So can I be extradited to America for consuming alcohol before I was 21? Can they arrest me for it if I go there on holiday?
Of course we all know the laws of the US are more important then other democratic countries. And my (Australian) government is happy to hand people over to the Americans who have broken no laws in Australia.
Yeah its a pith that if you brought the CD version you have to have the CD in the drive to play (FYI this would be the Australian edition). So not only do I have to put up with steam authentication, I still have to have the CD in the drive at least to start the game. Oh thank you valve you have made my life soooooooo much easier.
Why all you all bashing valve for this?! This has got to be the coolest way to get a game yet, you download it before its released, then pay and tada you got the game, no need to move out into the sunlight only to find the store hadn't gotten a copy yet, no need to install from crappy slow CD's which you have to change 4 times.. How can a geek NOT like this?!
Oh yeah it must be nice to have a net connection that is faster then a 52x CD-ROM drive. Or maybe you just have a 2x CD-ROM? As I have 256Kb ADSL I think I will just wait for the boxed version;)
You are right about the changing CD's crap (expecially when you have to keep putting CD one in for stupid copy protection shit), when the hell are they going to start releasing games on DVD's more often? Every serious gamer has one by now!
I have the same problem as the parent. My signature looks like it was done by a 10 year old. But it is so crap that people know it must be my real signature;)
I have given first preferences to the greens in two state and one federal election. Unfortunately for me I live in National Party (for non-Aus/. they are conservative) territory.
The island of GNU sounds like a good idea to me.
I am an Australian and am completely sick of our Governments (both parties) acting like cheap hookers around US corporations.
Screw you guys I am moving to Finland.
I would just put a little bit of code to detect if a Creative card was installed, and if so, maybe cap the FPS at 10 or so. And also provide a splash screen that explains in tech-jargon "Doom 3 is not optimized for Creative products. Please try a Hercules or Santa Cruz Card." That could signifigantly hurt Creative's business.
No that would just cause owners of creative cards to get pissed of with id. Creative has a slightly higher market dominance then Doom 3 does;)
Is it just me or did AnandTech stuff the key on the graph up? It says blue for 32-bit, and red for 64, but most charts show red underperforming blue, and the article text says it should be the other way round.
I would point out that most "Rad" suits would also protect you from smallpox, and so would underground bunkers;)
Bloody slashdot, by the time you post something 20 other people have already had the same idea (there was one post when I went to post)
10 Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicles, or MIRVs, each of which would have a carried a hydrogen bomb thermonuclear warhead to incinerate a different North American or Western European city. Even more terrifying, some of them were believed to have been fitted with aerosol warheads to spray smallpox virus over their U.S. targets.'
I think I would prefer the smallpox. Last time I checked they didnt have a vaccine for multi-megaton fusion bombs:P
I meant unless you can read C looking at the *source* is pretty pointless (my bad).
And by buffer overflows being *easier* I meant more likely to escape detection. A shell being bound to a listening port is something that should *obviously* not be happening in most programs.
As you said it is not as good or as fool proof as a backdoor. But backdoors are much more obvious then buffer overflows. And considering script-kiddies seem to have plenty of tools already for attack buffers, I don't think you have to worry about whether they would attack such a vulnerability.
And no I don't think code auditing efforts are a waste of time, I never said that. I said it is a waste of time for someone to prefer source over binaries (and check some of the source) and somehow think this makes them invulnerable to malware. I doubt one individual could check even the kernel for such things in a reasonable time frame (assuming said individual is not a code god)
If you *need* secure systems you use old code that has been heavily audited, and I would actually recommend OpenBSD.
And the irrsi backdoor was in the source and *not* the binary;)
Since I personally don't have the time to audit the code in my system, I listen out for security and bug reports and patch my system.
*DIRECTED AT GRAMMER NAZI'S*
Oh and you grammer nazi's can go fuck yourselves. Not even man enough to insult my spelling without hiding behind AC status? You truly are a waste of energy.
I don't blindly run stuff I pull from the net, but I do run a commercial Linux distro. Do I have any real reason to trust them? Unless you can actually read C (or whatever language) looking at the binaries is pretty pointless.
Rather then inserting backdoors it would be much easier to just install some buffer overflows. Since even experienced coders miss buffer overflows, casual checking of code is not going to pick them up.
Tad paranoid?
I assume you audit every single line of code that runs on your system? Maybe check the BIOS to? Hell better make your own chips to, who knows what evil features could be built into them.
ITS A PICTURE FRAME, NOT A BLOODY SERVER FULL OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL.
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I had that bug when upgrading to 1.0.3.
So can I be extradited to America for consuming alcohol before I was 21? Can they arrest me for it if I go there on holiday? Of course we all know the laws of the US are more important then other democratic countries. And my (Australian) government is happy to hand people over to the Americans who have broken no laws in Australia.
There already is in 99% of those places.
Yeah its a pith that if you brought the CD version you have to have the CD in the drive to play (FYI this would be the Australian edition). So not only do I have to put up with steam authentication, I still have to have the CD in the drive at least to start the game. Oh thank you valve you have made my life soooooooo much easier.
Now Moore can write another 2 books and a few films about how Bush stole his second election. ;)
It can look better on DVD because VHS is lower quality then film.
Maybe. Just maybe they aren't American? Here in Australia an XBOX is still around $300 (except for sales etc).
Oh yeah it must be nice to have a net connection that is faster then a 52x CD-ROM drive. Or maybe you just have a 2x CD-ROM? As I have 256Kb ADSL I think I will just wait for the boxed version
You are right about the changing CD's crap (expecially when you have to keep putting CD one in for stupid copy protection shit), when the hell are they going to start releasing games on DVD's more often? Every serious gamer has one by now!
I have the same problem as the parent. My signature looks like it was done by a 10 year old. But it is so crap that people know it must be my real signature ;)
I have given first preferences to the greens in two state and one federal election. Unfortunately for me I live in National Party (for non-Aus /. they are conservative) territory.
The island of GNU sounds like a good idea to me.
I am an Australian and am completely sick of our Governments (both parties) acting like cheap hookers around US corporations. Screw you guys I am moving to Finland.
I said greater market share then Doom 3 (which only a select few people actually have at the moment ;))
But agree about using onboard audio, if my motherboards 5.1 wasnt flaky I wouldnt have bought a creative sound card.
In the sound and 2d rendering 32-bit did better on all but one OS(FC2).
In 3d rendering 64-bit did do better.
In the games RtCW *did* do better in 64-bit, but UT2004 was the same or *worse*.
But I *did* mis-read the database tests, where lower is better (would have been helpful if Anandtech had of put that in a bigger font)
Is it just me or did AnandTech stuff the key on the graph up? It says blue for 32-bit, and red for 64, but most charts show red underperforming blue, and the article text says it should be the other way round.
Damn, my mom gets more action then me :'(
You spelt faggot wrong.
Its a list of electronic Instruments (according to the Fscking Article). Slow news day?
How in the hell was my previous comment a troll? I was responding to a troll. Get a clue whoever did that moderation.
If I had mod points I would mod you (-1: Grow the Fuck up).
I would point out that most "Rad" suits would also protect you from smallpox, and so would underground bunkers ;)
Bloody slashdot, by the time you post something 20 other people have already had the same idea (there was one post when I went to post)
I meant unless you can read C looking at the *source* is pretty pointless (my bad). ;)
And by buffer overflows being *easier* I meant more likely to escape detection. A shell being bound to a listening port is something that should *obviously* not be happening in most programs.
As you said it is not as good or as fool proof as a backdoor. But backdoors are much more obvious then buffer overflows. And considering script-kiddies seem to have plenty of tools already for attack buffers, I don't think you have to worry about whether they would attack such a vulnerability.
And no I don't think code auditing efforts are a waste of time, I never said that. I said it is a waste of time for someone to prefer source over binaries (and check some of the source) and somehow think this makes them invulnerable to malware. I doubt one individual could check even the kernel for such things in a reasonable time frame (assuming said individual is not a code god)
If you *need* secure systems you use old code that has been heavily audited, and I would actually recommend OpenBSD.
And the irrsi backdoor was in the source and *not* the binary
Since I personally don't have the time to audit the code in my system, I listen out for security and bug reports and patch my system.
*DIRECTED AT GRAMMER NAZI'S* Oh and you grammer nazi's can go fuck yourselves. Not even man enough to insult my spelling without hiding behind AC status? You truly are a waste of energy.
I don't blindly run stuff I pull from the net, but I do run a commercial Linux distro. Do I have any real reason to trust them? Unless you can actually read C (or whatever language) looking at the binaries is pretty pointless. Rather then inserting backdoors it would be much easier to just install some buffer overflows. Since even experienced coders miss buffer overflows, casual checking of code is not going to pick them up.
Tad paranoid? I assume you audit every single line of code that runs on your system? Maybe check the BIOS to? Hell better make your own chips to, who knows what evil features could be built into them. ITS A PICTURE FRAME, NOT A BLOODY SERVER FULL OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL.