When you are sniffing wireless traffic you aren't actually associated with any access point. You simply open up your wireless card to receive all the 802.11 traffic floating around it.
Using WEP is just as bad as not using any security on your AP. If someone is savvy enough to sniff wireless traffic then they are savvy enough to crack your 128 bit WEP key in 10 minutes.
mDNSResponder is related to the Bonjour service, or at least the Bonjour for Windows service.
If you have Adobe Version Cue CS3 then the Bonjour for Windows service is automatically installed, as it is used in that particular program and required for some of the functionality.
Is this "undisclosed vulnerability" in the Windows version as well? if so, a lot of production companies that use Version Cue may be in trouble as well.
Does Bonzi Buddy count as a mascot?
Although not quite as notorious as Clippy (but probably close) I think this one definitely ranked higher on the "annoying" chart
Their use of the term "non critical" is most likely referring to the nature of the patch. It was an "optional" patch that did not fix any "critical vulnerabilities" or anything like that.
It is quite obvious they were not referring to the criticalness of the system which was affected.
This article states that Sony was GIVING AWAY 500,000 copies of Casino Royale on Blueray to the first 500,000 people to register their PS3 after the European launch of the PS3, which was on March 23rd.
This is the (insinuated) total cost of the car per mile, from the manufacturing(parts and energy use) to the driving to the disposal(more energy use). NOT how much you pay per mile of driving.
"A somewhat obvious question is raised: why isn't OpenOffice already available by default on new PC's and Workstations?"
Obvious questions deserve obvious answers:
Because Microsoft pays Dell to put a "Microsoft Office 30-day trial" on their new systems, and Open Office will pay them nothing.
It would seem as though the people making the list simply didn't know about some video games. Dragon Warrior should have been on there, I believe it was the most influential RPG back then and certainly demonstrated WAY more non-linear game play than Mario 3, and several years prior!
Oh man I sure hope so. I can only imagine GTA on the Wii! Driving around in vehicles with the remote sideways like a steering wheel and then when on foot the controls would be similar to Zelda: Twilight.
Zelda is a good example about how an RPG should be, especially the most recent one "Twilight Princess"
In Zelda you don't have any "experience" nor "levels" to gain. There are no strength, dexterity, or wisdom attributes for which you can boost with equipment. You don't have to loot corpses for marginal equipment upgrades and you don't have time-sink kill quests to kill the same monsters over and over and over again. You don't have 10 slots for armor and magical jewelery and it doesn't take 2 minutes to kill a group of monsters.
You do start out weak in Zelda but it has the same kind of progression as a first person shooter, weapons. You get new weapons and as soon as you do, *gasp*, you can use them! In traditional RPGs you pick up a sword and then you have to "learn" how to use it, slowly raising your skill; or you find weapons that you can't even use for one reason or another.
The "fun" of traditional RPGs is had by way of achievements. You look at how far you have come and how much gear and attribute points you have to show for it.
The article is vague on this issue, but who brought this matter to the police? The parents?
Well I hope that parents are happy that their kids are going to be labeled as sex offenders for 5 years simply because they couldn't handle their own business.
"I'm a shitty parent oh no what do I do? I could talk to my kid about it, I could call the other kids parents and talk to them about it.. no this is all too much responsibility for a shitty parent like myself, I will call the police about this entirely simple matter!"
It works the other way also. If police arrive at a store to pick up a shoplifting kid and the cop happens to notice a guy walking around the store with a gun sticking out of his pocket then obviously the cop is going to do something about it and not just say "oh I wasn't looking for a gun robber so I'll just take this shop lifting kid and leave that guy to his business"
Looks like I'm going to the bank today to purchase 1,000 dollars worth of pennies! All I have to do is wait and then it will be worth 5,000 dollars! If the price doesn't go up then I still have 1,000 dollars worth of pennies and the only thing I wasted was my time.. and the bank tellers time when I go to return them..
The probes run on battery power so they only last a few days. If you were the last remaining robot on a lone desolate asteroid would you rather wait out your final hours, dying and withering away while your battery fades.. or would you rather go out with a bang and make it a quick painless death?
It is just like any other kind of marketing.
Many websites have haphazardly implemented tag systems that are little more than a novelty (I'm looking at you, Slashdot tag system)
Google, IMO, uses Labels perfectly and they are actually a useful part of the gmail system.
If Google called them tags then people might think "Oh I've used tags before and they aren't anything special, or anything I want"
Google doesn't want people thinking that.
It is just like how iPod has sort of become a generic term referring to any portable DAP but Apple is trying to prevent that because they don't want someone thinking of some other companies crummy hardware when they think iPod.
"controlled via a modified Xbox videogame controller"
I'm guessing this is so that the next generation of enlisted men will already feel familiar with the controls.
If so, smart move.
If not, then I wonder why they cheaped out on the remote?
Windows XP is over 4 years old and this is their first new release since then.
One could argue that Microsoft could have put this in SP1 or even SP2 but I am no expert and have no idea if implementing it in Windows XP would even be plausible or if it would mess up too much stuff or cause old programs to stop working.
Since Vista is the first new release of Windows since XP a bit over 4 years ago it seems a bit harsh to call Microsoft out about being behind the times.
I fail to see how the PS3 can be considered innovative by any means. All of the technologies that go into the PS3 have all been seen before and it is not at all as impressive or original that they packed it all into 1 box as the article would lead you to believe. How is a PS3 anything but a single purpose computer?
It is no more impressive or innovative than adding an FM tuner to a portable MP3 player.
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When you are sniffing wireless traffic you aren't actually associated with any access point. You simply open up your wireless card to receive all the 802.11 traffic floating around it.
Using WEP is just as bad as not using any security on your AP. If someone is savvy enough to sniff wireless traffic then they are savvy enough to crack your 128 bit WEP key in 10 minutes.
mDNSResponder is related to the Bonjour service, or at least the Bonjour for Windows service.
If you have Adobe Version Cue CS3 then the Bonjour for Windows service is automatically installed, as it is used in that particular program and required for some of the functionality.
Is this "undisclosed vulnerability" in the Windows version as well? if so, a lot of production companies that use Version Cue may be in trouble as well.
I guess the animals will just have to evolve to survive then.
Does Bonzi Buddy count as a mascot?
Although not quite as notorious as Clippy (but probably close) I think this one definitely ranked higher on the "annoying" chart
I'd rather have a crappy phone on a good camera rather than a crappy camera on a good phone.
Someone call me when they make a "Phone Camera"
Their use of the term "non critical" is most likely referring to the nature of the patch. It was an "optional" patch that did not fix any "critical vulnerabilities" or anything like that.
It is quite obvious they were not referring to the criticalness of the system which was affected.
This article states that Sony was GIVING AWAY 500,000 copies of Casino Royale on Blueray to the first 500,000 people to register their PS3 after the European launch of the PS3, which was on March 23rd.
So how many people actually "bought" the movie?
This is the (insinuated) total cost of the car per mile, from the manufacturing(parts and energy use) to the driving to the disposal(more energy use).
NOT how much you pay per mile of driving.
"A somewhat obvious question is raised: why isn't OpenOffice already available by default on new PC's and Workstations?"
Obvious questions deserve obvious answers:
Because Microsoft pays Dell to put a "Microsoft Office 30-day trial" on their new systems, and Open Office will pay them nothing.
It would seem as though the people making the list simply didn't know about some video games. Dragon Warrior should have been on there, I believe it was the most influential RPG back then and certainly demonstrated WAY more non-linear game play than Mario 3, and several years prior!
I second that. It was the first game I thought of when I read the headline. Dune II was definitely the granddaddy of RTS.
"To my peripheral knowledge, there were active efforts at Bungie to bring a number of their titles to Linux and Halo was one of them."
So then, it looks like it is your unbased claim against mine.
Oh man I sure hope so. I can only imagine GTA on the Wii!
Driving around in vehicles with the remote sideways like a steering wheel and then when on foot the controls would be similar to Zelda: Twilight.
Zelda is a good example about how an RPG should be, especially the most recent one "Twilight Princess"
In Zelda you don't have any "experience" nor "levels" to gain.
There are no strength, dexterity, or wisdom attributes for which you can boost with equipment.
You don't have to loot corpses for marginal equipment upgrades and you don't have time-sink kill quests to kill the same monsters over and over and over again.
You don't have 10 slots for armor and magical jewelery and it doesn't take 2 minutes to kill a group of monsters.
You do start out weak in Zelda but it has the same kind of progression as a first person shooter, weapons. You get new weapons and as soon as you do, *gasp*, you can use them! In traditional RPGs you pick up a sword and then you have to "learn" how to use it, slowly raising your skill; or you find weapons that you can't even use for one reason or another.
The "fun" of traditional RPGs is had by way of achievements. You look at how far you have come and how much gear and attribute points you have to show for it.
The fun of Zelda is figuring out the puzzles.
The article is vague on this issue, but who brought this matter to the police? The parents?
Well I hope that parents are happy that their kids are going to be labeled as sex offenders for 5 years simply because they couldn't handle their own business.
"I'm a shitty parent oh no what do I do? I could talk to my kid about it, I could call the other kids parents and talk to them about it.. no this is all too much responsibility for a shitty parent like myself, I will call the police about this entirely simple matter!"
It works the other way also.
If police arrive at a store to pick up a shoplifting kid and the cop happens to notice a guy walking around the store with a gun sticking out of his pocket then obviously the cop is going to do something about it and not just say "oh I wasn't looking for a gun robber so I'll just take this shop lifting kid and leave that guy to his business"
Looks like I'm going to the bank today to purchase 1,000 dollars worth of pennies!
All I have to do is wait and then it will be worth 5,000 dollars!
If the price doesn't go up then I still have 1,000 dollars worth of pennies and the only thing I wasted was my time.. and the bank tellers time when I go to return them..
The probes run on battery power so they only last a few days.
If you were the last remaining robot on a lone desolate asteroid would you rather wait out your final hours, dying and withering away while your battery fades.. or would you rather go out with a bang and make it a quick painless death?
It is just like any other kind of marketing.
Many websites have haphazardly implemented tag systems that are little more than a novelty (I'm looking at you, Slashdot tag system)
Google, IMO, uses Labels perfectly and they are actually a useful part of the gmail system.
If Google called them tags then people might think "Oh I've used tags before and they aren't anything special, or anything I want"
Google doesn't want people thinking that.
It is just like how iPod has sort of become a generic term referring to any portable DAP but Apple is trying to prevent that because they don't want someone thinking of some other companies crummy hardware when they think iPod.
"What concerns me is that in the last two years I've heard no news about a replacement for SHA-1" SHA-2 maybe?
"controlled via a modified Xbox videogame controller"
I'm guessing this is so that the next generation of enlisted men will already feel familiar with the controls.
If so, smart move.
If not, then I wonder why they cheaped out on the remote?
he said generic intel hardware. I cant put os x on my current intel pc computer.
os x is only runnable on specific mac-branded intel platforms.
Windows XP is over 4 years old and this is their first new release since then.
One could argue that Microsoft could have put this in SP1 or even SP2 but I am no expert and have no idea if implementing it in Windows XP would even be plausible or if it would mess up too much stuff or cause old programs to stop working.
Since Vista is the first new release of Windows since XP a bit over 4 years ago it seems a bit harsh to call Microsoft out about being behind the times.
Agreed.
This site isn't going to do its job very well if people don't even want to visit it.
I fail to see how the PS3 can be considered innovative by any means. All of the technologies that go into the PS3 have all been seen before and it is not at all as impressive or original that they packed it all into 1 box as the article would lead you to believe. How is a PS3 anything but a single purpose computer?
It is no more impressive or innovative than adding an FM tuner to a portable MP3 player.