And let it get MIRVd? no way. Hide it somewhere sneaky like the shadow after 2fort5 spiral, then when the enemy kills you, your sentry, and your other basement defense, you can time it and det it as he goes up. Granted, I played q/tf, Valve really screwed up the dungeony feel. 2fort was practically monolit, no hiding in shadows as the enemys defense stands next to you, no hiding pipes..just run around with their overpowered hwguy ac cannon. Guess thats just Valve's MO though. (take good mod, remove the skillgap, make it more marketable)
I agree. We have a TimeWarner ScientificAtlanta DVR, and not only does it let me record anything, when playing back theres a "Copy to VCR" option that will play the recorded show onto an auxilery input so that you can transfer something without even having to watch it while transfering. Really not a bad device overall.
Same can be said for Capitalism. The result is what we're living now: Some people get rich enough to control the world and thus hinder any advancement others might make.
So you're saying that if people reported the vuln to microsoft before they went public with it, microsoft would be a better company? Isn't that exactly what they asked for and everyone cried about how insecure it is?
Because if Reiser fucked up, nobody would use it. If microsoft fucked up, they'd be liable for a lot of damages, lose sales, etc. Its easy to excel when you have nothing to lose.
Microsoft has a lot of good devs, and a lot of good marketers. So while windows has always had some really great features, they never bothered to market them because it doesnt help sell it, and anyone that cares will find out about it on their own. Contrast to the OSS community, which has no marketers, so all you see is what is there. Example:
While I remember the 'Web Logs' you reference, I think the closer ancester to what we now consider blogs would just be the simple news/updates pages on personal project pages, usually driven by a NewsPro CGI script. I know I ran one on brained.org back in early 1999.
But can you really have copyright on the cast list for a show you took no part in? More importantly, what legal ramifications can tv.com take against a third party for mass mirroring data thats available from multiple sources? Obviously you'd have to leave out a lot of the real good info (spoilers, reviews, anything detailed), but atleast to get a nice eplist going I'd say atleast manual mirror/rewording would be great. Especially of the more complex shows that have a lot of info (Trek, Buffy, anything that would attract the type of nerd that would keep a site like this updated)
Mplayer streams fine, you can give it the url to any http, ftp, rm, or whatever the windows asf stuff is.
I used to waste a friends bandwidth playing avis directly off his http server that way. And once did vcds inside rars over an ftp, but the ftp was mounted with lufs.
See other reply about single user systems meaning the only files worth anything are owned by you. More importantly though, this specific example was spyware on windows not being able to work on linux. On windows without admin you're not going to be able to throw it anywhere that will effect others either, but running it under a user is enough to effect you and to spread it.
What other users? The only files that arnt owned by me on my machine are the files I'd get back on a reinstall. The files owned by me are what actually matter, such as the things I've created, downloaded, or personally modified. Who cares if I lose a stock install of aim or vim, what matters is my aim logs(owned by me) and code (owned by me)
Why would it need to modify/etc/rc.d/rc.local? Why cant it just modify ~/.bashrc, ~/.login, ~/.profile, ~/.bashlogin, ~/.xinitrc, ~/.startkde, or any of the many other badly docced autoinit scripts for the user?
On a single user machine, you're no safer as a user than as root/admin. The only files that are important are what you've introduced (downloaded or created), which will be under your username and thus owned by anything done by you. The only files owned by root will be the stuff the OS did, and thus recoverable with just a reinstall and maybe a saved installed package list.
Googles search is pretty worthless now. They were the best until they got the popularity they have now, now people get paid specificly to break the google crawler in order to inflate pagerank. Far too many top N results are obvious spider-trap pages and domain squatters.
If singleplayer, then people would complain even more about the lack of guns and valve expecting us to pay extra to counteract this defficiency. If multiplayer, then you'd pretty much lose your entire fanbase giving people an unfair advantage for paying more.
"special playmodes online for quake." Lets see, I can DM/TDM with everyone, or play Hunt The Golden Goose Egg of Stupid Hypotheticly Named Game Modes That Would Be Restricted To Special Edition Owners (Or, HTGGESHNGMTWBRTSEO) with the ~2 other people that would be on at the same time as you and ping well to your server.
"Or a special class in WoW." Just more attention and people trying to hijack your account. Though overall, definately the best example. You really cant seperate them entirely from normal players, nor can you give them a real advantage. Stuff like custom skins would work best. In the Sven Coop HL1 mod everyone who paid to register got their wonids hardcoded into the game so that they would get Electric Crowbars and Golden Uzis.
Of course, then valve switched to steam, everyone got new ids with no way to show what steamid belonged to what old wonid, and I have no clue what they did then.
Another HL example is Natural Selection. Coders, Testers, an Constelation Members (people who paid), and people that played in the first season of the Cal-NS competition all got a special icon next to their names on the scoreboard. No gameplay change, just something to show off. Of course then server admins got jealous of everyone having pretty icons and wrote a metamod plugin to be able to set anyone as any icon.
get something like this(cable spliter). 1 end into your cable modem, one end into your cable ready tv.
You'll miss a lot of channels, but you should get enough. They might have installed a filter on your line to prevent this, but most dont, and at worst you're out ~$2.
"Do we really want this to be the public perception of our Linux all-stars?"
Apparently, Yes.
He wasn't appointed Grand Pubah by the Linux HighCouncelSociety, the only reason he's still where he is is because we want him to be there. If we all stopped paying attention to him he would just fade into history.
You know steam was never requirement, just a really really strong suggestion with the alternative not being documented/easy. All you need is something that will look enough like steam for hl2.exe/hl.exe to load. I believe one comes with the hl SDK, if not, the one that was used in all HL/HL2 scene releases by -ANON will work fine.
I've ran into that atleast once before, but even additionally I'd never want to entirely disable password auth because then what if something happens to your privkey? Think katrina-sized destruction taking out your computer/entire house + the bank that housed your backup usb thumbdrive. Or even a more realistic scenario, sometimes you just want someone else to be able to log into your machine, be it a friend helping you or even an admin at a datacenter that doesnt want to have to dig out a keyboard+monitor to do a local login.
Especially with harddrives. For that much money I'd rather just have an 80gb or so HD included that can cache the game data as needed, then just expire it after N uses or N days.
While I'm fairly certain this isn't a scam in any way, if it was, would having some guys money frozen really help? Paypals not refunding all of this money, they're just saying "hey, someones making too much money too quickly, they're probably doing something illegal so we can steal it and they wont go after us". Itd be different if they decieded this was fradulent and refunded all funds, but as is they just keep it.
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I don't know what you had to smoke to come up with those ideas, but I hope you brought enough for the rest of us.
And let it get MIRVd? no way. Hide it somewhere sneaky like the shadow after 2fort5 spiral, then when the enemy kills you, your sentry, and your other basement defense, you can time it and det it as he goes up. Granted, I played q/tf, Valve really screwed up the dungeony feel. 2fort was practically monolit, no hiding in shadows as the enemys defense stands next to you, no hiding pipes..just run around with their overpowered hwguy ac cannon. Guess thats just Valve's MO though. (take good mod, remove the skillgap, make it more marketable)
I agree. We have a TimeWarner ScientificAtlanta DVR, and not only does it let me record anything, when playing back theres a "Copy to VCR" option that will play the recorded show onto an auxilery input so that you can transfer something without even having to watch it while transfering. Really not a bad device overall.
Same can be said for Capitalism. The result is what we're living now: Some people get rich enough to control the world and thus hinder any advancement others might make.
So you're saying that if people reported the vuln to microsoft before they went public with it, microsoft would be a better company?
Isn't that exactly what they asked for and everyone cried about how insecure it is?
Because if Reiser fucked up, nobody would use it. If microsoft fucked up, they'd be liable for a lot of damages, lose sales, etc. Its easy to excel when you have nothing to lose.
sigh, remind me to preview because slashdots "plain old text" is more like "screw up your post that was plain old text".
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Microsoft has a lot of good devs, and a lot of good marketers. So while windows has always had some really great features, they never bothered to market them because it doesnt help sell it, and anyone that cares will find out about it on their own. Contrast to the OSS community, which has no marketers, so all you see is what is there.
Example:
Microsoft marketers: "DOS is dead!"
Microsoft devels: "Parse your text files/filesystem/system events/anything with SQL like syntax (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/to
Yeah, Windows never used text files for configuring apps.
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cat >slashdot.ini http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/too
While I remember the 'Web Logs' you reference, I think the closer ancester to what we now consider blogs would just be the simple news/updates pages on personal project pages, usually driven by a NewsPro CGI script. I know I ran one on brained.org back in early 1999.
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But can you really have copyright on the cast list for a show you took no part in? More importantly, what legal ramifications can tv.com take against a third party for mass mirroring data thats available from multiple sources? Obviously you'd have to leave out a lot of the real good info (spoilers, reviews, anything detailed), but atleast to get a nice eplist going I'd say atleast manual mirror/rewording would be great. Especially of the more complex shows that have a lot of info (Trek, Buffy, anything that would attract the type of nerd that would keep a site like this updated)
Mplayer streams fine, you can give it the url to any http, ftp, rm, or whatever the windows asf stuff is.
I used to waste a friends bandwidth playing avis directly off his http server that way. And once did vcds inside rars over an ftp, but the ftp was mounted with lufs.
See other reply about single user systems meaning the only files worth anything are owned by you. More importantly though, this specific example was spyware on windows not being able to work on linux. On windows without admin you're not going to be able to throw it anywhere that will effect others either, but running it under a user is enough to effect you and to spread it.
What other users? The only files that arnt owned by me on my machine are the files I'd get back on a reinstall. The files owned by me are what actually matter, such as the things I've created, downloaded, or personally modified.
Who cares if I lose a stock install of aim or vim, what matters is my aim logs(owned by me) and code (owned by me)
Why would it need to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local? Why cant it just modify ~/.bashrc, ~/.login, ~/.profile, ~/.bashlogin, ~/.xinitrc, ~/.startkde, or any of the many other badly docced autoinit scripts for the user?
On a single user machine, you're no safer as a user than as root/admin. The only files that are important are what you've introduced (downloaded or created), which will be under your username and thus owned by anything done by you. The only files owned by root will be the stuff the OS did, and thus recoverable with just a reinstall and maybe a saved installed package list.
Googles search is pretty worthless now. They were the best until they got the popularity they have now, now people get paid specificly to break the google crawler in order to inflate pagerank. Far too many top N results are obvious spider-trap pages and domain squatters.
"What if there were more guns in half-life2"
If singleplayer, then people would complain even more about the lack of guns and valve expecting us to pay extra to counteract this defficiency.
If multiplayer, then you'd pretty much lose your entire fanbase giving people an unfair advantage for paying more.
"special playmodes online for quake."
Lets see, I can DM/TDM with everyone, or play Hunt The Golden Goose Egg of Stupid Hypotheticly Named Game Modes That Would Be Restricted To Special Edition Owners (Or, HTGGESHNGMTWBRTSEO) with the ~2 other people that would be on at the same time as you and ping well to your server.
"Or a special class in WoW."
Just more attention and people trying to hijack your account. Though overall, definately the best example. You really cant seperate them entirely from normal players, nor can you give them a real advantage. Stuff like custom skins would work best.
In the Sven Coop HL1 mod everyone who paid to register got their wonids hardcoded into the game so that they would get Electric Crowbars and Golden Uzis.
Of course, then valve switched to steam, everyone got new ids with no way to show what steamid belonged to what old wonid, and I have no clue what they did then.
Another HL example is Natural Selection. Coders, Testers, an Constelation Members (people who paid), and people that played in the first season of the Cal-NS competition all got a special icon next to their names on the scoreboard.
No gameplay change, just something to show off. Of course then server admins got jealous of everyone having pretty icons and wrote a metamod plugin to be able to set anyone as any icon.
get something like this(cable spliter). 1 end into your cable modem, one end into your cable ready tv.
You'll miss a lot of channels, but you should get enough. They might have installed a filter on your line to prevent this, but most dont, and at worst you're out ~$2.
"Do we really want this to be the public perception of our Linux all-stars?"
Apparently, Yes.
He wasn't appointed Grand Pubah by the Linux HighCouncelSociety, the only reason he's still where he is is because we want him to be there. If we all stopped paying attention to him he would just fade into history.
You know steam was never requirement, just a really really strong suggestion with the alternative not being documented/easy. All you need is something that will look enough like steam for hl2.exe/hl.exe to load. I believe one comes with the hl SDK, if not, the one that was used in all HL/HL2 scene releases by -ANON will work fine.
I've ran into that atleast once before, but even additionally I'd never want to entirely disable password auth because then what if something happens to your privkey? Think katrina-sized destruction taking out your computer/entire house + the bank that housed your backup usb thumbdrive.
Or even a more realistic scenario, sometimes you just want someone else to be able to log into your machine, be it a friend helping you or even an admin at a datacenter that doesnt want to have to dig out a keyboard+monitor to do a local login.
Especially with harddrives. For that much money I'd rather just have an 80gb or so HD included that can cache the game data as needed, then just expire it after N uses or N days.
While I'm fairly certain this isn't a scam in any way, if it was, would having some guys money frozen really help? Paypals not refunding all of this money, they're just saying "hey, someones making too much money too quickly, they're probably doing something illegal so we can steal it and they wont go after us".
Itd be different if they decieded this was fradulent and refunded all funds, but as is they just keep it.