Clicking on the link, the first thing that caught my eye was a picture of a catholic priest.
When are we going to stop allowing these people to mess around in our science and politics? Separate church and state already.
So... They accidently come out of hyperspace near a massive doomsday weapon? Why are the two factions at war? When does the story actually have any kind of substance?
The problem with the storyline is they give you a tiny piece of something that seems much larger and fails to elaborate on anything. Now, in Halo's defense, HL2 is just as bad. Trying to grade either of these games based on plot is ridiculous.
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I fail to see why in the world consoles have the inability to use keyboard and mouse at least as an option. The 360 has USB ports, the PS3 has Bluetooth and USB. Why can't I just take my keyboard and mouse combo and use it for these systems as an option?
The PS3 has keyboard and mouse support out of the box. However, in order to use it in games the games have to be written to use them. A few games do this already - notably you can get Unreal Tournament 3 for the PS3 with out of the box mouse and keyboard support.
The 360 should follow this fine example. They could crush the gaming market if they did this and found a way to make it so you could use the keyboard and mouse for any game regardless of it's implementation. There is a lot of speculation as to why they have not done it. Most people say that the xbox team does not want to hurt microsoft games lab's PC division. Others would say that it has to do with the fact that it would create a gameplay rift - since a keyboard and mouse for many genres is far superior to a gamepad. More still would say that it breaks "ease of play" and "comfort" since having a mouse on a couch is generally not ideal.
I can't say for sure why they didn't do it. What I can say for sure is it does make certain genres of games less fun and more tedious.
I found the exact same thing happened to Radio Shack up here in Canada. It used to be the go-to place for all things electronic. As a kid I remember getting all my project kits and much of my early computer equipment there. The staff were slowly replaced. They went from knowledgeable people who knew what a diode was for to people who had problems operating a screwdriver.
Then as the years went on it got more and more ghetto. The electronics were cheap and the store was littered with useless novelty gadgets nobody wanted. The staff got more and more aggressive with pushing their extended warranties. I worked there for a short time as a kid and the EWPs (Extended Warranty Plans) are pushed so hard it is amazing. Customers are hounded for all their personal details and the staff are trained to tell them it is for warranty information - whether an EWP was involved or not. The wage was hourly but you got more if you sold more of their useless trash and EWPs as it went from an hourly wage to commission if you sold enough.
When Radio Shack got bought out and became 'The Source' it got even worse. My once beloved Radio Shack had become the dictionary definition of everything I hate in a store.
One might ask what all this has to do with Circuit City though. In 2004 Radio Shack was bought out by Circuit City from InterTAN. It then became 'The Source by Circuit City'.
NO! How many times to people have to get hammered because their own or someone else's sanatizer didn't really sanitize (ex: php's mysql_escape_string vs mysql_REAL_escape_string, and other idiotic things)
before folks will listen to DBAs and start using well parametrized stored procedures/prepared statements.
More important than sanitization is actual validation. Is it supposed to be an integer? Check that first. If the input is no good, reject the whole thing before it gets in to your query in any way, shape or form. http://php.net/filter is a very underrated way to do this.
OTOH, I do agree, much grief could be saved if more people just used PDO.
I completely agree. In a lot of cases, it's not the language which is the problem. It's the programmer. They run out and learn PHP from some outdated tutorial that had bad practices without understanding their implications. Too many people spend a week with the language and then think they are somehow experts.
PHP can be made as secure as any other language out there. The trick is to actually read the manual, and learn the pitfalls.
Sirius XM has been eclipsed by something far cheaper and more convenient: the Internet. Load up Pandora or the Public Radio Tuner on your iPhone, and you've got access to a wider stream of music than you'll ever get through satellite.
Please don't reference Pandora like it's available to everyone. It isn't. Thanks US government!
the slashdot crowd takes what is obviously supposed to be a toy, and can't look at it for what it is. A toy. It has to be some world-ending apocalyptic program written specifically to put someone out of work, or monopolize a market, or some such dark thing.
Because, you know, it won't be someone who isn't a professional vocalist having a little fun in the privacy of their own home. It's going to be the next endless batch of 1-hit wonders! Microsoft is going to be the demon lurking in the shadows attempting to gain a foothold on the lucrative music industry by replacing every singer and band on the market with it's own software and outsourced "musicians"! World ending I tell you! WORLD ENDING!
Next time you think operating system XYZ is so secure that nothing unwanted can get in, go to defcon, turn on your laptop and it's wifi and connect to the local access point. I give you 10 minutes before someone is downloading all your porn.
People who think anything is immune on a network are laughable.
Any PC, Mac or otherwise, is 'safe out of the box'. It's not until you plug them in to the internet that you start to have problems. Looks like Apple is going to have to learn the hard way.
Because then we wouldn't be able to read venomous posts by people who can't handle the fact that someone else is trying to write a database server, such as yourself.
Because a computer is pretty limited for them until s/he is able to read. Reading to your child from a book is a great way to not only socialize and bond with them, as well as getting their imagination active.
He might still want on your computer, which is fine, but find something simple for him to do (you might consider having a look at http://virtualapple.org/ for some old, but good games.) and put him in your lap while he does it so you can help guide him, and keep your equipment from getting destroyed. No 2 year old should be on a computer alone.
I sort of agree with this. I've met a lot of really stupid OSX users too, but Windows simply has more market share, and yes - a lot of those people are really dumb.
I also agree that people don't read. If I might add to your argument - It's not the Operating System's job to protect the user. It's the Operating System's job to give the user the tools they need to protect themselves.
That isn't true. They just add an extra hurdle in that users need to be socially engineered in to running the programs - a task which is not very difficult at all. Let's also not forget that it's still possible (without privilege elevation) to mess around in the user's home directory (given an exploitable vulnerability), where presumably their important/sensitive documents are kept. Don't think for a second that OSX or Linux are a silver bullet.
UAC does much the same thing as sudo, but people still get infected because they're not careful what they're saying "yes" to.
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Good ol' security by obscurity. I expect nothing less from the US military.
Clicking on the link, the first thing that caught my eye was a picture of a catholic priest. When are we going to stop allowing these people to mess around in our science and politics? Separate church and state already.
Now he has to get a real job like the rest of us. My heart really bleeds for this guy. Really.
All I can really say is: /facepalm
And how ignorant is the author to ignore all the broken, lost and otherwise destroyed rocks that didn't survive?
So .. how much was broken, lost, or otherwise destroyed?
Oh, right, we don't know, because it was broken, lost, or destroyed.
...this was the work of a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Can't fall behind schedule after all.
So ... They accidently come out of hyperspace near a massive doomsday weapon? Why are the two factions at war? When does the story actually have any kind of substance?
The problem with the storyline is they give you a tiny piece of something that seems much larger and fails to elaborate on anything. Now, in Halo's defense, HL2 is just as bad. Trying to grade either of these games based on plot is ridiculous.
I fail to see why in the world consoles have the inability to use keyboard and mouse at least as an option. The 360 has USB ports, the PS3 has Bluetooth and USB. Why can't I just take my keyboard and mouse combo and use it for these systems as an option?
The PS3 has keyboard and mouse support out of the box. However, in order to use it in games the games have to be written to use them. A few games do this already - notably you can get Unreal Tournament 3 for the PS3 with out of the box mouse and keyboard support.
The 360 should follow this fine example. They could crush the gaming market if they did this and found a way to make it so you could use the keyboard and mouse for any game regardless of it's implementation. There is a lot of speculation as to why they have not done it. Most people say that the xbox team does not want to hurt microsoft games lab's PC division. Others would say that it has to do with the fact that it would create a gameplay rift - since a keyboard and mouse for many genres is far superior to a gamepad. More still would say that it breaks "ease of play" and "comfort" since having a mouse on a couch is generally not ideal.
I can't say for sure why they didn't do it. What I can say for sure is it does make certain genres of games less fun and more tedious.
It no longer matters to me since I refuse to set foot in one of those stores again. I would urge anyone else to do the same. They are terrible.
I found the exact same thing happened to Radio Shack up here in Canada. It used to be the go-to place for all things electronic. As a kid I remember getting all my project kits and much of my early computer equipment there. The staff were slowly replaced. They went from knowledgeable people who knew what a diode was for to people who had problems operating a screwdriver.
Then as the years went on it got more and more ghetto. The electronics were cheap and the store was littered with useless novelty gadgets nobody wanted. The staff got more and more aggressive with pushing their extended warranties. I worked there for a short time as a kid and the EWPs (Extended Warranty Plans) are pushed so hard it is amazing. Customers are hounded for all their personal details and the staff are trained to tell them it is for warranty information - whether an EWP was involved or not. The wage was hourly but you got more if you sold more of their useless trash and EWPs as it went from an hourly wage to commission if you sold enough.
When Radio Shack got bought out and became 'The Source' it got even worse. My once beloved Radio Shack had become the dictionary definition of everything I hate in a store.
One might ask what all this has to do with Circuit City though. In 2004 Radio Shack was bought out by Circuit City from InterTAN. It then became 'The Source by Circuit City'.
NO! How many times to people have to get hammered because their own or someone else's sanatizer didn't really sanitize (ex: php's mysql_escape_string vs mysql_REAL_escape_string, and other idiotic things) before folks will listen to DBAs and start using well parametrized stored procedures/prepared statements.
More important than sanitization is actual validation. Is it supposed to be an integer? Check that first. If the input is no good, reject the whole thing before it gets in to your query in any way, shape or form. http://php.net/filter is a very underrated way to do this.
OTOH, I do agree, much grief could be saved if more people just used PDO.
I completely agree. In a lot of cases, it's not the language which is the problem. It's the programmer. They run out and learn PHP from some outdated tutorial that had bad practices without understanding their implications. Too many people spend a week with the language and then think they are somehow experts. PHP can be made as secure as any other language out there. The trick is to actually read the manual, and learn the pitfalls.
Sirius XM has been eclipsed by something far cheaper and more convenient: the Internet. Load up Pandora or the Public Radio Tuner on your iPhone, and you've got access to a wider stream of music than you'll ever get through satellite.
Please don't reference Pandora like it's available to everyone. It isn't. Thanks US government!
..if we just called it Lemmy? Then maybe we could talk Motorhead in to giving us a great soundtrack to go with the distro.
I'm sure the creationists are saying this very thing - all the while, foaming at the mouth.
I laughed pretty hard at the chacaron remake. Hilarious. Now we know what he could have been if he went lounge instead of hiphop.
the slashdot crowd takes what is obviously supposed to be a toy, and can't look at it for what it is. A toy. It has to be some world-ending apocalyptic program written specifically to put someone out of work, or monopolize a market, or some such dark thing.
Because, you know, it won't be someone who isn't a professional vocalist having a little fun in the privacy of their own home. It's going to be the next endless batch of 1-hit wonders! Microsoft is going to be the demon lurking in the shadows attempting to gain a foothold on the lucrative music industry by replacing every singer and band on the market with it's own software and outsourced "musicians"! World ending I tell you! WORLD ENDING!
It's what happens when they turn kdawson loose to post sensationalist articles.
I would mod you up another 5 times if I could. Beautiful outline of the current problem with the US voting system.
Next time you think operating system XYZ is so secure that nothing unwanted can get in, go to defcon, turn on your laptop and it's wifi and connect to the local access point. I give you 10 minutes before someone is downloading all your porn.
People who think anything is immune on a network are laughable.
Any PC, Mac or otherwise, is 'safe out of the box'. It's not until you plug them in to the internet that you start to have problems. Looks like Apple is going to have to learn the hard way.
Because then we wouldn't be able to read venomous posts by people who can't handle the fact that someone else is trying to write a database server, such as yourself.
Because a computer is pretty limited for them until s/he is able to read. Reading to your child from a book is a great way to not only socialize and bond with them, as well as getting their imagination active.
He might still want on your computer, which is fine, but find something simple for him to do (you might consider having a look at http://virtualapple.org/ for some old, but good games.) and put him in your lap while he does it so you can help guide him, and keep your equipment from getting destroyed. No 2 year old should be on a computer alone.
I sort of agree with this. I've met a lot of really stupid OSX users too, but Windows simply has more market share, and yes - a lot of those people are really dumb.
I also agree that people don't read. If I might add to your argument - It's not the Operating System's job to protect the user. It's the Operating System's job to give the user the tools they need to protect themselves.
That isn't true. They just add an extra hurdle in that users need to be socially engineered in to running the programs - a task which is not very difficult at all. Let's also not forget that it's still possible (without privilege elevation) to mess around in the user's home directory (given an exploitable vulnerability), where presumably their important/sensitive documents are kept. Don't think for a second that OSX or Linux are a silver bullet.
UAC does much the same thing as sudo, but people still get infected because they're not careful what they're saying "yes" to.