Um... It's more about setting the keyboard layout in software than about hardware, unless you have to see the keytops to type. More useful would be setting the clients system to Dvorak and then ignoring what's written there, but it would be fairly disastrous if he forgot to change it back...
Heh, just making the point.
I would if I still used Windows's GUI, but as it is it's only on the machine for games so the style engine service is disabled anyway (it's second only to antivirus for making the machine slow down). Linux for everything else, and it doesn't need hacking to be themable. And the themes don't ever come with spyware.:-)
Apart from the new translucent window decorations and the new Internet Explorer with widgets in bizarre places; it's starting to look like StyleXP running on Windows XP with a third-party style.
This would of course raise interesting/frightening questions as to how we define racism. After all, Neanderthals are considered a different species, and we already conduct lethal experiments, etc., on the nearest living creatures we consider a different species, despite chimpanzees' obvious intelligence.
And of course, in the past racist have tried to claim that other humans are really a different species.
And how did you get their IP address using MSN? AFAIK, all connections except voice, video and file transfer go through MSN's servers.
(This would actually be useful for me as well as interesting as I sometimes have to help friends with their computers, and a lot of semi-computer literate people are far too sure that their IP address is whatever ipconfig or whatismyip.com says it is).
P.S. Seems whatismyip.com has started detecting proxies sensibly, so maybe that's a bit more usefull now.
Although they talked mostly about the swap hack, they did mention this one in passing. From just over 5 minutes into the podcast MP3:
...was talking about what it took to hack it; it takes two memory sticks; you put a loader on one, you put the game on the other... I mean it's the most complicated work-around I've ever seen. Have you tried it?
I haven't done it yet; there's actually, I was just reading this morning, theres a Japanese guy that figured how to do it without having to swap the memory sticks.
In the UK we already have ads at head height above the urinals; but only in motorway service stations, which are our most disgustingly commercialised spaces anyway.
How is that a reply to my suggestion, which was itself a reply to the idea of flooding it with HTTP requests?
A pingflood would take up both upstream and downstream bandwidth, and would hit harder because it wouldn't slow down when the server starts to feel the load.
Is there a good reason to keep the franchise going, other than money?
Millions will watch it; fans will get more annoyed and alienated; non-fans will find it increasingly hard to believe the fans' claims that it used to be good and it will all be hugely profitable. Nothing new.
We'll all know what you mean if you just say iPod, you know. If you're really worried about Slashdotters not knowing what an iPod is, call it an MP3 player. not a "digital media device".
I sounds like something along the lines of what RupW said, or possibly just a self-extractor which also installs spyware. It's hard to tell because TFA is so (deliberately?) confusing. Here are two of the most stupid and misleading paragraphs in the article; which confirm that the author either knows nothing ("digital files") or is lying to discredit Bittorent:
Because BitTorrent strips digital files into tiny shreds and reassembles them locally once a user completes a download, it has emerged as the perfect place to bundle adware programs among the bits, without the end user ever knowing.
A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled. At that stage, when the user attempts to load the reassembled file, he or she is greeted by an installation notice for an adware bundle distributed by MMG (Marketing Metrix Group), a Canadian company that specializes in P2P network marketing.
This gives the very flawed impression that BT is somehow to blame, and that either the programs runs through a security flaw in the BT client, or opening a "media file" or even the process of assembling the fragments could cause software to be installed.
Also, the filenames are not hidden during the download s the article explicitly claims. Any BT user with any sense would notice they were downloading an EXE file and not the MP3s/Film they were expecting. You could rename them with a different extension, but then you'd have to make the user change the name back.
TFA is pure bullshit. This is just like hosting "install_sexy_screensaver.exe" on a website, but with lower bandwidth costs.
Well, the executable bit helps. A clueless Linux user wouldn't chmod +x britney.jpg.pl just because an email told them to would they? And they wouldn't be able to damage the system because it would be running with user permissions.
It's not actually FreeBSD; it's a Mach/FreeBSD hybrid with various stuff including the input/output system handled by the Mach part (so probably no device driver compatibility), while the BSD subsystem does POSIX compliance (which, along with the X server, is what makes it Unix/BSD/Linux compatible) and some other stuff. More information here
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You must have a really slack job. Lucky bastard.
If someone dies because vital hospital equipment was insecure, Microsoft and the system admin should be responsible for manslaughter.
Um... It's more about setting the keyboard layout in software than about hardware, unless you have to see the keytops to type. More useful would be setting the clients system to Dvorak and then ignoring what's written there, but it would be fairly disastrous if he forgot to change it back...
The "fun of testing" is what drove me to stop using Windows. And that last year, using a "stable" version of Windows XP.
Well, what I said was the those particular screenshots showed no real changes to the interface, other than transparency.
XML interfaces? Sounds like Mozilla's XUL. Great idea, IMHO, lets see if they implement it well.
Heh, just making the point. :-)
I would if I still used Windows's GUI, but as it is it's only on the machine for games so the style engine service is disabled anyway (it's second only to antivirus for making the machine slow down).
Linux for everything else, and it doesn't need hacking to be themable. And the themes don't ever come with spyware.
I'm wondering which of those is more worthless.
Some invitations you can from almost anyone or the right to use a buggy version of Windows XP...
And of course, in the past racist have tried to claim that other humans are really a different species.
Unless you want to overwrite the log each time, you probably mean:
, and similarly for the other lines.
And how did you get their IP address using MSN? AFAIK, all connections except voice, video and file transfer go through MSN's servers.
(This would actually be useful for me as well as interesting as I sometimes have to help friends with their computers, and a lot of semi-computer literate people are far too sure that their IP address is whatever ipconfig or whatismyip.com says it is).
P.S. Seems whatismyip.com has started detecting proxies sensibly, so maybe that's a bit more usefull now.
Deus Ex, in case anyone doesn't know.
Good game, seems to include the best aspects from both RPGs and FPSs.
Anyone tested this in Wine (or something with better 3D support like Cedega) yet? Any luck?
There are other less obvious odd things that make it clear that some weapons are intended for murder, not self defence.
Almost no one goes on attacking people after they've been shot, even if they aren't going to die from it. So what are high-power handguns for?
That's not the sole purpose of the car. A gun's only use is to shoot people (don't bullshit about hunting with handguns).
From just over 5 minutes into the podcast MP3:
In the UK we already have ads at head height above the urinals; but only in motorway service stations, which are our most disgustingly commercialised spaces anyway.
How is that a reply to my suggestion, which was itself a reply to the idea of flooding it with HTTP requests?
A pingflood would take up both upstream and downstream bandwidth, and would hit harder because it wouldn't slow down when the server starts to feel the load.
And they can't block it by filtering HTTP requests from DDOSing clients.
Is there a good reason to keep the franchise going, other than money?
Millions will watch it; fans will get more annoyed and alienated; non-fans will find it increasingly hard to believe the fans' claims that it used to be good and it will all be hugely profitable. Nothing new.
WTF does that mean? It looks like legal language.
We'll all know what you mean if you just say iPod, you know. If you're really worried about Slashdotters not knowing what an iPod is, call it an MP3 player. not a "digital media device".
Also, the filenames are not hidden during the download s the article explicitly claims. Any BT user with any sense would notice they were downloading an EXE file and not the MP3s/Film they were expecting. You could rename them with a different extension, but then you'd have to make the user change the name back.
TFA is pure bullshit. This is just like hosting "install_sexy_screensaver.exe" on a website, but with lower bandwidth costs.
Well, the executable bit helps. A clueless Linux user wouldn't chmod +x britney.jpg.pl just because an email told them to would they? And they wouldn't be able to damage the system because it would be running with user permissions.
So in your office you are allowed to look at naked pictures of Britney Spears on company time?
It's not actually FreeBSD; it's a Mach/FreeBSD hybrid with various stuff including the input/output system handled by the Mach part (so probably no device driver compatibility), while the BSD subsystem does POSIX compliance (which, along with the X server, is what makes it Unix/BSD/Linux compatible) and some other stuff. More information here