As a high-school senior who's managed to avoid getting in trouble for computer stuff, I'd like to share my experience.
If you want to bypass any restrictions, find out if the teachers mind. Many times they won't. (I was once asked to send an e-mail from school, and our school filters block all webmail..or at least they think they do.)
If you end up doing something that you think they won't mind but they do, as soon as they say something, apologize, and stop doing that. And it helps to show yourself as a white hat ahead of time, so they know you're not solely trying to break their security.
If you're doing something that you know they mind, reconsider why. Is this something you can't do more safely from home, or from a public library or Internet café?
If you're looking up porn from school, you're a ****ing idiot. Same goes if you're breaking into important stuff for the fun of it.
The government needed Ender to win the war, so they couldn't discipline him for anything -- from hacking to murder. (Now of course the murder had the secondary benefit that they wanted him to be a cold-hearted killer, but that wasn't the only reason they let him get away with it.)
Already, when I store a phone number for a different area code, I do not store it with the '1' in front so as not to make a long distance call. Conveniently when I select that number from my address book and dial it the phone company inserts a '1' in front of the number and dials it long distance as I'm out of my dialing area. This is exactly the kind of slimeball tactic phone companies are famous for.
What the heck?
A) When you dial within your area code, it's automatically a local call. Unless calls out of your area code are also local for you, how do you expect not to get long distance for them?
Really? "RAInvitation.msrcincident" for Remote Assistance invitations has to be one of the most annoying filetypes ever. Not because it's an extension more than 3 letters, but because it's so redundant. And why do they need to add "incident" - or even "ms" for that matter?
I have no problem with people respecting the environment and making sure we don't (accidentally or intentionally) do bad things to the earth. I also have no problem with people being religious as long as they're not on a jihad.
For the radical environmentalists, their religion is environmentalism. The sensible environmentalists are like the sensible religious, who respect that "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." (Genesis 2:15) Actually, if you look, the Bible contains a lot of sensible and occasionally left-wing beliefs. The ERR has very little Biblical backing: most of what they do is a misinterpretation so they can further their own evil goals.
I'm skeptical because this console was announced, what, 5 years ago? More?
In 1992, after the release of Windows 3.1 and NT 3.1, Microsoft announced plans for a project codenamed "Cairo" to unify the regular and NT product lines. Cairo in the form of NT 5 finally came out in 2000. The unification of the lines only arrived with Windows XP, released in 2001. Compared to that timeline, 5 years isn't that much, especially not for a hardware project by a small company.
People in the OSS world are used to seeing preliminary versions of things released quickly (the "bazaar" style). This doesn't quite work for hardware, so the "cathedral" style prevails. If the Phantom is legitimate, the only mistake they made was announcing it too early.
And while I'm on the subject of physical products and cathedrals, remember that it took hundreds of years for some cathedrals to be built. Unless you're a mega-corp, it takes time to build a working hardware device. You can't just release your 0.1 version and let people download the updated schematics from SourceForge and hope that they're good with electronics.
until I see a working machine I can fiddle with at the game store I'll place your console in the file folder with Duke Nukem Forever.
Isn't that the same folder that Half-Life 2 was in?
Or better yet, register something like aaaa....com, and publish a whole bunch of honeypot e-mails from it. As soon as an IP connects to the mailserver, it goes up on a blacklist (at www.aaaa....com) for one day. If it connects after that one day, it's blocked permanently. And every message sent through the honeypot server is fed into this giant Bayesian spam filter.
Since aaaa....com will be hit before pretty much any other website for alphabetical spammers, it should do a pretty good job of blacklisting if people are careful to update from its blacklist often.
The media will never start using "hacker" and "cracker" the way we'd like them to, so it's much simpler to accept "hacker" as a word that derives its meaning from context. When the word "FBI" is in the vicinity, it's a bad guy. When the word "OSS" is in the vicinity, it's a good guy.
In all seriousness, the Christian Science Monitor is nowhere near Televangelism Weekly. Although their editorial bias is slightly right-wing, they do live up to the "Science" part of their name.
Bungie has been extremely careful not to do anything to confirm that they're creating a game called "Halo 3" that follows the Halo and Halo 2 line in the usual sense. If you look at their statements, they're working on another project, they do have some stuff in mind for a video game based on the Bungie universe, but they won't confirm Halo 3 itself.
If they are doing a Halo 3 like we all expect, why wouldn't they confirm it? (Other than to be their usual annoying Bungie selves, but I don't think they'd do something stupid on a project as big as this.) My personal opinion is that they'll do a game that isn't quite Halo 3 as we expect it. Maybe it won't follow Master Chief or the Arbiter. Maybe it'll be an RTS like Halo was plannned to be. Or something equally unexpected...but it won't be the sequel to Halo 2 in the manner that Halo 2 was the sequel to Halo.
The quote about the Halo bible says "further sequels", not "Halo 3". It may not even be a Halo-series game, since the Halo universe overlaps somewhat with the universes from their past games, and probably will overlap with the universe for their next game. For example, the manual for Halo 2 has an e-mail from Cortana to ONI.
From the article:...or what the org was that trained us.
I have never seen the term "org" used to describe something that "trains" outside of the realm of Scientology. And now that I've seen that connection, the unfounded paranoia makes sense...well, as much sense as Scientology makes...
LORD? Take a look at Legend of the Green Dragon. It's supposed to be based on LORD (I don't know, I've only played LotGD). Oh, and it's open source PHP.
And if you do decide to play, you might want to look at other servers, if you think the main server has too many players.
And I almost forgot -- you can control the game almost entirely by keyboard alone. See those underlined letters in the menu to the left? Just type C, for instance, to Create a character.
1. Hubs can't kill people. And you can garotte people as well with CAT5 as with a shoelace. Look on the TSA restricted lists...you see razors but not Ethernet. So I fail to see how your sarcasm means anything.
2. I still don't get how you'd manage to play games against unknown people on the plane. Do you just walk in and yell, "Hey, anyone has a laptop AND has Halo PC AND brought the CD for it AND wants to play?"? And hope to get a response? Normally you'd play against your friends, which means you've booked together, which means you're all nearby. Like in the same aisle, normally. So you're not strewing cable over any unwitting passengers.
Ad Hoc? Assuming you're not hoping there are enough random people who want to play the same game on that one aircraft, you can just use a crossover cable with your buddy. Or set up a hub and wired LAN if you have enough laptop-equipped people.
Latency only matters for time-sensitive applications like games. You're crazy if you want to try playing games on airplanes. Your e-mail already takes minutes to go between servers, and web pages often go years between being posted and reaching you. Latency will be at most a few seconds.
That [Mac WINE] does have interesting implications. But it's going to require a LOT of work to make that work, above and beyond what Wine's already doing. Wine will have to be practically rewritten for cocoa. Otherwise we'll be running the partially-incompatible wine translation layer inside the compatible-but-awkward X11 translation layer. Eww. I don't really expect wine for os x to get to the point your average person can run it for a long time, and I don't expect it to really work ever unless Apple themselves decide to put some work into it.
Take a look at Darwine, which runs on PPC/OS X. The immediate plan, which they seem to have working, is to use winelib as a sort of open-source Windows API, and recompile apps working on WINE/x86 for PPC, and run those on X11. This means that developers can start working now on moving these to Aqua instead of X11 and getting WINE "practically rewritten for Cocoa". When the x86 Macs get released, the recompiling stage won't be a problem, and closed-source apps should be able to run. Moreover, Darwine already works (as much as WINE does), so even if no further work is done on the project, it should be able to run on the x86 Macs under X11.
The future goal of Darwine seems to be using an emulator to run x86 code on PPC, but they don't seem to have that working yet. Anyway, it's irrrelevant for the x86 Macs.
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As a high-school senior who's managed to avoid getting in trouble for computer stuff, I'd like to share my experience.
If you want to bypass any restrictions, find out if the teachers mind. Many times they won't. (I was once asked to send an e-mail from school, and our school filters block all webmail..or at least they think they do.)
If you end up doing something that you think they won't mind but they do, as soon as they say something, apologize, and stop doing that. And it helps to show yourself as a white hat ahead of time, so they know you're not solely trying to break their security.
If you're doing something that you know they mind, reconsider why. Is this something you can't do more safely from home, or from a public library or Internet café?
If you're looking up porn from school, you're a ****ing idiot. Same goes if you're breaking into important stuff for the fun of it.
The government needed Ender to win the war, so they couldn't discipline him for anything -- from hacking to murder. (Now of course the murder had the secondary benefit that they wanted him to be a cold-hearted killer, but that wasn't the only reason they let him get away with it.)
Why is this rated funny? It's probably the best last-resort solution. If they absolutely won't listen to you, they'll still listen to the BSA.
And the BSA doesn't necessarily have to raid your workplace; they just have to give your boss a nice, friendly call.
Of course the author doesn't care. The publishing house doesn't want even the slightest threat of being sued.
That's a very Darth Teresting and Darth Sightful post.
That newspaper makes me cry.
Already, when I store a phone number for a different area code, I do not store it with the '1' in front so as not to make a long distance call. Conveniently when I select that number from my address book and dial it the phone company inserts a '1' in front of the number and dials it long distance as I'm out of my dialing area. This is exactly the kind of slimeball tactic phone companies are famous for.
What the heck?
A) When you dial within your area code, it's automatically a local call. Unless calls out of your area code are also local for you, how do you expect not to get long distance for them?
B) Why do you not have free long distance?
Really? "RAInvitation.msrcincident" for Remote Assistance invitations has to be one of the most annoying filetypes ever. Not because it's an extension more than 3 letters, but because it's so redundant. And why do they need to add "incident" - or even "ms" for that matter?
"Invitation.remast" or something would be better.
How does it feel to get hoist by your own petard now?
Do you even know what a petard is, and exactly how it feels to be hoist by one?
Maybe you could illegally thieve a dictionary. It might also help you realize that the past participle of "bite" is "bitten".
that Microsoft relinquish its demands and that the Halo movie strictly follow a Bungie-penned "bible,"
Is the word "and" in that clause supposed to be there?
They're both crazy extremists.
I have no problem with people respecting the environment and making sure we don't (accidentally or intentionally) do bad things to the earth. I also have no problem with people being religious as long as they're not on a jihad.
For the radical environmentalists, their religion is environmentalism. The sensible environmentalists are like the sensible religious, who respect that "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." (Genesis 2:15) Actually, if you look, the Bible contains a lot of sensible and occasionally left-wing beliefs. The ERR has very little Biblical backing: most of what they do is a misinterpretation so they can further their own evil goals.
Actually, cell phones won't be a problem. SETI filters out everything but intelligent life.
I'm skeptical because this console was announced, what, 5 years ago? More?
In 1992, after the release of Windows 3.1 and NT 3.1, Microsoft announced plans for a project codenamed "Cairo" to unify the regular and NT product lines. Cairo in the form of NT 5 finally came out in 2000. The unification of the lines only arrived with Windows XP, released in 2001. Compared to that timeline, 5 years isn't that much, especially not for a hardware project by a small company.
People in the OSS world are used to seeing preliminary versions of things released quickly (the "bazaar" style). This doesn't quite work for hardware, so the "cathedral" style prevails. If the Phantom is legitimate, the only mistake they made was announcing it too early.
And while I'm on the subject of physical products and cathedrals, remember that it took hundreds of years for some cathedrals to be built. Unless you're a mega-corp, it takes time to build a working hardware device. You can't just release your 0.1 version and let people download the updated schematics from SourceForge and hope that they're good with electronics.
until I see a working machine I can fiddle with at the game store I'll place your console in the file folder with Duke Nukem Forever.
Isn't that the same folder that Half-Life 2 was in?
Or better yet, register something like aaaa... .com, and publish a whole bunch of honeypot e-mails from it. As soon as an IP connects to the mailserver, it goes up on a blacklist (at www.aaaa... .com) for one day. If it connects after that one day, it's blocked permanently. And every message sent through the honeypot server is fed into this giant Bayesian spam filter.
.com will be hit before pretty much any other website for alphabetical spammers, it should do a pretty good job of blacklisting if people are careful to update from its blacklist often.
Since aaaa...
The media will never start using "hacker" and "cracker" the way we'd like them to, so it's much simpler to accept "hacker" as a word that derives its meaning from context. When the word "FBI" is in the vicinity, it's a bad guy. When the word "OSS" is in the vicinity, it's a good guy.
Breaking in to US government computers to find evidence of UFOs? That would make him a nut cracker...
Sure. Here's another article on cold fusion.
In all seriousness, the Christian Science Monitor is nowhere near Televangelism Weekly. Although their editorial bias is slightly right-wing, they do live up to the "Science" part of their name.
Bungie has been extremely careful not to do anything to confirm that they're creating a game called "Halo 3" that follows the Halo and Halo 2 line in the usual sense. If you look at their statements, they're working on another project, they do have some stuff in mind for a video game based on the Bungie universe, but they won't confirm Halo 3 itself.
If they are doing a Halo 3 like we all expect, why wouldn't they confirm it? (Other than to be their usual annoying Bungie selves, but I don't think they'd do something stupid on a project as big as this.) My personal opinion is that they'll do a game that isn't quite Halo 3 as we expect it. Maybe it won't follow Master Chief or the Arbiter. Maybe it'll be an RTS like Halo was plannned to be. Or something equally unexpected...but it won't be the sequel to Halo 2 in the manner that Halo 2 was the sequel to Halo.
The quote about the Halo bible says "further sequels", not "Halo 3". It may not even be a Halo-series game, since the Halo universe overlaps somewhat with the universes from their past games, and probably will overlap with the universe for their next game. For example, the manual for Halo 2 has an e-mail from Cortana to ONI.
From the article: ...or what the org was that trained us.
I have never seen the term "org" used to describe something that "trains" outside of the realm of Scientology. And now that I've seen that connection, the unfounded paranoia makes sense...well, as much sense as Scientology makes...
LORD? Take a look at Legend of the Green Dragon. It's supposed to be based on LORD (I don't know, I've only played LotGD). Oh, and it's open source PHP.
And if you do decide to play, you might want to look at other servers, if you think the main server has too many players.
And I almost forgot -- you can control the game almost entirely by keyboard alone. See those underlined letters in the menu to the left? Just type C, for instance, to Create a character.
Final Fantasy VII vs. Final Fantasy X-2?
What about FF VI (III in the US) vs. FF VII?
1. Hubs can't kill people. And you can garotte people as well with CAT5 as with a shoelace. Look on the TSA restricted lists...you see razors but not Ethernet. So I fail to see how your sarcasm means anything.
2. I still don't get how you'd manage to play games against unknown people on the plane. Do you just walk in and yell, "Hey, anyone has a laptop AND has Halo PC AND brought the CD for it AND wants to play?"? And hope to get a response? Normally you'd play against your friends, which means you've booked together, which means you're all nearby. Like in the same aisle, normally. So you're not strewing cable over any unwitting passengers.
Ad Hoc? Assuming you're not hoping there are enough random people who want to play the same game on that one aircraft, you can just use a crossover cable with your buddy. Or set up a hub and wired LAN if you have enough laptop-equipped people.
Latency only matters for time-sensitive applications like games. You're crazy if you want to try playing games on airplanes. Your e-mail already takes minutes to go between servers, and web pages often go years between being posted and reaching you. Latency will be at most a few seconds.
That [Mac WINE] does have interesting implications. But it's going to require a LOT of work to make that work, above and beyond what Wine's already doing. Wine will have to be practically rewritten for cocoa. Otherwise we'll be running the partially-incompatible wine translation layer inside the compatible-but-awkward X11 translation layer. Eww. I don't really expect wine for os x to get to the point your average person can run it for a long time, and I don't expect it to really work ever unless Apple themselves decide to put some work into it.
Take a look at Darwine, which runs on PPC/OS X. The immediate plan, which they seem to have working, is to use winelib as a sort of open-source Windows API, and recompile apps working on WINE/x86 for PPC, and run those on X11. This means that developers can start working now on moving these to Aqua instead of X11 and getting WINE "practically rewritten for Cocoa". When the x86 Macs get released, the recompiling stage won't be a problem, and closed-source apps should be able to run. Moreover, Darwine already works (as much as WINE does), so even if no further work is done on the project, it should be able to run on the x86 Macs under X11.
The future goal of Darwine seems to be using an emulator to run x86 code on PPC, but they don't seem to have that working yet. Anyway, it's irrrelevant for the x86 Macs.