Myself and everyone I know was looking forward to the online play.
And so far as I'm concerned, they delivered way more than I expected. I'm absolutely blown away by the matchmaking, I've never used anything like it online. It kicks ass, you're online playing a match against people of roughly your skill level within a minute or two of hitting the power button. The clan support is a good feature, and it's cool as hell I can go to bungie.com and see the stats and history for every match I've ever played.
Plus, I like the online maps, the match types.
I'll admit the single player mode was weak, it seemed shorter than the first, largely because they took out most of the backtracking the first title had you do. But that's not why I bought it.
I guess if you dont have live it's probably not worth it.
Firefox said it needed to download the plug-in to view the page, I happily clicked OK, trusting FF to do it's thing. After all, it's super secure and standards compliant, the moz guys wouldn't have their app suggest I download a bad JVM, would they?
Now my machine is vulnerable.
It's worth noting this is only about a week-old installation. I think I'm going to bounce a system and check to see if it's still auto-downloading the borked version, I have a feeling it is.
You can argue semantics and say it's Sun's fault (and it is), but my machine would be safe if FF had a "If JVM.version X then DONT_FUCKIN_USE_IT" line somewhere.
Doesn't matter to an end user, which is what you all can't get through your heads.
That's why people would rather pay $200 bucks to have it be Microsoft's responsibility than to have to constantly monitor and upgrade every component on the system.
How did Java get on my machine? Firefox automatically installed it for me. Firefox automatically downloaded and installed an unsafe JVM with a critical security hole.
When Java is exploited on an IE machine, you betcha it's Microsoft's fault, right?
Don't worry about the new formula from our competitor, we have something even better coming very soon.
Seriously, this isn't news, this is basic marketing. No company is ever going to admit that the competition is superior, which is what they'd be doing if they said they were worried.
No athlete is going to say he's worried on game day, either. "Gee we suck! I sure hope the Bears don't hurt us!". It doesn't happen.
High Risk Vulnerabilities Sun Java Plugin Arbitrary Package Access Vulnerability (idef20041123) Description
Java Plugin allows web browsers to run Java applets. Java plugin may be used by Internet Explorer, Mozilla (and Mozilla-base browsers, such as Firefox), Opera and other browsers.
When a browser opens a web page that contains a Java applet the browser automatically downloads the applet and runs it locally. To protect the user from malicious applets all the applets run in so called "sandbox". The sandbox restricts what an applet can do. For example, the sandbox will not allow an applet to open local files or start programs.
This bug in Sun Java Plugin allows a web site to bypass the sandbox and execute Java code that the sandbox will normally not allow and possibly gain control over the client computer. Technical Details
Sun Java Virtual Machine contains sun.* packages that are only supposed to be used internally, by the virtual machine itself. Some private classes allow direct access to memory or modifying private fields of Java objects. If an applet attempts to load one of those packages a security exception is thrown. If an applet could load those classes it could turn off Java Security Manager and break out of Java sandbox.
JavaScript can access properties and methods of Java applets embedded on the page. It is possible to load a private package from JavaScript as shown in the code below:
var c=document.applets[0].getClass().forName('sun.text.Utility'); alert('got Class object: '+c)
Java Reflection API allows objects to examine their own structure (for example, find out the class of the object or the available methods). Reflection API defines getClass() function that returns the object's class. forName method of Class object loads the named class. The same operation done from the Java applet instead of JavaScript would fail. Recommendations
Upgrade Java Environment to version 1.4.2_06 or later. It can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Sure, it's a Java vulnerability, but a vulnerability nonetheless.
Why hasnt FireFox automatically updated Java for me?
At the end of the day, every time one of you sticks FireFox on some clueless' machine, and tell them they're "safe", you're lying (or just ignorant).
30 million C64s were sold, and to me and many others Commodore holds much more geek cred than Apple ever will.
I did shit with Amiga a decade ago that the "think different" Mac folks are just figuring out how to do. Anyone else remember Video Toaster?
It seems to me, though, that this company just wants to use the name to sue other people using it, ie; a source of revenue via litigation. I don't see anything outside of the/. submission about a Commodore-branded anything.
They probably just want to sue Jeri Ellsworths profits away from her.
"Aunt Tilley" buys what she's told to, that is whatever the kid asked for verbatim.
Better than GORF, Radar Rat Race, or Lock N Chase?
How dare you.
I remember when a bunch of my friends had Vic 20s, and I wished I had one.
Then for christmas, lo and behold, there's what looks like a Vic 20! Hooray, I rushed over, red-cheeked with excitement. Commodore 64?! What the fuck is that! I had one from the very first shipment to Canada. There was nowhere to get software for it in my area.
I was bummed, and all my friends mocked my useless PC.. Until a few months later my old man took me to the World of Commodore show, where I picked up a Choplifter! cartridge. Then it was: "WHOS LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES!".
I swear I had like 20 kids coming to my house at a time to play it. It just blew away anything we'd seen before, back in the age of Atari's and Colecos.
Yes, the Commodore 64 is still the best-selling personal computer in history (it's in Guinness), and Commodore invented multi-media (and coined the phrase multi-media) with the Amiga.
In fact, every time some slashbot gushes about something Apple is doing, a part of me can't help thinking "Commodore wanna-bes".
The name still carries some weight, and a fair bit of geek cred.
I want my MP3 player to have a SID chip in it, so I can play back all those old SIDplayer files.
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That and its pointed in the other direction
Id doesn't self-publish, or publish outside the usual channels. They just hand a finished copy to Activision.
I'd say self-publishing is the most identifying feature of indie media.
Why doesnt the games section in slashdot cover this kind of stuff?
/. in general. They have a lot of eyes watching, but don't really use that to the general advantage of OSS.
All it discusses are Doom 3, Half Life 2, Halo 2, and the odd update to WineX that lets yet another big commercial Windows title run under linux.
I guess I don't understand what motivates
To me, new and good indie games, or hell - any good game I've never heard of is true "news for nerds". SCO v IBM is "news for IP lawyers".
Halo 2 is from microsoft, you should have noticed by now just about every submission has some weak anti-MS troll in it.
This whole "news for nerds" website is a troll.
So just troll back.
Myself and everyone I know was looking forward to the online play.
And so far as I'm concerned, they delivered way more than I expected. I'm absolutely blown away by the matchmaking, I've never used anything like it online. It kicks ass, you're online playing a match against people of roughly your skill level within a minute or two of hitting the power button. The clan support is a good feature, and it's cool as hell I can go to bungie.com and see the stats and history for every match I've ever played.
Plus, I like the online maps, the match types.
I'll admit the single player mode was weak, it seemed shorter than the first, largely because they took out most of the backtracking the first title had you do. But that's not why I bought it.
I guess if you dont have live it's probably not worth it.
stay tuned as the rovers welcome a brand new year on Mars.
What does an earth year have to do with a martian year? Nothing thats what!
FPGAs have been around since the 70s, what's new about them?
I browsed a site with a Java plugin.
Firefox said it needed to download the plug-in to view the page, I happily clicked OK, trusting FF to do it's thing. After all, it's super secure and standards compliant, the moz guys wouldn't have their app suggest I download a bad JVM, would they?
Now my machine is vulnerable.
It's worth noting this is only about a week-old installation. I think I'm going to bounce a system and check to see if it's still auto-downloading the borked version, I have a feeling it is.
You can argue semantics and say it's Sun's fault (and it is), but my machine would be safe if FF had a "If JVM.version X then DONT_FUCKIN_USE_IT" line somewhere.
This thing eats medicine for fuel.
And when it grabs you in its flowery metal claws, you can't escape. Because they're made of metal and flowers.
If everyone ran linux, then every business would still want an AV suite, whether it was needed or not.
To win what?
It's not. They're worse, if you ask me.
And my University used mag stripes, which were readable by vending machines on campus.
You'd have to custom design your own vending machine if you wanted it to read barcodes.
I think Firefox should refuse to load a plugin with a vulnerability that allows remote execution of arbitrary code.
The moz team know about the exploit, they could easily toss in a "if java_version X" statement.
If they really want me to think of Firefox as the "safe" browser, they need to go that extra mile.
Software "security" seems to be about the blame game and fingerpointing.
At least Atari was worth something when they sold it to Hasbro.
Bushnell really fucked the Atari name up.
Doesn't matter to an end user, which is what you all can't get through your heads.
That's why people would rather pay $200 bucks to have it be Microsoft's responsibility than to have to constantly monitor and upgrade every component on the system.
How did Java get on my machine? Firefox automatically installed it for me. Firefox automatically downloaded and installed an unsafe JVM with a critical security hole.
When Java is exploited on an IE machine, you betcha it's Microsoft's fault, right?
Don't worry about the new formula from our competitor, we have something even better coming very soon.
Seriously, this isn't news, this is basic marketing. No company is ever going to admit that the competition is superior, which is what they'd be doing if they said they were worried.
No athlete is going to say he's worried on game day, either. "Gee we suck! I sure hope the Bears don't hurt us!". It doesn't happen.
But anything to bash MSFT, I suppose.
No it didnt, I just tried.
t .Utility');
Firefox 1.0 has 1 high risk vulnerability.
High Risk Vulnerabilities
Sun Java Plugin Arbitrary Package Access Vulnerability (idef20041123)
Description
Java Plugin allows web browsers to run Java applets. Java plugin may be used by Internet Explorer, Mozilla (and Mozilla-base browsers, such as Firefox), Opera and other browsers.
When a browser opens a web page that contains a Java applet the browser automatically downloads the applet and runs it locally. To protect the user from malicious applets all the applets run in so called "sandbox". The sandbox restricts what an applet can do. For example, the sandbox will not allow an applet to open local files or start programs.
This bug in Sun Java Plugin allows a web site to bypass the sandbox and execute Java code that the sandbox will normally not allow and possibly gain control over the client computer.
Technical Details
Sun Java Virtual Machine contains sun.* packages that are only supposed to be used internally, by the virtual machine itself. Some private classes allow direct access to memory or modifying private fields of Java objects. If an applet attempts to load one of those packages a security exception is thrown. If an applet could load those classes it could turn off Java Security Manager and break out of Java sandbox.
JavaScript can access properties and methods of Java applets embedded on the page. It is possible to load a private package from JavaScript as shown in the code below:
var c=document.applets[0].getClass().forName('sun.tex
alert('got Class object: '+c)
Java Reflection API allows objects to examine their own structure (for example, find out the class of the object or the available methods). Reflection API defines getClass() function that returns the object's class. forName method of Class object loads the named class. The same operation done from the Java applet instead of JavaScript would fail.
Recommendations
Upgrade Java Environment to version 1.4.2_06 or later. It can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Sure, it's a Java vulnerability, but a vulnerability nonetheless.
Why hasnt FireFox automatically updated Java for me?
At the end of the day, every time one of you sticks FireFox on some clueless' machine, and tell them they're "safe", you're lying (or just ignorant).
Do you want to back up your claim that they had a corrupt CEO, of whom I assume you mean Jack Trameil?
He was just so corrupt that Warner hired him on to "save" their failing Atari acquisition?
Maybe you just say he's corrupt because he was a Jewish holocaust survivor, and you're an anti-semite?
New Amigas? Kinda late for that don'tcha think?
When Jobs came back to Apple, people were saying "New Macs? Kinda late for that don'tcha think?"
Not that that's going to happen here. They just want some trademarks to sue people over.
Though I'd love to see the Amiga updated and rereleased, a la the newer Macs. One can dream.
30 million C64s were sold, and to me and many others Commodore holds much more geek cred than Apple ever will.
/. submission about a Commodore-branded anything.
I did shit with Amiga a decade ago that the "think different" Mac folks are just figuring out how to do. Anyone else remember Video Toaster?
It seems to me, though, that this company just wants to use the name to sue other people using it, ie; a source of revenue via litigation. I don't see anything outside of the
They probably just want to sue Jeri Ellsworths profits away from her.
"Aunt Tilley" buys what she's told to, that is whatever the kid asked for verbatim.
You have no midi for the C64.
What you have there is a genuine SIDplayer file.
Better than GORF, Radar Rat Race, or Lock N Chase?
How dare you.
I remember when a bunch of my friends had Vic 20s, and I wished I had one.
Then for christmas, lo and behold, there's what looks like a Vic 20! Hooray, I rushed over, red-cheeked with excitement. Commodore 64?! What the fuck is that! I had one from the very first shipment to Canada. There was nowhere to get software for it in my area.
I was bummed, and all my friends mocked my useless PC.. Until a few months later my old man took me to the World of Commodore show, where I picked up a Choplifter! cartridge. Then it was: "WHOS LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES!".
I swear I had like 20 kids coming to my house at a time to play it. It just blew away anything we'd seen before, back in the age of Atari's and Colecos.
Yes, the Commodore 64 is still the best-selling personal computer in history (it's in Guinness), and Commodore invented multi-media (and coined the phrase multi-media) with the Amiga.
In fact, every time some slashbot gushes about something Apple is doing, a part of me can't help thinking "Commodore wanna-bes".
The name still carries some weight, and a fair bit of geek cred.
I want my MP3 player to have a SID chip in it, so I can play back all those old SIDplayer files.
Kick it up a notch: Start making random SYS calls.
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Sigh. I wish they'd clone Jack Trameil so he could revive Commodore the way Jobs revived Apple.