They used to correct things in incoming submissions, or combine multiple ones to get more info in one story. now they just click accept on random stories and go back to watching battlestar galactica on their tivos. Just yet another example of a good thing failing due to management not caring as much as the users.
No, but probably a decent chunk. US topsites were already pretty rare, I'd say they cut out about a third of them right here. Assume about 40 users per site, thats still a huge list of people to bust (not to mention any other site ips they sniffed, giving even more targets). It's more of a scare tactic than anything, and it worked.
For a full dvd disk image, its 4 gigabytes. They'll most likely use compression, but even if they didn't its still doable. The average download speed I'm seeing on residential cable is now 6megabit. google says:
Or, roughly a little longer than it takes to watch it. Buffer for 30 minutes or so and you could stream the rest.
With FIOS and other closer to true broadband internet connections becoming much more common, it makes even more sense(FIOS's common package is 15/2):
(4 gigabytes) / (15 (megabit / second)) = 36.4088889 minutes
Most good codecs can squeeze a movie down to 1.4 gigs or so, so downloading is entirely an option. Streaming VOD as yous uggest would work just as well, but theres no reason you couldnt keep a copy.
You don't just shut down the site, you hit everyone in the ALUP list of uploaders. You can even monitor the logs to watch people fxp to other sites to see where to hit next. Its a shame the scene kids are still vain enough to operate based on stats, you could set up a much more secure system using PKI as auth.
Valve has said a few times that its a ground up rewrite, which is a lie. Valve has always been bad at keeping their story straight, like what features of condition zero were going to be in the final version.
Even from just hunting through binaries you can find tons of quakec in both cs and cs:s (and I assume other mods). Its downright bad that some of its still in the mods, like for example everyone in counterstrike still has cell/rocket/shell/nail ammo values. What a waste.
No thanks. I'd rather have a cable that doesnt snap under any tension, especially when paying this much. I've lost far too many earbuds and headphones due to weak cables.
This is really important if you want Sci-Fi to stick around. SciFi really is not cost effective. You'd get the same amount of viewers for a reality show for less than a 10th of the cost. If they pull this off we still have chance to see some shows we might actually like rather than more shows about celebs we don't care about.
Nothing more fun than firing off a couple apt-get upgrades in the morning while watching your bsd/gentoo friends sit around rebuilding ~every package on their system. Whats this about gained speed?
What about if they make it deliberately hard to cancel? Like forcing you to print out a form and fax it long distance to a number that doesnt always pick up or is often unreachable at all?
All of this of course from a webhosting company, a buisness with absolutely no need for deadtree anything.
Plenty more where that came from. I'd love to start a site listing shitty companys that do this kind of stuff with as much evidence as possible. Things like this wired subscription and the hosting companys are really bad, but I'd even include the slightly more obvious scams that are still just as bad, like the autorenews on cellphone sms services. All it takes is one text message from anyone that borrowed your phone, and all of a sudden you're being billed $7 per WEEK for a daily joke. Next time we have someone in office that cares about the daily life of citizens, we need some serious smackdown laid on these buisness practices
Definately agreed. At first it was your typical holywood laser system (Easy to avoid, too stupid to use in practice), then when it split like that the movie gained a ton of points. Sure beats the simple framework with huge gaps that every other movie seems to use.
I was refering to where they shove 5 old arcade games on a dvd sized disk(such a waste) and sell it as {Namco|Williams|Nintendo|Sega|Atari}'s greatest hits.
They're just emulators and the same roms you'd download online, as proven by some kgen guys that hacked up one of the dreamcast greatest hits packages by swapping out the rom with another one and getting it to work fine
I used to think the same thing until I heard minibosses' version. Check out miniboses.com some time, hearing them play all the best songs from mega man 2 is awe inspiring.
They're usually sold in collections, either Greatest Hits or Arcade Classics. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. If my computer doesn't have a cdrom drive, is it not piracy to download music/games/apps/movies in a format my computer can play because they don't sell it like that? It might be more ethical to you, but that doesn't matter, the only person whos ethical views matter are those who produce the content and those who write the laws.
What about the undefusable bomb on the updated cobble (since fixed) or practically every map back in 1.3? What about throwing grenades under floating boxes and walls, causing grenades to be silent (making it easy to hear who you hit, and exactly where they are), and causing flashbangs to be much more powerful and impossible to avoid? (Doable in nuke, train, inferno, aztec, cobble, just about any map that has big open areas).
What about boosting through thin ceillings? (assault, militia, dust2,others..)
Theres so many bugs that unless you're as big of a nerd as I am, you're already at the disadvantage. My personal opinion is that since all of these have been around since day one, they're valid gameplay tactics. Valve's changed far too many things to not touch any of these, obviously they're allowing it. I suppose it all boils down to quakeworld. Rocket jumping has to be the single best bug in gaming history, along with all the other quakeworld bugs(full air control, trimping, wall strafing) that make it still the most fun game to just run around fragging in.
No point in treeing it, trees lead to an origin too easily. Cell-style works so much better. Each peer has to discover eachother (Start with the machine that infected it, get the current list of peers from it. randomly ping each peer to see if one drops off, if so send a hint to your other peers. All hints only cause verification, not actually removing. Same for adding new peers this way. Controlling it is then a matter of keysigned commands. All commands are timestamped to be unique(so you can easily discard duplicate messages), and is verified with the public key. The only way you can be exposed at the leader is if you get caught with the private key.
I grew up watching The Next Generation, Obviously I knew it was fiction, but I was still young enough to not yet be synical. The ideology of ST has always been one I wish more people followed. The Federation is all about betterment of the human race. Once you get replicators that can duplicate anything you can possibly want, all that social class structure becomes bullshit. Whats left? Betterment of existance. Discover new lifes, learn from them, teach them, and generally make everyone better off. Screw money, Screw religion, Screw big government, Screw everything that is nothing but a tool to force people into subserviance while keeping them on the top. I'm fucking tired of people letting themselfs be pissed on all their life in the hopes of some day getting to piss on someone else. We should be better than that, and StarTrek instilled that in me.
Yes, atleast on the networks ran by the opers that have been around a while (Eg, EFNet). Maybe a startup network ran by fools blinded by their power and faux selfrightiousness would try and shut it down. The rest of us realise that our job is to keep our servers operational, and anything beyond that is out of the scope of being an ircop/server admin. Once you start shutting down channels for content[1], you become a moderator rather than a common carrier. You're now responsible for moderating ALL channels in the eyes of the law. If some 14 year old girl wants to join, thats her perogative. If you think someone should be policing her internet, thats risky, but her parents decision and not yours. Most respected IRC networks value freedom of speech enough to know that you're much better off having people talk about things you disagree with than having everyone live under the wrath of one persons opinion (even if said person is currently you).
[1] For content as opposed to for housing a botnet thats detrimental to your servers service. Of course, the smart ircops leave those around too because nothing gets your server packeted quicker than trying to take down someones botnet channel.
Just wake up from a 200 year nap or something? We sold our freedom a long time ago. Like it or not, most people out there don't WANT freedom. They'd rather be told what to like, what to do, how to do it, etc. Why? Because its easier, and they feel better about themselfs in the end. Its not my fault, I was just following protocol. I'm not ruining familys lives, I'm just enforcing the laws.
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I'd edit the submissions before they go live.
They used to correct things in incoming submissions, or combine multiple ones to get more info in one story. now they just click accept on random stories and go back to watching battlestar galactica on their tivos.
Just yet another example of a good thing failing due to management not caring as much as the users.
No, but probably a decent chunk. US topsites were already pretty rare, I'd say they cut out about a third of them right here. Assume about 40 users per site, thats still a huge list of people to bust (not to mention any other site ips they sniffed, giving even more targets).
It's more of a scare tactic than anything, and it worked.
14:38 dick.mobi
14:39 there, now i'm the first person to make that joke
14:39 * [m1] sits back to collect royalties
Mon Jul 11 2005, #fatkids.
For a full dvd disk image, its 4 gigabytes. They'll most likely use compression, but even if they didn't its still doable.
The average download speed I'm seeing on residential cable is now 6megabit. google says:
(4 gigabytes) / (6 (megabit / second)) = 1.51703704 hours
Or, roughly a little longer than it takes to watch it. Buffer for 30 minutes or so and you could stream the rest.
With FIOS and other closer to true broadband internet connections becoming much more common, it makes even more sense(FIOS's common package is 15/2):
(4 gigabytes) / (15 (megabit / second)) = 36.4088889 minutes
Most good codecs can squeeze a movie down to 1.4 gigs or so, so downloading is entirely an option. Streaming VOD as yous uggest would work just as well, but theres no reason you couldnt keep a copy.
You don't just shut down the site, you hit everyone in the ALUP list of uploaders. You can even monitor the logs to watch people fxp to other sites to see where to hit next. Its a shame the scene kids are still vain enough to operate based on stats, you could set up a much more secure system using PKI as auth.
Valve has said a few times that its a ground up rewrite, which is a lie. Valve has always been bad at keeping their story straight, like what features of condition zero were going to be in the final version.
Even from just hunting through binaries you can find tons of quakec in both cs and cs:s (and I assume other mods). Its downright bad that some of its still in the mods, like for example everyone in counterstrike still has cell/rocket/shell/nail ammo values. What a waste.
No thanks. I'd rather have a cable that doesnt snap under any tension, especially when paying this much.
I've lost far too many earbuds and headphones due to weak cables.
This is really important if you want Sci-Fi to stick around. SciFi really is not cost effective. You'd get the same amount of viewers for a reality show for less than a 10th of the cost. If they pull this off we still have chance to see some shows we might actually like rather than more shows about celebs we don't care about.
Nothing more fun than firing off a couple apt-get upgrades in the morning while watching your bsd/gentoo friends sit around rebuilding ~every package on their system. Whats this about gained speed?
What about if they make it deliberately hard to cancel? Like forcing you to print out a form and fax it long distance to a number that doesnt always pick up or is often unreachable at all?
All of this of course from a webhosting company, a buisness with absolutely no need for deadtree anything.
It would be unethical to name names, so I'll just give some random links of others accords instead of my own:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/t108278.html
http://www.kylemanning.com/index.php?q=node/25
http://www.webdevsites.com/Reviews/597
Plenty more where that came from. I'd love to start a site listing shitty companys that do this kind of stuff with as much evidence as possible. Things like this wired subscription and the hosting companys are really bad, but I'd even include the slightly more obvious scams that are still just as bad, like the autorenews on cellphone sms services. All it takes is one text message from anyone that borrowed your phone, and all of a sudden you're being billed $7 per WEEK for a daily joke. Next time we have someone in office that cares about the daily life of citizens, we need some serious smackdown laid on these buisness practices
Definately agreed. At first it was your typical holywood laser system (Easy to avoid, too stupid to use in practice), then when it split like that the movie gained a ton of points. Sure beats the simple framework with huge gaps that every other movie seems to use.
Good call
I was refering to where they shove 5 old arcade games on a dvd sized disk(such a waste) and sell it as {Namco|Williams|Nintendo|Sega|Atari}'s greatest hits.
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Example: http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PSX/willi
They're just emulators and the same roms you'd download online, as proven by some kgen guys that hacked up one of the dreamcast greatest hits packages by swapping out the rom with another one and getting it to work fine
I used to think the same thing until I heard minibosses' version. Check out miniboses.com some time, hearing them play all the best songs from mega man 2 is awe inspiring.
0: Type of people that understand binary
1: Type that doesnt
10: Type of person that realising you start counting from 0.
They're usually sold in collections, either Greatest Hits or Arcade Classics. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. If my computer doesn't have a cdrom drive, is it not piracy to download music/games/apps/movies in a format my computer can play because they don't sell it like that?
It might be more ethical to you, but that doesn't matter, the only person whos ethical views matter are those who produce the content and those who write the laws.
What about the undefusable bomb on the updated cobble (since fixed) or practically every map back in 1.3? What about throwing grenades under floating boxes and walls, causing grenades to be silent (making it easy to hear who you hit, and exactly where they are), and causing flashbangs to be much more powerful and impossible to avoid? (Doable in nuke, train, inferno, aztec, cobble, just about any map that has big open areas).
What about boosting through thin ceillings? (assault, militia, dust2,others..)
Theres so many bugs that unless you're as big of a nerd as I am, you're already at the disadvantage. My personal opinion is that since all of these have been around since day one, they're valid gameplay tactics. Valve's changed far too many things to not touch any of these, obviously they're allowing it. I suppose it all boils down to quakeworld. Rocket jumping has to be the single best bug in gaming history, along with all the other quakeworld bugs(full air control, trimping, wall strafing) that make it still the most fun game to just run around fragging in.
No point in treeing it, trees lead to an origin too easily. Cell-style works so much better. Each peer has to discover eachother (Start with the machine that infected it, get the current list of peers from it. randomly ping each peer to see if one drops off, if so send a hint to your other peers. All hints only cause verification, not actually removing. Same for adding new peers this way.
Controlling it is then a matter of keysigned commands. All commands are timestamped to be unique(so you can easily discard duplicate messages), and is verified with the public key. The only way you can be exposed at the leader is if you get caught with the private key.
Whats wrong with that?
I grew up watching The Next Generation, Obviously I knew it was fiction, but I was still young enough to not yet be synical. The ideology of ST has always been one I wish more people followed. The Federation is all about betterment of the human race. Once you get replicators that can duplicate anything you can possibly want, all that social class structure becomes bullshit. Whats left? Betterment of existance. Discover new lifes, learn from them, teach them, and generally make everyone better off. Screw money, Screw religion, Screw big government, Screw everything that is nothing but a tool to force people into subserviance while keeping them on the top.
I'm fucking tired of people letting themselfs be pissed on all their life in the hopes of some day getting to piss on someone else. We should be better than that, and StarTrek instilled that in me.
Yes, atleast on the networks ran by the opers that have been around a while (Eg, EFNet). Maybe a startup network ran by fools blinded by their power and faux selfrightiousness would try and shut it down. The rest of us realise that our job is to keep our servers operational, and anything beyond that is out of the scope of being an ircop/server admin. Once you start shutting down channels for content[1], you become a moderator rather than a common carrier. You're now responsible for moderating ALL channels in the eyes of the law. If some 14 year old girl wants to join, thats her perogative. If you think someone should be policing her internet, thats risky, but her parents decision and not yours. Most respected IRC networks value freedom of speech enough to know that you're much better off having people talk about things you disagree with than having everyone live under the wrath of one persons opinion (even if said person is currently you).
[1] For content as opposed to for housing a botnet thats detrimental to your servers service. Of course, the smart ircops leave those around too because nothing gets your server packeted quicker than trying to take down someones botnet channel.
Just wake up from a 200 year nap or something? We sold our freedom a long time ago.
Like it or not, most people out there don't WANT freedom. They'd rather be told what to like, what to do, how to do it, etc. Why? Because its easier, and they feel better about themselfs in the end. Its not my fault, I was just following protocol. I'm not ruining familys lives, I'm just enforcing the laws.
Satellites are relatively easy to overpower. They'll switch to the alternate feed very quickly, but thats where his 'very briefly' cause comes in.
Checksum the rars against the sfv posted on a public dupesite (like nforce/isonews/whatever you kids use these days).
If your download didnt come in the original scene release rars, you're already screwing yourself with something most likely subpar.