You don't need an internet connection to unlock this content. You just need to be able to figure out how. Theoretically, a kid with a computer in a locked room with no internet connection could enable the hot coffee scenes.
If the ESRB did not revoke this, then the next game would just have a setting in a config file that says "screwESRB=N". I haven't looked into the exe that flips the hot coffee scenes on or off but just because it is an exe that flips the bit doesn't mean it's rocket science.
Linux doesn't have to be like Windows. But it would be nice if some of the distributions solved a few of the problems that are already fixed in Windows.
For example, it would be nice to have a simple directory structure that makes sense. The
FHS doesn't cut it. The/usr/bin directory is for "most" commands? The/usr/local directory is for software installed by the "administrator"? WTF?
What's with the single threaded linear bootup process? The kernel is capable of running how many process in parallel? And yet the init daemon has to start one service at a time in linear fasion regardless of dependencies?
We've got JFS, AFS, NFS, NTFS, ABCFS but how about a filesystem that supports generation datasets? Wasn't that available on other systems back in, oh I dunno 1900? It seems useful on other systems like VMS and OS. I guess Windows doesn't have this either so here's a chance to *gasp* make an improvement past Windows!
You can't imagine a 10 second bootup? Have you ever sat down to calculate how many bytes the controller can read from disk and how many operations a cpu can execute in 10 seconds? If your system takes significantly longer than 10 seconds then something is seriously wrong with it. Maybe the branch prediction logic on the g5 is not as great as they've been advertising. Constantly choosing the wrong path could potentially cause the cpu to waste a lot of time.
So exactly how much is a human worth, in dollars and cents? The sasser worm didn't kill anyone but it may have knocked a fraction of a percentage point off of someone's bottom line. It doesn't matter what dollar figure you come up with because people will begin to argue that figure down little by little over time. If a billion dollars gets someone the chair, then what about 990,000,000?
Personally, I feel that if you have billions of dollars to lose then you should take a look at computer security. If someone robs you then you'll never get it back so maybe you should try and keep hackers out in the first place. Killing someone won't bring that money back either.
Everything has already been overloaded at eclipse.org. TDS Internet used to be listed in their mirrors but now it isn't? Bailing out a little early aren't we?
It's called common sense. If you're hiring 14,000 Indians at the drop of a hat then what can you say about them except they have a name and probably exist?
Wow, you can open a browser and copy syntax into the command line without a GUI? So you're a master of lynx and screen then. Hooray for you! I think you'll find that you can do this same task through X as well. Simply open Mozilla in one window and open an xterm in another window. I think you can figure the rest out for yourself. Who knows, you may learn something new about this evil GUI. For example, keeping your web browser and command line on the screen simultaneously would seem like a plus to me.
Because sometimes it's just the best way to do something. I always keep at least one terminal window open . ..
Ok, so you keep one window open so you can switch to it when you need to? I may be a little dense from time to time but aren't you describing some of the benefits of a GUI?
I mean, do you go around criticizing DVD-ROM drives because they cost more than CD-ROM drives and only read at 1X?
Go to newegg.com and search for a 20" lcd monitor and then for a 21" crt monitor. I searched and the cheapest lcd was $550 and the cheapest crt was $350. Now do the same search for a dvdrom drive and a cdrom drive. The cheapest dvdrom is $21 and the cheapest cdrom is $21. Big difference . . .
Restricting firefox (or anything else) to non-admin access is only going to protect the OS. Don't you have any personal files outside of %system32% that you may also be concerned about protecting?
As long as browsers can execute code, this will not work. You would need to assign capabilities to every code snippet that comes across the wire. A typical CBS system will keep a downloaded video game from attempting to read your outlook address book, for example. But it wouldn't keep that dancing monkey flash script from reading your mozilla address book (if it could only guess the filename). A browser is like an OS within an OS. No matter what capabilities you assign to firefox.exe, you are still going to have various websites doing things they shouldn't be doing.
A cluster of X components is never going to be as reliable as a single component. If you buy more of something then your odds of seeing a defect go up, not down. You are correct in that if one card fails then you only need to replace the one card. However, your odds of a card failing are now four times as likely. Supercomputers are not for the thrifty and neither are multi-gpu systems.
You're still treating this like a black & white issue though. It's not like you're comparing a completely insecure product against a totally secured product. It's firefox 1.0.3 vs firefox 1.0.4. Saying if you want "safe and secure" then use this other product is kind of misleading. How much safer is 1.0.4 over 1.0.3? Were we all crazy for every using 1.0 or possibly even the release candidates? The underlying issue is, who cares if Netscape 8 had this particular vulnerability for a day? Firefox had it for a week. The same workaround applied for Netscape (disable javascript). No known exploits were ever found. Netscape 8.0 is still way more secure than IE 6 or probably even 7. Telling people not to use it is insane (and FUD).
That's a good idea actually. Just make sure you use some kind of unique seed. It would all be pointless if the md5 hash matched up with the hash from some other site that just happened to have the same idea.
In a phishing attack there are a couple ways in which the user's identity is compromised. The first and most obvious is that the attacker, in this case a friendly IT worker, now has your credentials. The second way, is that now your credentials are quite possibly cached/stored somewhere that can be more easily hacked. How do they know someone didn't piggy-back off their hacked together phishing script and now they're planning something malicious. Once you tap into a secure channel you can create a lot of holes in no time. If nothing else, just the list of duped usernames could be extremely valuable.
It may help people that were blinded later in life through an accident or cataracts. However, if someone is blind from birth then their visual cortex never develops and vision would be impossible even with an artificial eye. Many studies have been done. Click herehere
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But I want to build a 20 PetaFlop computer. Take that Japan!
You don't need an internet connection to unlock this content. You just need to be able to figure out how. Theoretically, a kid with a computer in a locked room with no internet connection could enable the hot coffee scenes.
If the ESRB did not revoke this, then the next game would just have a setting in a config file that says "screwESRB=N". I haven't looked into the exe that flips the hot coffee scenes on or off but just because it is an exe that flips the bit doesn't mean it's rocket science.
so drop it in the dumpster and get a new one I guess.
It could be that every study performed is accurate with the exception of this one.
I think the idea is to convince you to get rid of your Outlook.
Linux doesn't have to be like Windows. But it would be nice if some of the distributions solved a few of the problems that are already fixed in Windows.
For example, it would be nice to have a simple directory structure that makes sense. The FHS doesn't cut it. The /usr/bin directory is for "most" commands? The /usr/local directory is for software installed by the "administrator"? WTF?
What's with the single threaded linear bootup process? The kernel is capable of running how many process in parallel? And yet the init daemon has to start one service at a time in linear fasion regardless of dependencies?
We've got JFS, AFS, NFS, NTFS, ABCFS but how about a filesystem that supports generation datasets? Wasn't that available on other systems back in, oh I dunno 1900? It seems useful on other systems like VMS and OS. I guess Windows doesn't have this either so here's a chance to *gasp* make an improvement past Windows!
November '98 - My Mac Sucks
http://www.kottke.org/98/11/
June 2002 - Switching to the Mac
http://www.kottke.org/02/06/switching-to-the-mac
Wait a second . . .
You can't imagine a 10 second bootup? Have you ever sat down to calculate how many bytes the controller can read from disk and how many operations a cpu can execute in 10 seconds? If your system takes significantly longer than 10 seconds then something is seriously wrong with it. Maybe the branch prediction logic on the g5 is not as great as they've been advertising. Constantly choosing the wrong path could potentially cause the cpu to waste a lot of time.
So exactly how much is a human worth, in dollars and cents? The sasser worm didn't kill anyone but it may have knocked a fraction of a percentage point off of someone's bottom line. It doesn't matter what dollar figure you come up with because people will begin to argue that figure down little by little over time. If a billion dollars gets someone the chair, then what about 990,000,000?
Personally, I feel that if you have billions of dollars to lose then you should take a look at computer security. If someone robs you then you'll never get it back so maybe you should try and keep hackers out in the first place. Killing someone won't bring that money back either.
Everything has already been overloaded at eclipse.org. TDS Internet used to be listed in their mirrors but now it isn't? Bailing out a little early aren't we?
It's called common sense. If you're hiring 14,000 Indians at the drop of a hat then what can you say about them except they have a name and probably exist?
If you buy this card now then you're buying it for Doom 3. No other game requires 512mb of video ram for its highest setting.
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/imps/d irector.asp
From the director:
a more serious documentary in the style of a History Channel Program
This should be great, lol!
Wow, you can open a browser and copy syntax into the command line without a GUI? So you're a master of lynx and screen then. Hooray for you! I think you'll find that you can do this same task through X as well. Simply open Mozilla in one window and open an xterm in another window. I think you can figure the rest out for yourself. Who knows, you may learn something new about this evil GUI. For example, keeping your web browser and command line on the screen simultaneously would seem like a plus to me.
Ok, so you keep one window open so you can switch to it when you need to? I may be a little dense from time to time but aren't you describing some of the benefits of a GUI?
It's a device that plays VCR tapes.
Watching a dvd that you've purchased seems like a perfectly innocent use to me.
I mean, do you go around criticizing DVD-ROM drives because they cost more than CD-ROM drives and only read at 1X?
Go to newegg.com and search for a 20" lcd monitor and then for a 21" crt monitor. I searched and the cheapest lcd was $550 and the cheapest crt was $350. Now do the same search for a dvdrom drive and a cdrom drive. The cheapest dvdrom is $21 and the cheapest cdrom is $21. Big difference . . .
Restricting firefox (or anything else) to non-admin access is only going to protect the OS. Don't you have any personal files outside of %system32% that you may also be concerned about protecting?
As long as browsers can execute code, this will not work. You would need to assign capabilities to every code snippet that comes across the wire. A typical CBS system will keep a downloaded video game from attempting to read your outlook address book, for example. But it wouldn't keep that dancing monkey flash script from reading your mozilla address book (if it could only guess the filename). A browser is like an OS within an OS. No matter what capabilities you assign to firefox.exe, you are still going to have various websites doing things they shouldn't be doing.
A cluster of X components is never going to be as reliable as a single component. If you buy more of something then your odds of seeing a defect go up, not down. You are correct in that if one card fails then you only need to replace the one card. However, your odds of a card failing are now four times as likely. Supercomputers are not for the thrifty and neither are multi-gpu systems.
You're still treating this like a black & white issue though. It's not like you're comparing a completely insecure product against a totally secured product. It's firefox 1.0.3 vs firefox 1.0.4. Saying if you want "safe and secure" then use this other product is kind of misleading. How much safer is 1.0.4 over 1.0.3? Were we all crazy for every using 1.0 or possibly even the release candidates? The underlying issue is, who cares if Netscape 8 had this particular vulnerability for a day? Firefox had it for a week. The same workaround applied for Netscape (disable javascript). No known exploits were ever found. Netscape 8.0 is still way more secure than IE 6 or probably even 7. Telling people not to use it is insane (and FUD).
That's a good idea actually. Just make sure you use some kind of unique seed. It would all be pointless if the md5 hash matched up with the hash from some other site that just happened to have the same idea.
In a phishing attack there are a couple ways in which the user's identity is compromised. The first and most obvious is that the attacker, in this case a friendly IT worker, now has your credentials. The second way, is that now your credentials are quite possibly cached/stored somewhere that can be more easily hacked. How do they know someone didn't piggy-back off their hacked together phishing script and now they're planning something malicious. Once you tap into a secure channel you can create a lot of holes in no time. If nothing else, just the list of duped usernames could be extremely valuable.
It may help people that were blinded later in life through an accident or cataracts. However, if someone is blind from birth then their visual cortex never develops and vision would be impossible even with an artificial eye. Many studies have been done. Click here here and here for more info.