Today the most Illustrious Council of Elders confirmed that the plan to paralize the terrifying invasor from the sinister blue planet was a success.
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K'breel, speaker for the Council, calmed down the population:
Gentle Citizens, please do not be alarmed. The terrifying metallic creature sent here by the sinister blue planet has been slowed down. We have been reported that the plan to paralyze its feeding organs has been a success, with the creature unable to eat for at least five days. K'breel said that the creature was only paralized and not destroyed so the Council would have more time to think of an effective plan. The public cheered when they heard speaker K'breel say the following words:
What is important is that the metallic creature does not record any sign of intelligence under our beloved red sky. But do not be afraid, for soon we will elliminate it, making it look like an accident. When a subversive traitor accused the speaker for the most Illustrious Council that the slowdown was simply a malfunction in the metallic creature's machinery, K'breel ordered to have him imprisoned and executed tonight for High Blasphemy.
Surely all you have to do is make frequent back-ups of your critical data and the virus becomes pointless. While keeping backups regularly is something we must do, I'd like to add that surely all you have to do is install an Operating System with decent security (such as GNU/Linux) and all the viruses become pointless.
My dad is still using Windows. His application icons have some desktop below them - pardon, i meant to say that his desktop is filled with application icons, all installed by third party applications (which I don't know are virus-free, but most of them have a GPL equivalent in GNU/Linux), he's reinstalled Windows twice and is still constantly complaining of his computer slowing down. Finally, when trying to go to Google, an error message pops up on Firefox. I'm sure it's the Google bar, but he doesn't know how to uninstall it.
It's been almost a year since I dumped Windows, and now I've began to wonder why people still decide to keep up with this sh**.
I fully expect within the next few years we will see average Joe hacker... as in a person who likes to fool with technology... begin a personal and secret computer assault against any business or organization who uses the services of spammers.
Trust me, we tried... first there was blue frog. Then we tried to start the Okopipi group, but there wasn't any support from *ANY* organization. In fact, some guys accused us of making botnets worse. In the end the developers ended up leaving, one by one.
Science explains HOW, not WHY. Imagine a little child.
- Daddy why do things fall down? - Because they're attracted to earth. - Why? - Because the law discovered by newton states... blablablah, 9.8m/s^2, blablablah - Why? - Because the law of universal gravitation... blablablah... equation... blah... - Why? - According to quantum physics and Einstein's relativity theory, the curvature in the space-time continuum... blablablablabla... - Why?
The why's never end. Science try to explain HOW things work. But why they work that way, it's a problem impossible to solve - we'd need a way to measure them that is superior to the things being explained. In other words, we'd need a power greater than the whole universe to explain WHY.
1) It's a blacklist vs. whitelist problem (like the one i mentioned about blocking pirated videos uploaded in youtube). It has no solution unless the actual content is monitored.
2) If the actual content is monitored, we're dealing with indiscriminate wiretapping - invation of privacy and constitutional rights.
3) It opens the door to outright censorship of subversive content. Good morning, 1984!
4) It still won't work. The bad guys (i'm talking about the pedophiles here, not the OTHER bad guys - the draconian govt and isps) only need to open a new unmonitored (i.e. encrypted) channel to do their filthy stuff.
5) If the govt. outlaws privacy, read item # 2.
In other words, this is, in the best case, just a publicity stunt to look good to the general public while not really doing anything to prevent and fight the actual crimes. In the worst case, it's just a lame excuse to monitor the citizens in favor of Dubya and the *AA.
This is JUST like the "war on terror". No terrorists are caught, but the whole public suffers from the decision.
Apparently, no spotting at all. Word is the sun is tremendously worried and was seen at CVS in the pregnancy test section. That's easy to solve. Make the sun switch to subversion.
I can see a lot of uses for it even if it isn't. But I can see some fairly awe-inspiring ones if it's possible. Guy 1: BWAHAHAHA, BEWARE my super-robot made with nanopaper! It's stronger than steel! Guy 2: *lights match* Robot: *FWOOOM* Guy 1::(
My favourite aspect of piracy on the Apple ][, though, was the custom "Cracked by..." messages inserted by the software pirates. I still remember my copy of Skyfox (great game!) having the cracker's name, followed by "Nothing fancy, but it works"... Now, every time I see or hear that phrase, a little bit of my memory conjures up the memory of happy hours spent playing the game as a kid:) I loved the C64 cracked games. Their "cracked by" screens not only had cool graphics, but the cool music as well.
Ironically, some cracked versions are much harder to find. They're lost now - what a shame.
I was very disappointed that this article had nothing to do with a sequel to Loom, though. Loom was made by LucasFilm Games, not Activision. Altho a Loom/Fallout merger sounds quite interesting...:)
It wasn't very effective as copy protection, but the game had an awesome add-in as it immersed you into the world of arcaheology and adventure:
Henry Jones' Grail Diary.
It was in a nice leather-like enclosure, and the paper had a parchment texture. There were lots of pictures with clips and notes addeds, all written by hand.
The copy protection part was a series of descriptions of the Grail according to various authors - which were referenced by Indy as he investigated various items.
BTW, in the LucasArts' adventure games, a trimmed down copy of the grail diary was included only for the copy protection. But it wasn't as good as the original.
As an Indy fan, I would buy the original Last Crusade game again *JUST* for the Grail Diary.
...is making your eBook so crappy no one wants to read it. That hasn't stopped people from pirating Fantastic 4, the Dukes of Hazzard or Scary Movie 4. Maybe....
...is making your eBook so crappy no one intelligent wants to read it. There. Fixed.
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...as if millions of chairs cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Will it be fixed in 3.0, or will I have to wait for 3.1? See, I use Linux and my partitions are ext3. The fsync issue affects me.
But first, a word from our sponsors:
---- Tonight, in "Our Council Answers": The S'karr is a lie? Find out the latest conspiracy theory and the REAL reason why the traitors want to have K'Breel, our most benevolent and enlightened speaker from the Council of Elders, - Gfa'rdmn forbid - removed. After all questions are answered, you can witness how blasphemers have their gelsacs ripped appart, and then kicked to the *IMPROVED* Snarpat pit of death! You can't miss it! ----
K'breel, speaker for the Council, calmed down the population: Gentle Citizens, please do not be alarmed. The terrifying metallic creature sent here by the sinister blue planet has been slowed down. We have been reported that the plan to paralyze its feeding organs has been a success, with the creature unable to eat for at least five days. K'breel said that the creature was only paralized and not destroyed so the Council would have more time to think of an effective plan. The public cheered when they heard speaker K'breel say the following words: What is important is that the metallic creature does not record any sign of intelligence under our beloved red sky. But do not be afraid, for soon we will elliminate it, making it look like an accident. When a subversive traitor accused the speaker for the most Illustrious Council that the slowdown was simply a malfunction in the metallic creature's machinery, K'breel ordered to have him imprisoned and executed tonight for High Blasphemy.
If only I hadn't erased Jack Bauer's cell from my contact list after the last season...
I had his number in my PC, but somehow I can't access it all of a sudden. I think a virus encrypted it.My dad is still using Windows. His application icons have some desktop below them - pardon, i meant to say that his desktop is filled with application icons, all installed by third party applications (which I don't know are virus-free, but most of them have a GPL equivalent in GNU/Linux), he's reinstalled Windows twice and is still constantly complaining of his computer slowing down. Finally, when trying to go to Google, an error message pops up on Firefox. I'm sure it's the Google bar, but he doesn't know how to uninstall it.
It's been almost a year since I dumped Windows, and now I've began to wonder why people still decide to keep up with this sh**.
I'm not an american citizen - I thought that he meant the White House was not in order :P
I fully expect within the next few years we will see average Joe hacker ... as in a person who likes to fool with technology ... begin a personal and secret computer assault against any business or organization who uses the services of spammers.
Trust me, we tried... first there was blue frog. Then we tried to start the Okopipi group, but there wasn't any support from *ANY* organization. In fact, some guys accused us of making botnets worse. In the end the developers ended up leaving, one by one.The project simply died.
Science explains HOW, not WHY. Imagine a little child.
- Daddy why do things fall down?
- Because they're attracted to earth.
- Why?
- Because the law discovered by newton states... blablablah, 9.8m/s^2, blablablah
- Why?
- Because the law of universal gravitation... blablablah... equation... blah...
- Why?
- According to quantum physics and Einstein's relativity theory, the curvature in the space-time continuum... blablablablabla...
- Why?
The why's never end. Science try to explain HOW things work. But why they work that way, it's a problem impossible to solve - we'd need a way to measure them that is superior to the things being explained. In other words, we'd need a power greater than the whole universe to explain WHY.
Ah, but HOW... that's a very different thing.
Why?
1) It's a blacklist vs. whitelist problem (like the one i mentioned about blocking pirated videos uploaded in youtube). It has no solution unless the actual content is monitored.
2) If the actual content is monitored, we're dealing with indiscriminate wiretapping - invation of privacy and constitutional rights.
3) It opens the door to outright censorship of subversive content. Good morning, 1984!
4) It still won't work. The bad guys (i'm talking about the pedophiles here, not the OTHER bad guys - the draconian govt and isps) only need to open a new unmonitored (i.e. encrypted) channel to do their filthy stuff.
5) If the govt. outlaws privacy, read item # 2.
In other words, this is, in the best case, just a publicity stunt to look good to the general public while not really doing anything to prevent and fight the actual crimes. In the worst case, it's just a lame excuse to monitor the citizens in favor of Dubya and the *AA.
This is JUST like the "war on terror". No terrorists are caught, but the whole public suffers from the decision.
Unless we assume the mayans simply experienced a Y2K12 bug.
How about this. You force people to walk more, and you solve two problems at the same time :)
He uses guns. (I can't believe I said that)
I can see a lot of uses for it even if it isn't. But I can see some fairly awe-inspiring ones if it's possible. Guy 1: BWAHAHAHA, BEWARE my super-robot made with nanopaper! It's stronger than steel!
Guy 2: *lights match*
Robot: *FWOOOM*
Guy 1:
Ironically, some cracked versions are much harder to find. They're lost now - what a shame.
It wasn't very effective as copy protection, but the game had an awesome add-in as it immersed you into the world of arcaheology and adventure:
Henry Jones' Grail Diary.
It was in a nice leather-like enclosure, and the paper had a parchment texture. There were lots of pictures with clips and notes addeds, all written by hand.
The copy protection part was a series of descriptions of the Grail according to various authors - which were referenced by Indy as he investigated various items.
BTW, in the LucasArts' adventure games, a trimmed down copy of the grail diary was included only for the copy protection. But it wasn't as good as the original.
As an Indy fan, I would buy the original Last Crusade game again *JUST* for the Grail Diary.
Bloggers who want to blog to maintain a status (i.e. fame, fortune, etc) find blogging stressful. Of course it's stressful, it's become a JOB!
In contrasts, bloggers who do it to vent out their frustration and share a part of their mind with the world, find it fulfilling.
Not quite a discovery if you think of it that way.
...is making your eBook so crappy no one wants to read it. That hasn't stopped people from pirating Fantastic 4, the Dukes of Hazzard or Scary Movie 4. Maybe....
...is making your eBook so crappy no one intelligent wants to read it. There. Fixed.* Throws computer out window * Hmm.... that reminds me of a certain video clip taken from a (not-so) famous sketch. I wonder...
"You hear that, Clippy? You're gonna pay!
He's a filesharer. He's a fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile sharer!!
AAAAAGH! *crashes on window*