That's exactly what I'm saying. Since these "contest" spams will be from the contest organization (as in, not from actual spammers), I would imagine they won't have the headers that indicate the mails were from spam-relaying servers out there on the net. So how are contestants supposed to use filtering-based-on-host-IP measures in their spam filtering application??
That's lame, though. Just because their previous stuff was buggy as hell doesn't make it OK for them to keep doing so... I have pretty reasonable standards, I'll tolerate some bugs here and there, but I don't consider it acceptable to allow total show-stopper bugs that render the game unplayable (your health never going up pretty much makes it impossible to continue playing the game)...
Um, since when are super skilled under-the-rader hackers a myth? If they're so good that they never get caught, then they definitely ARE "Superhackers". Of course, we wouldn't know if we never hear about them.
The most advanced hackers will change whatever data they feel like changing, in such subtle ways that no one ever notices. We might not have many (any?) cases of this, but that's the whole point - if you're subtle enough, you'll never get caught.
My high school still has absolutely zero knowledge of some of the hacks I pulled, and they never will know. I know of some friends' hacks (done to actual online systems) that were never found, and again, likely never will be. This doesn't make my or my friends' hacks some kind of mythological/theoretical/make-believe events that never really happened.
Okay, here's the first question I have, and I'm sure many others wonder the same. How will spam be combatted when it's not real spam? For example, Spam Assassin checks actual mail server names and addresses to see if they are on known spammer lists and so on. Won't extremely useful/effective features like these be overriden by the fact that these spam emails are intentionally sent and won't be from any known spam-relaying mail servers??
Ouch, Bethesda seems to be making a bad name for themselves with Oblivion, in terms of software bugs. I don't mean to "troll" but my girlfriend's game has been screwed up multiple times, including the health bar no longer increasing, or the game bugging in such a manner that a quest could never be completed. We searched forums and contacted support about these issues (among others), with no solution ever found. Luckily I haven't encountered such extreme problems myself, but I have noticed small bugs from time to time. Regardless, such showstoppers as mentioned above are pretty unbelievable for a $70+ game of such supposedly high stature.
Yeah, I was going to say that adding a keyboard like that not only makes the controller seem like one of those horrible oversized cell phones, but at the same time, defeats the purpose of having a 360.
If I wanted to be chatting online I would just use my $1500 PC... The voice chat on 360 is great, but text chat could easily take away that "simple yet effective" kind of feel that the 360 has. I hold a lot of value in the fact that I can just press the power button on the console, sit wherever I want with my wireless controller, and play some games in a few moments.
However, now that the controller will weigh double what it did before and probably feel pretty uncomfortable to use for long periods, well... it's probably not going to be all that enjoyable of an experience.
Cool, but I'm still waiting for them to bring back Xbox Live connectivity in MSN/Windows Messenger... I used to use the MSN "Alerts" feature to see when my buddies would pop online on Xbox Live, without having to leave my Xbox running 24/7.
At the same time, that controller with the built in keyboard is kind of obscene... holy crap! Cue all the second generation of "huge xbox controller" jokes... wow... !
Hello, I already paid my tax on any/all of my World of Warcraft gameplay when I bought the game from the store and paid both Provincial and Goods & Services Tax, thank you very much. Jeez.
That's fine, I understand your view for sure. I have two friends who just basically quit their jobs and visited Thailand, Cambodia and a few neighbouring countries for a few months (not mutual friends, two seperate people from different countries who happened to take VERY similar "road trips" at exactly the same time). I got to hear a LOT of anecdotes about the cultures, have seen a damned huge library of photos from all over the place amongst these cultures, including (in no particular order) beautiful scenery, expensive homes, lowest-class slums full of filth and such, former prisons where people were tortured, umm restaurants, hotels, businesses, religious structures...
Regardless, I still don't agree with never questioning commonly-accepted beliefs and ideas. I don't really care who, or what belief system, or how religiously people demand obedience to these ideas. I try to question beliefs and ideas in all areas of life. I try to question ideas that I've long accepted, since simply having accepted an idea doesn't neccesarily make it worthwhile or "good". Especially since, as you grow as a person, your values change, your "library" of experiences changes, and your view of the world changes. If you're not willing to question the ideas you've developed or adopted over the years (and the ideas others around you hold), you're stuck in a perpetual state of sameness, holding yourself back from the person you "could" be, by grabbing hold of ideas and sticking to them just because they "always worked just fine".
That is bullshit. I give people respect when they show me they deserve it (or at least, don't give me reasons to lose respect for them). If someone does something I don't approve of, there's no reason I can't express that even with a minor insult thrown in.
I 100% disagree with the notion that leaders should be respected and loved simply because they are political leaders. In fact, they should be subject to even harsher criticism than others just to ensure that they are worthy of being leaders of their country.
Cool, well, the first thing I think is that, that fucking notion of 'never insulting the King whatsoever' NEEDS to be challenged just because it's upheld so strongly.
Any idea held for a long period and upheld by "everyone" on a society is just that much more worthy of being challenged for the sheer reason that no one is allowed to question it - it is being upheld not because of logic, reason or morality, but rather long-unchallenged cultural values of "OMG you just don't do that, man" with no particular reason or explanation (other than the most probable reason, blatantly obvious to outsiders: comfort and convenience for the leading political party who can rule unchecked).
Even the most basic musings of the situation should make this obvious.
Personally, I've never owned a TV or had cable service, and never will. The closest I've got yet is an old TV tuner card (with composite input) I've been using to play video games that I don't have a VGA cable for.:)
"I just find it hard to justify putting in WarCraft when it didn't even spawn the genre it "represents" in the first place"
Sure, but it was the first huge hit of that style of game. It spread through my school like wildfire when it came out, with ALL of the computer-game-playing kids obsessing over it for the longest time. This never happened with Dune, or... whatever other RTS game supposedly created the genre.
"But to get voice capabilities (as far as I have found so far) on the 360, you need a headset. Now, why would I want to go stick a crappy $100 headset on my skull just so I can talk to a bunch of twelve year olds and not get kicked out of an online game, when I have almost $20k worth of home audio jacked out of my 360?!"
Buddy, you're telling me you have a $20k home theatre setup (and a 65" widescreen display), but you bought the Xbox 360 "Core" (aka "Crippled") system so you could save a few bucks? Give me a break! Apparently you have nearly limitless money to buy an insane home entertainment setup only to hook up the cheapest hardware to it?? Something doesn't add up here.
I will 100% vouch for this. I scratched the crap out of my Halo 2 disc one time, throwing the controller at the ground and accidentally hitting the Xbox (I was pissed about a multiplayer game). Needless to say the disc got scratched all to hell and wouldn't even read afterwards.
After some searching around on the net, I found that using Brasso with a cotton cloth would do the trick, so I tried it, and after 10 minutes or so the DVD is back to a totally-readable state! I was really skeptical at first but it makes sense, basically polishing away enough of the plastic to return it to a truly smooth distortion-free surface.
Oh, so I guess the $70 CDN I dropped for Crackdown wasn't enough, they have to make even further revenue by showing advertisements in my game?
If they're going to start using these irritating not-too-decent tactics to make money, I'd like to see a reduction in the exhorbitant friggin prices for games. Give me a break, it's not like Microsoft is strapped for cash. But hey, no worries, right? I guess now I know not to buy any titles related to this "Massive" subsidary.
Okay, so if they're going to require this of eBay and other auction sites, does that mean they're going to "crack down" on pawn shops and second-hand stores? What about thrift stores? What about street-side garage sales? What if you sell your old 200mhz computer to your little brother because he doesn't have his own computer? Is that taxable? These things are effectively the same - with eBay you're just looking online for your used goods, instead of looking in a shop or on someone's driveway or whatever.
"I'm sure all this cracking of DRM by snooping memory will result in hardware protection being rolled out. Of course it woud need to be in the chipset and CPU."
This is crackable anyways. The original Xbox was cracked by someone building their own data sniffer hardware installed on the system bus. No kidding. People will go to pretty much any length, including hardware modification, to break out of constricting usage limitations (aka DRM)...
'How, exactly, do you break into a personal folder? Is double-clicking it called "breaking" in these days?'
Hey, I wondered the same when I got banned from my high school library when I was browsing the local drive in Netscape by simply entering "file:///" into the address bar... Sorry for being a curious teenage computer geek, I guess...
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I'm well aware of the URL containing my last name on every post I make... ;)
That's exactly what I'm saying. Since these "contest" spams will be from the contest organization (as in, not from actual spammers), I would imagine they won't have the headers that indicate the mails were from spam-relaying servers out there on the net. So how are contestants supposed to use filtering-based-on-host-IP measures in their spam filtering application??
That's lame, though. Just because their previous stuff was buggy as hell doesn't make it OK for them to keep doing so... I have pretty reasonable standards, I'll tolerate some bugs here and there, but I don't consider it acceptable to allow total show-stopper bugs that render the game unplayable (your health never going up pretty much makes it impossible to continue playing the game)...
Um, since when are super skilled under-the-rader hackers a myth? If they're so good that they never get caught, then they definitely ARE "Superhackers". Of course, we wouldn't know if we never hear about them.
The most advanced hackers will change whatever data they feel like changing, in such subtle ways that no one ever notices. We might not have many (any?) cases of this, but that's the whole point - if you're subtle enough, you'll never get caught.
My high school still has absolutely zero knowledge of some of the hacks I pulled, and they never will know. I know of some friends' hacks (done to actual online systems) that were never found, and again, likely never will be. This doesn't make my or my friends' hacks some kind of mythological/theoretical/make-believe events that never really happened.
Okay, here's the first question I have, and I'm sure many others wonder the same. How will spam be combatted when it's not real spam? For example, Spam Assassin checks actual mail server names and addresses to see if they are on known spammer lists and so on. Won't extremely useful/effective features like these be overriden by the fact that these spam emails are intentionally sent and won't be from any known spam-relaying mail servers??
Ouch, Bethesda seems to be making a bad name for themselves with Oblivion, in terms of software bugs. I don't mean to "troll" but my girlfriend's game has been screwed up multiple times, including the health bar no longer increasing, or the game bugging in such a manner that a quest could never be completed. We searched forums and contacted support about these issues (among others), with no solution ever found. Luckily I haven't encountered such extreme problems myself, but I have noticed small bugs from time to time. Regardless, such showstoppers as mentioned above are pretty unbelievable for a $70+ game of such supposedly high stature.
Yeah, I was going to say that adding a keyboard like that not only makes the controller seem like one of those horrible oversized cell phones, but at the same time, defeats the purpose of having a 360.
If I wanted to be chatting online I would just use my $1500 PC... The voice chat on 360 is great, but text chat could easily take away that "simple yet effective" kind of feel that the 360 has. I hold a lot of value in the fact that I can just press the power button on the console, sit wherever I want with my wireless controller, and play some games in a few moments.
However, now that the controller will weigh double what it did before and probably feel pretty uncomfortable to use for long periods, well... it's probably not going to be all that enjoyable of an experience.
Cool, but I'm still waiting for them to bring back Xbox Live connectivity in MSN/Windows Messenger... I used to use the MSN "Alerts" feature to see when my buddies would pop online on Xbox Live, without having to leave my Xbox running 24/7.
At the same time, that controller with the built in keyboard is kind of obscene... holy crap! Cue all the second generation of "huge xbox controller" jokes... wow... !
Hello, I already paid my tax on any/all of my World of Warcraft gameplay when I bought the game from the store and paid both Provincial and Goods & Services Tax, thank you very much. Jeez.
That's fine, I understand your view for sure. I have two friends who just basically quit their jobs and visited Thailand, Cambodia and a few neighbouring countries for a few months (not mutual friends, two seperate people from different countries who happened to take VERY similar "road trips" at exactly the same time). I got to hear a LOT of anecdotes about the cultures, have seen a damned huge library of photos from all over the place amongst these cultures, including (in no particular order) beautiful scenery, expensive homes, lowest-class slums full of filth and such, former prisons where people were tortured, umm restaurants, hotels, businesses, religious structures...
Regardless, I still don't agree with never questioning commonly-accepted beliefs and ideas. I don't really care who, or what belief system, or how religiously people demand obedience to these ideas. I try to question beliefs and ideas in all areas of life. I try to question ideas that I've long accepted, since simply having accepted an idea doesn't neccesarily make it worthwhile or "good". Especially since, as you grow as a person, your values change, your "library" of experiences changes, and your view of the world changes. If you're not willing to question the ideas you've developed or adopted over the years (and the ideas others around you hold), you're stuck in a perpetual state of sameness, holding yourself back from the person you "could" be, by grabbing hold of ideas and sticking to them just because they "always worked just fine".
That is bullshit. I give people respect when they show me they deserve it (or at least, don't give me reasons to lose respect for them). If someone does something I don't approve of, there's no reason I can't express that even with a minor insult thrown in.
I 100% disagree with the notion that leaders should be respected and loved simply because they are political leaders. In fact, they should be subject to even harsher criticism than others just to ensure that they are worthy of being leaders of their country.
Cool, well, the first thing I think is that, that fucking notion of 'never insulting the King whatsoever' NEEDS to be challenged just because it's upheld so strongly.
Any idea held for a long period and upheld by "everyone" on a society is just that much more worthy of being challenged for the sheer reason that no one is allowed to question it - it is being upheld not because of logic, reason or morality, but rather long-unchallenged cultural values of "OMG you just don't do that, man" with no particular reason or explanation (other than the most probable reason, blatantly obvious to outsiders: comfort and convenience for the leading political party who can rule unchecked).
Even the most basic musings of the situation should make this obvious.
I still have a IIfx too... it's used as a small bedside desk, though. ;)
Personally, I've never owned a TV or had cable service, and never will. The closest I've got yet is an old TV tuner card (with composite input) I've been using to play video games that I don't have a VGA cable for. :)
"Do you know who owns or controls the station you're watching? Does the truth you know rely on its funding?"
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Yeah, cue the "what about ____?" posts, ad nauseam... :(
"I just find it hard to justify putting in WarCraft when it didn't even spawn the genre it "represents" in the first place"
Sure, but it was the first huge hit of that style of game. It spread through my school like wildfire when it came out, with ALL of the computer-game-playing kids obsessing over it for the longest time. This never happened with Dune, or... whatever other RTS game supposedly created the genre.
"But to get voice capabilities (as far as I have found so far) on the 360, you need a headset. Now, why would I want to go stick a crappy $100 headset on my skull just so I can talk to a bunch of twelve year olds and not get kicked out of an online game, when I have almost $20k worth of home audio jacked out of my 360?!"
Buddy, you're telling me you have a $20k home theatre setup (and a 65" widescreen display), but you bought the Xbox 360 "Core" (aka "Crippled") system so you could save a few bucks? Give me a break! Apparently you have nearly limitless money to buy an insane home entertainment setup only to hook up the cheapest hardware to it?? Something doesn't add up here.
I will 100% vouch for this. I scratched the crap out of my Halo 2 disc one time, throwing the controller at the ground and accidentally hitting the Xbox (I was pissed about a multiplayer game). Needless to say the disc got scratched all to hell and wouldn't even read afterwards.
After some searching around on the net, I found that using Brasso with a cotton cloth would do the trick, so I tried it, and after 10 minutes or so the DVD is back to a totally-readable state! I was really skeptical at first but it makes sense, basically polishing away enough of the plastic to return it to a truly smooth distortion-free surface.
Oh, so I guess the $70 CDN I dropped for Crackdown wasn't enough, they have to make even further revenue by showing advertisements in my game?
If they're going to start using these irritating not-too-decent tactics to make money, I'd like to see a reduction in the exhorbitant friggin prices for games. Give me a break, it's not like Microsoft is strapped for cash. But hey, no worries, right? I guess now I know not to buy any titles related to this "Massive" subsidary.
Okay, so if they're going to require this of eBay and other auction sites, does that mean they're going to "crack down" on pawn shops and second-hand stores? What about thrift stores? What about street-side garage sales? What if you sell your old 200mhz computer to your little brother because he doesn't have his own computer? Is that taxable? These things are effectively the same - with eBay you're just looking online for your used goods, instead of looking in a shop or on someone's driveway or whatever.
"I'm sure all this cracking of DRM by snooping memory will result in hardware protection being rolled out. Of course it woud need to be in the chipset and CPU."
This is crackable anyways. The original Xbox was cracked by someone building their own data sniffer hardware installed on the system bus. No kidding. People will go to pretty much any length, including hardware modification, to break out of constricting usage limitations (aka DRM)...
hahahahaha nice one dude :D
I for one am fucking sick as hell of people falsifying their WHOIS records...
Oh, offtopic? Sorry for trying to add to a joke, or whatever. Jeez.
'How, exactly, do you break into a personal folder? Is double-clicking it called "breaking" in these days?'
Hey, I wondered the same when I got banned from my high school library when I was browsing the local drive in Netscape by simply entering "file:///" into the address bar... Sorry for being a curious teenage computer geek, I guess...