So that's how Weyland-Yutani responds so fast when you tell them you've caught a live acid-bleeding Alien... And here I was thinking a response from the evac team would take days!
Funny, firewalls usually do the NAT-ing, and I don't see how network address translation will stop DCOM or RPC buffer overflows. Port blocking at the network level would certainly help, though.
And, yes, having gargantuan log files for your firewall or IDS can be a pain if you want to, you know, *do* anything with the data or backup the logs.
I frequently go for the fifth or sixth drink, perhaps too often, but I've never been in a car wreck, much less off of a cliff, gone skydiving or bungee jumping, or been in a fight, and I've been offered many different kinds of drugs that I've yet to touch.
However, I usually manage to stop after that fifth or sixth drink, and reach for water instead. I know plenty of other people who have a good level of self-control in most areas of their lives, but still drink far more than the "average". Maybe I just know too many people with Irish blood.
Too late, that was pretty pedantic. Anyhow, 86.8% of something certainly appears to be very near 100% for very small things-- like a single second. If I got eight-and-a-half out of 10 questions right on an exam, I'd say that's near perfect. 86-and-a-half out of 100 questions? Not so much.
Personally, as a long-time self-taught hack guitarist, I find that it improves my guitar playing-- it really has increased my finger speed, and can't hurt my coordination or sense of timing.
Personally, I can't wait to see some of the code of this undoubtedly awesome enterprise-level code show up on the daily wtf. This should be good for a few laughs (then at least my taxes can give me some entertainment value).
I was just thinking today that, with the Max Media dock and Linux, you could do something like this on your DS lite. Not a lot of practical use for the average user, but useful for comprehensive penetration testing.
This update is as important as it gets. There are vulnerabilities in every major MS program which allow remote code execution, which means that as soon as the exploit is discovered, it can take advantage of holes all over your system.
Affected programs and services: - MS Server Services (TCP 139 and 445). - DNS servers - Internet Explorer - Outlook Express - Microsoft Management Console - HTML Help - Visual Basic - Microsoft Office - Windows kernel
I'm not too surprised that they're trying to push awareness of this patch. It was the lack of patching several weeks beforehand that allowed Code Red to do as much damage as it did.
* A lot of complaints about these systems, and, yeah, the one time I've used them at Wal-Mart they were kinda fucked up. But I use these regularly at Fred Meyer (a northwest chain) and the machines they have work pretty damn well, other than they need the volume turned down a bit. I'm a big fan of these because I don't often get a large amount of groceries and I'm a fidgety, impatient person that never buys more than 1 or 2 packs of gum on impulse per year anyway.
* Produce. A lot of comments about problems keying in produce. I always thought the system was pretty good: there's a sticker right on the produce with a little 4-digit number. Just hit "produce", type in that number, and away you go. What's the hassle?
This is the only MMO game that might get me to quit playing Warcrack, especially with all the love and reverence the publishing industry's been showing to the original R.E. Howard works of late. They finally got all of his original stories published in non-bastardized forms, and the new Dark Horse Conan series has been nothing short of amazing... If they can get it right, I think it'll be a hell of a lot of fun. The screenshots shown in the last year show a lot of promise.
On a related and, to my mind, more interesting note, this animated film is supposed to be coming out later this year, based on one of R.E. Howard's final Conan stories, with Ron Perlman (as Conan) and Mark Hamill providing voices-- both of whom have actually done extensive voice work, for that matter.
Lots of obvious omissions from the list, and like many other people here I do think that Castlevania SOTN and Super Metroid are among the best of the side-scroller genre. Does Okami count? That game looks pretty, no matter how many dimensions it's in.
But I do find it rather funny that 2 of the 5 are PSP games, given the lack of popularity of the platform in general-- or indeed lack of many real interesting games outside of, hmm, Lumines, LocoRoco, and GTA Liberty City Stories. Having bought a PSP over a year ago, I wish I hadn't. I doubt Loco Roco will change my mind.
Well, MS is already sitting there with a huge pile of cash, that's how they even got into the console game in the first place. Also, a lot people who are willing and able to pay $400+ for a 360 can and probably will buy multiple systems. Nintendo is strongly differentiating itself from the competition; it's not looking to be the home entertainment hub, it's looking to be a gaming system, pure and simple.
You could just as well say that MS has the financial resources to bury Apple...
As for "wii"... well, I'll see how it sits with me. The system still sounds incredible, I don't care what it's called, it is frankly the only next gen console that I'm really looking forward to, and I know I'm not alone.
goofing around with official court rulings is not cool
Rebellion is always cool. Besides, it was probably an "after the fact" thing which might have taken all of 10 minutes. Not to mention, even if it were the U.S. court system, I would venture to say that it has already all but choked to death from frivolity on the side of the litigators, it's not like this act would seriously affect the integrity of the system.
Real notably, the prices on any of the "Royal Seal" books (for the DM trinket) have really dropped on my server (which is relatively low pop) from ~ 60-80g down to 1-10g, and the Quel'Serrar book has dropped from the 2000+g range to the 600g range.
Perhaps he should be taking his own advice. Why can't I get caught up on last week's "24" on On Demand, or iTunes? (Or any other Fox content, for that matter...)
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Damn, I usually try to build the site the other way around. I find it much easier to design and *then* code.
The Cisco Security Agent (formerly Okena Stormwatch) would catch this definitely suspicious program behavior.
So that's how Weyland-Yutani responds so fast when you tell them you've caught a live acid-bleeding Alien... And here I was thinking a response from the evac team would take days!
...like my co-workers, for instance.
Funny, firewalls usually do the NAT-ing, and I don't see how network address translation will stop DCOM or RPC buffer overflows. Port blocking at the network level would certainly help, though.
And, yes, having gargantuan log files for your firewall or IDS can be a pain if you want to, you know, *do* anything with the data or backup the logs.
And I haven't played Twilight Princess much yet-- but it's a lot of fun to watch...
I frequently go for the fifth or sixth drink, perhaps too often, but I've never been in a car wreck, much less off of a cliff, gone skydiving or bungee jumping, or been in a fight, and I've been offered many different kinds of drugs that I've yet to touch. However, I usually manage to stop after that fifth or sixth drink, and reach for water instead. I know plenty of other people who have a good level of self-control in most areas of their lives, but still drink far more than the "average". Maybe I just know too many people with Irish blood.
Too late, that was pretty pedantic. Anyhow, 86.8% of something certainly appears to be very near 100% for very small things-- like a single second. If I got eight-and-a-half out of 10 questions right on an exam, I'd say that's near perfect. 86-and-a-half out of 100 questions? Not so much.
And here I thought that my Windows Mobile-based phone had the portable Hell market covered!
Personally, as a long-time self-taught hack guitarist, I find that it improves my guitar playing-- it really has increased my finger speed, and can't hurt my coordination or sense of timing.
I've gotta second this. My scratched GH disc was the impetus for me to finally buy a disc repairing kit, I simply couldn't live without it...
I guess that beats the "tattoo your whole body" method of remembering. (Remember Sammy Jankis.)
Personally, I can't wait to see some of the code of this undoubtedly awesome enterprise-level code show up on the daily wtf. This should be good for a few laughs (then at least my taxes can give me some entertainment value).
I was just thinking today that, with the Max Media dock and Linux, you could do something like this on your DS lite. Not a lot of practical use for the average user, but useful for comprehensive penetration testing.
This update is as important as it gets. There are vulnerabilities in every major MS program which allow remote code execution, which means that as soon as the exploit is discovered, it can take advantage of holes all over your system.
Affected programs and services:
- MS Server Services (TCP 139 and 445).
- DNS servers
- Internet Explorer
- Outlook Express
- Microsoft Management Console
- HTML Help
- Visual Basic
- Microsoft Office
- Windows kernel
I'm not too surprised that they're trying to push awareness of this patch. It was the lack of patching several weeks beforehand that allowed Code Red to do as much damage as it did.
The 2nd and 3rd movies also noticeably lacked Crispin Glover, the original George McFly.
* A lot of complaints about these systems, and, yeah, the one time I've used them at Wal-Mart they were kinda fucked up. But I use these regularly at Fred Meyer (a northwest chain) and the machines they have work pretty damn well, other than they need the volume turned down a bit. I'm a big fan of these because I don't often get a large amount of groceries and I'm a fidgety, impatient person that never buys more than 1 or 2 packs of gum on impulse per year anyway. * Produce. A lot of comments about problems keying in produce. I always thought the system was pretty good: there's a sticker right on the produce with a little 4-digit number. Just hit "produce", type in that number, and away you go. What's the hassle?
This is the only MMO game that might get me to quit playing Warcrack, especially with all the love and reverence the publishing industry's been showing to the original R.E. Howard works of late. They finally got all of his original stories published in non-bastardized forms, and the new Dark Horse Conan series has been nothing short of amazing... If they can get it right, I think it'll be a hell of a lot of fun. The screenshots shown in the last year show a lot of promise.
On a related and, to my mind, more interesting note, this animated film is supposed to be coming out later this year, based on one of R.E. Howard's final Conan stories, with Ron Perlman (as Conan) and Mark Hamill providing voices-- both of whom have actually done extensive voice work, for that matter.
More here.
Lots of obvious omissions from the list, and like many other people here I do think that Castlevania SOTN and Super Metroid are among the best of the side-scroller genre. Does Okami count? That game looks pretty, no matter how many dimensions it's in. But I do find it rather funny that 2 of the 5 are PSP games, given the lack of popularity of the platform in general-- or indeed lack of many real interesting games outside of, hmm, Lumines, LocoRoco, and GTA Liberty City Stories. Having bought a PSP over a year ago, I wish I hadn't. I doubt Loco Roco will change my mind.
Duck Hunt 2 article here; should be playable at E3, sometime real soon!
Well, MS is already sitting there with a huge pile of cash, that's how they even got into the console game in the first place. Also, a lot people who are willing and able to pay $400+ for a 360 can and probably will buy multiple systems. Nintendo is strongly differentiating itself from the competition; it's not looking to be the home entertainment hub, it's looking to be a gaming system, pure and simple.
You could just as well say that MS has the financial resources to bury Apple...
As for "wii"... well, I'll see how it sits with me. The system still sounds incredible, I don't care what it's called, it is frankly the only next gen console that I'm really looking forward to, and I know I'm not alone.
Rebellion is always cool. Besides, it was probably an "after the fact" thing which might have taken all of 10 minutes. Not to mention, even if it were the U.S. court system, I would venture to say that it has already all but choked to death from frivolity on the side of the litigators, it's not like this act would seriously affect the integrity of the system.
Real notably, the prices on any of the "Royal Seal" books (for the DM trinket) have really dropped on my server (which is relatively low pop) from ~ 60-80g down to 1-10g, and the Quel'Serrar book has dropped from the 2000+g range to the 600g range.
Perhaps he should be taking his own advice. Why can't I get caught up on last week's "24" on On Demand, or iTunes? (Or any other Fox content, for that matter...)