Dear US/Isreal, are you trying to escalate this cold war into a hot one? I know you think you can crush Iran and just need an excuse, but trying to force the development of nuclear weapons is not the way to do it. Israel in particular gets a bit closer to being nuked every time you do this, and no-one wants to see that (apart from you guys apparently).
I have no problem with Israel being nuked. In fact, I think it's what that region needs to get their shit together. This is a fight that has been brewing for a long time, let them duke, nuke, and destroy each other, and we can just go pick up the pieces and not worry about the shit heads (both Arab and Jewish) that live in that area.
This is the same reason that cops have to go check out 911 hangup calls. Most likely, it was someone who dialed by accident and then said "oh shit" and hung up. If they try to dodge the problem by turning their cell phone off, or not answering, the cops will show up to see if everything is ok. If the cops just ignored the call, they'd be sued by everyone involved when it turns out that the caller was forced to hang up, or the wire was ripped out of the wall, by her violent husband or vice versa, and someone wound up dead.
actually, the 911 people call back to make sure it's not an accidental call before they send a police to check.
And we wonder why the general public has a sense of distrust and suspicion regarding "hackers".
"When the affected banks, including the largest state institutions didn't respond" is the part that worries me, instead. The hacker in this case was just trying to help and pointed out a REALLY bad security flaw, but since the general public didn't know about it the institutions apparently decided to just ignore it. Publishing all the details was a bad move, that I definitely agree with, but atleast it got the institutions' attention, too bad that this will be spun in the media as the hacker's fault and not the institutions' fault, though.
hmm, you think it's a bad move. So what you are saying is, if the public doesn't know about it, it's good security? You do realize that if the dude who warned them found it, anyone could of found it. So while the public may not know about it, criminals might. So, in my view, the hacker did good, because the people in charge weren't listening, so it made them listen.
I don't know what world you live in, but in this world, there isn't only 1 smart person, there is many. When 1 person finds a flaw, you should figure that other people have found the flaw. And someone is going to exploit the flaw to steal something, because that is how the world rolls.
Don't you actually have to be alive at 35 to reach the age of 35?
Apples have been obsolete and out of production for a long time. We don't normally talk about those who are dead, transformed into aquariums, and buried, as reaching a certain age -- corpses are ageless.
I can't seem to make heads or tails of this post. It's techno-babble and word salad. I guess I should remember this feeling when I talk about programming with my non-programming friends.
Sort of sad as a programmer you have no knowledge of some of programming history.
When I was a kid, I had a liberal stepdad and a conservative dad. I always thought my dad was just a racist who didn't know what he was talking about. At one point we had it out and so I left my lilly-white hometown to to live with my mom and stepdad in what happened to be a predominantly black school district (which my liberal stepdad considered a great opportunity for me to learn a valuable cultural lesson). After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school, I realized that dad may not be so stupid after all and moved back with in him. It was one of those hard lessons in life about the difference between how things *should* be and how they actually *are*. It's not that my dad wanted to teach me to be some racist cross-burner or something, he just wanted to teach me that racism cuts BOTH ways--and that walking into the wrong school/neighborhood/bar with white skin can be just as dangerous as the vice versa. And it's a lot easier to learn that lesson the easy way than the hard way, believe me.
I like to think that maybe things have changed since I was a kid. I'm not sure, as I learned to avoid these situations altogether by keeping my dumb ass out of where I wasn't wanted.
Of course, no one is ever going to say any of that publicly. You're more likely in the modern world to encounter the Loch Ness monster than any truly honest dialogue on race.
Um, I went to a dominately big ass school that was mostly catering to African Americans in the 80's. And I was white, and I was a new waver, so I wasn't looking like a normal person, and I never got my ass kicked. In fact, in my life, I've found most black people to be not much different then white people. Ya, you got your bullies, but then, bullies are of all colors. You have your undereducated, but shit, we got "rednecks", so what's the difference?
Now later in life, when I got stupid and did jail time, I found the black men who hated white people, but I realized it wasn't so much they hated white people, they just hated themselves. They'd talk shit, but you just ignored them.
But then, I grew up in Seattle, and at least before the end of the 80's when everyone decided to move here, people didn't give a fuck about that shit it seemed.
What am I saying? I don't know. Other then being racist is a good show of how stupid you are, as much as being religious.
I've never seen skin as a problem, only attitudes.
I think he was sarcastic; but I totally see your point. Besides everybody knows Apple just copied off some ancient Chinese guy who invented the abacus. They did however, dutifully bring the improved technology back to where it came from.
Yep, them abacus had rounded corners and didn't work right if you held it wrong.
I have the reflex of always turning my webcams towards the wall when I don't use them. I just hate the idea that someone COULD be looking at me through my own webcams. I guess I'm a bit paranoid...
I'm not paranoid and I'm not stupid enough to leave my webcams plugged into a computer or gaming console when not being used.
A different point of amusement: The processor's capabilities and speed are roughly equivalent to the processor in the Intellivision. Most instructions are 1, 2 or 3 machine cycles long, but the processor apparently only runs at 100kHz. The Intellivision's CPU is 895kHz, but instructions take 6 to 14 cycles. The Intellivision is slightly faster, but lacks hardware divide/multiply and has less flexible addressing modes.
So, on the whole, it looks like "Intellivisions.... In..... SPACE!!!!!!!"
Sweet, i still have an Intellivision II, control sucks, but i'm ready!!!
With a name like Gamergirlie and being on slashdot and yet you say what you said.
Do you know what site this is? Are you truely a gamer? Shit, are you even a girl?
Or worse, are you like 12 years old and think the world started with what you remember?
"OMG! Games are fun unless they have great graphics and magic ponies!!!! And rainbows!!!!"
Notch is making games that make you think, let you be super fucking creative and honestly, kick ass. If dude isn't one of the best Indie Game Makers out there, then he should be. Most indie games are the same shit i've been playing since the 80's, but have better graphics, sort of. Rehashed platformers, shooters, and RPG games.
Seriously, you need to change your name and hang your head in shame, there's more then 1 type of game in town, girlie.
...You need $20 million to put together a AAA title these days, with some games costing $100 million to make.
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No you don't. This is the bullshit that Hollywood has done to the gaming market. If that was the case, why the fuck is Angry Birds so god damn popular (don't care for the game myself). Or is it only AAA titles that sell?
Games have been programmed for way less money and sold well during the pre Hollywoodifcation of the gaming industry.
In fact, they're is a ton of Indie games coming out, because a lot of people understand that it doesn't take $20+ Millions of dollars to make a good game.
While I don't have any facts to back me up, from my experience i got more gameplay from the games back in the 80's then I do from the games today, with few exceptions.
Once you accept that piracy is theft, then it becomes clear that lowering prices is also theft. After all, look at all the imaginary money that won't be collected on each sale at the lower price. No clearly, it's a much better and profitable idea to increase the price and use that money to pay for anti-theft (used games) measures. You can't trust people, after all, we already know they're thieves (piracy).
Or at least, that's what I figure the pointy-haired managers would say to that. Simply put they don't want to lower prices or have people buying used games. When you consider that the objective is to keep prices high and eliminate used games, what they're doing makes perfect sense. Although I agree that it is foolhardy and likely to bankrupt at least one of the consoles if they go through with the plan.
I'm pretty sure they consider "theft" to be anything that doesn't put money in their pockets.
Sorry, could resist for all the peeps, who like me, first heard of backdoors in Wargames. I was just a young peep who discovered the world of computers and was hooked, then saw wargames and thought, hmm, there's some shit i didn't think of.
It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
So this law doesn't criminalize everything that might offend someone. It criminalizes certain behavior when the primary motivation is to threaten, harass, intimidate, terrify, annoy or offend someone.
The courts in USA have already ruled that your right to free speech doesn't extend to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater just for the lulz... this is just clarifying that it's true even if you're online.
This doesn't mean that I support the law. Listing "annoy" as one of the words motivations is just asking for trouble (I would be fine with this if there were just "harass, threaten" and perhaps a couple other words) and we also get to very muddy waters when you can no longer suggest "lascivious or lewd" stuff... So there are plenty of reasons to oppose this law. The one you (and many others) have pointed out- that no matter what you write, someone might be offended - isn't one though.
Look you stupid shit, I can fucking say what the hell i want, because your are so lame you don't get it. Free Fucking Speech, bitch! I enjoy offending people, because, well, most of you suck. You all offend me because your have the brains of sheep and very few of you actually think original thoughts.
I live in Washington state, where we can talk shit to you fuckers.
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Dear US/Isreal, are you trying to escalate this cold war into a hot one? I know you think you can crush Iran and just need an excuse, but trying to force the development of nuclear weapons is not the way to do it. Israel in particular gets a bit closer to being nuked every time you do this, and no-one wants to see that (apart from you guys apparently).
I have no problem with Israel being nuked. In fact, I think it's what that region needs to get their shit together. This is a fight that has been brewing for a long time, let them duke, nuke, and destroy each other, and we can just go pick up the pieces and not worry about the shit heads (both Arab and Jewish) that live in that area.
Just as then, Jews are now increasingly being blamed for all the ills caused by the political leaders of their own political parties & nations.
I thought people didn't like Jews because they claimed to be the children of god and better then everyone else?
Remember who was in charge when this happened and vote accordingly next election.
hmm, we remembered who was in charge the election before that, went with a new party, yet nothing has changed.
So why would it change this time?
.. and bin Laden is dead,...
So they claim, after they destroyed any evidence that could support that claim.
reason not to watch the Olympics
I stopped watching back when the Russians and Americans started banning Olypmics.
Even at the young age I was then, I knew the olympics was about the best athletes around the world competing, not about politics nor money.
And yet, The Olympics seem to be about money and fucking politics.
This is the same reason that cops have to go check out 911 hangup calls. Most likely, it was someone who dialed by accident and then said "oh shit" and hung up. If they try to dodge the problem by turning their cell phone off, or not answering, the cops will show up to see if everything is ok. If the cops just ignored the call, they'd be sued by everyone involved when it turns out that the caller was forced to hang up, or the wire was ripped out of the wall, by her violent husband or vice versa, and someone wound up dead.
actually, the 911 people call back to make sure it's not an accidental call before they send a police to check.
And we wonder why the general public has a sense of distrust and suspicion regarding "hackers".
"When the affected banks, including the largest state institutions didn't respond" is the part that worries me, instead. The hacker in this case was just trying to help and pointed out a REALLY bad security flaw, but since the general public didn't know about it the institutions apparently decided to just ignore it. Publishing all the details was a bad move, that I definitely agree with, but atleast it got the institutions' attention, too bad that this will be spun in the media as the hacker's fault and not the institutions' fault, though.
hmm, you think it's a bad move. So what you are saying is, if the public doesn't know about it, it's good security? You do realize that if the dude who warned them found it, anyone could of found it. So while the public may not know about it, criminals might. So, in my view, the hacker did good, because the people in charge weren't listening, so it made them listen.
I don't know what world you live in, but in this world, there isn't only 1 smart person, there is many. When 1 person finds a flaw, you should figure that other people have found the flaw. And someone is going to exploit the flaw to steal something, because that is how the world rolls.
Don't you actually have to be alive at 35 to reach the age of 35?
Apples have been obsolete and out of production for a long time.
We don't normally talk about those who are dead,
transformed into aquariums, and buried, as reaching a certain age -- corpses are ageless.
My Apple II is still going strong.
So,not only being one of the most crappiest AV Vendors around, they now are branching out to making viruses?
I never trusted you before and I sure as fuck do NOT trust you now.
I can't seem to make heads or tails of this post. It's techno-babble and word salad. I guess I should remember this feeling when I talk about programming with my non-programming friends.
Sort of sad as a programmer you have no knowledge of some of programming history.
Demoscene? Demoparty? 64kb executable?
Ya, i wish there was a website that you could like, search for the meaning of stuff and maybe websites about it and crap.
because it goes against the corporate way...
When I was a kid, I had a liberal stepdad and a conservative dad. I always thought my dad was just a racist who didn't know what he was talking about. At one point we had it out and so I left my lilly-white hometown to to live with my mom and stepdad in what happened to be a predominantly black school district (which my liberal stepdad considered a great opportunity for me to learn a valuable cultural lesson). After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school, I realized that dad may not be so stupid after all and moved back with in him. It was one of those hard lessons in life about the difference between how things *should* be and how they actually *are*. It's not that my dad wanted to teach me to be some racist cross-burner or something, he just wanted to teach me that racism cuts BOTH ways--and that walking into the wrong school/neighborhood/bar with white skin can be just as dangerous as the vice versa. And it's a lot easier to learn that lesson the easy way than the hard way, believe me.
I like to think that maybe things have changed since I was a kid. I'm not sure, as I learned to avoid these situations altogether by keeping my dumb ass out of where I wasn't wanted.
Of course, no one is ever going to say any of that publicly. You're more likely in the modern world to encounter the Loch Ness monster than any truly honest dialogue on race.
Um, I went to a dominately big ass school that was mostly catering to African Americans in the 80's. And I was white, and I was a new waver, so I wasn't looking like a normal person, and I never got my ass kicked. In fact, in my life, I've found most black people to be not much different then white people. Ya, you got your bullies, but then, bullies are of all colors. You have your undereducated, but shit, we got "rednecks", so what's the difference?
Now later in life, when I got stupid and did jail time, I found the black men who hated white people, but I realized it wasn't so much they hated white people, they just hated themselves. They'd talk shit, but you just ignored them.
But then, I grew up in Seattle, and at least before the end of the 80's when everyone decided to move here, people didn't give a fuck about that shit it seemed.
What am I saying? I don't know. Other then being racist is a good show of how stupid you are, as much as being religious.
I've never seen skin as a problem, only attitudes.
I think he was sarcastic; but I totally see your point. Besides everybody knows Apple just copied off some ancient Chinese guy who invented the abacus. They did however, dutifully bring the improved technology back to where it came from.
Yep, them abacus had rounded corners and didn't work right if you held it wrong.
I have the reflex of always turning my webcams towards the wall when I don't use them. I just hate the idea that someone COULD be looking at me through my own webcams. I guess I'm a bit paranoid...
I'm not paranoid and I'm not stupid enough to leave my webcams plugged into a computer or gaming console when not being used.
A different point of amusement: The processor's capabilities and speed are roughly equivalent to the processor in the Intellivision. Most instructions are 1, 2 or 3 machine cycles long, but the processor apparently only runs at 100kHz. The Intellivision's CPU is 895kHz, but instructions take 6 to 14 cycles. The Intellivision is slightly faster, but lacks hardware divide/multiply and has less flexible addressing modes.
So, on the whole, it looks like "Intellivisions.... In..... SPACE!!!!!!!"
Sweet, i still have an Intellivision II, control sucks, but i'm ready!!!
Wait, how do i connect it to the net?
Seriously Slashdot, who the hell cares? ...
wow, just wow.
With a name like Gamergirlie and being on slashdot and yet you say what you said.
Do you know what site this is? Are you truely a gamer? Shit, are you even a girl?
Or worse, are you like 12 years old and think the world started with what you remember?
"OMG! Games are fun unless they have great graphics and magic ponies!!!! And rainbows!!!!"
Notch is making games that make you think, let you be super fucking creative and honestly, kick ass. If dude isn't one of the best Indie Game Makers out there, then he should be. Most indie games are the same shit i've been playing since the 80's, but have better graphics, sort of. Rehashed platformers, shooters, and RPG games.
Seriously, you need to change your name and hang your head in shame, there's more then 1 type of game in town, girlie.
that you can't trust humans without doing checkups on what they did.
We are a bunch of liars and glory seekers and lazy fucks. We lie to make ourselves seem better, we lie for food, we lie for money.
Having a good education doesn't change basic human nature.
Human's need checks and balances or the system will get taken over by the greedy and the selfish.
You think I'm wrong? History backs me up.
Last time I checked, Skyrim does not need an internet connection to play, just to activate it the first time.
Either that or my 4 hour session while my internet was being worked on was all in my head.
Weird, my cracked version doesn't need to check in to activate it.
So who is getting punished here?
...You need $20 million to put together a AAA title these days, with some games costing $100 million to make.
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No you don't. This is the bullshit that Hollywood has done to the gaming market. If that was the case, why the fuck is Angry Birds so god damn popular (don't care for the game myself). Or is it only AAA titles that sell?
Games have been programmed for way less money and sold well during the pre Hollywoodifcation of the gaming industry.
In fact, they're is a ton of Indie games coming out, because a lot of people understand that it doesn't take $20+ Millions of dollars to make a good game.
While I don't have any facts to back me up, from my experience i got more gameplay from the games back in the 80's then I do from the games today, with few exceptions.
Once you accept that piracy is theft, then it becomes clear that lowering prices is also theft. After all, look at all the imaginary money that won't be collected on each sale at the lower price. No clearly, it's a much better and profitable idea to increase the price and use that money to pay for anti-theft (used games) measures. You can't trust people, after all, we already know they're thieves (piracy).
Or at least, that's what I figure the pointy-haired managers would say to that. Simply put they don't want to lower prices or have people buying used games. When you consider that the objective is to keep prices high and eliminate used games, what they're doing makes perfect sense. Although I agree that it is foolhardy and likely to bankrupt at least one of the consoles if they go through with the plan.
I'm pretty sure they consider "theft" to be anything that doesn't put money in their pockets.
Joshua
Sorry, could resist for all the peeps, who like me, first heard of backdoors in Wargames. I was just a young peep who discovered the world of computers and was hooked, then saw wargames and thought, hmm, there's some shit i didn't think of.
Slashdot has slashdotted 1000's of web sites, anonymous needs to get cracking.
It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
So this law doesn't criminalize everything that might offend someone. It criminalizes certain behavior when the primary motivation is to threaten, harass, intimidate, terrify, annoy or offend someone.
The courts in USA have already ruled that your right to free speech doesn't extend to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater just for the lulz... this is just clarifying that it's true even if you're online.
This doesn't mean that I support the law. Listing "annoy" as one of the words motivations is just asking for trouble (I would be fine with this if there were just "harass, threaten" and perhaps a couple other words) and we also get to very muddy waters when you can no longer suggest "lascivious or lewd" stuff... So there are plenty of reasons to oppose this law. The one you (and many others) have pointed out- that no matter what you write, someone might be offended - isn't one though.
Look you stupid shit, I can fucking say what the hell i want, because your are so lame you don't get it. Free Fucking Speech, bitch! I enjoy offending people, because, well, most of you suck. You all offend me because your have the brains of sheep and very few of you actually think original thoughts.
I live in Washington state, where we can talk shit to you fuckers.
Of course tablets can help you learn, that is a no brainer.
The real question is, Can we give them to children and monitor their use so they use it to learn, instead of just for entertainment.