that this is not a good idea! *sigh*.
So what happens when one of your DLLs has a security problem found in it? Am I supposed to hunt through my hard drive and replace all the copies of it that I find? Assuming I can even tell which copies are affected by the problem... why don't you just statically compile everything while you're at it!
Ok, so say MS' implementation of shared libraries is broken; there's no reason to go back to 1975!
I guess those who do not understand Unix are destined to reimplement it, poorly.:)
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The Openoffice.org marketing site has more information about upcoming features in Openoffice.org 2.0.
No you fool, it was the little men in shiny suits that made my Intaraweb faster.
What's worse is that the development of the Itanic has caused the PHBs at other companies to ditch perfectly good, mature architectures such as MIPS, SPARC, HPPA, Alpha... Alas, we barely knew ye...
When it comes to security, assume nothing. Especially when you are dealing with either Microsoft, or a games programmer. :)
Use "lilo -R". Or enter the 20th century with a device known as a "serial" port. :)
Furthermore, other systems are designed to help prevent account hijacking. For example, no one can steal my mail account details because the authentication takes place over SSL. Does Steam protect my account details in a similar manner?
If I lose my slashdot account, well I don't give a crap.
If I lose my Steam account, I have lost access to all the games on it, forever. If I want to play them again, I have to buy them again.
The comment is both apropos and insightful.
I have two hypothetical situations for you to consider.
1. Alice buys HL2 retail. Alice is annoyed by the necessity of having the DVD in the drive to play. Alice downloads a No CD crack. Alice is banned.
How can you justify this course of events?
2. Bob decides to try and guess activation keys for HL2 in the hope of coming up lucky. Valve ban his account. Bob can now no longer his other Steam games, that he obtained legitimately.
How can you justify this course of events?
Has any one ever done any research and/or analysis of the network protocols that Steam, and other games use for player authentication?
What happens if your account details are sniffed? Here's what--someone else has control of your account! They can change the email address and password, even play online using cheats, getting your account banned from online play for 5 years.
Whoopie!
We'll put it to rest when you people stop misusing the term "theft", and extending it beyond its definition.
> Virtually all involved parties now claim that they are against software patents,
> even those who are in favour of them!
It's good to see that the ministers of the European Union are carrying on Europe's grand tradition of simple, transparent and honest politiking.
Only if you're fool enough to upgrade your entire kernel just to fix a security problem! Wait for your vendor to provide patches, then apt-get upgrade (or use whatever tool your system provides).
Derivative work. Linking against a GPL library constitutes creating a derivative work, and as such must also be available under the GPL.
I think...
rvim?
Interesting to note that Americans put up with the same "signal:noise" ratio while watching television... :)
HOW long as the concept of checksumming data to detect corruption been around?
Shoulda used Grub :)
Call me back when there's a portable version available.
Well, what do you expect? IE is an ESSENTIAL part of the operating system!
I just set an ACL denying permission to execute both iexplore.exe and msimn.exe. Takes care of those stupid apps like Messenger and Mirc that insist on shelling iexplore manually rather than (properly) using OpenURL too.
In fact, you can remove OE alltogether, even from an XP machine: check KB article 263837.
It's to save people from shit browsers that can be tricked into making the page REALLY wide when some loser dumps loads of unbroken text into a reply.
What BT form factor is BTX eXtended from?
Oh wait... marketing department... gotcha.
What? It does exactly what it says on the tin... :)
1. Yes, for online games. Single player and LAN games don't require you to be logged into Steam.
2. Presumably you can do this using offline mode. Of course, you must authenticate the game during installion on each PC--so your little brother will have access to your Steam account, and will be able to get you banned from online play (say, by cheating).
More annoying, Steam has to be run as an administrator. When will Windows programmers get it through their thick heads that this is not a good idea! *sigh*.
I was in fact replying to your comment:
:)
"I will not ask a company for permission to run a game locally on my own computer after I've already paid for it."
Ok, so I was too hasty and Windows is not a game. Big deal. Especially since the only reason to *have* it installed, IMO, is to play games.
So what happens when one of your DLLs has a security problem found in it? Am I supposed to hunt through my hard drive and replace all the copies of it that I find? Assuming I can even tell which copies are affected by the problem... why don't you just statically compile everything while you're at it!
:)
Ok, so say MS' implementation of shared libraries is broken; there's no reason to go back to 1975!
I guess those who do not understand Unix are destined to reimplement it, poorly.