Short of a site that requires you to draw a picture with your mouse, scan your retina, and submit a sample for blood-dna comparison, a keylogger would in fact be capable of getting into 99% of any online password-entered systems, anywhere.
Care to elaborate? Searching "WGA DLL subversion" on google didn't come up with a lot of useful hints. Does it allow legit versions to update without calling home or activing WGA?
Just a little while back I cobbled together some extra hardware and setup a secondary machine for home. This machine is linux-only, but I actually tend to use it more than my primary (which is generally used for video dubbing and more power-intensive but less interactive tasks).
I spend about a day trying to get "Warcraft III" - a game that previously worked without issues - on my fresh install of wine. The thing consistently segfaulted near the end of installation. Thinking it might be a scratched CD issues, etc, I downloaded some ISO's of the game discs, and tried various workarounds to no avail.
Eventually on a hunch I installed an old version of Cedega (5.0) and voila, the game worked again (so long as I set it to permanently use that version), but I failed to see why they're breaking one game in favour of another, and I might also be missing some bugfixes/features of the newer versions in the meantime.
I've noticed that some of this material is ripped out of various books, etc.
For example, it might contain a half-page exerpt from Oliver Twist... which put real, non-spammy words in with a spammy email. Evil!
However, I wonder what might happen if the owners of said literary works decided to sue the spammer for illegal use/distribution of their works. Heck, I've heard of corps sueing because censorship removes the 'artistic value' of a work (see here), so even that arguement might work
It's a figure of speech... meaning to put pressure on somebody (although I suppose in some cases thumbscrews might actually be used).
Why is it that whenever somebody mentions the US government's downhill slide in liberties and accountability, somebody has to compare them to China. China was not part of the discussion, and is in no way involved in the matter at hand. Furthermore, if the government was above heavy-handed dubiously-legal tactics, they wouldn't be using thin excuses for changing the jurisdiction on this case.
But heck, if you want to compare the US and China fine... the US is quickly moving to become what China was half a century again, while China is actually in many ways progressing.
I like how you mentioned having an addictive personality. Some people are definately likely that, in that they will obsess into one given thing until it becomes consuming. If it weren't WoW, it might be something else, healthier or less healthy.
There's a thin line between dedication and addiction. I try to personally involve myself in multiple time-requiring, semi-obsessive activities. Some of these involve other people, some don't. Since all are interesting, I tend to have a full schedule, but at the same time no one activity is taking up all my time and attention. On the flip, I usually notice if I cut one of those activities out for a long period of time.
So I guess my advice to those with addictive personalities is: manage your addictions. Find multiple things that really snag your interest, concentrate on all of them, but only to a point where they don't interfere with your personal productivity (work, school, etc). Between books (my equivilent to a pack-a-day), video games (war3, bf2), and outdoorsy things like airsoft (it's like paintball, but better), and the odd game of bowling etc... I find that I'm diversified enough that it's like getting the 4 food groups of interaction. There particular activities might not be for everyone, but by varying consuming physical/mental/group/solo/etc activities you may come out better rather than worse.
So far the major downside is that almost everything costs money, so more habits/activities == more spending, but sometimes one of these might yield some extra cash as well.
He was about the smartest person I ever knew and now he is working as a facility manager in a small appartment building.
No offence, but perhaps then he wasn't very smart. Social addictions (vs chemical ones) are a factor of the mind, and of willpower. Part of breaking them is being smart enough to recognise the signs and react to or counter them.
I know plenty of people who have been wary of MMO's because of their massively time-consuming nature, and the realization that it would impact other important things in their lives. I know others who have been involved in addiction activities - even chemically addictive ones - and were able to factorize the reasons behind them and step away from the problem.
There are many types of smarts. Perhaps your friend was good with figures or words, but he demonstrates two types of addictions so far (Itobascco and MMO's). Between the two of you perhaps you are the smarter for avoiding such things (or at least the MMO part).
The courts have ask him to produce video footage of a crime that he witnessed and he has refused
NO. The courts are trying to get him to produce video of a crime that he supposedly witnessed. In fact, even when the video is turned in it might have no burning cars at all... but what it might have are the faces and identities of a bunch of protestors for the police to happily round up and put thumbscrews to. How often nowadays is being within the vicinity of lawbreakers seen as being involved with them, pretty damn often.
On for the record, the state laws do allow him to with-hold the tape, which is why the government has gone to dubious stretches of logic to make it a federal issue.
Searching for kiddy pr0n in a search engine... sounds like a great way to leave traces around. But then, AOL users aren't generally held as all that smart.
On the other hand, what if you were getting a lot of illegal smut ads in your inbox? Less clueful users might decide to go look up such a thing in the search engine, trying to find AOL's policy on it or some way to keep it from the inbox.
Wishful thinking of course, as I don't doubt some people were searching for actual material... but not necessarily all of 'em.
Bullshit. If they were afraid of consequences it wouldn't have gotten out in the first place. One would have thought "AOL wouldn't dare releasing my personal information to the world" about 8 months ago, but whoops, they did.
Now, if they're suddenly hit with a barrage of lawsuits or a nice, really big, juicy class-action... perhaps that'll teach them. If there aren't any consequence, they'll likely do it again if it means making a quick buck.
The plot follows the gender-lines to a small extent, however. When a baby metroid emerges at the end of the old gameboy version, the first thing it seems it Samus and thus it assumes she is its mother. Rather than killing the critter, Samus allows it to life, eventually turning it over to some (supposedly benevolent) scientists... which leads to the SNES version in which the metroid sacrifices itself for her.
Yes, it could have been done with a male lead, but the 'mother' subplot does more easily track with a female lead character. Metroid is probably one of those games that could make a decent movie. Decent base plot, but nothing too deep in any particular direction that it could be too easily ruined. Tomb Raider wasn't all that bad for a VG movie (and it was fairly popular), so I wonder how one about a female bounty hunter who is savior of a lost race would do...
Well, highbrow is often associated with - at least in my mind - those that have too much money and too little common sense. Games themselves don't cater to that audience, although there was a time when gaming itself was somewhat of a more exclusive clique (usually for those that didn't belong to those high-held social circles).
However, as far as gaming goes, I'd say that you're more likely to have the actual hardware (custom X-boxes, high-rodded PC rigs with custom cases, etc) that has the exclusiveness for the platinum-toilet crowd than the games themselves.
I believe there was also a CSI episode (or similar type of show) about this, where one player got pissed off, shot his 'killer' with a blank at close range, and killed him?
On various areas of a site, I may use javascript to make the UI easier to navigate by popping up dialogs etc. As a backup, there are also scriptlets that will display the same in-page dialogs, it just takes a bit longer that way since you have to submit data back-and-forth between the client and server.
I'd say it's a lot better to have an educated opinion on the topic (aka by seeing what went up) than to just spout off. Furthermore, I fail to see how downloading the list further violates anyone's privacy.
If you advocate safe driving does it mean you won't slow down around a car-accident (a fairly normal human reaction)? The accident has already happened, we're just making comments on how stupid the driver was for going 50mph over the limit....
MegaFeelgoodCorp or something, wants to create a new AIDS treatment
They medical corps are doing very well in coming out with new drugs to treat diseases all the time. In particular, AIDS has some interesting new treatments. But one thing to notice is that these are treatments, not cures. In other words, patients have to keep taking said treatment.
The holy grail for the medical industry would be something that fully inhibits, but does not kill the disease. This would be something that would allow people with AIDS to live a full life, and even possibly engage in sexual relations without infecting a partner, but always require treatment to keep the disease in remission.
Medicine in that respect hasn't changed in many ways... it's still much more profitable to "treat" a longterm illness than it is to cure it. YI fully agree that medical corps are investing lots of money in treating such diseases, I just wish they'd invest more in curing them (or even vaccinating, which is still a big profit item for them but more beneficial to the public at large).
Ahhh, I have some quite fond memories of playing LOTRD on the local BBS's. At the time, live FPS's weren't really available (well, doom entered at some point in time, but 'online' play was limited to 2 players with modems, or an expensive LAN setup), and the best multiplayer came from hitting re-dial until you were able to get through to play your daily turns:-)
There was another door game I can't remember the name of, but basically it was space-based where you would roam around the galaxy, trading different goods to various places, killing enemy ships, and at times being in turn killed. Anyone remember what that was called, I'd love to find it online at some telnet-based BBS:-)
If you're writing a freeware game, you can still write it in a cross-platform compatible language. If you're writing shareware, generally intent is to lead gamers into getting a registered/full version of the program for money, in which case the paid-for copies will bring in revenue.
This is why, after changing settings server-side and rebooting a client (and several times the server by accident) I moved my reboot/shutdown commands and put a stub in that required you to type:
"shutdown NAMEOFMACHINE"
A little more typing, but a lot less accidental reboots:-)
There are both POP3-ssl and SMTP-ssl protocols, though they aren't commonly used it's possible the PDA+ISP might be using them. Many ISP's also use webmail, which if served on an https page generally only uses IMAP as the backend (loopback port) and is fairly secure as far as https goes...
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Short of a site that requires you to draw a picture with your mouse, scan your retina, and submit a sample for blood-dna comparison, a keylogger would in fact be capable of getting into 99% of any online password-entered systems, anywhere.
Also included in the more recent kernels, BTW:
Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection
#
# Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support
#
CONFIG_IPW2100=m
CONFIG_IPW2200=m
Care to elaborate? Searching "WGA DLL subversion" on google didn't come up with a lot of useful hints. Does it allow legit versions to update without calling home or activing WGA?
Just a little while back I cobbled together some extra hardware and setup a secondary machine for home. This machine is linux-only, but I actually tend to use it more than my primary (which is generally used for video dubbing and more power-intensive but less interactive tasks).
I spend about a day trying to get "Warcraft III" - a game that previously worked without issues - on my fresh install of wine. The thing consistently segfaulted near the end of installation. Thinking it might be a scratched CD issues, etc, I downloaded some ISO's of the game discs, and tried various workarounds to no avail.
Eventually on a hunch I installed an old version of Cedega (5.0) and voila, the game worked again (so long as I set it to permanently use that version), but I failed to see why they're breaking one game in favour of another, and I might also be missing some bugfixes/features of the newer versions in the meantime.
No, but the two do overlap in many cases.
I've noticed that some of this material is ripped out of various books, etc.
For example, it might contain a half-page exerpt from Oliver Twist... which put real, non-spammy words in with a spammy email. Evil!
However, I wonder what might happen if the owners of said literary works decided to sue the spammer for illegal use/distribution of their works. Heck, I've heard of corps sueing because censorship removes the 'artistic value' of a work (see here), so even that arguement might work
It's a figure of speech... meaning to put pressure on somebody (although I suppose in some cases thumbscrews might actually be used).
Why is it that whenever somebody mentions the US government's downhill slide in liberties and accountability, somebody has to compare them to China. China was not part of the discussion, and is in no way involved in the matter at hand. Furthermore, if the government was above heavy-handed dubiously-legal tactics, they wouldn't be using thin excuses for changing the jurisdiction on this case.
But heck, if you want to compare the US and China fine... the US is quickly moving to become what China was half a century again, while China is actually in many ways progressing.
I like how you mentioned having an addictive personality. Some people are definately likely that, in that they will obsess into one given thing until it becomes consuming. If it weren't WoW, it might be something else, healthier or less healthy.
There's a thin line between dedication and addiction. I try to personally involve myself in multiple time-requiring, semi-obsessive activities. Some of these involve other people, some don't. Since all are interesting, I tend to have a full schedule, but at the same time no one activity is taking up all my time and attention. On the flip, I usually notice if I cut one of those activities out for a long period of time.
So I guess my advice to those with addictive personalities is: manage your addictions. Find multiple things that really snag your interest, concentrate on all of them, but only to a point where they don't interfere with your personal productivity (work, school, etc). Between books (my equivilent to a pack-a-day), video games (war3, bf2), and outdoorsy things like airsoft (it's like paintball, but better), and the odd game of bowling etc... I find that I'm diversified enough that it's like getting the 4 food groups of interaction. There particular activities might not be for everyone, but by varying consuming physical/mental/group/solo/etc activities you may come out better rather than worse.
So far the major downside is that almost everything costs money, so more habits/activities == more spending, but sometimes one of these might yield some extra cash as well.
He was about the smartest person I ever knew and now he is working as a facility manager in a small appartment building.
No offence, but perhaps then he wasn't very smart. Social addictions (vs chemical ones) are a factor of the mind, and of willpower. Part of breaking them is being smart enough to recognise the signs and react to or counter them.
I know plenty of people who have been wary of MMO's because of their massively time-consuming nature, and the realization that it would impact other important things in their lives. I know others who have been involved in addiction activities - even chemically addictive ones - and were able to factorize the reasons behind them and step away from the problem.
There are many types of smarts. Perhaps your friend was good with figures or words, but he demonstrates two types of addictions so far (Itobascco and MMO's). Between the two of you perhaps you are the smarter for avoiding such things (or at least the MMO part).
The courts have ask him to produce video footage of a crime that he witnessed and he has refused
NO. The courts are trying to get him to produce video of a crime that he supposedly witnessed. In fact, even when the video is turned in it might have no burning cars at all... but what it might have are the faces and identities of a bunch of protestors for the police to happily round up and put thumbscrews to. How often nowadays is being within the vicinity of lawbreakers seen as being involved with them, pretty damn often.
On for the record, the state laws do allow him to with-hold the tape, which is why the government has gone to dubious stretches of logic to make it a federal issue.
Searching for kiddy pr0n in a search engine... sounds like a great way to leave traces around. But then, AOL users aren't generally held as all that smart.
On the other hand, what if you were getting a lot of illegal smut ads in your inbox? Less clueful users might decide to go look up such a thing in the search engine, trying to find AOL's policy on it or some way to keep it from the inbox.
Wishful thinking of course, as I don't doubt some people were searching for actual material... but not necessarily all of 'em.
Bullshit. If they were afraid of consequences it wouldn't have gotten out in the first place. One would have thought "AOL wouldn't dare releasing my personal information to the world" about 8 months ago, but whoops, they did.
Now, if they're suddenly hit with a barrage of lawsuits or a nice, really big, juicy class-action... perhaps that'll teach them. If there aren't any consequence, they'll likely do it again if it means making a quick buck.
The plot follows the gender-lines to a small extent, however. When a baby metroid emerges at the end of the old gameboy version, the first thing it seems it Samus and thus it assumes she is its mother. Rather than killing the critter, Samus allows it to life, eventually turning it over to some (supposedly benevolent) scientists... which leads to the SNES version in which the metroid sacrifices itself for her.
Yes, it could have been done with a male lead, but the 'mother' subplot does more easily track with a female lead character. Metroid is probably one of those games that could make a decent movie. Decent base plot, but nothing too deep in any particular direction that it could be too easily ruined. Tomb Raider wasn't all that bad for a VG movie (and it was fairly popular), so I wonder how one about a female bounty hunter who is savior of a lost race would do...
In the meantime, your line is also tied up for any more-important calls you might be receiving...
Wouldn't a solution also be to sue him for defamation? It's overused, but that particular charge exists for a reason.
Well, highbrow is often associated with - at least in my mind - those that have too much money and too little common sense. Games themselves don't cater to that audience, although there was a time when gaming itself was somewhat of a more exclusive clique (usually for those that didn't belong to those high-held social circles).
However, as far as gaming goes, I'd say that you're more likely to have the actual hardware (custom X-boxes, high-rodded PC rigs with custom cases, etc) that has the exclusiveness for the platinum-toilet crowd than the games themselves.
I believe there was also a CSI episode (or similar type of show) about this, where one player got pissed off, shot his 'killer' with a blank at close range, and killed him?
On various areas of a site, I may use javascript to make the UI easier to navigate by popping up dialogs etc. As a backup, there are also scriptlets that will display the same in-page dialogs, it just takes a bit longer that way since you have to submit data back-and-forth between the client and server.
I'd say it's a lot better to have an educated opinion on the topic (aka by seeing what went up) than to just spout off. Furthermore, I fail to see how downloading the list further violates anyone's privacy.
If you advocate safe driving does it mean you won't slow down around a car-accident (a fairly normal human reaction)? The accident has already happened, we're just making comments on how stupid the driver was for going 50mph over the limit....
Exactly how many flavours was Vista coming out with? Six? Seven??
MegaFeelgoodCorp or something, wants to create a new AIDS treatment
They medical corps are doing very well in coming out with new drugs to treat diseases all the time. In particular, AIDS has some interesting new treatments. But one thing to notice is that these are treatments, not cures. In other words, patients have to keep taking said treatment.
The holy grail for the medical industry would be something that fully inhibits, but does not kill the disease. This would be something that would allow people with AIDS to live a full life, and even possibly engage in sexual relations without infecting a partner, but always require treatment to keep the disease in remission.
Medicine in that respect hasn't changed in many ways... it's still much more profitable to "treat" a longterm illness than it is to cure it. YI fully agree that medical corps are investing lots of money in treating such diseases, I just wish they'd invest more in curing them (or even vaccinating, which is still a big profit item for them but more beneficial to the public at large).
Ahhh, I have some quite fond memories of playing LOTRD on the local BBS's. At the time, live FPS's weren't really available (well, doom entered at some point in time, but 'online' play was limited to 2 players with modems, or an expensive LAN setup), and the best multiplayer came from hitting re-dial until you were able to get through to play your daily turns :-)
:-)
There was another door game I can't remember the name of, but basically it was space-based where you would roam around the galaxy, trading different goods to various places, killing enemy ships, and at times being in turn killed. Anyone remember what that was called, I'd love to find it online at some telnet-based BBS
If you're writing a freeware game, you can still write it in a cross-platform compatible language. If you're writing shareware, generally intent is to lead gamers into getting a registered/full version of the program for money, in which case the paid-for copies will bring in revenue.
This is why, after changing settings server-side and rebooting a client (and several times the server by accident) I moved my reboot/shutdown commands and put a stub in that required you to type:
:-)
"shutdown NAMEOFMACHINE"
A little more typing, but a lot less accidental reboots
There are both POP3-ssl and SMTP-ssl protocols, though they aren't commonly used it's possible the PDA+ISP might be using them. Many ISP's also use webmail, which if served on an https page generally only uses IMAP as the backend (loopback port) and is fairly secure as far as https goes...