Yeah, I saw that bit where an ape morphed into a human in an instant and I felt a bit sad that we presumably evolved away the ability to metamorphosise
This isn't about disabling security features, though. It's about using weak passwords. No exploits here, no vulnerabilities, just simple guesswork. I can't think of an OS which ships in an insecure state. Not even Windows - anything dangerous is firewalled off.
Typing on a screen sounds like the least appealing activity I can think of. Fine for the odd text message, or quick search on Google, but word processing would be a nightmare.
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1984 was a very long time ago, and only a couple of years into the mainstream home computer market. Perhaps the investment now needed in hundred of programmers & graphics artists is the equivalent of a company committing to produce 10,000 cassettes and a marketing campaign. Hugely different scales of investment, but the same question - will people like this? Back then, it's easy to see why there was doubt, every other game seemed to be a simple shoot-em-up. Even if I think of luminaries such as Ocean Software, they spent the first few years of their life churning out identikit shooters & platformers. Only once their success had built up did they start to take risks with more original games (though they found a new mainstay in the film/coin-op licences)
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space flight sim
Have you tried Celestia? It does have some rudimentary flight controls. Probably not exactly what you're after but might be a bit of fun. And it's FOSS, so there's chance for a fully-blown space flight sim.
They still gladly take the money off businesses who do innocuous things like play a radio in the office. So they're getting paid twice, once by a radio station and once by the business, and that money may not find its way to the artist? That is an extortion racket!
In other news:
Calculators should never replace sliding rules and sliding rule reading abilities.
Simply not the same. Maths is an absolute science - right or wrong answer. It's useful to understand the methods by calculating it by hand, but using your brain or a machine will take you to the correct answer.
Geography changes. One day a bridge collapses, or a road is flooded, or something else changes. Both GPS and maps are vulnerable to this. But someone reading a map is more likely to appreciate the geography around them - they must if they want to see where they're going. Someone blindly following a route issued by a GPS is less likely to look around, they just follow the route. And keep following it until they hit a problem. A mapreader may well have already considered alternatives and will have an understanding of the local area, they had to if they wanted to interpret the map.
Ubuntu has all those point-and-click controls you love, and you're free to use them instead of the shell if you like. You'll get things done more slowly, because GUI configs suck, but that's your choice.
Here's the reason why Linux will never gain traction at the home desktop. The community has no interest in supporting them. If you like GUIs, tough shit, we don't. So Microsoft and Apple will always win. (yes OSX is based on Unix but it takes a lot of people to make it 'friendly')
Even at times of average load you can see delays as the browser goes off to find some unresponsive ad server. Google analytics and other stat-gatherers can be a problem too. It's annoying when it prevents the appearance of a page. Seems easily solvable within the browser though, set content from other domains to be on a shorter timeout. If the site fails because some off-server content isn't available, that's a badly-designed site. Ordinarily I'd just miss out on a few ads. Boo hoo!
According to the article, the government is going to be getting the ISPs to do their dirty work for them, whatever we have as an RIAA/MPAA equivalent, and the police:
That's exactly right. Reading chapter 4, it's clear that the only legislative change they will push for is to bring punishments for 'non-physical' copying in line with those already in place for 'physical copying'... but in both cases, only if the copying is done for SALE or HIRE or in the course of running a business (see s107 of the CDPA Act 1988). There is nothing in there about legislating against file-sharing itself when it is not-for-profit, and as you state, they want to put the responsibility for policing onto ISPs, who will be asked to cap bandwidth, ban protocols or ports, or block sites.
I'm hopeful that since the Government has only a few months left, none of this will see the light of day. Because the idea of ISPs being forced to block protocols without any recourse to due process is ridiculous. There is nothing in the report about protection of people who to trade copyright-free files or those they have permission to share. They seem to want to go the route of "eliminate baby + bathwater". This could be a monumental change for file-sharing. We face the prospect of losing this great technology even when we're doing nothing illegal.
If you think it's such a problem then make it a criminal offence. Don't force ISPs to do it for you.
Exactly. Twitter is reductive, the antithesis of in-depth discussion like wot we get at slashdot. Thus we are happy to leave the low-IQ LOL-crowd to their ever-decreasing space to express.
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Forums started off with wordy posts and in-depth discussion. Then the fashion moved towards one-word posts, witty acronyms and image macros. Now we're all (supposedly) on twitter, where the message itself is restricted to 140 characters. I can see where this is heading.
now you know how I feel when I wade through 100 articles about how Sen. Bob (CA (R)) has gained support for the lobbyists and tacked an amendment onto Prop 61 of the REALLYWELLACRONYMED Bill in the State Senate Legislature Tuesday
And of course, who knows if the site is truly legit (the big ones are, but there could always be some rogue admin), or if someone has found a flaw in their protocol, etc.
This would still seem unlikely, no site that I'm aware of will send opps' hole cards to your client until the hand is over. And in the case of Pstars, they use ssh for client comms so hopefully that's pretty unbreakable...
All the poker scams I've heard of are of the social engineering ilk. A rogue admin who can see all hole cards via a superuser account (which cannot play) passes all details to a friend who is in the game. Or someone tricks a high-roller into sharing his password, or giving away security questions for email access, or even monitors his wireless. But no holes in the clients. The tech side generally is pretty solid.
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But now, thanks to Apple, you can get your data wiped without the inconvenience of having the machine stolen!
You'll prise the BBC from my cold dead hands, or something
Yeah, I saw that bit where an ape morphed into a human in an instant and I felt a bit sad that we presumably evolved away the ability to metamorphosise
This isn't about disabling security features, though. It's about using weak passwords. No exploits here, no vulnerabilities, just simple guesswork. I can't think of an OS which ships in an insecure state. Not even Windows - anything dangerous is firewalled off.
Logwatch Logwatch Logwatch
Is that the "short life" of the battery, or the "short life" of the person who had the battery explode in their pocket?
Typing on a screen sounds like the least appealing activity I can think of. Fine for the odd text message, or quick search on Google, but word processing would be a nightmare.
1984 was a very long time ago, and only a couple of years into the mainstream home computer market. Perhaps the investment now needed in hundred of programmers & graphics artists is the equivalent of a company committing to produce 10,000 cassettes and a marketing campaign. Hugely different scales of investment, but the same question - will people like this? Back then, it's easy to see why there was doubt, every other game seemed to be a simple shoot-em-up. Even if I think of luminaries such as Ocean Software, they spent the first few years of their life churning out identikit shooters & platformers. Only once their success had built up did they start to take risks with more original games (though they found a new mainstay in the film/coin-op licences)
Have you tried Celestia? It does have some rudimentary flight controls. Probably not exactly what you're after but might be a bit of fun. And it's FOSS, so there's chance for a fully-blown space flight sim.
Tiiiime for a car analogy!
People need to keep their cars in working order, or they could break down and cause traffic jams, or worse, spin out of control and kill someone.
So we have a system where cars are certified by a qualified technician, and can only be driven if the car is safe enough.
They still gladly take the money off businesses who do innocuous things like play a radio in the office. So they're getting paid twice, once by a radio station and once by the business, and that money may not find its way to the artist? That is an extortion racket!
Simply not the same. Maths is an absolute science - right or wrong answer. It's useful to understand the methods by calculating it by hand, but using your brain or a machine will take you to the correct answer.
Geography changes. One day a bridge collapses, or a road is flooded, or something else changes. Both GPS and maps are vulnerable to this. But someone reading a map is more likely to appreciate the geography around them - they must if they want to see where they're going. Someone blindly following a route issued by a GPS is less likely to look around, they just follow the route. And keep following it until they hit a problem. A mapreader may well have already considered alternatives and will have an understanding of the local area, they had to if they wanted to interpret the map.
Could try Firefox + IE Tab - though I suppose relying on free add-ons for mission-critical stuff is a stretch.
Here's the reason why Linux will never gain traction at the home desktop. The community has no interest in supporting them. If you like GUIs, tough shit, we don't. So Microsoft and Apple will always win. (yes OSX is based on Unix but it takes a lot of people to make it 'friendly')
Oh, I hate that... rejecting a point on the basis of "ah, who needs that?"
Which is why a few no name nerds on Slashdot whining about this aren't going to make them care in the least bit.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "irony".
I was thinking 'Medieval UK Battle' was the name of a band and they were recording a track called "Released Online"
Then I read the title again and all confusion was eliminated. Time for your morning coffee?
Even at times of average load you can see delays as the browser goes off to find some unresponsive ad server. Google analytics and other stat-gatherers can be a problem too. It's annoying when it prevents the appearance of a page. Seems easily solvable within the browser though, set content from other domains to be on a shorter timeout. If the site fails because some off-server content isn't available, that's a badly-designed site. Ordinarily I'd just miss out on a few ads. Boo hoo!
That's exactly right. Reading chapter 4, it's clear that the only legislative change they will push for is to bring punishments for 'non-physical' copying in line with those already in place for 'physical copying'... but in both cases, only if the copying is done for SALE or HIRE or in the course of running a business (see s107 of the CDPA Act 1988). There is nothing in there about legislating against file-sharing itself when it is not-for-profit, and as you state, they want to put the responsibility for policing onto ISPs, who will be asked to cap bandwidth, ban protocols or ports, or block sites.
I'm hopeful that since the Government has only a few months left, none of this will see the light of day. Because the idea of ISPs being forced to block protocols without any recourse to due process is ridiculous. There is nothing in the report about protection of people who to trade copyright-free files or those they have permission to share. They seem to want to go the route of "eliminate baby + bathwater". This could be a monumental change for file-sharing. We face the prospect of losing this great technology even when we're doing nothing illegal.
If you think it's such a problem then make it a criminal offence. Don't force ISPs to do it for you.
Exactly. Twitter is reductive, the antithesis of in-depth discussion like wot we get at slashdot. Thus we are happy to leave the low-IQ LOL-crowd to their ever-decreasing space to express.
Forums started off with wordy posts and in-depth discussion. Then the fashion moved towards one-word posts, witty acronyms and image macros. Now we're all (supposedly) on twitter, where the message itself is restricted to 140 characters. I can see where this is heading.
I thought autopilot and landing were mutually exclusive?
now you know how I feel when I wade through 100 articles about how Sen. Bob (CA (R)) has gained support for the lobbyists and tacked an amendment onto Prop 61 of the REALLYWELLACRONYMED Bill in the State Senate Legislature Tuesday
Their version works just as well but er... it turns to snow if you don't point it at a fully licensed wall. (sorry)
This would still seem unlikely, no site that I'm aware of will send opps' hole cards to your client until the hand is over. And in the case of Pstars, they use ssh for client comms so hopefully that's pretty unbreakable...
All the poker scams I've heard of are of the social engineering ilk. A rogue admin who can see all hole cards via a superuser account (which cannot play) passes all details to a friend who is in the game. Or someone tricks a high-roller into sharing his password, or giving away security questions for email access, or even monitors his wireless. But no holes in the clients. The tech side generally is pretty solid.