all the comments, which i found interesting, i think it important to note something no one has addressed yet: finding people. the idea is certainly noble to allow every player to create their character to exactly their own specifications and develop them in exactly their own way, etc, etc, but what happens when you try to put together a group of people? in most, i've not played all, archetype-style games it is not overly difficult since you already know what each class, or sub-class, will do well. so if you need someone to take damage, you look for classes x and y and if you need someone sneaky you look for class z.
the problem with completely free-form gaming is that you don't know what anyone else can do. in fact, for all you know, they may not really know what they can do either. this makes it very difficult to cooperate with people you don't know, either irl or in-game. i just can't see large numbers of users being willing to risk getting screwed with groups everytime they form one. just my $.02
actually....
of note: Music Industry Piracy Investigations general manager Michael Kerin said "This is a very significant blow in the war against piracy."
which i guess means it's already begun...
good distro, rather light review, but, and bear with me on this one, what about machines that lack dvd-roms? i promise they're out there, they're not even uncommon. sure, any pre-packaged machine will have one these days but, imho, one of the advantages to knoppix has always been all the functionality you get from a just one cd. i can certainly see how nice it is to have the choice of 7+ window managers and all those bulky suites that were being cut, but no mention is made regarding the continuation of the cd-based distro. is it going to be dropped? download time is, as always, also a factor to consider. i'm sure i'll download and try out this release, as i have with more than i can remember in the past, but it crosses my mind to wonder if such bulk might not hurt the usefullness of a traditionally handy distro.
Apparently is doesn't matter how careful *I* am when everyone else just seems to be giving it away. Something has to be done to punish these people other than sending me a letter with how to PAY someone to watch my credit and alert me to "changes".
i don't know what will happen in this case, but i know when lexisnexis was breached (in point of fact it was actually a smaller company purchased by lexisnexis and the breach happened before the purchase) the company offered, and hired quite a bit of staff to support, credit checking and reporting for affected customers for free. as for punishment, sure, that sounds good, but would be nearly impossible to implement in a fair manner as, in this case, lexisnexis was not responsible for the breach in any way, shape, or form. therefore to punish them for a breach not resulting from their actions would be unjust. i agree, these things shouldn't happen so often, but slapping "punishments" around doesn't help solve the actual problem.
"As VoIP is rolled out en masse, we're going to see an increased number of subscribers and also an increased number of attackers," says David Endler, chairman of the VoIP Security Alliance
it's easy to see he's an expert. i mean, who else could come up with such an idea? the very premise of it is far-fetched to the point of hillarity. to think that as a product becomes more widely used it is targeted by a larger population...craziness.
they don't have to. all they have to do is listen. hence, few criminals use cell phones for communications which they'd prefer remain confidential. ........ or so i've....heard......:-/
China employs thousands officials and private citizens to build a 'pervasive, sophisticated, and effective' system of Internet censorship.
but it seems to me that there is a chink in their armor here. how does the government determine who is allowed to determine what is allowed to be viewed? employing thousands of people for the task of limiting the viewing capabilities of all the others doesn't seem very effective to me. what's stopping any one, or more, of them from building in a backdoor for themselves? from visiting "dangerous" sites? i'm sure there are very strict, probably painful, penalties for such actions, but it comes back to the question brought up earlier: qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
i'm from northern indiana, where dst is something that foreigners do (yes, everyone who isn't from indiana is foreign to me). in addition i've been hit by my fair share of automobiles, albeit not in the dark or while going to school. however, doing it permanently, or doing away with it depending on how you want to look at it, would be no different than living in indiana. it's not strange to us that it gets darker earlier some parts of the year than others. in fact, it's strange when it doesn't (i've been living out of indiana for 3 years now and am still caught off-guard regularly).
*note*
i am by no means proposing everywhere should be like indiana, but if you're looking for an example of people not having a problem with darkness at differing times during the year, look to the midwest. (also if you're looking for a car warsh, warshing machine, dish warsher, or a sammwitch, i'd suggest indiana as well)
Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.
gee, thanks mookie, i just wouldn't know what to believe on the internet if it weren't for all your protection. oh, and thanks for preventing me from deleting my own files. you're right, i really did want those after all. you're such a good friend. *happy sigh*
especially on/. is that, given the predictable percentage of replies on how "unfair" and "outrageous" this is, no one is using one of my favorite words: unconstitutional. the issue at hand here is not whether they should do this or not. nor is the issue that for the proposed legislation the majority of bloggers would be unaffected. the issue instead is that it is not within the legal restrictions of the government to impose this ordinance. since it is, however, restricted to campaign related blogs, there are laws which stipulate, at least in certain media i know, that you have to give each candidate, given certain criteria, equal time/space. while i still think this is superfluous, it is a damn sight better than restricting free speech. yes, i understand that they're not trying to keep people from blogging, or restrict what they blog about with this piece of legislation. but, honestly, how long will it take for similar laws to get pushed in other states? and no, not all of them will pass, but the point is that once a majority of the nation does something one way, the majority of congress will mirror it because they're from those states.
this scares me in a way that i normally reserver for senator orrin hatch, but i guess he's got some competition now. i guess we'll have to see how this pans out, but i must admit i'm alarmed by a number of the articles i read now, politically speaking.
this does need to be addressed with a fresh set of laws
you're presupposing that p2p networks are illegal. the reason this belongs in the courts at this point is because that has not yet been determined. at the conclusion of this case, or if it is thrown out one in the future, we will know if we need new laws or not. it is entirely possible, and feasible imho, for the courts to say, "you cannot prove the inherent illegality of p2p networks, therefore they, as a whole, are legal."
In what way did Troy suck any less than your favourite movie of all time?
i think hemos' point is that it did *not* suck less. i'm not very good at picking up these subtleties, but i'm reasonably certain that the implication is that Troy sucked *more*. on an unrelated note: kudo points for a creative spelling of favorite.
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all the comments, which i found interesting, i think it important to note something no one has addressed yet: finding people. the idea is certainly noble to allow every player to create their character to exactly their own specifications and develop them in exactly their own way, etc, etc, but what happens when you try to put together a group of people? in most, i've not played all, archetype-style games it is not overly difficult since you already know what each class, or sub-class, will do well. so if you need someone to take damage, you look for classes x and y and if you need someone sneaky you look for class z.
the problem with completely free-form gaming is that you don't know what anyone else can do. in fact, for all you know, they may not really know what they can do either. this makes it very difficult to cooperate with people you don't know, either irl or in-game. i just can't see large numbers of users being willing to risk getting screwed with groups everytime they form one. just my $.02
as i read the summary i became overcome with fear when the updates are available dialogue popped up at the bottom of my screen. coincidence....?
wait wait wait....microsoft has flaws in their software....? (cheap shot)
is that google hacking was more of a shocker than penetration testing....?
actually....
of note: Music Industry Piracy Investigations general manager Michael Kerin said "This is a very significant blow in the war against piracy."
which i guess means it's already begun...
assuming everything is setup properly and has been designed for integrating in this manner
but even if it's not setup correctly, it's so easy to install you can fix the problem in a jiffy!
thanks sun!
good distro, rather light review, but, and bear with me on this one, what about machines that lack dvd-roms?
i promise they're out there, they're not even uncommon. sure, any pre-packaged machine will have one these days but, imho, one of the advantages to knoppix has always been all the functionality you get from a just one cd. i can certainly see how nice it is to have the choice of 7+ window managers and all those bulky suites that were being cut, but no mention is made regarding the continuation of the cd-based distro. is it going to be dropped?
download time is, as always, also a factor to consider.
i'm sure i'll download and try out this release, as i have with more than i can remember in the past, but it crosses my mind to wonder if such bulk might not hurt the usefullness of a traditionally handy distro.
canada has seen a record number of immigrants this month.
m$ is right, it's not a flaw to them. it's a "feature"
"We've re-architected it to defend against exploits," Mangione said
architect IS NOT a verb!!
great laugh to start the day though.
i could carry one of these....
Apparently is doesn't matter how careful *I* am when everyone else just seems to be giving it away. Something has to be done to punish these people other than sending me a letter with how to PAY someone to watch my credit and alert me to "changes".
i don't know what will happen in this case, but i know when lexisnexis was breached (in point of fact it was actually a smaller company purchased by lexisnexis and the breach happened before the purchase) the company offered, and hired quite a bit of staff to support, credit checking and reporting for affected customers for free. as for punishment, sure, that sounds good, but would be nearly impossible to implement in a fair manner as, in this case, lexisnexis was not responsible for the breach in any way, shape, or form. therefore to punish them for a breach not resulting from their actions would be unjust.
i agree, these things shouldn't happen so often, but slapping "punishments" around doesn't help solve the actual problem.
1,500 dead people who were also listed as active registered voters. Fifty of those dead people somehow voted in the last election.
is that 150 of them were sued by the riaa...
"As VoIP is rolled out en masse, we're going to see an increased number of subscribers and also an increased number of attackers," says David Endler, chairman of the VoIP Security Alliance
it's easy to see he's an expert. i mean, who else could come up with such an idea? the very premise of it is far-fetched to the point of hillarity. to think that as a product becomes more widely used it is targeted by a larger population...craziness.
Can they 'tap' a cell phone?
they don't have to. all they have to do is listen. hence, few criminals use cell phones for communications which they'd prefer remain confidential.
........
or so i've....heard......:-/
China employs thousands officials and private citizens to build a 'pervasive, sophisticated, and effective' system of Internet censorship.
but it seems to me that there is a chink in their armor here. how does the government determine who is allowed to determine what is allowed to be viewed? employing thousands of people for the task of limiting the viewing capabilities of all the others doesn't seem very effective to me. what's stopping any one, or more, of them from building in a backdoor for themselves? from visiting "dangerous" sites? i'm sure there are very strict, probably painful, penalties for such actions, but it comes back to the question brought up earlier: qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
i'm from northern indiana, where dst is something that foreigners do (yes, everyone who isn't from indiana is foreign to me). in addition i've been hit by my fair share of automobiles, albeit not in the dark or while going to school. however, doing it permanently, or doing away with it depending on how you want to look at it, would be no different than living in indiana. it's not strange to us that it gets darker earlier some parts of the year than others. in fact, it's strange when it doesn't (i've been living out of indiana for 3 years now and am still caught off-guard regularly).
*note*
i am by no means proposing everywhere should be like indiana, but if you're looking for an example of people not having a problem with darkness at differing times during the year, look to the midwest. (also if you're looking for a car warsh, warshing machine, dish warsher, or a sammwitch, i'd suggest indiana as well)
They saw what they had made and exclaimed, "This is good."
then they exclaimed, "we must name our creation." they pondered this and proclaimed, "we shall call it....BOOBLE"
Charles Guité, an officer of the Public Works ministry who worked on the Sponsorship Program
i misread this as "charles guilté" and was immediately confused as to how he'd not already been convicted.
Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.
gee, thanks mookie, i just wouldn't know what to believe on the internet if it weren't for all your protection. oh, and thanks for preventing me from deleting my own files. you're right, i really did want those after all. you're such a good friend.
*happy sigh*
especially on /. is that, given the predictable percentage of replies on how "unfair" and "outrageous" this is, no one is using one of my favorite words: unconstitutional. the issue at hand here is not whether they should do this or not. nor is the issue that for the proposed legislation the majority of bloggers would be unaffected. the issue instead is that it is not within the legal restrictions of the government to impose this ordinance. since it is, however, restricted to campaign related blogs, there are laws which stipulate, at least in certain media i know, that you have to give each candidate, given certain criteria, equal time/space. while i still think this is superfluous, it is a damn sight better than restricting free speech. yes, i understand that they're not trying to keep people from blogging, or restrict what they blog about with this piece of legislation. but, honestly, how long will it take for similar laws to get pushed in other states? and no, not all of them will pass, but the point is that once a majority of the nation does something one way, the majority of congress will mirror it because they're from those states.
this scares me in a way that i normally reserver for senator orrin hatch, but i guess he's got some competition now. i guess we'll have to see how this pans out, but i must admit i'm alarmed by a number of the articles i read now, politically speaking.
wow! that's two tigers for the price of one!! can today get any better??
this does need to be addressed with a fresh set of laws
you're presupposing that p2p networks are illegal. the reason this belongs in the courts at this point is because that has not yet been determined. at the conclusion of this case, or if it is thrown out one in the future, we will know if we need new laws or not. it is entirely possible, and feasible imho, for the courts to say, "you cannot prove the inherent illegality of p2p networks, therefore they, as a whole, are legal."
i for one welcome our new iPod-touting, mac-using overlords.
In what way did Troy suck any less than your favourite movie of all time?
i think hemos' point is that it did *not* suck less. i'm not very good at picking up these subtleties, but i'm reasonably certain that the implication is that Troy sucked *more*.
on an unrelated note: kudo points for a creative spelling of favorite.