Actually no roulette doesn't give you a 50% odds by picking a color.
There are 3 colors in roulette:
18 reds
18 blacks
and either 1 or 2 greens (depends on the house)
So if you play black, that is 18 out of 37 or 18 out of 38. Otherwise seen as.486465, and.47368 respectively. Not quite 50% and how they make their money.
As someone that has had $100 riding on black and hit 00, I can tell you those greens do count. But heck it's only money.
This is of course not the odds if you manage to have a cell phone that tracks the ball.
While you can use a CF device for a file system, my understanding is that compact flash devices have a limited number of writes for each bit before they break. Granted this is a fairly high number, (I heard a quote around 30K?) but if you are using it for swap space, you are asking for it.
Since it would be running 24/7, and you'd want it to run for several years possible before servicing, you would want to use the system ram for most write operations.
It sounds about like an iPAQ 3600. 32MB of flash, and 32 of Ram - 64 MB.
Sounds about right, and based on my limited past experience with Familiar http://www.handhelds.org you are going to need that ram.
So yeah to answer someone elses question you could no doubt run Wince on this thing.
I think the strong selling point is that other things besides the processor/motherboard could get wet, and still be 'ok'.
From a few years back, some might remember
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/30/132221 9&mode=thread&tid=137"
an article on Liquid Nitrogen cooling using
http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/oil_gas/s pecialty_materials/node_HX0DNRHXKWge/root_GST1T4S9 TCgv/vroot_G1F6DNZDBVge/command_AbcPageHandler/the me_us_oilgas_3_0 Fluorinert to cool a motherboard.
The projects can be found http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion/submersion.html"> here
and http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion2/submersion2.htmlhere:
I'd guess Saphire property of not getting wet and not conducting would be the seller for the product, and not the 'cooling ablilites + not conducting.'
Re Everquest and logging.
Ok, I know it's been a long time, but log in, type/log and then look for a.txt or is it.log file in your EQ directory.
Check out http://www.rpgexpert.com/43.html
http://www.yalp.org/
So, online games with logging to file features (Everquest, SWG, DAoC, etc) would fall under this ruling too?
I know people that have logged to text files and then to data base everything they have said and had said to them for 5+ years in some of these games. Considering that/tell features in the games should be considered as private as a chat session, this must suck.
Also considering that techsupport often asks for logs when reporting bugs/unusual behavior or cheating, would that make them accomplices after the fact?
Intel(or AMD) creates a digital cert for the company.
Intel or AMD produces a hardware module for a PC.
Intel places a digital cert in that module, and signs it with the companies key.
You download the latest copy of emule.
You start it up, and connect to the network.
You querry one of the servers, or a peer and ask to start a connection.
That client asks you for an attestation of the version of emule you are running.
Your software passes that request to the TC Module (with your permission).
You module goes out, calculates a hash concerning the version of emule you are running, and then signs it with it's specific digital sig.
your client returns the attestation to the server or other client that asked for your info.
that client then checks to see if the signature you submited is valid (is it signed by Intel/AMD?). If it is, it checks a website for a list of all of the good hashs for the current emule executables.
The client doesn't need to know what your cert is, only that your sig is backed by one of the 'master' hardware sigs.
My new Client auth function:
client_auth_function()
Anything you can ask the client to do, WITH software, the client can fake doing, WITH software. It's a good thinking exercise, try it.
It becomes much easier, if you don't even have to debug/decompile the code, because you have the source.....
{
location="C:\game\unhacked\game.exe";
sig=compute_signed_hash(location);
return sig;
}
Ok, I went through your 'better ways' PDF.
Maybe I'm slow, but how does your 'better ways' address the following:
A. I hack my client/image files to make all the enemies in the game bright red, so they show up clearly in a a low light situation.
B. I hack the client so that I have auto aim capabilites by using the server supplied enemy location and vector to calculate my shot?
Microsoft games aren't a big deal. I don't play them as a general rule, but people that want to produce multiplayer OPEN SOURCE games are in a real pickle. You don't have to worry about someone decompiling your game and figure out how to hack the client to do what they want. They can just take the source make the changes and recomplie it to cheat.
I'm not big on giving up rights unless there is a fair trade off for them. Would I run Trusted Computing to ensure that in an online game everyone played on equal ground? YES I would. I don't cheat, and my desire to play a game that can effectively prevent others from cheating overcomes the issues I might have with giving up the freedom to cheat, and much with the client game files.
God help Japan if that's the case;)
China too. Clancy's Ryan world knows no bounds when it comes to the evils of Eastern and Middle Eastern countries.
we'll eventually go to war with every nation in the World except Russia because they are our friends now and we like them a lot;)
Clancy has stepped over himself with making Russisa our allies in his series. Sure there are a few 'bad' Russians, but no more than 'bad' Americans in the book.
As an American that grew up in the Carter/Regan/Bush era, and was subjected to so much anti USSR media drival (Red Dawn, America (with the R backwards the series, plus good old Ronnie on the tube every few months telling us how we had to stay vigilent of the Red threat), I was mildly paranoid as a child that the Reds really were coming.
Clancies de-demonizing of the people of the former Soviet Union was a welcome refresh when I picked up the early novels. I wonder about his motivations for doing it, and the need in the US to have former easter block contries recast in a more positive light.
I hope the fact that Clancy wrote a novel about airlines used as bombs before 9/11 doesn't mean that there is an entire US Gov division researching his books and making policy decisions based on things in them.
Oh wait, I guess this could be better than SOME of the reality we live in.
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Actually no roulette doesn't give you a 50% odds by picking a color. .486465, and .47368 respectively. Not quite 50% and how they make their money.
There are 3 colors in roulette:
18 reds
18 blacks
and either 1 or 2 greens (depends on the house)
So if you play black, that is 18 out of 37 or 18 out of 38. Otherwise seen as
As someone that has had $100 riding on black and hit 00, I can tell you those greens do count. But heck it's only money.
This is of course not the odds if you manage to have a cell phone that tracks the ball.
While you can use a CF device for a file system, my understanding is that compact flash devices have a limited number of writes for each bit before they break. Granted this is a fairly high number, (I heard a quote around 30K?) but if you are using it for swap space, you are asking for it.
Since it would be running 24/7, and you'd want it to run for several years possible before servicing, you would want to use the system ram for most write operations.
It sounds about like an iPAQ 3600. 32MB of flash, and 32 of Ram - 64 MB.
Sounds about right, and based on my limited past experience with Familiar http://www.handhelds.org you are going to need that ram.
So yeah to answer someone elses question you could no doubt run Wince on this thing.
I think the strong selling point is that other things besides the processor/motherboard could get wet, and still be 'ok'.1 9&mode=thread&tid=137"
an article on Liquid Nitrogen cooling using
http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/oil_gas/s pecialty_materials/node_HX0DNRHXKWge/root_GST1T4S9 TCgv/vroot_G1F6DNZDBVge/command_AbcPageHandler/the me_us_oilgas_3_0 Fluorinert to cool a motherboard.
s ubmersion/submersion.html"> here
s ubmersion2/submersion2.htmlhere:
From a few years back, some might remember http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/30/13222
The projects can be found http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/
and http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/
I'd guess Saphire property of not getting wet and not conducting would be the seller for the product, and not the 'cooling ablilites + not conducting.'
Re Everquest and logging. Ok, I know it's been a long time, but log in, type /log and then look for a .txt or is it .log file in your EQ directory.
Check out http://www.rpgexpert.com/43.html
http://www.yalp.org/
So, online games with logging to file features (Everquest, SWG, DAoC, etc) would fall under this ruling too? /tell features in the games should be considered as private as a chat session, this must suck.
I know people that have logged to text files and then to data base everything they have said and had said to them for 5+ years in some of these games. Considering that
Also considering that techsupport often asks for logs when reporting bugs/unusual behavior or cheating, would that make them accomplices after the fact?
Intel(or AMD) creates a digital cert for the company.
Intel or AMD produces a hardware module for a PC.
Intel places a digital cert in that module, and signs it with the companies key.
You download the latest copy of emule.
You start it up, and connect to the network.
You querry one of the servers, or a peer and ask to start a connection.
That client asks you for an attestation of the version of emule you are running.
Your software passes that request to the TC Module (with your permission).
You module goes out, calculates a hash concerning the version of emule you are running, and then signs it with it's specific digital sig.
your client returns the attestation to the server or other client that asked for your info.
that client then checks to see if the signature you submited is valid (is it signed by Intel/AMD?). If it is, it checks a website for a list of all of the good hashs for the current emule executables.
The client doesn't need to know what your cert is, only that your sig is backed by one of the 'master' hardware sigs.
client_auth_function()
{
location=determine_current_exe_location;
sig=compute_signed_hash(location);
return sig;
}
My new Client auth function:
client_auth_function()
Anything you can ask the client to do, WITH software, the client can fake doing, WITH software. It's a good thinking exercise, try it.
It becomes much easier, if you don't even have to debug/decompile the code, because you have the source..... {
location="C:\game\unhacked\game.exe";
sig=compute_signed_hash(location);
return sig;
}
Ok, I went through your 'better ways' PDF.
Maybe I'm slow, but how does your 'better ways' address the following:
A. I hack my client/image files to make all the enemies in the game bright red, so they show up clearly in a a low light situation. B. I hack the client so that I have auto aim capabilites by using the server supplied enemy location and vector to calculate my shot?
Microsoft games aren't a big deal. I don't play them as a general rule, but people that want to produce multiplayer OPEN SOURCE games are in a real pickle. You don't have to worry about someone decompiling your game and figure out how to hack the client to do what they want. They can just take the source make the changes and recomplie it to cheat.
I'm not big on giving up rights unless there is a fair trade off for them. Would I run Trusted Computing to ensure that in an online game everyone played on equal ground? YES I would. I don't cheat, and my desire to play a game that can effectively prevent others from cheating overcomes the issues I might have with giving up the freedom to cheat, and much with the client game files.
God help Japan if that's the case ;)
China too. Clancy's Ryan world knows no bounds when it comes to the evils of Eastern and Middle Eastern countries.
we'll eventually go to war with every nation in the World except Russia because they are our friends now and we like them a lot ;)
Clancy has stepped over himself with making Russisa our allies in his series. Sure there are a few 'bad' Russians, but no more than 'bad' Americans in the book.
As an American that grew up in the Carter/Regan/Bush era, and was subjected to so much anti USSR media drival (Red Dawn, America (with the R backwards the series, plus good old Ronnie on the tube every few months telling us how we had to stay vigilent of the Red threat), I was mildly paranoid as a child that the Reds really were coming.
Clancies de-demonizing of the people of the former Soviet Union was a welcome refresh when I picked up the early novels. I wonder about his motivations for doing it, and the need in the US to have former easter block contries recast in a more positive light.
I hope the fact that Clancy wrote a novel about airlines used as bombs before 9/11 doesn't mean that there is an entire US Gov division researching his books and making policy decisions based on things in them. Oh wait, I guess this could be better than SOME of the reality we live in.