Intent is something that needs to be considered. Using your analogy, but expanding it further in order to fit the scenario: Say someone broke into your house because they thought an alien ran in there. Break and enter? Yes. Malicious? No. Crazy? Probably.
Besides, this "l33t h@xx0r" got in through a blank admin password IIRC.
My default reaction to any unsolicited ANYTHING, is immediate distrust. If you get into the habit (Which i am sure you now have) of treating everything as a scam until proven otherwise, you are in the clear. I have recieved plenty of phishing letters but with a nice shield of cynicism, I have never had a problem.
Am quite interested by Microsoft's current developments. Perhaps with the rise of google, they will be forced to adopt a similar do no evil policy. Maybe they are seeing that it can actually be a good business model?
Hang on, I'm on slashot aren't I?
Yeah Microsoft are probably doing this to take control of our minds and Bill Gates is satan! Much better. =)
It is unfortunate that you made numerous spelling mistakes in your letter... The word spell-checker is not a substitute for human proof reading. I don't mean to pick on you, but it is very important that any correspondance written to anyone regarding this issue is of the highest quality. Remember, you are representing a lot of people here.
I am also seeing a lot of silly comments written by people in Slashdot today. The worst of these can be picked out and used as examples of gamers. Jack,"See, and this person said he would shoot me up the ass with a rail-gun. They can't tell the difference between games and reality."
I disagree, the scary thing about this guy is the detail he goes to in his "game". This sounds to me less like a game proposal and more like something that has been thinking through in his head, almost like a fantasy. Listen to the way he describes the scenarios, you can almost hear him getting more excited with each death of a gamer. That is what scares me.
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(Taken from a post by gsrdemon)
Windows crashes automatically if you don't switch off the machine for 49.7 days.This is accepted by Microsoft.
Do you know why?
In windows the Virtual Machine Manager(VMM) is responsible for creation, execution, monitoring and termination of virtual machines. This VMM is a 32 bit protected mode operating system, provides a number of system service at chip level of programming.
One of these services is "Get_System_Time". This particular service loads the EAX register with the time in milliseconds since Windows started.This service is accurate to 1ms.
EAX is a 32 bit register. So the maximum number of milliseconds it can hold is:
So after 49.7 days the EAX resets to zero.Most of the Drivers use this Time Service to keep track of the time out of various services they provide. So after 49.7 days the drives cannot use the Get_System_Time funtion of VMM and they crash.
They will never be shipped with full security enabled.
This will make it harder for everyday users to get working straight out of the box, so users will therefore by less secure brands because they work 'better'.
Also, the less security there is, the less support calls. So unfortunatly, it makes good financial sense to ship these units with security disabled.
I despise your viewpoint.
Are you attempting to say that although his donations have helped millions of people, it doesn't matter because it didn't hurt him enough.
I am not a big fan of Microsoft, but your comment is pathetic.
There is also the horrific abuse to the peaceful practitioners of falun gong. The Chinese government are evil creatures. For more info:
http://www.faluninfo.net/
I would personally suggest you do not break any of their laws, whether just or unjest. You must remember that you will not be afforded the same rights as here if caught. It is not worth it.
You are 100% wrong in your thinking.
Most incidents where people are in hospital for drug use is due to added impurities in the drugs.
By making a drug illegal, the value of the substance skyrockets. This will cause greedy people to cut it with cheaper substances to increase profit. (Including poisons)
Taking clean drugs in moderation will not send you to the emergency room, that is government FUD.
I believe that drugs of dependence should not be taken, but the laws should be relaxed on less harmful substances.
I like the way you call people who took ephedrine idiots. Whast do you take when you have a cold? Perhaps pseudoephedrine? Oh thats much better than ephedrine because the government tells us its alright.
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You got my first laugh of the morning. =)
Intent is something that needs to be considered.
Using your analogy, but expanding it further in order to fit the scenario:
Say someone broke into your house because they thought an alien ran in there.
Break and enter? Yes.
Malicious? No.
Crazy? Probably.
Besides, this "l33t h@xx0r" got in through a blank admin password IIRC.
It all seems a little excessive.
My default reaction to any unsolicited ANYTHING, is immediate distrust.
If you get into the habit (Which i am sure you now have) of treating everything as a scam until proven otherwise, you are in the clear.
I have recieved plenty of phishing letters but with a nice shield of cynicism, I have never had a problem.
Where can I find the crack that the mods smoke??
Grandparent got called a troll, then parent recieved a funny?
Is there some subtle joke in there that I missed?
This wasn't a mucking around little audit either.
There was a three million dollar price tag for the study, shit I can make numbers up for that kind of bank!
Did anyone else find it amusing that Taco has been getting these stories for months and has been censoring them? =) The ironing is delicious.
I tried to mod you insightful but you were already at maximum moderations.
Am quite interested by Microsoft's current developments.
Perhaps with the rise of google, they will be forced to adopt a similar do no evil policy.
Maybe they are seeing that it can actually be a good business model?
Hang on, I'm on slashot aren't I?
Yeah Microsoft are probably doing this to take control of our minds and Bill Gates is satan!
Much better. =)
Anyone else find it amusing that this was moderated troll. ROFL.
It is unfortunate that you made numerous spelling mistakes in your letter...
The word spell-checker is not a substitute for human proof reading.
I don't mean to pick on you, but it is very important that any correspondance written to anyone regarding this issue is of the highest quality.
Remember, you are representing a lot of people here.
I am also seeing a lot of silly comments written by people in Slashdot today. The worst of these can be picked out and used as examples of gamers.
Jack,"See, and this person said he would shoot me up the ass with a rail-gun. They can't tell the difference between games and reality."
I disagree, the scary thing about this guy is the detail he goes to in his "game".
This sounds to me less like a game proposal and more like something that has been thinking through in his head, almost like a fantasy.
Listen to the way he describes the scenarios, you can almost hear him getting more excited with each death of a gamer.
That is what scares me.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson/
(Taken from a post by gsrdemon)
Windows crashes automatically if you don't switch off the machine for
49.7 days.This is accepted by Microsoft.
Do you know why?
In windows the Virtual Machine Manager(VMM) is responsible for
creation, execution, monitoring and termination of virtual machines. This VMM is a
32 bit protected mode operating system, provides a number of system
service at chip level of programming.
One of these services is "Get_System_Time". This particular service
loads the EAX register with the time in milliseconds since Windows
started.This service is accurate to 1ms.
EAX is a 32 bit register. So the maximum number of milliseconds it can
hold is:
(2^32) - 1 = 4294967295 milliseconds
= 4294967.295 seconds
= 71582.79 minutes
= 1193 hours
= 49.7 days
So after 49.7 days the EAX resets to zero.Most of the Drivers use this
Time Service to keep track of the time out of various services they
provide. So after 49.7 days the drives cannot use the Get_System_Time
funtion of VMM and they crash.
Does anyone remember this game? I believe it was banned (at least here in Australia) Man, I want to play that again.
Finding dinosaurs would be more impressive... So would finding Jesus. Or a 747. If any of these things were on Mars I would be impressed. =)
They will never be shipped with full security enabled. This will make it harder for everyday users to get working straight out of the box, so users will therefore by less secure brands because they work 'better'. Also, the less security there is, the less support calls. So unfortunatly, it makes good financial sense to ship these units with security disabled.
While you could google 'tyrany', I would suggest 'tyranny'. ;)
I despise your viewpoint. Are you attempting to say that although his donations have helped millions of people, it doesn't matter because it didn't hurt him enough. I am not a big fan of Microsoft, but your comment is pathetic.
There is also the horrific abuse to the peaceful practitioners of falun gong.
The Chinese government are evil creatures.
For more info:
http://www.faluninfo.net/
I would personally suggest you do not break any of their laws, whether just or unjest. You must remember that you will not be afforded the same rights as here if caught. It is not worth it.
Jesus has quit his job as the son of god, and is now working for google as well.
You are 100% wrong in your thinking. Most incidents where people are in hospital for drug use is due to added impurities in the drugs. By making a drug illegal, the value of the substance skyrockets. This will cause greedy people to cut it with cheaper substances to increase profit. (Including poisons) Taking clean drugs in moderation will not send you to the emergency room, that is government FUD. I believe that drugs of dependence should not be taken, but the laws should be relaxed on less harmful substances. I like the way you call people who took ephedrine idiots. Whast do you take when you have a cold? Perhaps pseudoephedrine? Oh thats much better than ephedrine because the government tells us its alright.
...is get the other two Mac users to sign it. =)