Battlefield 2 will not work with cards that dont support vertex shader 1.4. Eq changed its engine mid game forcing tons of players to buy new video cards that were dx9 compatable. The list goes on and on.
Then I guess we should change copywright law. Because in my opinion. With the exception of trademarked logo's, etc. A public website should be public domain.
Whats next? Walmart suing google because a search for walmart shows a link they didn't request made to walmart.com and walmart is a trademark?
Copywrights and trademarks have a purpose. But that purpose should revolve around the ability to make money. Content (not design) on public websites should be public domain. Dont like it? Password protect your pages. Then you can control you content.
If anything, the goverment needs to change the laws for public archives in regards to websites. Like newspapers and books, we need a public archive of websites. If only for our children to use in history class.
I remember a case with websites that would post prices from various websites like best buy. They got sued because the stores claimed their prices were their own property. Anyone remember what happened in that case?
You might have a point if you password protected the page, or did something to prevent it from being public. But if its just out there in the public, why shouldn't we be able to use it for non profit work?
If I give away a trillion copys of my book, can I sue the guy who sells it on ebay? Its not a perfect example, but it's close.
Here's another example, if a copy released a press release, and I post it on my blog, can I now be sued for using their content without their permission? Or maybe if I watch public broadcast television and then write a transcript on my blog, is that a violation? What about just a summary?
If its public, it should be free. If you didn't want it to be free you shouldn't of been giving it away for free.
Your right, I'll send google a cease and desist letter today. They spidered my website unathorized. I didn't even get a letter asking permission. I dont care if they will remove the search entry, the damage is done. People have seen my URL in searchs, and seen my images in images.google.com.
Google now owes me ONE BILLION DALLORS!!!!!
Maybe the problem is some things should be public domain. You know like stuff you post on a giant world wide public accesable interface such as the internet. If you want a private site, password protect it or keep it off the net. If it is posted on the internet with no reasonable mesures taken to keep it private, then it should be concidered public domain.
I'm going to have to watch their movies encrypted!!!!! Gah, now all the bad movie's they are putting out will make even less sense.
One day we will look back and say, when I was your age, we watched movies, but they weren't just scrambled data that made no sense, they had pictures and words and made no sense.
But nothing is more frustrating then an app that keeps crashing in X, because you dont know why it is crashing without going into log files or using a console. It would be nice if when a app crashed if a popup with the error would actually just apear.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but firefox has a search bar to the right hand corner of the window. You can click and choose which search engine and type what you want in the box.
no, you dont need a valid CD key or a subscription to patch the client. I know. All you need is to have a friend to email you the EQ exe. You stick it in a folder, run it, an it will download all your missing content. Boom, your done.
the last update of m0n0wall caused my box to go into an endless reboot cycle. I haven't had time to look at it, so just threw ipcop on there. So far so good. M0n0wall is a great distro for a firewall. I am actually looking into building an embedded system for it.
No, the Venice and San diego cores fixed the problem with 4 dimms dropping the bus to 333 instead of 400. But they still ran at 2T instead of 1T timings. As far as I know this is still an issue.
Your shared hosting wont have the server power to serve out 80GB/month. Its called overselling. They offer you more bandwith then they know you can use. They know their servers couldn't handle that load, they have a few hundred websites on them. This is a standard hosting tactic. When I was doing some reseller hosting for a friend, his account had 30 gig of bandwith, but we sold 30 gigs of bandwith to each customer. You know how much bandwith we used a month? about 8 -12 gigs. We had just over 100 sites.
I guess you right. I just think its funny that if I go to your house, and point a gun at you to get you to print out your bank account numbers. I'm not a hacker. I'm a criminal who just did some B&E, assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and a few other crimes. If I go to your insecure PC and download your bank account numbers because you never secured the data, I'm a big bad and much horrible hacker. Its just ridiculous. The concept that cybercrime is somehow different and unrelated to real world crime is outdated. It should be called what it is, and it shouldn't have its own set of penaltys compared to the same real world act.
I have personal exp. I don't need to go do a survey of programmers. For my exp with windows software, I have found in general that 9 out of 10 software products that cross my desk require a call to support to be told that we should just "run it as admin" on our network. I don't accept that. My users will run as restricted users. Programmers that require simple software apps to run as admin are not thinking about security at all. I should not have to modify multiple registry entrys and track down multiple folders (although just the application folder would be fine) to give permissions to my restricted users to use the software. If the software used c:\documents and settings\username properly, I wouldn't have this problem and thus I wouldn't have to worry about a virus effecting more then one user, or a user having permissions on a folder that they would normally not need.
Few houses are impenetrable. You can build a nice lock, and I can come through your window. You can put bars on your windows, and I can break down your door. You can get steel doors, and I can use a chainsaw on your wall. You can build build steel walls, and I can bring a blowtorch.
Its not about 100% security. Its about reasonable security. If you can just walk right into my house and take my tv, you might get away with it. If you take 15 minutes with a chainsaw on the side of my house, somebody might notice and call the police. The same holds true to computer security. If I use use plain text instead of encrypted sessions, or if I run all my network users (which includes students) as admin. I am asking for problems, and I will have a lot harder time detecting them. If my root password is password you could brute force it with a dictionary attack before I notice, but if its x65@ygh7®, I may notice your brute force attack before you get too far.
Yes, we should blame/punish the criminals. But, why should the idiots who setup/write this kind of insecure crap get away with it too? Why should someone have a important password if they are too stupid to know not to give it out. I think if they are dumb enough, they deserve what they get. Consider your loss of private data or customer information as punishment for poor policys, enforcement, or software.
At some point, society has to say "We aren't going to allow this crap." At some point, the blame must be on the people perpetrating the crime, the punishment must be sufficiently harsh to deter the occurrence, and the likelihood of being caught must be high. For this to happen, most programmers would need to be thinking about security. They would be checking for overflows, making their software work for restricted users, and they would get out of the "we can get that in the next patch" mentality. Security holes would need to be patched asap, not once a month or hidden from admins who could do something to help secure their network in the mean time. You would almost need to make a law to require software to be current, just to stop people in 2010 running windows 98 or xp sp1. And that is something I do not want to see. Let the strong survive and the idiots suffer. The market will take care of the rest.
So if I go to your insecure windows share folder and download mycustomerscreditcards.db I'm a hacker?
A theif maybe, but I didn't hack anything. I didn't crack anything, I just stole what you didn't lock down.
Thats my point, hackers didn't create the need for firewalls, and security. Common sense did.
Yea, but my house was built without doors, just big gaping holes. So how dare you come in and steal my stuff. I can't belive people would be so dishonest.
At least a door is an effort at security. Most software makers make no effort. I can prove this by the large list of programs that require me to make hours of phone calls to find all the stupid places they put stuff so my users do not have to run in admin mode in windows.
Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy.
If we got rid of all the hackers, wouldn't we still need to secure our networks from governments, criminals, terrorists, rival business, etc?
I think the blame lies with them more then just hackers.
I take all my movies, compress to divx and stream from my server to my xbox in the living room. Makes a easy cheap way to watch movies and tv shows. Now my movie collection has grown large over the years (10 dvd box sets of tv shows, star wars dvd, matrix dvd set, etc) If I didn't use divx, my 2 300gig hard drives would of been long full. As it stands now, I am very close to full.
I run my copy of neverwinter on linux. Works great:-)
One of these days more game makers are going to take a que from bioware, epic, and id and make more native linux games.
I wonder how long it will take for amd64 linux to work as smooth as winxp64 works now. I mean, the kernel has support for 32bit and 64bit apps, why bother with the chroot, we just need apt or portage to support 32 and 64bit apps at the same time. So far gentoo is close, but you will still screw up your system if you emerge a x86 app while using amd64 OS. So you still have to install a chroot, emerge in there, then move the libs and exe out of the chroot (or run everything in the chroot). In windows, you just install the app.
Linux is great, but I'll stick to my x86 version of ubuntu on my AMD64 until AMD64 linux matures to windows's level.
(This may have changed recently, My last exp with amd64 linux was gentoo about 2 months ago.)
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You dont play many new games do you.
Battlefield 2 will not work with cards that dont support vertex shader 1.4. Eq changed its engine mid game forcing tons of players to buy new video cards that were dx9 compatable.
The list goes on and on.
Then I guess we should change copywright law. Because in my opinion. With the exception of trademarked logo's, etc. A public website should be public domain.
Whats next? Walmart suing google because a search for walmart shows a link they didn't request made to walmart.com and walmart is a trademark?
Copywrights and trademarks have a purpose. But that purpose should revolve around the ability to make money. Content (not design) on public websites should be public domain. Dont like it? Password protect your pages. Then you can control you content.
If anything, the goverment needs to change the laws for public archives in regards to websites. Like newspapers and books, we need a public archive of websites. If only for our children to use in history class.
You pay to get into batman.
A car has a ignition that requires a key to use.
These are both protected. A website is not. If it was password protected, that would be another story.
I remember a case with websites that would post prices from various websites like best buy. They got sued because the stores claimed their prices were their own property. Anyone remember what happened in that case?
You might have a point if you password protected the page, or did something to prevent it from being public. But if its just out there in the public, why shouldn't we be able to use it for non profit work?
If I give away a trillion copys of my book, can I sue the guy who sells it on ebay? Its not a perfect example, but it's close.
Here's another example, if a copy released a press release, and I post it on my blog, can I now be sued for using their content without their permission? Or maybe if I watch public broadcast television and then write a transcript on my blog, is that a violation? What about just a summary?
If its public, it should be free. If you didn't want it to be free you shouldn't of been giving it away for free.
Your right, I'll send google a cease and desist letter today. They spidered my website unathorized. I didn't even get a letter asking permission. I dont care if they will remove the search entry, the damage is done. People have seen my URL in searchs, and seen my images in images.google.com.
Google now owes me ONE BILLION DALLORS!!!!!
Maybe the problem is some things should be public domain. You know like stuff you post on a giant world wide public accesable interface such as the internet. If you want a private site, password protect it or keep it off the net. If it is posted on the internet with no reasonable mesures taken to keep it private, then it should be concidered public domain.
I'm going to have to watch their movies encrypted!!!!! Gah, now all the bad movie's they are putting out will make even less sense.
One day we will look back and say, when I was your age, we watched movies, but they weren't just scrambled data that made no sense, they had pictures and words and made no sense.
But nothing is more frustrating then an app that keeps crashing in X, because you dont know why it is crashing without going into log files or using a console. It would be nice if when a app crashed if a popup with the error would actually just apear.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but firefox has a search bar to the right hand corner of the window. You can click and choose which search engine and type what you want in the box.
no, you dont need a valid CD key or a subscription to patch the client. I know. All you need is to have a friend to email you the EQ exe. You stick it in a folder, run it, an it will download all your missing content. Boom, your done.
the last update of m0n0wall caused my box to go into an endless reboot cycle. I haven't had time to look at it, so just threw ipcop on there. So far so good. M0n0wall is a great distro for a firewall. I am actually looking into building an embedded system for it.
No, the Venice and San diego cores fixed the problem with 4 dimms dropping the bus to 333 instead of 400. But they still ran at 2T instead of 1T timings. As far as I know this is still an issue.
I wonder if it fixes the 2T memory timings when using 4 sticks of ram. I really want 2 gigs of ram without loosing my current 1 gig.
Your shared hosting wont have the server power to serve out 80GB/month. Its called overselling. They offer you more bandwith then they know you can use. They know their servers couldn't handle that load, they have a few hundred websites on them. This is a standard hosting tactic. When I was doing some reseller hosting for a friend, his account had 30 gig of bandwith, but we sold 30 gigs of bandwith to each customer. You know how much bandwith we used a month? about 8 -12 gigs. We had just over 100 sites.
I guess you right. I just think its funny that if I go to your house, and point a gun at you to get you to print out your bank account numbers. I'm not a hacker. I'm a criminal who just did some B&E, assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and a few other crimes. If I go to your insecure PC and download your bank account numbers because you never secured the data, I'm a big bad and much horrible hacker. Its just ridiculous. The concept that cybercrime is somehow different and unrelated to real world crime is outdated. It should be called what it is, and it shouldn't have its own set of penaltys compared to the same real world act.
Thank you, you said what I was trying to say. Only you made sense.
Few houses are impenetrable. You can build a nice lock, and I can come through your window. You can put bars on your windows, and I can break down your door. You can get steel doors, and I can use a chainsaw on your wall. You can build build steel walls, and I can bring a blowtorch.
Its not about 100% security. Its about reasonable security. If you can just walk right into my house and take my tv, you might get away with it. If you take 15 minutes with a chainsaw on the side of my house, somebody might notice and call the police. The same holds true to computer security. If I use use plain text instead of encrypted sessions, or if I run all my network users (which includes students) as admin. I am asking for problems, and I will have a lot harder time detecting them. If my root password is password you could brute force it with a dictionary attack before I notice, but if its x65@ygh7®, I may notice your brute force attack before you get too far.
Yes, we should blame/punish the criminals. But, why should the idiots who setup/write this kind of insecure crap get away with it too? Why should someone have a important password if they are too stupid to know not to give it out. I think if they are dumb enough, they deserve what they get. Consider your loss of private data or customer information as punishment for poor policys, enforcement, or software.
At some point, society has to say "We aren't going to allow this crap." At some point, the blame must be on the people perpetrating the crime, the punishment must be sufficiently harsh to deter the occurrence, and the likelihood of being caught must be high.
For this to happen, most programmers would need to be thinking about security. They would be checking for overflows, making their software work for restricted users, and they would get out of the "we can get that in the next patch" mentality. Security holes would need to be patched asap, not once a month or hidden from admins who could do something to help secure their network in the mean time. You would almost need to make a law to require software to be current, just to stop people in 2010 running windows 98 or xp sp1. And that is something I do not want to see. Let the strong survive and the idiots suffer. The market will take care of the rest.
So if I go to your insecure windows share folder and download mycustomerscreditcards.db I'm a hacker?
A theif maybe, but I didn't hack anything. I didn't crack anything, I just stole what you didn't lock down.
Thats my point, hackers didn't create the need for firewalls, and security. Common sense did.
http://code.google.com/g le+and+opensource&btnG=Google+Search
or just
http://www.google.com/search?biw=1280&hl=en&q=goo
Should help you answer your own question.
Yea, but my house was built without doors, just big gaping holes. So how dare you come in and steal my stuff. I can't belive people would be so dishonest.
At least a door is an effort at security. Most software makers make no effort. I can prove this by the large list of programs that require me to make hours of phone calls to find all the stupid places they put stuff so my users do not have to run in admin mode in windows.
If we got rid of all the hackers, wouldn't we still need to secure our networks from governments, criminals, terrorists, rival business, etc?
I think the blame lies with them more then just hackers.
I take all my movies, compress to divx and stream from my server to my xbox in the living room. Makes a easy cheap way to watch movies and tv shows. Now my movie collection has grown large over the years (10 dvd box sets of tv shows, star wars dvd, matrix dvd set, etc) If I didn't use divx, my 2 300gig hard drives would of been long full. As it stands now, I am very close to full.
I run my copy of neverwinter on linux. Works great :-)
One of these days more game makers are going to take a que from bioware, epic, and id and make more native linux games.
I wonder how long it will take for amd64 linux to work as smooth as winxp64 works now. I mean, the kernel has support for 32bit and 64bit apps, why bother with the chroot, we just need apt or portage to support 32 and 64bit apps at the same time. So far gentoo is close, but you will still screw up your system if you emerge a x86 app while using amd64 OS. So you still have to install a chroot, emerge in there, then move the libs and exe out of the chroot (or run everything in the chroot). In windows, you just install the app.
Linux is great, but I'll stick to my x86 version of ubuntu on my AMD64 until AMD64 linux matures to windows's level.
(This may have changed recently, My last exp with amd64 linux was gentoo about 2 months ago.)
I agree with everything you said about oracle, but the part about GUI tools. You can get aqua data studio, tora, SQL-developer, etc all free/cheap compared to toad.