You have a good point, haha. The Tribes community (yep, still exists, I'm still a part of it because I don't know when to give things up) pretty much are T:V deniers. IT NEVER HAPPENED!
I suppose it's a good thing that I run a WSUS server for my Windows based computers and specifically picked upstream products that I want - Bing Search Enhancement Pack not being one of them. This 'update' never showed up for me anywhere - not even the WSUS server.:)
I'm a semi-professional photographer and could theoretically roll 250GB in a month, and as all of that gets shipped offsite to Amazon S3 nightly in incremental backups I could hit the limit. Generally I don't come close, but in a very busy month I could see it happening. The closest I've come was about 120GB in one month - I do wipe out rejected shots locally to save storage, but that's generally a few days after loading them in and due to that they're stored on S3 and remain backed up indefinitely in case I need one back.
Yup. I was (emphasis on was) a customer of Turbine's up until about 8 months ago or so. I've already filed a complaint with the Massechusetts Attorney General as Turbine operates out of Mass. and have directly contacted Turbine as well explaining this issue.
I'd suggest anyone else who was a customer of theirs do the same to get the message heard loud and clear. At this point, despite not having logged in for 8 months, who knows what this company will do with my information and that of other prior customers a year from now?
The post says straight up that simply viewing the target Offer Wall sends your info out.
Did these idiot devs not even consider that Firefox does URL prefetching and they are, due to the prefetching of their sell-my-information-to-the-devil-wall page, selling information of people who didn't even view the wall but simply viewed a page that links to their offer wall?
I'd guess so. That game is so massively parallel that nothing would surprise me. If the input thread came to a halt, since it's not one big loop, the game should just carry on in the background not knowing what happened. I'd be willing to bet that the graphics could freeze and you could still play the game if you somehow knew exactly where all of your things were. That input glitch probably was fixed with a patch later on. It's been a while since I played it... I need to reinstall that game.
Modern games generally use the same cycle of input, update, render, repeat. The difference is instead of ticks being based on that loop's iteration the ticks are are based on system time. The end result is that a higher frame rate gives you less input lag and a more accurate simulation.
Some games, such as Supreme Commander, take multithreading to the extreme and will throw the AI and physics on one core then do the input and rendering on the other. In the case of a quad core it takes full advantage and has a core for general purpose, one for AI, one for physics, and one for GPU calls. This is an exception, not a rule, but in the future we'll be seeing more of it.
I'm one of the network admins. We don't officially support Linux, but plenty of the techs in our department have good understanding of it and if you get the right person they'll be more than happy to help, provided you need that.
We do absolutely nothing to stop you from running whatever you want on our network, so long as you're not doing anything illegal. Our servers are pretty much a 50/50 mix of Linux/Windows and I can state for a fact that everything on the network works perfectly in Linux as I use Linux on my desktop at work.
Heck, we even unofficially support game consoles on the network.:)
I've done it in IE8. With Google as the search provider, it goes to Google. With Bing as the provider, it goes to Bing. With Yahoo as the provider, it goes to Yahoo... Hell, with eBay as the selected provider, it searches eBay. You get the picture.
Ah, yeah, that does make things easier on the user... I'm surprised though that they don't just do it based on the DOCSIS MAC, that way if you ever change the device plugged into the cable modem you don't have to opt out again. I guess that'd make too much sense for Comcast.:)
More likely the next time you get a new lease they assign you to different DNS servers which do not do this. Their DNS servers are not on the same subnet as the clients, so any form of MAC filtering at the DNS server level wouldn't work.
The cable modem's MAC address is actually a NIC, as expected, which runs a separate control stack on an internal to the ISP (10.x.x.x) range and has nothing at all to do with your actual network connectivity, so even if the DNS server was on the same network segment as you it wouldn't matter; the server be able to see your cable modem's MAC address, only your machine's address at best.
Cable ISPs run some extremely non-standard DHCP setups in which the cable modem's MAC address is used as the basis for giving out a lease to a different machine. How the internals of that work I'm not entirely sure, but I'd assume the modem hijacks DHCP requests out and either sends them over its control link or tags them with the modem's MAC.
I'm sure someone with more knowledge of how this works can elaborate further.
Boingo is a company that was founded by the founder of Earthlink, Sky Dayton, back in 2001. His idea was to create a nationwide (and later global) network of hotspots, much like Wayport provides. It never took off. The USPTO is slow. Big deal, this isn't a patent troll company. It's a legitimate business that provides a very large network of hotspots. But of course this is Slashdot where nobody actually reads the article or researches what is being talked about and just jumps to conclusions.
Hell, he rented a house from my family out in California when he was starting this company and we got free Internet access from him in exchange for beta testing his service. Wayport has been around longer than Boingo, but didn't get into the wireless hotspot business until 2004. I really don't know what to make of this patent though.
I can do just about anything while looking through the viewfinder of my EOS-1D mkII. Once you know your way around the thing it's a breeze to work with. Then again, that's an entirely different league of cameras and I shoot professional sports, but I can maneuver around a consumer SLR about equally as fast as I can around my 1DII.
I know someone who constantly refers to VMWare Player as VTech. I installed it for him for a legacy DOS application he uses that wasn't working properly in XP.
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You have a good point, haha. The Tribes community (yep, still exists, I'm still a part of it because I don't know when to give things up) pretty much are T:V deniers. IT NEVER HAPPENED!
If Tribes 2 is the most botched game sequel ever, then what the hell is Tribes: Vengeance?
I wasn't aware anyone had a reddish-pink colored mentality. Brain maybe, but mentality?
I suppose it's a good thing that I run a WSUS server for my Windows based computers and specifically picked upstream products that I want - Bing Search Enhancement Pack not being one of them. This 'update' never showed up for me anywhere - not even the WSUS server. :)
My initial backup was 291GB in one month after about 3 years of using local backups, so yeah, I have done it.
I'm a semi-professional photographer and could theoretically roll 250GB in a month, and as all of that gets shipped offsite to Amazon S3 nightly in incremental backups I could hit the limit. Generally I don't come close, but in a very busy month I could see it happening. The closest I've come was about 120GB in one month - I do wipe out rejected shots locally to save storage, but that's generally a few days after loading them in and due to that they're stored on S3 and remain backed up indefinitely in case I need one back.
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Damn, hadn't heard that one until now. Nice.
Doesn't affect me; I use Chrome, which by all means may be more evil than Firefox, but hey, at least it doesn't prefetch stuff aside from DNS records.
Either way, your point still stands.
Yup. I was (emphasis on was) a customer of Turbine's up until about 8 months ago or so. I've already filed a complaint with the Massechusetts Attorney General as Turbine operates out of Mass. and have directly contacted Turbine as well explaining this issue.
I'd suggest anyone else who was a customer of theirs do the same to get the message heard loud and clear. At this point, despite not having logged in for 8 months, who knows what this company will do with my information and that of other prior customers a year from now?
The post says straight up that simply viewing the target Offer Wall sends your info out.
Did these idiot devs not even consider that Firefox does URL prefetching and they are, due to the prefetching of their sell-my-information-to-the-devil-wall page, selling information of people who didn't even view the wall but simply viewed a page that links to their offer wall?
This is shady at best and criminal at worst.
Leave it to an AC. It's spelled "giga," it's pronounced "jigga."
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I'd guess so. That game is so massively parallel that nothing would surprise me. If the input thread came to a halt, since it's not one big loop, the game should just carry on in the background not knowing what happened. I'd be willing to bet that the graphics could freeze and you could still play the game if you somehow knew exactly where all of your things were. That input glitch probably was fixed with a patch later on. It's been a while since I played it... I need to reinstall that game.
Modern games generally use the same cycle of input, update, render, repeat. The difference is instead of ticks being based on that loop's iteration the ticks are are based on system time. The end result is that a higher frame rate gives you less input lag and a more accurate simulation.
Some games, such as Supreme Commander, take multithreading to the extreme and will throw the AI and physics on one core then do the input and rendering on the other. In the case of a quad core it takes full advantage and has a core for general purpose, one for AI, one for physics, and one for GPU calls. This is an exception, not a rule, but in the future we'll be seeing more of it.
$30 "unlimited" data, $10 unlimited messaging. Standard T-Mobile rates.
I'm one of the network admins. We don't officially support Linux, but plenty of the techs in our department have good understanding of it and if you get the right person they'll be more than happy to help, provided you need that.
We do absolutely nothing to stop you from running whatever you want on our network, so long as you're not doing anything illegal. Our servers are pretty much a 50/50 mix of Linux/Windows and I can state for a fact that everything on the network works perfectly in Linux as I use Linux on my desktop at work.
Heck, we even unofficially support game consoles on the network. :)
This made me think of Wario Ware: Smooth Moves explaining the various forms.
I've done it in IE8. With Google as the search provider, it goes to Google. With Bing as the provider, it goes to Bing. With Yahoo as the provider, it goes to Yahoo... Hell, with eBay as the selected provider, it searches eBay. You get the picture.
Ah, yeah, that does make things easier on the user... I'm surprised though that they don't just do it based on the DOCSIS MAC, that way if you ever change the device plugged into the cable modem you don't have to opt out again. I guess that'd make too much sense for Comcast. :)
Exactly... This would be pretty awesome for games.
More likely the next time you get a new lease they assign you to different DNS servers which do not do this. Their DNS servers are not on the same subnet as the clients, so any form of MAC filtering at the DNS server level wouldn't work.
The cable modem's MAC address is actually a NIC, as expected, which runs a separate control stack on an internal to the ISP (10.x.x.x) range and has nothing at all to do with your actual network connectivity, so even if the DNS server was on the same network segment as you it wouldn't matter; the server be able to see your cable modem's MAC address, only your machine's address at best.
Cable ISPs run some extremely non-standard DHCP setups in which the cable modem's MAC address is used as the basis for giving out a lease to a different machine. How the internals of that work I'm not entirely sure, but I'd assume the modem hijacks DHCP requests out and either sends them over its control link or tags them with the modem's MAC.
I'm sure someone with more knowledge of how this works can elaborate further.
Ah, I never really fully looked into what Sky was doing with Boingo. That seems kind of pointless in a way.
Also, whoever modded me, please do explain how I was trolling.
Boingo is a company that was founded by the founder of Earthlink, Sky Dayton, back in 2001. His idea was to create a nationwide (and later global) network of hotspots, much like Wayport provides. It never took off. The USPTO is slow. Big deal, this isn't a patent troll company. It's a legitimate business that provides a very large network of hotspots. But of course this is Slashdot where nobody actually reads the article or researches what is being talked about and just jumps to conclusions.
Hell, he rented a house from my family out in California when he was starting this company and we got free Internet access from him in exchange for beta testing his service. Wayport has been around longer than Boingo, but didn't get into the wireless hotspot business until 2004. I really don't know what to make of this patent though.
True to an extent, but you do realize that Ken Rockwell's site is a satire, right?
I can do just about anything while looking through the viewfinder of my EOS-1D mkII. Once you know your way around the thing it's a breeze to work with. Then again, that's an entirely different league of cameras and I shoot professional sports, but I can maneuver around a consumer SLR about equally as fast as I can around my 1DII.
I know someone who constantly refers to VMWare Player as VTech. I installed it for him for a legacy DOS application he uses that wasn't working properly in XP.