Maybe this 'anonymous lamer' is smarter than we think he is.
He could be calling "shenanigans" precisely because valve has been quiet on the subject. Perhaps they are running an unconfirmed sting program, and this guy is claiming gabe told him to circumvent the process and smoke them out.
So indeed, what is the point of a sting, if everyone knows?
The difference of course being, that SMB3 had a lot to hype:
-New suits (new fundamental gameplay additions, departure from Mario 2) -More levels (gah!) -Largest cart for its time -jawdropping graphics for its time -Minigames -8 new bosses
I could go on...
Halo2 is just more of Halo1. More FPS on rails. Display hallway texture/Repeat, ad nauseum.
I'm so sick of halo, and I actually enjoyed the first one.
I blew a drive, and when I removed it from the case, I nearly burned the palm of my hand.
With mitts I placed my HDD, in the cold january canadian winter for a few hours. Worked like a charm for a couple of hours.
This works. But obviously not in all situations.
I'm talking about for the first time, enough votes are taken electronically to cause a swing in a presidential election.
The problem lies in that anything that makes it easier to commit such a fraud is bad for democracy. I'm not even a seasoned hacker in any sense of the word, and clearly understand how easy it is to mislead these machines and therefore the voters.
Perhaps saying: "you're vote no longer counts!" is alarmist, but with e-voting its just a keystroke away.
I have to admit I did not read the article, but I just thought of something I felt was interesting...
The great thing about blogs, is that whilst adding to the noise, they also act as a giant filter. Search indexed blogs give search engines like google a boost: by ensuring truly great links are easy to locate and are distributed adequately- like filtering repeaters.
Sure, this generates a lot of "noise" but it also refines knowledges and opinion all the while bringing people with similar interests and opinions together.
I find everyone has an agenda, media-outlets included. Only in blogs this agenda is clear. This allows me as an information hunter to make more informed choices of agendas I incorporate into my own.
How is this not better than traditional journalism?:)
to put me down for pointing out the glaringly obvious. Democracy is easily stolen, but I was ridiculed for mentioning that last wednesday.
Dont you realize this isnt about Bush? I dont care who won! Its about E-voting removing your right to affect change in your country by making a democratic choice.
Obviously you cannot read, so I assume you voted for Bush. Please let me know if I am wrong.
Anyways, like I said: it doesn't matter who you voted for. democracy is dead because an electronic machine that is easily hackable and provides no paper trail recorded enough votes to put one candidate over another.
but you missed the point..
THATS SAD, and DEAD DEMOCRACY.
For democracy. Bush/Kerry it doesnt matter. I will remember today as the day democracy died.
http://blackboxvoting.org/
I refuse to believe, with Ohio so close that Kerry has conceeded, especially under the pretext that Deibold was to "Deliver OHIO to president Bush in 2004"
But I'm just a concerned canuck. Did you know these same machines are to be put into use in our country. Take a stand and insist on a paper ballot!
Seems to me, that both the Xbox and PS2 will use a powerpc core.
Now as anyone knows, this does not make two processors the same. Its obvious this is speculative hype, hinting at something many observers have suggested over the past few months with the announcement of IBM supplying XBOX2 chips.
Let's not forget there is something else to Sony's chip design. It was designed by Kenny-boy remember? in *cooperation* with IBM? Hmm sounds like a propietary architecture based on a powerPC core to me... likelihood of a Ken Kutargi chip in an Xbox? not bloody likely.
How did such a troll get modded as interesting? You obviously do not understand the industry product cycle. Let me guess you only play PeeCee.
Pre-christmas Q3/Q4 for the console industry is the focus of the majority of a publishers marketing efforts and product releases. And yes this is one of the first AAA releases of the season unless of course you count Doom3, also released in Q3
I always the thought the worst (in terms of potential devastation), was Russian spooks in the late 80s as documented by Berkley's own Astronomer turned sysadmin/hax0r trax0r- Clifford Stoll.
Some low-scale nuke secrets were stolen amongst other things but it was a far larger breach.
Read the cuckoos egg. Fun and entertaining Berkley geek-lore
Trollish Fact: ActiveX is evil, but does not have a monopoly on security holes.
Exhibit A: Linux
Slashdot can promote new kernel releases and rpm pkg updates until Doomsday and it won't mean a damn thing unless they scrap all *flavors* of linux and start over. Period.
I fail to see how windows is easier to hack than a linux box aside from through a web browser. The flaw/exploit here is microsoft web apis, not necessarily Windows (or at least any more than linux or OSX has innate security flaws)
If windows was the major problem we wouldn't all be scrambling to Firefox.
"Governments are more interested in how much more power they can get their hands on, rather than what's actually best for the people."
Don't mean to troll here but Generalizations such as above only serve to seriously marginalize any point the contributing article and other reasonable activists try to make.
I call it the "damn dirty hippie syndrome". Unfortunately, if you speak in generalizations and analogies only a single side of an argument can relate to, no one will take you seriously.:(
Change is rarely spawned by a single bold polarizing statement, but usually by subtle creeps and subterfuge.
Its obvious that a 5 year old has no business toting either a PSP or DS, but an average 12 year old is perfectly able to care for one of these systems. They are fairly rugged in design, and are probably no more susceptible to damage than a cellphone or Palm.
Not to mention there will be usual barrage of carryng cases and plastic protective devices.
Are you suggesting that 16 year olds with a drivers license would have better luck caring for his PSP or DS?
People on orkut should be able to speak their mind, in whatever language they choose. Orkut is not just a private forum, but its also a social experiment. To be honest, I find it fascinating that a demographic war is shaping up. Who will win?;)
I would also like to point out that orkut is unlike IRC, where perhaps it would be rude to speak a language in a channel that is prodominently another. Flooding a channel with text that is gibberish to the majority of its recipients prevents the free flow of information, defeating communication. It is clear this is not the case with orkut.
Today I just replaced a TK87 drive on a VAX cluster. I mused that in my 7 years in working the computer room I have never witnessed nor heard od a VAX machine crashing to the point where it was unusuable.
Sure I've blown disks, and this is about the third time I've replaced a toasted DLT drive. But I have never had to shut the bloody thing off.
Today, I ripped the plug off the rack powering down the cdrom and DLT. Pulled out the bad drive, swapped in the new, in about 30 seconds.
Still works like a charm.
Makes me wonder what sort of crack the designer of Windows NT was smoking between his DEC and microsoft days.....
Hmm troll? I suppose we spend a lot of effort looking around slashdot for ways to diss people.:D
FYI, my homepage is no longer active, and I'm far too busy monitoring *real* mission critical servers to care about my own personal website.
Something about being on pager 24/7 or in front of a computer for most of my life seems to have turned me off some of my personal digital endeavors.
Cheers DOM.
Umm get a clue.
Its ironic because I bought it in order to give it a chance, and it ended up right where it would have, had I not bought it.
Desert Landfill.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe this 'anonymous lamer' is smarter than we think he is.
He could be calling "shenanigans" precisely because valve has been quiet on the subject. Perhaps they are running an unconfirmed sting program, and this guy is claiming gabe told him to circumvent the process and smoke them out.
So indeed, what is the point of a sting, if everyone knows?
The difference of course being, that SMB3 had a lot to hype:
-New suits (new fundamental gameplay additions, departure from Mario 2)
-More levels (gah!)
-Largest cart for its time
-jawdropping graphics for its time
-Minigames
-8 new bosses
I could go on...
Halo2 is just more of Halo1. More FPS on rails. Display hallway texture/Repeat, ad nauseum.
I'm so sick of halo, and I actually enjoyed the first one.
I blew a drive, and when I removed it from the case, I nearly burned the palm of my hand. With mitts I placed my HDD, in the cold january canadian winter for a few hours. Worked like a charm for a couple of hours. This works. But obviously not in all situations.
Oh this is very much true.
I'm talking about for the first time, enough votes are taken electronically to cause a swing in a presidential election.
The problem lies in that anything that makes it easier to commit such a fraud is bad for democracy. I'm not even a seasoned hacker in any sense of the word, and clearly understand how easy it is to mislead these machines and therefore the voters.
Perhaps saying: "you're vote no longer counts!" is alarmist, but with e-voting its just a keystroke away.
I'm NOT okay with that.
No the code the your thinking of is Down, R, Up, L, Y, B @ the capcom logo
how did this get modded up? ;)
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you must do your research young grasshopper before a repectable troll...
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=konami+code&b
I have to admit I did not read the article, but I just thought of something I felt was interesting...
:)
The great thing about blogs, is that whilst adding to the noise, they also act as a giant filter. Search indexed blogs give search engines like google a boost: by ensuring truly great links are easy to locate and are distributed adequately- like filtering repeaters.
Sure, this generates a lot of "noise" but it also refines knowledges and opinion all the while bringing people with similar interests and opinions together.
I find everyone has an agenda, media-outlets included. Only in blogs this agenda is clear. This allows me as an information hunter to make more informed choices of agendas I incorporate into my own.
How is this not better than traditional journalism?
to put me down for pointing out the glaringly obvious. Democracy is easily stolen, but I was ridiculed for mentioning that last wednesday. Dont you realize this isnt about Bush? I dont care who won! Its about E-voting removing your right to affect change in your country by making a democratic choice.
Obviously you cannot read, so I assume you voted for Bush. Please let me know if I am wrong. Anyways, like I said: it doesn't matter who you voted for. democracy is dead because an electronic machine that is easily hackable and provides no paper trail recorded enough votes to put one candidate over another. but you missed the point.. THATS SAD, and DEAD DEMOCRACY.
For democracy. Bush/Kerry it doesnt matter. I will remember today as the day democracy died.
http://blackboxvoting.org/
I refuse to believe, with Ohio so close that Kerry has conceeded, especially under the pretext that Deibold was to "Deliver OHIO to president Bush in 2004"
But I'm just a concerned canuck. Did you know these same machines are to be put into use in our country. Take a stand and insist on a paper ballot!
Seems to me, that both the Xbox and PS2 will use a powerpc core.
Now as anyone knows, this does not make two processors the same. Its obvious this is speculative hype, hinting at something many observers have suggested over the past few months with the announcement of IBM supplying XBOX2 chips.
Let's not forget there is something else to Sony's chip design. It was designed by Kenny-boy remember? in *cooperation* with IBM? Hmm sounds like a propietary architecture based on a powerPC core to me... likelihood of a Ken Kutargi chip in an Xbox? not bloody likely.
How did such a troll get modded as interesting? You obviously do not understand the industry product cycle. Let me guess you only play PeeCee.
Pre-christmas Q3/Q4 for the console industry is the focus of the majority of a publishers marketing efforts and product releases. And yes this is one of the first AAA releases of the season unless of course you count Doom3, also released in Q3
Actually, I have two TVs and an ever growing urge to own two ps2s:
Gran Turismo 4.
The worst?
I always the thought the worst (in terms of potential devastation), was Russian spooks in the late 80s as documented by Berkley's own Astronomer turned sysadmin/hax0r trax0r- Clifford Stoll.
Some low-scale nuke secrets were stolen amongst other things but it was a far larger breach.
Read the cuckoos egg. Fun and entertaining Berkley geek-lore
Thank goodness for good sense. SilentChris can obviously see past any blind love for OSS the majority of ./ers seem to emminate.
Post Insightful++
Trollish Fact: ActiveX is evil, but does not have a monopoly on security holes.
Exhibit A: Linux
Slashdot can promote new kernel releases and rpm pkg updates until Doomsday and it won't mean a damn thing unless they scrap all *flavors* of linux and start over. Period.
I fail to see how windows is easier to hack than a linux box aside from through a web browser. The flaw/exploit here is microsoft web apis, not necessarily Windows (or at least any more than linux or OSX has innate security flaws)
If windows was the major problem we wouldn't all be scrambling to Firefox.
Funny. I thought it was because it was my birthday and *maybe* in celebration of Linux's lucky 13th
"Governments are more interested in how much more power they can get their hands on, rather than what's actually best for the people."
:(
Don't mean to troll here but Generalizations such as above only serve to seriously marginalize any point the contributing article and other reasonable activists try to make.
I call it the "damn dirty hippie syndrome". Unfortunately, if you speak in generalizations and analogies only a single side of an argument can relate to, no one will take you seriously.
Change is rarely spawned by a single bold polarizing statement, but usually by subtle creeps and subterfuge.
Anything else is just a meaningless catchphrase.
I think you underestimate 12 year olds.
Its obvious that a 5 year old has no business toting either a PSP or DS, but an average 12 year old is perfectly able to care for one of these systems. They are fairly rugged in design, and are probably no more susceptible to damage than a cellphone or Palm.
Not to mention there will be usual barrage of carryng cases and plastic protective devices.
Are you suggesting that 16 year olds with a drivers license would have better luck caring for his PSP or DS?
People on orkut should be able to speak their mind, in whatever language they choose. Orkut is not just a private forum, but its also a social experiment. To be honest, I find it fascinating that a demographic war is shaping up. Who will win? ;)
I would also like to point out that orkut is unlike IRC, where perhaps it would be rude to speak a language in a channel that is prodominently another.
Flooding a channel with text that is gibberish to the majority of its recipients prevents the free flow of information, defeating communication. It is clear this is not the case with orkut.
Today I just replaced a TK87 drive on a VAX cluster. I mused that in my 7 years in working the computer room I have never witnessed nor heard od a VAX machine crashing to the point where it was unusuable.
Sure I've blown disks, and this is about the third time I've replaced a toasted DLT drive. But I have never had to shut the bloody thing off.
Today, I ripped the plug off the rack powering down the cdrom and DLT. Pulled out the bad drive, swapped in the new, in about 30 seconds.
Still works like a charm.
Makes me wonder what sort of crack the designer of Windows NT was smoking between his DEC and microsoft days.....
Umm who needs fear when you have diesel power?
Diesel generators have long played a part in many a disaster recovery (and prevention) scheme.
Hmm troll? I suppose we spend a lot of effort looking around slashdot for ways to diss people. :D
FYI, my homepage is no longer active, and I'm far too busy monitoring *real* mission critical servers to care about my own personal website.
Something about being on pager 24/7 or in front of a computer for most of my life seems to have turned me off some of my personal digital endeavors.
Cheers DOM.
I would love to work in a data store facility such as this! Just the kitsch value alone would get me to move across the country to do so.
:D
If anyone wants to turn this into a secure data warehouse, a needs a few good men- gimme a shout!!!
Umm get a clue. Its ironic because I bought it in order to give it a chance, and it ended up right where it would have, had I not bought it. Desert Landfill.