From TFA:
Ads by Google
DVD Duplication
Same Day Turnaround. Low Prices. No Setup Fees.
ScreamDVD.com
DVD Copy Software - 2005
Copy any DVD even copyrighted DVD movies. Side by side comparisions.
Best-DVD-Burning-Software-Reviews
DVD Copy Tools
Copy CSS DVD movies to DVD+R(W) 14-Day free trial - $99.95
www.DVD-Copy.us
DVD 'X' Copy Platinum
Guaranteed Activation Order Now Free Shipping $98.76
www.copydvd.com
Free Software Downloads
Unlimited Free Downloads of Top Software Programs Full Versions
www.freesoftwareoutlet.com
a d v e r t i s e m e n t
And for Macrovision and other anti-piracy companies, the potential market is huge. With hundreds of billions of DVDs pressed every year, even a small licensing fee from the major studios would generate a significant boost to the company, which reported $128 million in sales last year.
Hmm, a generous earth population of 7 billion: Figure 150,000 American's economically able to buy a dvd (own a dvd player), as well as the right age range (13+). Maybe multiply that number by 20 to get the total world population that is the target audience of the MPAA: We are at 3 million buyers. Each buyer buys 5 DVDs a year: 15 million.
Maybe they accidently included the AOL CDs.
Now, AOL sends out cds to each eligible buyer twice yearly for 10 years: add 3mil*2*10, 75 mil. Hardly hundreds of billions.
Article text, in case of slashdotting:
Sorry, that file was not found
The file your browser requested could not be found on our servers. We may have recently moved around, renamed, or deleted certain files.
* If you were looking for a particular article or topic, try using our search form in the header above.
* If you clicked a link somewhere on our site and were led to this page, please let us know so we can fix our mistake as soon as possible.
* Otherwise, try returning back to Wired News Home and browsing from there.
Referer Link Error
On every single HTML page of GameFAQs is the following request:
Feel free to link to this page, but not directly to the FAQs..
You're seeing this error message because it appears that you're linking from an external site directly to one of the text files stored at GameFAQs. GameFAQs is not a free public file server. Bandwidth costs money, and when sites link directly to files stored on the site, it becomes both a financial and resource drain. We've tried asking, but some sites simply don't care, so now we've implemented a technical solution.
Your browser is reporting that you linked to a GameFAQs-hosted FAQ from http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/14/03 58202&tid=95&tid=17.
There are four possible reasons you are seeing this message:
1. You came from a direct link to a FAQ on GameFAQs from another site, and your link was properly blocked. See the paragraph above for why.
2. Your web browser is passing improper URL data in the Referrer header. Your web browser may be over-compensating for a mistake you made in the address bar, and passing this information unintentionally. To fix this, just click the "Home" link on the left and surf normally.
3. Your web browser is passing forged URL data in the Referrer header. Some browsers can be configured to hide referrer information, but instead of passing a blank header, it passes a forged one. To fix this, change your browser's security settings. If you are using Opera and having problems, try viewing this page for some pointers.
4. You are behind a firewall or proxy server, and it is passing forged URL data in the Referrer header. If you are using one of these services, you or your network administrator may need to change the configuration.
The builtin modules (c modules created by the interpreter) are enough to fsck up a computer (pun intended). This is hackable, of course (I heard a rumor that Zope has its own custom sandboxed python interpreter, but for some reason you can't use it without the rest of zope?), but beyond the scope of most projects (if security is a concern, I've heard that lua and javascript sandbox quite easily).
A hackish way to implement security in python is to check every untrusted line with a custom parser, not allowing anything to execute certain builtins, but this is very undesirable - how much of a pain would it be to disallow file opening only for files outside of the root folder?
Enough rambling. It would be interesting to see how Freedom Force et. al. handled untrusted python code... maybe they HAD to roll their own interpreter.
It looks like MSN's mapping system doesn't assign a time or distance cost for ferry trips, so the path finding algorithm thinks they are instant jumps. Microsoft really needs to fix such edges between vertices in their mapping database as being MAXINT or something instead of zero....
The combination of peanut butter and jelly has been, and continues to be, a favorite and desirable food product for people of all ages. In fact, one could say that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have been a staple lunchbox food for years.
But keep in mind that the subject is "Child-Porn"... not Teen sex or statitory rape.
"Under federal law, child pornography is defined as visual depiction of minors (i.e. under 18) engaged in a sex act such as intercourse, oral sex, or masturbation as well as the lascivious depictions of the genitals."
Thats why I didnt end up applying to RPI. Whats the ratio, 7:1? 8:1? Something ridiculous.
Re:The better have one HELL of an excuse!
on
Steam Users Steamed
·
· Score: 1
what happens if you don't actually accept the EULA and install a Steam-free version? Is that illegal?
Yes. You're probably in violation of the DMCA or some other crap law that says you can't crack the game.
Assuming that a clickwrap license is binding, knowingly circumventing the technical "click-thru" part certainly will not hold up in court.
Windows XP keys are not stored in the registry. In fact, they are not stored at all on the computer. Validation has something to do with a hash made from your key and your hardware configuration (editing this hash to make windows revalidate is how you change your cdkey- check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874 for said process)
LOL! Your definition of "just as well" is apparently 20 minute level loads, with a solid 5 fps (my GF4Ti4200 / 1.6Ghz / 512 DDR ram runs it at a playable 25 fps on windows). Read this review of halflife 2 under cedega. I'll post a quick excerpt that summarizes it for you:
The graphic looked pretty raw and 'edgy', gameplay wasn't smooth, the sound skipped every now and then. I opened the options again and reduced averything to 'low' or 'medium' were available. After applying the changes (which worked this time), it felt a little smoother but reducing graphic options didn't really help the raw look.
After playing a while, I experienced a sudden drop in fps, I activated the fps-display to check and indeed, I've been to 10-20 frames the moment any NPC or another moving object came to view. I restarted HL and I'm able to reproduce this behaviour every time: Runs ok in the beginning, even if the framerate is far from beeing stable, at 30-70fps and after a while the framerate drops to the above mentioned 10-20 fps.
"The latest games are being added to cedega support"
Cedega is not the solution, stop hailing it as one.
"The latest games are...being ported to Linux."
By "latest games" you must mean (some) Unreal Engine 2 derivatives and Doom3? Certainly you realize that these two companies are among the few exceptions to the rule?
Slashdot Mirror
ugh, I was working with thousands and dropped three orders of magnitude :( 150 million was my very generous should-be input :(
From TFA: Ads by Google DVD Duplication Same Day Turnaround. Low Prices. No Setup Fees. ScreamDVD.com DVD Copy Software - 2005 Copy any DVD even copyrighted DVD movies. Side by side comparisions. Best-DVD-Burning-Software-Reviews DVD Copy Tools Copy CSS DVD movies to DVD+R(W) 14-Day free trial - $99.95 www.DVD-Copy.us DVD 'X' Copy Platinum Guaranteed Activation Order Now Free Shipping $98.76 www.copydvd.com Free Software Downloads Unlimited Free Downloads of Top Software Programs Full Versions www.freesoftwareoutlet.com a d v e r t i s e m e n t
Article text, in case of slashdotting:
Sorry, that file was not found
The file your browser requested could not be found on our servers. We may have recently moved around, renamed, or deleted certain files.
* If you were looking for a particular article or topic, try using our search form in the header above.
* If you clicked a link somewhere on our site and were led to this page, please let us know so we can fix our mistake as soon as possible.
* Otherwise, try returning back to Wired News Home and browsing from there.
Referer Link Error On every single HTML page of GameFAQs is the following request: Feel free to link to this page, but not directly to the FAQs.. You're seeing this error message because it appears that you're linking from an external site directly to one of the text files stored at GameFAQs. GameFAQs is not a free public file server. Bandwidth costs money, and when sites link directly to files stored on the site, it becomes both a financial and resource drain. We've tried asking, but some sites simply don't care, so now we've implemented a technical solution. Your browser is reporting that you linked to a GameFAQs-hosted FAQ from http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/14/03 58202&tid=95&tid=17.
There are four possible reasons you are seeing this message:
1. You came from a direct link to a FAQ on GameFAQs from another site, and your link was properly blocked. See the paragraph above for why.
2. Your web browser is passing improper URL data in the Referrer header. Your web browser may be over-compensating for a mistake you made in the address bar, and passing this information unintentionally. To fix this, just click the "Home" link on the left and surf normally.
3. Your web browser is passing forged URL data in the Referrer header. Some browsers can be configured to hide referrer information, but instead of passing a blank header, it passes a forged one. To fix this, change your browser's security settings. If you are using Opera and having problems, try viewing this page for some pointers.
4. You are behind a firewall or proxy server, and it is passing forged URL data in the Referrer header. If you are using one of these services, you or your network administrator may need to change the configuration.
Its a travel site. Orbit the gum is at wrigley.com.
Why don't you link us to tfa so we can decide for ourselves if Nelson acted inappropriately? Oh, sorry, I forgot that you were a troll.
no: 512 + 256 + 256 = 512 512 + 255 + 255 != 512
The builtin modules (c modules created by the interpreter) are enough to fsck up a computer (pun intended). This is hackable, of course (I heard a rumor that Zope has its own custom sandboxed python interpreter, but for some reason you can't use it without the rest of zope?), but beyond the scope of most projects (if security is a concern, I've heard that lua and javascript sandbox quite easily).
A hackish way to implement security in python is to check every untrusted line with a custom parser, not allowing anything to execute certain builtins, but this is very undesirable - how much of a pain would it be to disallow file opening only for files outside of the root folder?
Enough rambling. It would be interesting to see how Freedom Force et. al. handled untrusted python code... maybe they HAD to roll their own interpreter.
Thats why I didnt end up applying to RPI. Whats the ratio, 7:1? 8:1? Something ridiculous.
Thats only two external harddrives worth of pr0n! Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.
Windows XP keys are not stored in the registry. In fact, they are not stored at all on the computer. Validation has something to do with a hash made from your key and your hardware configuration (editing this hash to make windows revalidate is how you change your cdkey- check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874 for said process)
You need the right hand for the mouse
Are you THAT scared of grammar trolls?
The thirty-year-old would wear a condom. The fourteen-year-old wouldn't.