I was the only one that wrote a review about it, too. I didn't like it very much. It was very... dry. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone else read it.
By the way, I enjoy the anarchy that dominates the internet currently. I don't think we need (or want) a governing body to tell us what we can or can't do on the internet. The community as a whole deals with criminals (spammers etc), and although not very effective, I would rather have spammers than people restricting my freedom (even if it is for my own good). I realise this is what happens in modern governments, but I believe things are good the way they are.
I don't think systems like Steam are viable in the long run. They'll be successful for a bit while they manage to force them on us, but in the long run they're just too restrictive. The market is (hopefully) going to reject them.
The real thing always looks more plain than the fake scifi images. That's why they can't get 3D models to look human, they make them too perfect. It's too bad that we're so used to the fake images that the real ones look fake in comparison.
Well, they'd have to get a decryption key (for the encrypted movie) if they want to make this player, and then Sony/whoever could just revoke that key and render all of them useless (like they did with that WinDVD version). If that's the way Blu-Ray works, anyway.
I don't know if that was sarcasm (I guess it was) and I'm not a proponent of ID, but I find it very odd that such a creature has evolved. The chances of that happening are infinitesimal. Who knows...
I wasn't referring to the chair throwing part, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the getting pissed over a great employee leaving your company for another. I wasn't trying to defend his actions.
It's odd when something like that comes up, because in the press conferences and public appearances they're all calm and concentrated, but seeing this reminds you they're just people like us...
Versus DIGITAL downloads (in the article). Why are mods so quick to mod people down? Hell, I don't mind seeing that comment, was it so bad that he HAD to be modded down? I know this isn't going to change anything, but people, only mod down when there's something you feel is very unacceptable, not one-liners that seem offtopic.
Seriously, when's the last time you saw a virus? The vast majority of problems I see these days are caused by spyware. It's much more likely to open something/be exploited/install spyware than it is to find a virus in a file. That's my experience, at least.
Yeah, I had that idea too. Read this. I was surprised that noone had thought of it. I recently read "Applied Cryptography" (an excellent book) and it had the exact same thing as an authentication protocol, and below it it said "It is foolish to encrypt arbitrary stringsnot only those sent by untrusted third parties, but under any circumstances at all". So much for my bright idea.
The solution he proposes is that "Alice makes some computation based on the random numbers (both the ones she generated and the one she received from the host) and her private key, and sends the result to the host. The host does some computation on the various numbers received from Alice and her public key to verify that she knows her private key".
There you have it, my brilliant idea foiled by chosen plaintext attacks.
I find it much more fun to play Zelda on ZSNES than any of the new games (HL2 and Icewind Dale were the only new games I finished, or even played for more than 5 minutes, for that matter). I spent countless hours of Super Mario on my gameboy, and that was way more entertaining than any game these days...
You're correct on these, but AppActivate and SendKeys are VBScript, not Python. Also, I don't think python can kill a process but I'll look into it, it's not unlikely. And the WM_CLICK messages should work, but I don't think Python can do it (then again, it might, I've seen a Win32 API section in the helpfile). Come to think of it, the best alternative would be to make Python launch a small program that would close the window.
I agree that Windows' scriptability is nowhere near Linux's, but I've found that if you combine Python, a few ported Linux command line tools and the windows task scheduler, you can do quite a few things. For example, I've written a script to check my DSL connection and reconnect if it's unresponsive. Now if only I could find a way to close that "server did not respond" window:(
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I was the only one that wrote a review about it, too. I didn't like it very much. It was very... dry. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone else read it.
But if the Web were to fail due to apocalypse or something, I think we'd have some cache-ing up to do.
:P
I don't care if the internet fails as long as someone has a copy of Wikipedia backed up somewhere
By the way, I enjoy the anarchy that dominates the internet currently. I don't think we need (or want) a governing body to tell us what we can or can't do on the internet. The community as a whole deals with criminals (spammers etc), and although not very effective, I would rather have spammers than people restricting my freedom (even if it is for my own good). I realise this is what happens in modern governments, but I believe things are good the way they are.
Because there was no moon landing! And the Mars rovers look pretty fake to me, too!
I don't think systems like Steam are viable in the long run. They'll be successful for a bit while they manage to force them on us, but in the long run they're just too restrictive. The market is (hopefully) going to reject them.
About Katrina, I found this link very interesting...
The real thing always looks more plain than the fake scifi images. That's why they can't get 3D models to look human, they make them too perfect. It's too bad that we're so used to the fake images that the real ones look fake in comparison.
Well, they'd have to get a decryption key (for the encrypted movie) if they want to make this player, and then Sony/whoever could just revoke that key and render all of them useless (like they did with that WinDVD version). If that's the way Blu-Ray works, anyway.
Can this be used in the space elevator? Tensile pressure and all?
I don't know if that was sarcasm (I guess it was) and I'm not a proponent of ID, but I find it very odd that such a creature has evolved. The chances of that happening are infinitesimal. Who knows...
I wasn't referring to the chair throwing part, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the getting pissed over a great employee leaving your company for another. I wasn't trying to defend his actions.
It's odd when something like that comes up, because in the press conferences and public appearances they're all calm and concentrated, but seeing this reminds you they're just people like us...
He didn't just send them to slaughterhouses. He also sent them /.! Fuddruckers.com redirects me to Google, and the Google cache isn't much help either.
my browser only supports analog downloads.
Versus DIGITAL downloads (in the article). Why are mods so quick to mod people down? Hell, I don't mind seeing that comment, was it so bad that he HAD to be modded down? I know this isn't going to change anything, but people, only mod down when there's something you feel is very unacceptable, not one-liners that seem offtopic.
Seriously, when's the last time you saw a virus? The vast majority of problems I see these days are caused by spyware. It's much more likely to open something/be exploited/install spyware than it is to find a virus in a file. That's my experience, at least.
Well we never saw THAT coming :p.
That, I didn't know. More power to Valve then (kidding)!
"OMG I can't believe they made streets, and now they accuse my son of jaywalking? OMGOMGOMG!"
Seriously, when someone commits a murder, don't blame the knife manufacturer. Even if it was a knife that said "MADE FOR MURDER" on the hilt.
Wasn't Vivendi the company that made Valve create the Steam authentication software? I, too, wouldn't buy stuff from them if HL2 wasn't so damn good :(
This is the first comment on /. that made me laugh out loud. I will forever remember this day and celebrate its anniversary.
Yeah, I had that idea too. Read this. I was surprised that noone had thought of it. I recently read "Applied Cryptography" (an excellent book) and it had the exact same thing as an authentication protocol, and below it it said "It is foolish to encrypt arbitrary stringsnot only those sent by untrusted third parties, but under any circumstances at all". So much for my bright idea.
The solution he proposes is that "Alice makes some computation based on the random numbers (both the ones she generated and the one she received from the host) and her private key, and sends the result to the host. The host does some computation on the various numbers received from Alice and her public key to verify that she knows her private key".
There you have it, my brilliant idea foiled by chosen plaintext attacks.
I find it much more fun to play Zelda on ZSNES than any of the new games (HL2 and Icewind Dale were the only new games I finished, or even played for more than 5 minutes, for that matter). I spent countless hours of Super Mario on my gameboy, and that was way more entertaining than any game these days...
You're correct on these, but AppActivate and SendKeys are VBScript, not Python. Also, I don't think python can kill a process but I'll look into it, it's not unlikely. And the WM_CLICK messages should work, but I don't think Python can do it (then again, it might, I've seen a Win32 API section in the helpfile). Come to think of it, the best alternative would be to make Python launch a small program that would close the window.
I agree that Windows' scriptability is nowhere near Linux's, but I've found that if you combine Python, a few ported Linux command line tools and the windows task scheduler, you can do quite a few things. For example, I've written a script to check my DSL connection and reconnect if it's unresponsive. Now if only I could find a way to close that "server did not respond" window :(
Ok, which one of you jackasses /.ed IZArc?!