Ironically, the thing that concerns me the most about this article is not that ISP's were key-logging, but that a journalist refers to the Internet as 'the Cloud'.
Have a muse as to why those in power would love us to think that the Internet has now been replaced by 'the cloud' and maybe you'll share my concern.
While the reputation of Oracle might mean something to yourself, myself or others on slashdot, the average joe on the streets of the world do not give a rats backend as to the "reputation" of Oracle.
All they care about is how well their phones work. Ergo, Oracle has very little to lose, since they already have inhouse lawyers anyway, and potentially something nice to gain; a nice chunk of leverage to be used in discussions with Google.
Eve is a multi aspected game, currently with room for both of the main types of players - those who primarily play 'Player v. Empire', (and seek to avoid Player v Player combat) and the players who seek 'Player v Player' ie. direct, unconsential PvP combat with others. As a general rule, the first group tend to remain with Empire space, while the second tend to head out to lawless 0.0 security space as soon as possible.
Could you please tell us the number ratios of the two groups please (ideally the numbers of players who have destroyed another players ship in the last week, compared to those who have not), and also what plans you may have to encourage the 'PvE-ers' to enter 0.0 space?
Also, do you accept that despite CCP's best efforts, there will always be a considerable number of Eve players who have no interest whatsoever in direct PvP combat?
...and I've been following the thread on the Eve-online forum avidly.
I've played Eve-online for over a year now, and as stated it is indeed the most brutal, darwinistic multi player game on the net that I know of; utterly unforgiving of mistakes and weakness... which is why I like it; only the strong survive, and the 'weaker' (ie less dedicated/less interested or no interest in unconsentual PvP combat) are quickly winnowed out, or forced to remain within 'Empire space' bascially a sandbox which while a little safer is by no means 100% safe.
In a way, I'm glad the accusations have come to light - firstly, it took repeated forum spamming by 'Goon fleet' (an alliance/guild within the Eve universe) before the Devs within CCP (owners of Eve-online) finally made a statement regarding the issues; I gather the impression that had they had not repeatedly spammed the forums, the current investigation that is being carried out would not have been initiated.
Secondly, there have indeed been several instances as of late where certain players have known of information that could only have come from CCP employees.
The biggest issue at the end of the day is that CCP employees are also allowed to actually play the game itself, and as players are expected to give their loyalty to their corp/alliance, while simultaneously remaining true to CCP's doctrine and not give out any internal information that would aid player alliances/corps.
And that in a nutshell is what started this current uproar. The players are stating that each and every time a CCP employee logs on as a player, he or she has a clear conflict of loyalties, and they are asking for clarification from CCP regarding this.
In my opinion, the vast majority of CCP employees who play the Eve online game are honest and genuine. However, it only takes on single misguided Dev to leak information, and much is ruined, which seems to be the case here.
Having read Kugutsumen's blog, I cannot of course say that it is genuine. I can however say it is believable.
Hopefully in the future CCP Developers will no longer be allowed to maintain positions within PvP alliances, and the clear conflict of interest will be avoided; as to if that will actually happen however, remains to be seen.
I find it so sad that the people who voted Bush by and large will be dead or retired by the time the economic effects of another 4 years of Bush hits America...... and yet the younger people who will end up paying back the huge deficit by and large could not even be bothered to vote:(
I just do not understand it, I really don't:(
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Good grief... It is not the/speed/ that counts.
I don't care how/quick/ the damn thing is.. what I care about is some way, anyway to get more competitive companies into the market place that offer internet access at a half respectable speed.
If this tech becomes widespread (and with Comcast at over 50bux a month I cannot see how it will not), then GREAT; I'll give Comcast the bird, and walk away with a grin on my face.
50 bucks a month for internet access is too damn much, simple as that.
My kid brother had a mild version of it - he went on drugs and had counciling for about 9 months. He is now fine, living a normal life with a girlfriend, car, and all the other consumer goods, etc.
One thing I *cannot* stress highly enough, keep your sister away from cannabis or other drugs as best as possible - and by other drugs I include coffee, chocolate, alcohol, etc.
Once my brother (who for a while, was as nutty as a fruitcake) stopped smoking weed, drinking 5 cups of coffee a day, and started exercise/medication he was much much better.
Don't lose hope, this condition is NOT always a life sentence.
This, to me is the game anticipation of the year, years in fact.
Fellow Slashdotters, if ye have not ever played a Sneak 'em Up game before, any Thief game is the one to buy.
The best part of Thief is the difference in the game to a shoot 'em up - in Thief, the character Garret is actually a weak character, he gets killed very easily.
This means that instead of the normal emotions that a shoot 'em up game gives, Thief gives all those emotions plus two extra, suspence and fear.
Yeah, fear. There was one time playing Thief 2 when I sneaked Garret around a corner just to come face to face with a Hammer Haunt. My brain went into shock, and my reflex action was to jump away.
The net result was me lying flat on my ass about 6 feet away from the keyboard, tangled around my PC chair:)
Not a game to play after a phat joint, I can tell ya.
Printing money: yes, I know it feeds inflation but so what? The rate is negligible now and even if it were slightly higher it wouldn't matter. Actually I wouldn't mind a bit of inflation helping me to pay off my loans.
The current US debt (the amount that the US people owe other non US people) can be seen at http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ As you can see, it is currently in excess of 7,000,000,000,000 dollars, and is increasing at almost 2 billion dollars per day. If you honestly think that by printing that amount of cash, the American economy will have a 'bit' of inflation then you are bananas:(
Ignoring our creditors: who's going to come after us?
No one at all, merely the simple fact that no-one would ever lend you money ever again. Then the USA would be really screwed.
Anyway, if you have the courage, email me, and I'll send you some more links, Mr Coward:)
Stop playing your silly little games NASA and let us use hubble!
Believe me, it is not NASA that is playing this silly little game.:( Take a look higher up the money chain than NASA itself. With the budget in such a state (in so short a time too) the Republicans are desperate to find anything that they can cut costs on, and Hubble is the first to go - followed a close second by the IIS.
This is what is needed, an article in a paper like Creative Loafing. For those who do not know, Creative Loafing is a *free* newspaper which can be picked up just about in any shop in the Atlanta area, and having lived in Atlanta for about a year, let me tell you, almost everyone who buys a paper picks up the free 'Loaf' at the same time.
The good thing about Creative Loafing is that a *huge* amount of people read it, and even better, these are the 'non geek' mainstream people who would *never* visit wired.com, or any other IT based news source.
99% of articles I've seen on the internet and in paper form are articles that are already 'preaching to the converted' - people who already know of the dangers of 'Trusted Computing'. This article in Creative Loafing will hit a huge mom and pop crowd, and hopefully the word will begin to spread about how evil DRM et all can be - and then hopefully, when Trusted Computing arrives (and it *will* arrive) these people will hopefully know better than to buy such crippled, enslaved hardware.
Earth Station 5 are a bunch of unhelpful idiots. What they do not choose to understand is the simple facts of the situation.
While it is true that American laws have no power in Palestine, American laws do indeed have power in the good old US of A.
So, the RIAA will simply take one look at Earth Station 5, see that they cannot touch them, and therefore go for the next available target......and that target will be the ISPs of America.
How long before the RIAA makes a petition to a judge, then Congress to insure that American internet users will not even be able to reach the website of Earth Station 5? In my opinion, not very long at all.
And in doing so (provided that they achieve the aim) they will then have started a huge avalanche of lawsuits against the ISPs, forcing ISPs to block access to certain 'undesireable' sites on the internet.
How long before the police decide to use the mobile version of this technology to start looking inside people's homes and cars?
Already where I come from (Wales, UK) the local police use helecopters with an infrared camera to fly over houses, searching for high heat output, the reason being it 'aids and assists in catching people growing cannabis in lofts and attics'.
What is the next step with this technology? It offends me that a government official can soon be able to drive up outside my house, and literally look inside it, to see how many people are in my house, what kinds of material possesions I have, etc etc.
Saying that, however, I do not think this is going to catch on in airports, especially in the USA:)
Face it, more than 70% of American middle aged women are going to walk though, just to have the official ask her 'Please could you lift up your sagging stomach fat, so we can see if you have a huge bomb hidden under the rolls of fat'.
My brother has 0% hearing in his left ear, and 10% hearing capablity in his right ear. I've already spoken to him about this, and he thinks it's amusing.
It made me think though... whats stopping some deaf consumer who uses the internet from suing to prevent an increased charge to him; or better yet, a deaf consumer suing the RIAA for the extra charges he/she has to pay when buying a blank CD in certain countries where the RIAA has lobbied and gotten increased charges to 'repay' the cost of piracy?
As far as my brother can see, there is not much stopping it from happening. Who knows, soon in the future, deaf people might be buying blank CDs and gaining internet access for a cheaper price than the rest of us.:)
I like this watch... just a damn shame that in the UK, no citizen is allowed to own anything resembling a geiger counter. The only places they are allowed are in schools or universities, or for authorities/companies with a 'good reason' to have one.
But the average joe shmoe on the street is not allowed to own one.
Yeah, great idea... just I hope the coders are not surprised when Bin laden etc (whoever) use a swarm of bomb laden remote helecopter bombs using this design and source code.
And I wonder who the FBI et all would hang for it?
The BBC seems a better idea than most US media - Everyone in the UK has to pay for a TV licence (approx 100 pounds sterling a year) and that money is filtered directly to the BBC.
The end result is a world renowned news service, with *no* advertisments (the BBC is banned from advertising) and a far less biased news coverage.
Hence, the BBC does not have to pander to richer segments of the viewers - they have already been paid after all, via the licence fees.
The BBC does not have to worry about richer (or poorer) viewers, and can just give the news as they see it - they do not have to worry about special interests from advertising, since they are not allowed to advertise.
All in all, it is an allaround better service than CNN can ever hope to give, since the BBC has to grovel to no-one:)
You go to a restaurant with 10 friends, and you all agree to split the bill 10 ways, and pay 1/10 of the bill each. Would you now say it was fair to order twice as much as everyone else, and a bottle of champagne for yourself?/i?
Now look at it another way- You and your 10 friends go to the restaurant, except this restaurant is 'all you can eat for a fixed fee' (read unlimited usage, just like an ISP claims)
Seven of your friends eat a normal meal, and have a good time doing so - but the other three are real fans of good food, so eat a whole load.
What happens then is the chef and owners of the restaurant decide that those three friends are eating too much, so they change the menu as you all sit at the table, saying 'you can still eat all you like! But, btw, we are no longer serving X,Y,Z. Please pay your bill at the door'
Slashdot Mirror
Small print at the bottom of the job advertisement -
'Astronaut must show ability to hold out right-hand with thumb up, and know enough Russian to 'ask for a lift.'
Ironically, the thing that concerns me the most about this article is not that ISP's were key-logging, but that a journalist refers to the Internet as 'the Cloud'.
Have a muse as to why those in power would love us to think that the Internet has now been replaced by 'the cloud' and maybe you'll share my concern.
While the reputation of Oracle might mean something to yourself, myself or others on slashdot, the average joe on the streets of the world do not give a rats backend as to the "reputation" of Oracle.
All they care about is how well their phones work. Ergo, Oracle has very little to lose, since they already have inhouse lawyers anyway, and potentially something nice to gain; a nice chunk of leverage to be used in discussions with Google.
Eve is a multi aspected game, currently with room for both of the main types of players - those who primarily play 'Player v. Empire', (and seek to avoid Player v Player combat) and the players who seek 'Player v Player' ie. direct, unconsential PvP combat with others. As a general rule, the first group tend to remain with Empire space, while the second tend to head out to lawless 0.0 security space as soon as possible.
Could you please tell us the number ratios of the two groups please (ideally the numbers of players who have destroyed another players ship in the last week, compared to those who have not), and also what plans you may have to encourage the 'PvE-ers' to enter 0.0 space?
Also, do you accept that despite CCP's best efforts, there will always be a considerable number of Eve players who have no interest whatsoever in direct PvP combat?
...and I've been following the thread on the Eve-online forum avidly.
... which is why I like it; only the strong survive, and the 'weaker' (ie less dedicated/less interested or no interest in unconsentual PvP combat) are quickly winnowed out, or forced to remain within 'Empire space' bascially a sandbox which while a little safer is by no means 100% safe.
I've played Eve-online for over a year now, and as stated it is indeed the most brutal, darwinistic multi player game on the net that I know of; utterly unforgiving of mistakes and weakness
In a way, I'm glad the accusations have come to light - firstly, it took repeated forum spamming by 'Goon fleet' (an alliance/guild within the Eve universe) before the Devs within CCP (owners of Eve-online) finally made a statement regarding the issues; I gather the impression that had they had not repeatedly spammed the forums, the current investigation that is being carried out would not have been initiated.
Secondly, there have indeed been several instances as of late where certain players have known of information that could only have come from CCP employees.
The biggest issue at the end of the day is that CCP employees are also allowed to actually play the game itself, and as players are expected to give their loyalty to their corp/alliance, while simultaneously remaining true to CCP's doctrine and not give out any internal information that would aid player alliances/corps.
And that in a nutshell is what started this current uproar. The players are stating that each and every time a CCP employee logs on as a player, he or she has a clear conflict of loyalties, and they are asking for clarification from CCP regarding this.
In my opinion, the vast majority of CCP employees who play the Eve online game are honest and genuine. However, it only takes on single misguided Dev to leak information, and much is ruined, which seems to be the case here.
Having read Kugutsumen's blog, I cannot of course say that it is genuine. I can however say it is believable.
Hopefully in the future CCP Developers will no longer be allowed to maintain positions within PvP alliances, and the clear conflict of interest will be avoided; as to if that will actually happen however, remains to be seen.
Miranda beats Trillian hands down.
Miranda is open source.
Miranda seamlessly imports contact lists from Y!,ICQ and MSN.
Miranda can use Y!,MSN,ICQ,IRC,AIM,Jabber and loads more.
Miranda can run it all in a single nice window.
Miranda has fully customisable skins and icons.
Miranda has no adverts, ever.
Miranda has plug-ins galore...
Some of my favourite plugins are -
CAPS_LOCK flasher - incoming message? Your keyboard lights flash.
'WUMF' -Who is using my files? - Popup saying who accesses your files on a network and when, and will log all of this information.
Postit notes and reminders.
There are many more plugins.
Miranda is totally free, is open source, and simply is better than Trillian, and even Gaim.
Download it, no spyware, no ad-ware from http://www.miranda-im.org/
I find it so sad that the people who voted Bush by and large will be dead or retired by the time the economic effects of another 4 years of Bush hits America... ... and yet the younger people who will end up paying back the huge deficit by and large could not even be bothered to vote :(
:(
I just do not understand it, I really don't
Good grief... It is not the /speed/ that counts.
/quick/ the damn thing is.. what I care about is some way, anyway to get more competitive companies into the market place that offer internet access at a half respectable speed.
I don't care how
If this tech becomes widespread (and with Comcast at over 50bux a month I cannot see how it will not), then GREAT; I'll give Comcast the bird, and walk away with a grin on my face.
50 bucks a month for internet access is too damn much, simple as that.
Well, let us hope sincerly that none of the inmates used any of his 'bigger penis' products that he advertised :)
:)
:)
:)
If they did, and it worked, poor old Mr Buffalo will probably end up with an asshole the size of a buffalo
"Gee thanks Mr Buffalo! I bought your bigger penis products! Now bend over beatch, and I'll show you *just* how big and wide it is"
Ah hahahahahh aaaahhhh
Sweet Justice
My kid brother had a mild version of it - he went on drugs and had counciling for about 9 months. He is now fine, living a normal life with a girlfriend, car, and all the other consumer goods, etc.
One thing I *cannot* stress highly enough, keep your sister away from cannabis or other drugs as best as possible - and by other drugs I include coffee, chocolate, alcohol, etc.
Once my brother (who for a while, was as nutty as a fruitcake) stopped smoking weed, drinking 5 cups of coffee a day, and started exercise/medication he was much much better.
Don't lose hope, this condition is NOT always a life sentence.
This, to me is the game anticipation of the year, years in fact.
:)
Fellow Slashdotters, if ye have not ever played a Sneak 'em Up game before, any Thief game is the one to buy.
The best part of Thief is the difference in the game to a shoot 'em up - in Thief, the character Garret is actually a weak character, he gets killed very easily.
This means that instead of the normal emotions that a shoot 'em up game gives, Thief gives all those emotions plus two extra, suspence and fear.
Yeah, fear. There was one time playing Thief 2 when I sneaked Garret around a corner just to come face to face with a Hammer Haunt. My brain went into shock, and my reflex action was to jump away.
The net result was me lying flat on my ass about 6 feet away from the keyboard, tangled around my PC chair
Not a game to play after a phat joint, I can tell ya.
Ok, so educate me oh wise one.
:(
:)
Printing money: yes, I know it feeds inflation but so what? The rate is negligible now and even if it were slightly higher it wouldn't matter. Actually I wouldn't mind a bit of inflation helping me to pay off my loans.
The current US debt (the amount that the US people owe other non US people) can be seen at http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ As you can see, it is currently in excess of 7,000,000,000,000 dollars, and is increasing at almost 2 billion dollars per day. If you honestly think that by printing that amount of cash, the American economy will have a 'bit' of inflation then you are bananas
Ignoring our creditors: who's going to come after us?
No one at all, merely the simple fact that no-one would ever lend you money ever again. Then the USA would be really screwed.
Anyway, if you have the courage, email me, and I'll send you some more links, Mr Coward
Take care!
Deficit meficit. National debt doesn't mean anything. We'll can just print more money and pay our debts or simply ignore our creditors.
You are a fool with no economic understanding whatsoever. Bush thrives from people such as yourself.
Stop playing your silly little games NASA and let us use hubble!
:( Take a look higher up the money chain than NASA itself. With the budget in such a state (in so short a time too) the Republicans are desperate to find anything that they can cut costs on, and Hubble is the first to go - followed a close second by the IIS.
Believe me, it is not NASA that is playing this silly little game.
This is what is needed, an article in a paper like Creative Loafing. For those who do not know, Creative Loafing is a *free* newspaper which can be picked up just about in any shop in the Atlanta area, and having lived in Atlanta for about a year, let me tell you, almost everyone who buys a paper picks up the free 'Loaf' at the same time.
The good thing about Creative Loafing is that a *huge* amount of people read it, and even better, these are the 'non geek' mainstream people who would *never* visit wired.com, or any other IT based news source.
99% of articles I've seen on the internet and in paper form are articles that are already 'preaching to the converted' - people who already know of the dangers of 'Trusted Computing'. This article in Creative Loafing will hit a huge mom and pop crowd, and hopefully the word will begin to spread about how evil DRM et all can be - and then hopefully, when Trusted Computing arrives (and it *will* arrive) these people will hopefully know better than to buy such crippled, enslaved hardware.
______
Jaylen
Earth Station 5 are a bunch of unhelpful idiots. What they do not choose to understand is the simple facts of the situation.
...and that target will be the ISPs of America.
While it is true that American laws have no power in Palestine, American laws do indeed have power in the good old US of A.
So, the RIAA will simply take one look at Earth Station 5, see that they cannot touch them, and therefore go for the next available target...
How long before the RIAA makes a petition to a judge, then Congress to insure that American internet users will not even be able to reach the website of Earth Station 5? In my opinion, not very long at all.
And in doing so (provided that they achieve the aim) they will then have started a huge avalanche of lawsuits against the ISPs, forcing ISPs to block access to certain 'undesireable' sites on the internet.
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Jaylen
How long before the police decide to use the mobile version of this technology to start looking inside people's homes and cars?
:)
:)
Already where I come from (Wales, UK) the local police use helecopters with an infrared camera to fly over houses, searching for high heat output, the reason being it 'aids and assists in catching people growing cannabis in lofts and attics'.
What is the next step with this technology? It offends me that a government official can soon be able to drive up outside my house, and literally look inside it, to see how many people are in my house, what kinds of material possesions I have, etc etc.
Saying that, however, I do not think this is going to catch on in airports, especially in the USA
Face it, more than 70% of American middle aged women are going to walk though, just to have the official ask her 'Please could you lift up your sagging stomach fat, so we can see if you have a huge bomb hidden under the rolls of fat'.
I just wish I was there to see the reactions
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Jaylen
... since if I had not just bought a Tivo last week, and a DVD recorder the month before, this would never have happened.
*sobs*
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Jaylen
My brother has 0% hearing in his left ear, and 10% hearing capablity in his right ear. I've already spoken to him about this, and he thinks it's amusing.
:)
It made me think though... whats stopping some deaf consumer who uses the internet from suing to prevent an increased charge to him; or better yet, a deaf consumer suing the RIAA for the extra charges he/she has to pay when buying a blank CD in certain countries where the RIAA has lobbied and gotten increased charges to 'repay' the cost of piracy?
As far as my brother can see, there is not much stopping it from happening. Who knows, soon in the future, deaf people might be buying blank CDs and gaining internet access for a cheaper price than the rest of us.
______
jaylen
I like this watch... just a damn shame that in the UK, no citizen is allowed to own anything resembling a geiger counter. The only places they are allowed are in schools or universities, or for authorities/companies with a 'good reason' to have one.
But the average joe shmoe on the street is not allowed to own one.
Yeah, great idea... just I hope the coders are not surprised when Bin laden etc (whoever) use a swarm of bomb laden remote helecopter bombs using this design and source code.
And I wonder who the FBI et all would hang for it?
*smiles wryly and sadly*
CuteFTP pro has excellent very good Sftp cababilities, I use it all the time between work and home.
Works fine for win2k, XP, and is cheap to buy.
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Jaylen
The BBC seems a better idea than most US media - Everyone in the UK has to pay for a TV licence (approx 100 pounds sterling a year) and that money is filtered directly to the BBC.
:)
The end result is a world renowned news service, with *no* advertisments (the BBC is banned from advertising) and a far less biased news coverage.
Hence, the BBC does not have to pander to richer segments of the viewers - they have already been paid after all, via the licence fees.
The BBC does not have to worry about richer (or poorer) viewers, and can just give the news as they see it - they do not have to worry about special interests from advertising, since they are not allowed to advertise.
All in all, it is an allaround better service than CNN can ever hope to give, since the BBC has to grovel to no-one
_____
Jaylen
You go to a restaurant with 10 friends, and you all agree to split the bill 10 ways, and pay 1/10 of the bill each. Would you now say it was fair to order twice as much as everyone else, and a bottle of champagne for yourself?/i? Now look at it another way- You and your 10 friends go to the restaurant, except this restaurant is 'all you can eat for a fixed fee' (read unlimited usage, just like an ISP claims) Seven of your friends eat a normal meal, and have a good time doing so - but the other three are real fans of good food, so eat a whole load. What happens then is the chef and owners of the restaurant decide that those three friends are eating too much, so they change the menu as you all sit at the table, saying 'you can still eat all you like! But, btw, we are no longer serving X,Y,Z. Please pay your bill at the door'