Heh. Yea, my cat fetches socks, preferably pre-worn, and stinky. Of course, about 1 time in 20 he runs off and dumps them in his water dish, which may suggest something either about his intelligence, or the flavor of our tap water.
Who says that anyone has the 'right' to visit any one site on the internet? Browser incompatibilities are everywhere. If I've got a crappy browser, and a slow connection I can't see half of anything. If the site doesn't have a non-flash, slow modem connection option, can I sue?
And as for the 'ease' of compiling a completely different, all-text, reader-friendly site...I for one don't want to have to rewrite all the code on the 70 odd sites I administer, for the 1% of the population which is either blind, or unnaturally connected to their "Turbo Gopher" program.
I'm all for readability, and I'm all for the government being required to publish handicapped friendly sites, but it should be choice for private enterprise. If they don't want the extra cost for the extra business, so what? That should be their choice, especially in regards to a format like HTML which is SO heavily visual.
Christ, it's like mandating Radio stations play a streaming "text band" along with their signal, so that DEAF people can enjoy it too.
The thing that jerks my chain is all the restrictions that are being applied here that are NOT applied for open air radio. Music fees? Right! Most radio stations get their music FREE from the damn record companies, just so they'll play it! Oh, but not the internet! Oh no, crappily broadcast mp3s are scary and industry destroying! OH PLEASE CONGRESS SAVE US FROM RLC ONLINE! THEY HAVE 11 LISTENERS! AAAAAAAAA!
Heh. the whole point of playing DII beyond a certain point is to get certain impossible to get items. As long as you could get your bot to pick them up, that sounds like a GREAT solution.
I worked out how long it would take to get them all, based on the released drop probabilities, and that was the last thing I ever did with the game. =P
I'd be interested if anyone had any hard data, but, unless you're clustering 50 or 60 computers, and have been running them non-stop since LoD came out, I doubt any exists.
What everyone seems to be missing is the difference in scale between a windows exploit, and a linux exploit.
Linux, if you hack a mail client you can send spam to people on YOUR mailing lists.
Windows, if you hack a mail client you can send mail to people on THEIR mailing lists.
Most times linux exploits get you the very lowest level of security access. Yea, you got in, but you hardly got root priviledges out of it.
Windows on the other hand, has several known and documented exploits that not only get you in, but get you admin priviledges to go along with it.
Linux is very protective of it's hardware access (As anyone who's ever tried to run games will tell you. =P). Windows, on the other hand, goes out of its way to make hardware access easy and painless, both to the user and the abuser.
Exploits exist for both systems. But which ones would you rather have to deal with?
"I'm sorry, targeting that missile installation would violate the 'fair use' policy. Please contact an intel representative for liscensing information."
Heh. Chips aren't so big that you can hardwire something into them, and not lose something in return, and it's not like intel makes a completely different chip for every application. This seems like a legitimate concern.
If you kill a young man (21-40) there is a reasonable expectation (based largely, I admit, on stereotyping) the he will (or would) be able to defend himself.
Shooting a child, or a senior citizen, or (again, the stereotypes) a woman is seen as an act which, in addition to being immoral, also lacks any hint of personal bravery.
This shithead is such a pansy that he's shooting people from great distance, in the back, and is STILL too scared to take a shot at someone who could concievably fight back!
Its the lowest form of cowardice, like poisoning halloween candy, or torturing puppies, lacking in everything we call valuable in our society.
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Heh. Yea, my cat fetches socks, preferably pre-worn, and stinky. Of course, about 1 time in 20 he runs off and dumps them in his water dish, which may suggest something either about his intelligence, or the flavor of our tap water.
Who says that anyone has the 'right' to visit any one site on the internet? Browser incompatibilities are everywhere. If I've got a crappy browser, and a slow connection I can't see half of anything. If the site doesn't have a non-flash, slow modem connection option, can I sue?
And as for the 'ease' of compiling a completely different, all-text, reader-friendly site...I for one don't want to have to rewrite all the code on the 70 odd sites I administer, for the 1% of the population which is either blind, or unnaturally connected to their "Turbo Gopher" program.
I'm all for readability, and I'm all for the government being required to publish handicapped friendly sites, but it should be choice for private enterprise. If they don't want the extra cost for the extra business, so what? That should be their choice, especially in regards to a format like HTML which is SO heavily visual.
Christ, it's like mandating Radio stations play a streaming "text band" along with their signal, so that DEAF people can enjoy it too.
Heh. I'd never buy a second hand card, when I could get a new one for 15 dollars.
I had a planetary geology course once.
I remember the venus picture vidily. It was a shot of the ground. That was the only shot they got before the lander melted.
Manned mission? Riiiiiiiiight.
Volunteers anyone?
The thing that jerks my chain is all the restrictions that are being applied here that are NOT applied for open air radio. Music fees? Right! Most radio stations get their music FREE from the damn record companies, just so they'll play it! Oh, but not the internet! Oh no, crappily broadcast mp3s are scary and industry destroying! OH PLEASE CONGRESS SAVE US FROM RLC ONLINE! THEY HAVE 11 LISTENERS! AAAAAAAAA!
Christ, this makes me wanna go pirate some music.
Heh. the whole point of playing DII beyond a certain point is to get certain impossible to get items. As long as you could get your bot to pick them up, that sounds like a GREAT solution.
I worked out how long it would take to get them all, based on the released drop probabilities, and that was the last thing I ever did with the game. =P
I'd be interested if anyone had any hard data, but, unless you're clustering 50 or 60 computers, and have been running them non-stop since LoD came out, I doubt any exists.
What everyone seems to be missing is the difference in scale between a windows exploit, and a linux exploit.
Linux, if you hack a mail client you can send spam to people on YOUR mailing lists.
Windows, if you hack a mail client you can send mail to people on THEIR mailing lists.
Most times linux exploits get you the very lowest level of security access. Yea, you got in, but you hardly got root priviledges out of it.
Windows on the other hand, has several known and documented exploits that not only get you in, but get you admin priviledges to go along with it.
Linux is very protective of it's hardware access (As anyone who's ever tried to run games will tell you. =P). Windows, on the other hand, goes out of its way to make hardware access easy and painless, both to the user and the abuser.
Exploits exist for both systems. But which ones would you rather have to deal with?
"I'm sorry, targeting that missile installation would violate the 'fair use' policy. Please contact an intel representative for liscensing information." Heh. Chips aren't so big that you can hardwire something into them, and not lose something in return, and it's not like intel makes a completely different chip for every application. This seems like a legitimate concern.
If you kill a young man (21-40) there is a reasonable expectation (based largely, I admit, on stereotyping) the he will (or would) be able to defend himself.
Shooting a child, or a senior citizen, or (again, the stereotypes) a woman is seen as an act which, in addition to being immoral, also lacks any hint of personal bravery.
This shithead is such a pansy that he's shooting people from great distance, in the back, and is STILL too scared to take a shot at someone who could concievably fight back!
Its the lowest form of cowardice, like poisoning halloween candy, or torturing puppies, lacking in everything we call valuable in our society.
Or, what will REALLY happen, is that some Slashdotter will hack up a DRM emulator. Software level copy protection is always flawed.