Man, out of all of the epic sequels released recently, it's been a giant litany of failure. Far Cry 2 with it's myriad of crashing issues, not to mention all of the instances where enemies / allies just don't appear as they are supposed to, forcing you to reload an earlier game and pray it's a one time bug. (And also the fact that it doesn't feature deformable terrain like they bragged about in interviews.) Fallout 3, with even more crashing issues, including a huge number of people who crash after the intro movie. In a move deemed "hilarious" the pirates have a patch out already that fixes Fallout 3, but Bethesda still does not. It fixes it by deleting the corrupted sound files so you miss some spoken dialog and have to see it on the closed caption instead, but at least you can play the game now. And now RA3 doesn't come with a valid CD key! At this rate the next PC release will give you cancer. And they'll still blame piracy for people not buying their "99% A+++++++ BUY OR DIE" games (according to the reviewers they own).
Buying a console doesn't help you anymore. Far Cry 2 on the 360 and PS3 are both FULL of crashing bugs and bugs that prevent you from completing the game. Oblivion on the 360 had over 20,000 confirmed bugs, a large portion of which were game stoppers, where a random glitch means you have to reload an earlier save or you cannot progress in the main storyarc.
Bethdesa hates their customers with a burning passion, so almost none of those bugs were patched. Since the PC version allows third-party mods and patches, fans fixed all 20,000 themselves, but the 360 users are left with a game that cannot be played. They refused to patch because they say they are focusing on the next one and on expansion packs, and can't be arsed to pull the original game out of beta. (They say it more politely).
So yeah, only get Fallout 3 on a console if you have no desire to complete it, because there's a 99.5% chance it has OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND different show stopping bugs. The only difference is, since they've not released the mod tools this time, the PC version will be similarly crippled without Bethdesa's usual wave of fan-made patches to fix all the bugs they can't be bothered to even read about on the forums, let alone patch.
Glass is made from silica, which is silicon dioxide. This, on the other hand, is pure silicon crystal. So, it's different in many ways, just as aluminium is different from corundum. Although admittedly silicon crystals are closer to glass than a beer can is to a ruby.
If cop shows like CSI are even slightly accurate, if you tell a cop to get a warrant, they get a warrant to search your whole business, then they seize all of your servers and backups to make sure they got the relevant data, and you never get them back due to all the red tape. And since they're the good guys on these shows, I suppose we're all supposed to cheer them on! Just about every time a store owner says "No you can't have my camera tapes without a warrant" good old Jim Brass says "OK, we'll get a warrant to search your whole store since you're acting suspicious and obstructing an investigation. You can reopen some time next year once we're sure we have everything."
Seizing their trademark is editorializing done by the submitter. It has no basis in truth at all. All that's happened is they're asking the court to issue a court order requiring the criminal organization from wearing their logo, that way any gang members they stumble across they can arrest them for violating said court order, and confiscate the offending material. All that trademark has to do with it is that the submitter is trying to say that this is effectively stealing their IP, since they DO have a trademark on their name.
Unfortunately, just because it's on Steam doesn't also mean there isn't atrocious DRM. I downloaded Assassin's Creed from them. It worked fine for a bit but then suddenly it would freeze solid for about 5 seconds every time you killed somebody, or were spotted by guards, or got a flag. I checked out their forums. Lots of people had this issue. UBISoft told us all that nobody was reporting such a thing (EXCEPT US???) but they'd look into it. Somebody who isn't UBISOFT found the solution though: Disconnect your network cable. Because the issue is, Assassin's Creed connects to a UBISOFT server every 3 SECONDS while you are playing, and the lockups happen if it can't for some reason, or if there is a delay. If it detects not network though, it doesn't try.
In fact, Assassin's Creed is a shining example of piracy doing exactly what the pirates say: establishing word of mouth. On PS3 and 360 it sold like 1.5 million copies. They released the PC port. BUT, about a month before it came out, there was a pirate version "leaked", that intentionally locked up randomly, and was also designed to crash to desktop about half way through, to frustrate pirates and make them buy the real deal I guess. But what happened is by the time it was out, most people on the Internet had heard it was slow and unstable and crashed about half way through so you could never beat it. It sold very very few copies, and they blamed this on piracy!
There was a mud a while ago, maybe still running, where the person running it plugged Eliza into it, there was a "PC" being controlled by the server, and its chat was determined by Eliza. It ran around and leveled and did all the usual stuff (name changes every few days so as to not gain a reputation). Fooled a number of people, though they often eventually figured it out. I figure it would work even better today. MUDs contained people who were semi-literate, since you had to read descriptions! If you did the same thing with WoW or some other MMORPG, it would blend right in...Unless it stood out like a sore thumb for being too well spoken, and having some semblance of thought behind its words;) "wut u usin capitals n punctination 4?"
In summary, the reason Eliza can fool people is not so much that the people being fooled are dumb, as that they have such a low expectation of their fellow IRC/AOL chatroom companions. If you aren't expecting a bot, somebody who can barely read or form a coherent thought doesn't really stand out;)
He may be full of shit, but 30 minutes in his miracle machine will make his cheap claim as persuasive as a well aged, high-end claim, by using ultrasonic waves to collide the bullshit nano-molecules.
Ohio Nuke Plants are on the net.
Basically, nuke plants run their safety systems on NT4, at least this one did. But they aren't on the internet. But a contractor who does computer work for them had a hard line to the plant. But they aren't on the net either. But some jackhole brought his laptop from home and plugged it in to the network. Kaboom, private network infected, safety systems disabled. No big deal, nuke plants fail safe. Plus the plant is older than NT4, there are analog safety systems that now work as backups, that used to be the only systems. Plus, it was already offline because when they took it offline earlier that year for routine maintenance, they discovered that boric acid had eaten almost completely through a 6 inch thick steel cap sealing off the reactor vessel. It was "close" to a full core breach, although nobody knows how close.
The long and the short of it are, power plants and power stations and relays are all on the internet. The reason why is, it's way cheaper to write monitoring software for Windows and put it on an ancient laptop in your remote power relay, etc, and just plug that into your intranet, than it is to create a custom remote monitoring system. But that's just monitoring, even if they go down it's just monitoring data. But from that article, it appears that several years ago it was approved to allow nuke plants to be computer controlled, not just computer monitored. I don't know if that actually went through or not. All it takes is a security issue at one of any number of contractors or their subsidiary corporations, and oops, your nuke plant's control systems are on the internet. As the article says, imagine if it was a dedicated black hat targeting your systems, instead of a dumb worm that got on your network accidentally...
All the prepared articles I've seen have fake dialog. It's hilarious when human error causes one to be pushed down the AP wire, for example. A few years ago a big one making waves, got syndicated on many websites, was that Will Ferrel died in a hang-gliding accident. It had a detailed writeup on how he enjoyed hang-gliding, and an interview with some official on the details of the crash. It also had an quote from a family member talking about how he would be missed.
It doesn't have to do with browser scripting and plugins. But if you turn browser scripting and plugins off, whatever trojan/worm/virus they have on the site they are using this trick to link you to, won't infect you.
Death of a lot more than that. They aren't actually suing over the link, if you read the linked articles. They are suing over their name being mentioned at all. The hyperlink is only even mentioned to get the/. crowd enraged. While true that it does contain a hyperlink, they are not suing for that, they are suing because they believe the article written ABOUT THEM may falsely mislead people into believing it was written BY them.
I agree. Catastrophic blunder to say you should explain to a child why creationism isn't science, instead of kicking the child from the class. Good thing the Royal Society agrees with you, and took exactly your position: He says we shouldn't lynch creationists, but instead explain why they are wrong! LYNCH HIM
The reason they don't, is because they cannot. SQL injection lets you put stuff into database tables. It doesn't let you put stuff into their filesystem. You can add a javascript to their page, but I don't think there are any javascript viruses still running rampant. Barring that, you need a Flash file, or some other buggy and horrific file that you can embed. And that has to be hosted by you, since you can add a frame linking to it easily, but you cannot just upload it to their server. The only exception would be if images and flash are not stored in the file system, but stored as BLOBs in the database, but I think that is not very common. In either case, just adding an iframe with src='www.viruses.ru/myviruspage.html' is much more simple.
I remember seeing that line left fully intact on AMC, but they censored "bastard";)
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Ummm, before you laugh and mock them...they haven't used it yet. Not that I think it's dangerous, after all, the "LHC will blow up earth" believers say "Who cares that higher energy protons collisions happen all of the time? Those are high speed vs. static atmosphere, here both halves of the collision will be high speed," oblivious to relativity...but nevertheless, they've only turned the protein beams on. They weren't doing any collisions.
On Wikileaks and other places, there is an FBI training pamphlet that they send to local police, for dealing with terrorists. On the bullet point list of how to know who is a terrorist, two points are asking about a warrant, and citing the constitution / bill of rights. Also on there and similar materials, is failing to provide name address and photo ID on request, asking to see a badge, asking for a badge number, or asking to speak to a superior. All of these classify you as an anti-authority radical with intents of "policing the police" and murdering cops.
So its SOP. This woman asked to see a warrant. She also questioned the reason for their being there, also on the list, AND made snarky and antagonistic comments (The nerve, implying that drawn and free automatic rifles trained on them might make them uneasy!). She probably also cited the constitution. All warning signs the FBI gave the police prior to the raid, that she was a member of the "Common Law Movement" and a serious danger to the officers.
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Man, out of all of the epic sequels released recently, it's been a giant litany of failure. Far Cry 2 with it's myriad of crashing issues, not to mention all of the instances where enemies / allies just don't appear as they are supposed to, forcing you to reload an earlier game and pray it's a one time bug. (And also the fact that it doesn't feature deformable terrain like they bragged about in interviews.) Fallout 3, with even more crashing issues, including a huge number of people who crash after the intro movie. In a move deemed "hilarious" the pirates have a patch out already that fixes Fallout 3, but Bethesda still does not. It fixes it by deleting the corrupted sound files so you miss some spoken dialog and have to see it on the closed caption instead, but at least you can play the game now. And now RA3 doesn't come with a valid CD key! At this rate the next PC release will give you cancer. And they'll still blame piracy for people not buying their "99% A+++++++ BUY OR DIE" games (according to the reviewers they own).
Buying a console doesn't help you anymore. Far Cry 2 on the 360 and PS3 are both FULL of crashing bugs and bugs that prevent you from completing the game. Oblivion on the 360 had over 20,000 confirmed bugs, a large portion of which were game stoppers, where a random glitch means you have to reload an earlier save or you cannot progress in the main storyarc.
Bethdesa hates their customers with a burning passion, so almost none of those bugs were patched. Since the PC version allows third-party mods and patches, fans fixed all 20,000 themselves, but the 360 users are left with a game that cannot be played. They refused to patch because they say they are focusing on the next one and on expansion packs, and can't be arsed to pull the original game out of beta. (They say it more politely).
So yeah, only get Fallout 3 on a console if you have no desire to complete it, because there's a 99.5% chance it has OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND different show stopping bugs. The only difference is, since they've not released the mod tools this time, the PC version will be similarly crippled without Bethdesa's usual wave of fan-made patches to fix all the bugs they can't be bothered to even read about on the forums, let alone patch.
Glass is made from silica, which is silicon dioxide. This, on the other hand, is pure silicon crystal. So, it's different in many ways, just as aluminium is different from corundum. Although admittedly silicon crystals are closer to glass than a beer can is to a ruby.
If cop shows like CSI are even slightly accurate, if you tell a cop to get a warrant, they get a warrant to search your whole business, then they seize all of your servers and backups to make sure they got the relevant data, and you never get them back due to all the red tape. And since they're the good guys on these shows, I suppose we're all supposed to cheer them on! Just about every time a store owner says "No you can't have my camera tapes without a warrant" good old Jim Brass says "OK, we'll get a warrant to search your whole store since you're acting suspicious and obstructing an investigation. You can reopen some time next year once we're sure we have everything."
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Seizing their trademark is editorializing done by the submitter. It has no basis in truth at all. All that's happened is they're asking the court to issue a court order requiring the criminal organization from wearing their logo, that way any gang members they stumble across they can arrest them for violating said court order, and confiscate the offending material. All that trademark has to do with it is that the submitter is trying to say that this is effectively stealing their IP, since they DO have a trademark on their name.
Unfortunately, just because it's on Steam doesn't also mean there isn't atrocious DRM. I downloaded Assassin's Creed from them. It worked fine for a bit but then suddenly it would freeze solid for about 5 seconds every time you killed somebody, or were spotted by guards, or got a flag. I checked out their forums. Lots of people had this issue. UBISoft told us all that nobody was reporting such a thing (EXCEPT US???) but they'd look into it. Somebody who isn't UBISOFT found the solution though: Disconnect your network cable. Because the issue is, Assassin's Creed connects to a UBISOFT server every 3 SECONDS while you are playing, and the lockups happen if it can't for some reason, or if there is a delay. If it detects not network though, it doesn't try.
In fact, Assassin's Creed is a shining example of piracy doing exactly what the pirates say: establishing word of mouth. On PS3 and 360 it sold like 1.5 million copies. They released the PC port. BUT, about a month before it came out, there was a pirate version "leaked", that intentionally locked up randomly, and was also designed to crash to desktop about half way through, to frustrate pirates and make them buy the real deal I guess. But what happened is by the time it was out, most people on the Internet had heard it was slow and unstable and crashed about half way through so you could never beat it. It sold very very few copies, and they blamed this on piracy!
That's what's so insane about this.
They also nixed the Plant Editor that they showed off at E3 so it can be sold later as a $20 add-on.
Don't turn them up so god damned loud.
There was a mud a while ago, maybe still running, where the person running it plugged Eliza into it, there was a "PC" being controlled by the server, and its chat was determined by Eliza. It ran around and leveled and did all the usual stuff (name changes every few days so as to not gain a reputation). Fooled a number of people, though they often eventually figured it out. I figure it would work even better today. MUDs contained people who were semi-literate, since you had to read descriptions! If you did the same thing with WoW or some other MMORPG, it would blend right in...Unless it stood out like a sore thumb for being too well spoken, and having some semblance of thought behind its words ;) "wut u usin capitals n punctination 4?"
In summary, the reason Eliza can fool people is not so much that the people being fooled are dumb, as that they have such a low expectation of their fellow IRC/AOL chatroom companions. If you aren't expecting a bot, somebody who can barely read or form a coherent thought doesn't really stand out ;)
He may be full of shit, but 30 minutes in his miracle machine will make his cheap claim as persuasive as a well aged, high-end claim, by using ultrasonic waves to collide the bullshit nano-molecules.
Ohio Nuke Plants are on the net. Basically, nuke plants run their safety systems on NT4, at least this one did. But they aren't on the internet. But a contractor who does computer work for them had a hard line to the plant. But they aren't on the net either. But some jackhole brought his laptop from home and plugged it in to the network. Kaboom, private network infected, safety systems disabled. No big deal, nuke plants fail safe. Plus the plant is older than NT4, there are analog safety systems that now work as backups, that used to be the only systems. Plus, it was already offline because when they took it offline earlier that year for routine maintenance, they discovered that boric acid had eaten almost completely through a 6 inch thick steel cap sealing off the reactor vessel. It was "close" to a full core breach, although nobody knows how close.
The long and the short of it are, power plants and power stations and relays are all on the internet. The reason why is, it's way cheaper to write monitoring software for Windows and put it on an ancient laptop in your remote power relay, etc, and just plug that into your intranet, than it is to create a custom remote monitoring system. But that's just monitoring, even if they go down it's just monitoring data. But from that article, it appears that several years ago it was approved to allow nuke plants to be computer controlled, not just computer monitored. I don't know if that actually went through or not. All it takes is a security issue at one of any number of contractors or their subsidiary corporations, and oops, your nuke plant's control systems are on the internet. As the article says, imagine if it was a dedicated black hat targeting your systems, instead of a dumb worm that got on your network accidentally...
All the prepared articles I've seen have fake dialog. It's hilarious when human error causes one to be pushed down the AP wire, for example. A few years ago a big one making waves, got syndicated on many websites, was that Will Ferrel died in a hang-gliding accident. It had a detailed writeup on how he enjoyed hang-gliding, and an interview with some official on the details of the crash. It also had an quote from a family member talking about how he would be missed.
It doesn't have to do with browser scripting and plugins. But if you turn browser scripting and plugins off, whatever trojan/worm/virus they have on the site they are using this trick to link you to, won't infect you.
Death of a lot more than that. They aren't actually suing over the link, if you read the linked articles. They are suing over their name being mentioned at all. The hyperlink is only even mentioned to get the /. crowd enraged. While true that it does contain a hyperlink, they are not suing for that, they are suing because they believe the article written ABOUT THEM may falsely mislead people into believing it was written BY them.
I agree. Catastrophic blunder to say you should explain to a child why creationism isn't science, instead of kicking the child from the class. Good thing the Royal Society agrees with you, and took exactly your position: He says we shouldn't lynch creationists, but instead explain why they are wrong! LYNCH HIM
The reason they don't, is because they cannot. SQL injection lets you put stuff into database tables. It doesn't let you put stuff into their filesystem. You can add a javascript to their page, but I don't think there are any javascript viruses still running rampant. Barring that, you need a Flash file, or some other buggy and horrific file that you can embed. And that has to be hosted by you, since you can add a frame linking to it easily, but you cannot just upload it to their server. The only exception would be if images and flash are not stored in the file system, but stored as BLOBs in the database, but I think that is not very common. In either case, just adding an iframe with src='www.viruses.ru/myviruspage.html' is much more simple.
And the meat is full of antibiotics! McDonalds PREVENTS food poisoning? Film at 11.
The court defined anonymous as using a spoofed IP address. The decision is that there can be no law prohibiting the spoofing of IP addresses.
I remember seeing that line left fully intact on AMC, but they censored "bastard" ;)
Ummm, before you laugh and mock them...they haven't used it yet. Not that I think it's dangerous, after all, the "LHC will blow up earth" believers say "Who cares that higher energy protons collisions happen all of the time? Those are high speed vs. static atmosphere, here both halves of the collision will be high speed," oblivious to relativity...but nevertheless, they've only turned the protein beams on. They weren't doing any collisions.
On Wikileaks and other places, there is an FBI training pamphlet that they send to local police, for dealing with terrorists. On the bullet point list of how to know who is a terrorist, two points are asking about a warrant, and citing the constitution / bill of rights. Also on there and similar materials, is failing to provide name address and photo ID on request, asking to see a badge, asking for a badge number, or asking to speak to a superior. All of these classify you as an anti-authority radical with intents of "policing the police" and murdering cops.
So its SOP. This woman asked to see a warrant. She also questioned the reason for their being there, also on the list, AND made snarky and antagonistic comments (The nerve, implying that drawn and free automatic rifles trained on them might make them uneasy!). She probably also cited the constitution. All warning signs the FBI gave the police prior to the raid, that she was a member of the "Common Law Movement" and a serious danger to the officers.
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