I enjoy martial arts. I pay for the priveladge of being instructed. I LOVE performing the techniques and sparring. But at the same time I seek a greater level of profficiency in my art. Were I to be bashed in the skull and somehow lose the last 2 years of my knowledge regarding martial arts I would NOT be happy. Yeah, I get to learn it all again. That's great and all. But in my attempt to attain a greater level of profficiency I've just been set back by 2 years.
That's a pretty bad analogy. It would be more like your class for that day being canceled and you flipping out and demanding someone being sent to jail over it.
I don't claim to understand it, but some people really do care incredibly much about their standings in games like these.
You don't care about it, I don't care about it, and neither should our legal system. Maybe their administrators were ill-prepared to handle the task of running a game of that size and rightly should be penalized with a public backlash. Remember firestone tire company? Did you feel sorry for their public image after they sold the public a defective product? Me neither.
The main point of prosecution is that people paid real money for the privelege to play the game, and were deprived of the value of that money when some juvenile jerk decided to go on a rampage.
So, they should each be reimbursed the $.25/ea that they lost. And then they can get on with slashing dragons, looking fat, and whatever else people like that enjoy doing.
if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?!
Well, at least Windows has some form of ownership to hold accountable. The better question would be who would take responsibility for the countless thousands of Unix and Linux holes that have cost corporations and even the tax payers millions of dollars. Something to ponder before you get up on your ignorant soapbox.
What would be more interesting would be to have a few parallel gameworlds administrated differently.
That would be neet, if the single dimension games that are currently running could be administered with even some sense of security at all. Imagine how hard it would be to control something like that?
I can use a third party popup management tool for IE (Popupcop) which is more flexible than anything in Mozilla.. and even while running that plus IE, it will still be much faster than Mozilla alone. Oh well.. you can lead a horse to water, but you may have to severely beat him before he'll drink.
As long as geeks (and other desperate guys) keep thinking of getting laid as the prime goal of a relationship, they'll fail anywhere but in a bar. The first girl I got anywhere with, things began not as me horny and lonely, but simply as me taking refuge in an interesting conversation from a lot of other females I'd pissed off. Don't seek sex.. seek women.
The same old story. Scare people, hype up these dangers, come up with totally unrealistic "threat" scnearios.. and then put your hand out and ask for money.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who understood the whole damn movie. I had to explain, at length, all of the rules of the game to everyone in the group I was with.
Okay, well my background in Computer Engineering, OS Design, and a brief stint coding military simulations probably helped.
Oh god, you're ego is really making me hot. Stroke it baby, STROKE IT!!!.. Yeah, just like that. Oh yeah.. OOOOOH YEEEEEEAH.
I don't even have any wireless networking gear, don't really care a whole lot about it, but having said that.. am I the only one that realizes this idea is totally unworkable? Theres about 2500 miles of space between those 2 coasts that's for the most part uninhabited. You could do something like in a limited fashion on the east coast, but not across the country.
To get some idea of what a project like this would require, first drive from the East to the West coast, and take careful note of how often you would either have to buy property or lease space from someone for your gear. Then proceed to cry.
This isn't even taking into account how worthless a network like this would be. With thousands of access points, and probably hundreds of thousands of users.. there would be no bandwidth for anyone to use anyway. So who really cares?
Work to better yourself and you help to make the world a better place.
Here's a gun and one bullet.. point it at your face, and just pull the trigger. That would make the world a better place.
You have the stupidest argument I've ever heard. I'm sure that while you think you're a genius there are people that know more about cars than you do, people that know more about computing than you do, people that know more about everything that you know about, than you do.. who would probably argue that people like you shouldn't be allowed to do whatever thing you enjoy but don't particularly do well.
The computers running/. aren't yours, and you just accessed them to post that message, so by your own words, you just broke the law.
In about 1993 or 1994, a lawyer told me that what you said was exactly right. Authorization in California - at the time anyway - was explicit. Without explicit authrorization, any access is illegal access. At my young age this led me to theorize that in all aspects of life people are probably "breaking the law" pretty much all day, every day.. and it is only when "the man" chooses to enforce it that "he" will. That theory has pretty much held true for those 10 years.
The thing about laws that a lot of people don't understand is that all of those "vague" terms that seem ambiguous.. are actually well defined within the legal code. At least in the states I've lived in.
In california.. it goes something like this: (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Access" means to gain entry to, instruct, or communicate with
the logical, arithmetical, or memory function resources of a
computer, computer system, or computer network.
(2) "Computer network" means any system that provides
communications between one or more computer systems and input/output
devices including, but not limited to, display terminals and printers
connected by telecommunication facilities.
I pondered this quite a bit myself as I was charged and convicted of it in California about 10 years ago.
Yeah.. when it's a Windows problem people jump on Microsoft's shit like it were pussy, and they weren't gay..
But when it's Sendmail.. for christs-fucking-sakes.. a software that has had an eternity in comparison to "get secure".. still has problems. And I love the respectful, informative tone to the Slashdot post. Fucking cunt hypocrits.
Yep, I was thinking along the same lines. It's like having a drinking fountain outside your house for public use - you are expecting amybe 10-20 gallons monthly as people stop by and have a quick sip. Then, you get all pissed when your water bill comes and 5,000 gallons show up when the circus comes to town and all the clowns have used your water fountain to fill all their water baloons.:-)
Do you then go ask for a credit from the utility because of the excessive/unexpected use?
It would be as if the customer of a phone company were charged for all incoming calls, and then were signed up to millions telemarketing lists. There is too much chance of colusion and conspiracy between the people who charge for bandwidth, and the people who steal it. It reminds me a lot of virus writing/virus software vending or security consulting and exploit development. It's a dangerous situation and I think it should be fixed now before people take for granted that this is the way it will always be.
Lets be realistic here, guns really don't act as much of a deterrent and are much more likely to be used against the guards than in their defense. As the incident in Alabama this morning showed, the fallacy of 'an armed society' really doesn't hold up.
What 'fallacy' of an 'armed society'? One guy was armed, while he shot the other UNarmed people. You need to get your shit together before a member of the armed society shoots you in the dick.
Sure does sound like he saw some pretty interesting stuff, doesn't it? Sounds like he basically saw what anyone driving by might have seen.. some buildings and some guards. What was the point? The he climbed a fence and got closer to the guards? Wired sucks. They overhype everything.
I thought they did something cooler than keep two cars connected during a road trip. They are the true cyber-geeks of the future.. man, did you see the way they took the case off that power inverter? That was some totally geeky shit, man. Fucking losers.
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I enjoy martial arts. I pay for the priveladge of being instructed. I LOVE performing the techniques and sparring. But at the same time I seek a greater level of profficiency in my art. Were I to be bashed in the skull and somehow lose the last 2 years of my knowledge regarding martial arts I would NOT be happy. Yeah, I get to learn it all again. That's great and all. But in my attempt to attain a greater level of profficiency I've just been set back by 2 years.
That's a pretty bad analogy. It would be more like your class for that day being canceled and you flipping out and demanding someone being sent to jail over it.
I don't claim to understand it, but some people really do care incredibly much about their standings in games like these.
You don't care about it, I don't care about it, and neither should our legal system. Maybe their administrators were ill-prepared to handle the task of running a game of that size and rightly should be penalized with a public backlash. Remember firestone tire company? Did you feel sorry for their public image after they sold the public a defective product? Me neither.
The main point of prosecution is that people paid real money for the privelege to play the game, and were deprived of the value of that money when some juvenile jerk decided to go on a rampage.
So, they should each be reimbursed the $.25/ea that they lost. And then they can get on with slashing dragons, looking fat, and whatever else people like that enjoy doing.
if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?!
Well, at least Windows has some form of ownership to hold accountable. The better question would be who would take responsibility for the countless thousands of Unix and Linux holes that have cost corporations and even the tax payers millions of dollars. Something to ponder before you get up on your ignorant soapbox.
What would be more interesting would be to have a few parallel gameworlds administrated differently.
That would be neet, if the single dimension games that are currently running could be administered with even some sense of security at all. Imagine how hard it would be to control something like that?
I can use a third party popup management tool for IE (Popupcop) which is more flexible than anything in Mozilla.. and even while running that plus IE, it will still be much faster than Mozilla alone. Oh well.. you can lead a horse to water, but you may have to severely beat him before he'll drink.
As long as geeks (and other desperate guys) keep thinking of getting laid as the prime goal of a relationship, they'll fail anywhere but in a bar. The first girl I got anywhere with, things began not as me horny and lonely, but simply as me taking refuge in an interesting conversation from a lot of other females I'd pissed off. Don't seek sex.. seek women.
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You sound like you're not getting laid enough.
The same old story. Scare people, hype up these dangers, come up with totally unrealistic "threat" scnearios.. and then put your hand out and ask for money.
This must be news about the US release.They (Trilobite) have been available in Europe and Sweden for two years.
The article is about robotic vacuums, not automobiles.
nothing sucks like Electrolux
:)
+1/2.. somewhat humorous.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who understood the whole damn movie. I had to explain, at length, all of the rules of the game to everyone in the group I was with.
Okay, well my background in Computer Engineering, OS Design, and a brief stint coding military simulations probably helped.
Oh god, you're ego is really making me hot. Stroke it baby, STROKE IT!!!.. Yeah, just like that. Oh yeah.. OOOOOH YEEEEEEAH.
Thanks for the stereotypical perspective on fly-over-country (where I live). Sorry to cause you an extra few hours of flight time between the coasts.
I've lived in the midwest, that's where my perspective comes from. Put your ego down, it's going to be ok.
Just read that back, if anyone makes a "don't call me shirley" joke I will cause them pain.
Shirley, you must've been smokin' crack.
I don't even have any wireless networking gear, don't really care a whole lot about it, but having said that.. am I the only one that realizes this idea is totally unworkable? Theres about 2500 miles of space between those 2 coasts that's for the most part uninhabited. You could do something like in a limited fashion on the east coast, but not across the country.
To get some idea of what a project like this would require, first drive from the East to the West coast, and take careful note of how often you would either have to buy property or lease space from someone for your gear. Then proceed to cry.
This isn't even taking into account how worthless a network like this would be. With thousands of access points, and probably hundreds of thousands of users.. there would be no bandwidth for anyone to use anyway. So who really cares?
Work to better yourself and you help to make the world a better place.
Here's a gun and one bullet.. point it at your face, and just pull the trigger. That would make the world a better place.
You have the stupidest argument I've ever heard. I'm sure that while you think you're a genius there are people that know more about cars than you do, people that know more about computing than you do, people that know more about everything that you know about, than you do.. who would probably argue that people like you shouldn't be allowed to do whatever thing you enjoy but don't particularly do well.
The computers running /. aren't yours, and you just accessed them to post that message, so by your own words, you just broke the law.
In about 1993 or 1994, a lawyer told me that what you said was exactly right. Authorization in California - at the time anyway - was explicit. Without explicit authrorization, any access is illegal access. At my young age this led me to theorize that in all aspects of life people are probably "breaking the law" pretty much all day, every day.. and it is only when "the man" chooses to enforce it that "he" will. That theory has pretty much held true for those 10 years.
The thing about laws that a lot of people don't understand is that all of those "vague" terms that seem ambiguous.. are actually well defined within the legal code. At least in the states I've lived in.
In california.. it goes something like this:
(b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) "Access" means to gain entry to, instruct, or communicate with the logical, arithmetical, or memory function resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
(2) "Computer network" means any system that provides communications between one or more computer systems and input/output devices including, but not limited to, display terminals and printers connected by telecommunication facilities.
I pondered this quite a bit myself as I was charged and convicted of it in California about 10 years ago.
Yeah.. when it's a Windows problem people jump on Microsoft's shit like it were pussy, and they weren't gay..
But when it's Sendmail.. for christs-fucking-sakes.. a software that has had an eternity in comparison to "get secure".. still has problems. And I love the respectful, informative tone to the Slashdot post. Fucking cunt hypocrits.
Yep, I was thinking along the same lines. It's like having a drinking fountain outside your house for public use - you are expecting amybe 10-20 gallons monthly as people stop by and have a quick sip. Then, you get all pissed when your water bill comes and 5,000 gallons show up when the circus comes to town and all the clowns have used your water fountain to fill all their water baloons. :-)
Do you then go ask for a credit from the utility because of the excessive/unexpected use?
It would be as if the customer of a phone company were charged for all incoming calls, and then were signed up to millions telemarketing lists. There is too much chance of colusion and conspiracy between the people who charge for bandwidth, and the people who steal it. It reminds me a lot of virus writing/virus software vending or security consulting and exploit development. It's a dangerous situation and I think it should be fixed now before people take for granted that this is the way it will always be.
Posting Anonymously won't keep you from getting herpes.
Lets be realistic here, guns really don't act as much of a deterrent and are much more likely to be used against the guards than in their defense. As the incident in Alabama this morning showed, the fallacy of 'an armed society' really doesn't hold up.
What 'fallacy' of an 'armed society'? One guy was armed, while he shot the other UNarmed people. You need to get your shit together before a member of the armed society shoots you in the dick.
Sure does sound like he saw some pretty interesting stuff, doesn't it? Sounds like he basically saw what anyone driving by might have seen.. some buildings and some guards. What was the point? The he climbed a fence and got closer to the guards? Wired sucks. They overhype everything.
I thought they did something cooler than keep two cars connected during a road trip. They are the true cyber-geeks of the future.. man, did you see the way they took the case off that power inverter? That was some totally geeky shit, man. Fucking losers.
Oh da little boy makes a slashdot post. You such a cute little boy. Now go have mommy wipe your ass.
Yet another brainwashed slut who thinks paying all their income in taxes is "cool". You such a illiterate cunt.
I always wondered why people could figure out the Anchor tag.
I always wondered why people could figure out the English language. Is it that hard?