Perhaps when they're *playing* the sport they realize this, but I've been to hockey games, football game, and even Cage Fights (fully sanctioned, and legal, just like boxing). The kids in the stands don't know that a hard tackle could give someone a concussion, they just know it looked cool. In hockey, you've got kids screaming along with their parents when a fight gets underway because it's exciting. People get severely injured in those situations, but hey, its exciting, so we cheer for it. The cage fight, must I explain (I'm on a cage fighting team, I know how you can get messed up)? Ok, I will, same situations, people go out to watch a good fight, they don't care that it takes a few days for the bruises to heal up, god forbid you get an arm or leg broken (legal way to win a match). I don't think there's any more 'socializing' or 'feedback' at these sporting events then you'd get from a virtual environment. But I totally agree with you on the 'we don't need this' aspect. Having made the decision myself to fight, I know the consequences, its my body. I don't like the thought of some poor kid trying this out in his backyard with a friend and one getting severly injured. Just my two cents
Your right, I'm sure a suicide bomber fears death... oh wait... he was going to kill himself anyways. Tell me, when a bomb's wired to explode wether he pushes the button or dies, and someone already talked the guy into walking into a crowd of civilins and killing them and himself, how is 5 people with guns going to stop him?
On its own, not very incriminating (i.e. they couldn't find you, you're right.) But lets say They're able to say document X and Y came from the same printer, X is a forged document, money, or whatever, and Y is a letter you printed and sent to your mother. Then, say they decide to get a supeona for all your computer equipment. Oh, look, yes, that's the printer that's registered to that dot pattern. Yes, it seems like a lot, but comparing text from printers has been used in cases before, its not a new thing. This would just go from finding out which 'p's look the same to looking at tiny dots.
Wow, both this and the parent are excellent. I'm a student in college who frequently fixes computers for my friends, and I try to explain to them why I use Linux instead of Windows. I'll keep these in mind, because most of the time a really simple answer is what convinces them they should try Open-Source. Thanks
Hey, I got it to run on a 385... the fricking mouse lagged... but it ran. Ok, ok, it walked... FINE, it crawled like it was shot in the leg, are you happy? Point is, it was *possible*. Though, personally, I would not have called that running. Anyone wanna bet how much RAM you're gonna need for all the features?
Absolutely! Achaea.com, which has three spinoffs that are the same world (all most) with different numbers of people, has about 400 people on at any given time. I think they're causing more problems then solving (the admins) but that's just me. If you're interested in player-testing one and trying to be part of the solution yourself, check out simud.org. Its still in late-alpha/early-beta (I'm helping code it) but we need player-testers!
But I must say that Scotty greatly influenced me into programming (along with Spock and LaForge and... well, they all did seeing as it was the future). Anyways, its a shame to see him go. Just thought I'd leave my regards with the rest of you.
but I don't think they really got to the real news here. The article doesn't mention how users can protect themselves at all. And it only focuses on the one case, when I think there could have been bigger name cases that would display the same message better. Is this article going to make the average user care at all, not in my opinion. The underlying theme I got from the article is that hackers are these crafty people who are sneaking onto your system, not something you can stop *coughfirewallscough*. Ok, maybe not ever totally stop, but slow down. My windows machine (only for games, I swear) has been clean (cept for Windows) for a month now, behind a hardware firewall (linux Fedora core 3) and a software (Zone Alarm). Just my two cents.
I'm going to make two "songs' one consisting of a 1 bit, and the other of a 0. Since all digital music reproduces these thousand, millions, or billions of times, I can sue the RIAA and MPAA for all they have.
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Gee, that's great and all... but now, translate it into Arabic. And now dumb it down so some arverage person can complete it. I doubt anyone who can read the post has problems getting around censorship.
So you think the government should decide what OS everyone should use? I'm not positive, but I believe one of the Window's line, I think 2000, is the only OS to have passed such a test. Would you be happy if everyone in the U.S. ran Windows 2000? And just how quickly do you think someone would be able to come up with an OS that passed? And how would you enfore that? Not like you can't spoof a "good" OS. I think it'd be a lot better if everyone chose an OS for themselves, that they could use (yes, I realize not everyone can do that) and secure.
I'm not sure about your definition of expandable... All the Dell's I've been in, fixing for my friends, fixing for my work, etc, are NOT expandable. They come with the least bays I've EVER seen. The cases allow for one (1) extra internal device, one (1) extra stick of RAM, and one (1) extra PCI slot. Now, this might not be true for the XPS, but that is a huge waste of money. For half the price of my Dell, I bought parts off of Newegg and got a PC that out performs it considerably. for $500 I don't know ANY Dell I'd buy, and I priced them all under $1000 for work. I find it funny that you called him a label whore, while mentioning Dell here, why not just say a PC? I realize I said Newegg, but I will wholeheartedly reccommend them to anyone who's buying computer parts, because it's the best price, and best quality.
After I do a sweep of my system using McAffe, Zone Alarm, and Ad-aware, mine's pretty sqeeky clean. At least enough to know the 121 infections it reported had to be false.
I "couldn't afford college", so I worked my butt off for the grades, applied for every scholarship appicable to me (no lie, every single one I could find), and am now at an excellent school, out of state! It's all a matter of prospective, if you know you can't go to college, and give up, you never will. But if you realize there's TONS of money out there, all you have to do is find it, any institution is open.
I had to buy a computer for my Student Government at school (Indiana University) and they gave me absolute crap. It was cheapest to buy through the home account like you said, and our "premier" contract was the worst!! That and the fact that, like mentioned before, there's no consistancy in what they ship, two friends of mine ordered the same system, and they came differently, means I will never buy from Dell again.
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Perhaps when they're *playing* the sport they realize this, but I've been to hockey games, football game, and even Cage Fights (fully sanctioned, and legal, just like boxing). The kids in the stands don't know that a hard tackle could give someone a concussion, they just know it looked cool. In hockey, you've got kids screaming along with their parents when a fight gets underway because it's exciting. People get severely injured in those situations, but hey, its exciting, so we cheer for it. The cage fight, must I explain (I'm on a cage fighting team, I know how you can get messed up)? Ok, I will, same situations, people go out to watch a good fight, they don't care that it takes a few days for the bruises to heal up, god forbid you get an arm or leg broken (legal way to win a match). I don't think there's any more 'socializing' or 'feedback' at these sporting events then you'd get from a virtual environment. But I totally agree with you on the 'we don't need this' aspect. Having made the decision myself to fight, I know the consequences, its my body. I don't like the thought of some poor kid trying this out in his backyard with a friend and one getting severly injured. Just my two cents
Your right, I'm sure a suicide bomber fears death... oh wait... he was going to kill himself anyways. Tell me, when a bomb's wired to explode wether he pushes the button or dies, and someone already talked the guy into walking into a crowd of civilins and killing them and himself, how is 5 people with guns going to stop him?
Hmm... release a new version to fix the problems of the old... and Vista comes out when?
On its own, not very incriminating (i.e. they couldn't find you, you're right.) But lets say They're able to say document X and Y came from the same printer, X is a forged document, money, or whatever, and Y is a letter you printed and sent to your mother. Then, say they decide to get a supeona for all your computer equipment. Oh, look, yes, that's the printer that's registered to that dot pattern. Yes, it seems like a lot, but comparing text from printers has been used in cases before, its not a new thing. This would just go from finding out which 'p's look the same to looking at tiny dots.
Wow, both this and the parent are excellent. I'm a student in college who frequently fixes computers for my friends, and I try to explain to them why I use Linux instead of Windows. I'll keep these in mind, because most of the time a really simple answer is what convinces them they should try Open-Source. Thanks
Hey, I got it to run on a 385... the fricking mouse lagged... but it ran. Ok, ok, it walked... FINE, it crawled like it was shot in the leg, are you happy? Point is, it was *possible*. Though, personally, I would not have called that running. Anyone wanna bet how much RAM you're gonna need for all the features?
Absolutely! Achaea.com, which has three spinoffs that are the same world (all most) with different numbers of people, has about 400 people on at any given time. I think they're causing more problems then solving (the admins) but that's just me. If you're interested in player-testing one and trying to be part of the solution yourself, check out simud.org. Its still in late-alpha/early-beta (I'm helping code it) but we need player-testers!
But I must say that Scotty greatly influenced me into programming (along with Spock and LaForge and... well, they all did seeing as it was the future). Anyways, its a shame to see him go. Just thought I'd leave my regards with the rest of you.
but I don't think they really got to the real news here. The article doesn't mention how users can protect themselves at all. And it only focuses on the one case, when I think there could have been bigger name cases that would display the same message better. Is this article going to make the average user care at all, not in my opinion. The underlying theme I got from the article is that hackers are these crafty people who are sneaking onto your system, not something you can stop *coughfirewallscough*. Ok, maybe not ever totally stop, but slow down. My windows machine (only for games, I swear) has been clean (cept for Windows) for a month now, behind a hardware firewall (linux Fedora core 3) and a software (Zone Alarm). Just my two cents.
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I'm going to make two "songs' one consisting of a 1 bit, and the other of a 0. Since all digital music reproduces these thousand, millions, or billions of times, I can sue the RIAA and MPAA for all they have.
It's not "socially challenged", its "lonely and bored on a friday night
I was just wondering that myself
Gee, that's great and all... but now, translate it into Arabic. And now dumb it down so some arverage person can complete it. I doubt anyone who can read the post has problems getting around censorship.
or just wait for someone else to do the work and post it, heh
So you think the government should decide what OS everyone should use? I'm not positive, but I believe one of the Window's line, I think 2000, is the only OS to have passed such a test. Would you be happy if everyone in the U.S. ran Windows 2000? And just how quickly do you think someone would be able to come up with an OS that passed? And how would you enfore that? Not like you can't spoof a "good" OS. I think it'd be a lot better if everyone chose an OS for themselves, that they could use (yes, I realize not everyone can do that) and secure.
... wanna buy a byte? Brand new....
AMEN to that! I prefer to have real physical control over a lot of things in life.
Can't wait 'til I can hack a building through the imported smart japanese toilets... All your base are belon-- whoops, gotta wipe...
I'm not sure about your definition of expandable... All the Dell's I've been in, fixing for my friends, fixing for my work, etc, are NOT expandable. They come with the least bays I've EVER seen. The cases allow for one (1) extra internal device, one (1) extra stick of RAM, and one (1) extra PCI slot. Now, this might not be true for the XPS, but that is a huge waste of money. For half the price of my Dell, I bought parts off of Newegg and got a PC that out performs it considerably. for $500 I don't know ANY Dell I'd buy, and I priced them all under $1000 for work. I find it funny that you called him a label whore, while mentioning Dell here, why not just say a PC? I realize I said Newegg, but I will wholeheartedly reccommend them to anyone who's buying computer parts, because it's the best price, and best quality.
hey, I never claimed to have a social life. Nothing's more romantic than the light's of a server on a cold night.
After I do a sweep of my system using McAffe, Zone Alarm, and Ad-aware, mine's pretty sqeeky clean. At least enough to know the 121 infections it reported had to be false.
one might hope
I "couldn't afford college", so I worked my butt off for the grades, applied for every scholarship appicable to me (no lie, every single one I could find), and am now at an excellent school, out of state! It's all a matter of prospective, if you know you can't go to college, and give up, you never will. But if you realize there's TONS of money out there, all you have to do is find it, any institution is open.
Yea, I've seen that book, been meaning to buy it.
I had to buy a computer for my Student Government at school (Indiana University) and they gave me absolute crap. It was cheapest to buy through the home account like you said, and our "premier" contract was the worst!! That and the fact that, like mentioned before, there's no consistancy in what they ship, two friends of mine ordered the same system, and they came differently, means I will never buy from Dell again.