Exactly what I was thinking. Pretty obvious. Can be automated. NTP can be spoofed. Piece of cake. The communication with the NTP can not be encrypted, the virus author would need to have control over that NTP for this.
I agree that, for many people, this specific first attempt at a "social engineering" virus wouldn't work. But wait until this stuff gets more sophisticated. It could fool you into opening a link to a website that will install a virus via a 0-day exploit for your webbrowser. This could be very nasty stuff.
We have around 150 WMDs. They are not exacly ours... I think they are inside american / NATO bases. But thats superficial of course. Please don't invade us!
> The hurricane wasn't caused by policy. Obviously
As the global warming heats up the oceans, the area where hurricans form gets bigger. With a bigger area for them to form, they can grow bigger and there will be more of them.
This is not a proven fact or anything, but at least a strong theory.
This sounds very interesting to me. Do you have any more information on this topic, was it discussed elsewhere? Or did you come up with this alone?
It seems very elegant at first because it unifies the kinds of relationships between objects / entities... Are there any drawbacks besides the performance problem?
I bought a Macally IceKey because I read about how great it was... It is basically a high quality laptop keyboard with fullsize buttons and full layout. The buttons are very easy to press and your hands can basically rest flat on the table and keyboard because of its minimal height. I sometimes hear that ergonomically it is better when buttons click and the keyboard is "angled" (don't know how to call that... when you use those legs on the back of the keyboard) but I highly doubt that. As I see it, the best thing for your hands would be a startrek like table where you don't have to hold up your hands at all, but of course then you have no feel for the buttons. The IceKey actually has a very good feel and it is very flat - perfect or me.
Depends on the viewpoint. From the console it would be backward-compatible. From the games viewpoint it would be forwards-compatible. So the topic has it wrong.
I was searching for the post with the word "elitist" in it and post it if there werent any... Unfortunately I think its too late to get this read by anyone... But nonetheless:
First of all, how do you tell a "good" programmer from a bad one? Based on reputation? Based on grades? Crap decision. Everyone has to learn. Also the market for "good programmers" is way to small for every company only having the good people.
Second, a companys primary goal, in my eyes, is not to make the best product. That is a close, but second, second! The first thing is _social responsibility_! Not every human is equally skilled in everything. Someone can do better raw programming, someone is a better architect, someone has good social skills, someone may be good at virtually everything, someone may not. The responsibility of the company is to put everyones skills to a good use.
Lets say, theoretically, every company would only employ the best 10% of the people. Ignoring that some people may have multiple skills, that leaves 90% of the population unemployed! What a great thing to do!
The elicist seem to forget that a company is not for making money. Its purpose is making money so that the society benefits from it! Not only a small part of it. Sorry if that is news to you.
But what if your TV watermarks everything it puts out and your camcorder can detect that watermark and will not record tha data? Same for Audio. Technology for this kind of stuff is there and is working quite good! Also, of course, TVs, camcorders and Stereos / Speakers without that technology are ILLEGAL!
Also, the market for cars is obvoisly not driven by efficiency. The market for energy is, in a way, lass "free" and easier to control with laws and taxes. It is more agile. At least in theory.
But it's easier to build better power plants every few years than to get everyone to buy better cars every few years. Centralized energy production may not be more effective right now but it has a better perspective. At least so I think.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Pretty obvious. Can be automated. NTP can be spoofed. Piece of cake. The communication with the NTP can not be encrypted, the virus author would need to have control over that NTP for this.
I agree that, for many people, this specific first attempt at a "social engineering" virus wouldn't work. But wait until this stuff gets more sophisticated. It could fool you into opening a link to a website that will install a virus via a 0-day exploit for your webbrowser. This could be very nasty stuff.
This will come in to you from another AIM-user you KNOW and who is infected. Not some stranger.
As the console and the games exist today, they are by definition not next-gen. They are this-gen.
But the 360 is cheaper than even a Mac Mini. Maybe by the time the box is cracked, a new Mini will outperform it, though...
30 $ may actually be pretty close to the cost of XP MCE for Dell.
Probably only UK citizens can subscribe. Only subscribers will get in.
So do you think they will give Iraq WMDs, too?
We have around 150 WMDs. They are not exacly ours... I think they are inside american / NATO bases. But thats superficial of course. Please don't invade us!
> The hurricane wasn't caused by policy. Obviously
As the global warming heats up the oceans, the area where hurricans form gets bigger. With a bigger area for them to form, they can grow bigger and there will be more of them.
This is not a proven fact or anything, but at least a strong theory.
This sounds very interesting to me. Do you have any more information on this topic, was it discussed elsewhere? Or did you come up with this alone?
It seems very elegant at first because it unifies the kinds of relationships between objects / entities... Are there any drawbacks besides the performance problem?
I bought a Macally IceKey because I read about how great it was... It is basically a high quality laptop keyboard with fullsize buttons and full layout. The buttons are very easy to press and your hands can basically rest flat on the table and keyboard because of its minimal height. I sometimes hear that ergonomically it is better when buttons click and the keyboard is "angled" (don't know how to call that... when you use those legs on the back of the keyboard) but I highly doubt that. As I see it, the best thing for your hands would be a startrek like table where you don't have to hold up your hands at all, but of course then you have no feel for the buttons. The IceKey actually has a very good feel and it is very flat - perfect or me.
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http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/icek
Disclaimer: Yes, it also looks good with my iBook
Depends on the viewpoint. From the console it would be backward-compatible. From the games viewpoint it would be forwards-compatible. So the topic has it wrong.
I think he meant base 2.
I was searching for the post with the word "elitist" in it and post it if there werent any... Unfortunately I think its too late to get this read by anyone... But nonetheless:
First of all, how do you tell a "good" programmer from a bad one? Based on reputation? Based on grades? Crap decision. Everyone has to learn. Also the market for "good programmers" is way to small for every company only having the good people.
Second, a companys primary goal, in my eyes, is not to make the best product. That is a close, but second, second! The first thing is _social responsibility_! Not every human is equally skilled in everything. Someone can do better raw programming, someone is a better architect, someone has good social skills, someone may be good at virtually everything, someone may not. The responsibility of the company is to put everyones skills to a good use.
Lets say, theoretically, every company would only employ the best 10% of the people. Ignoring that some people may have multiple skills, that leaves 90% of the population unemployed! What a great thing to do!
The elicist seem to forget that a company is not for making money. Its purpose is making money so that the society benefits from it! Not only a small part of it. Sorry if that is news to you.
And still it should be obvoius that Z:TP will sell more copies than PGR3. Look at brand enthusiasm (for zelda) and installed base of GCs vs. XBox 2.
I'm not sure if this is clear to you, but indeed a modchip for GC came out maybe six month ago... So piracy is on its way now ;)
You DID play the game before bitching about it, didn't you?
> Newer airport express use a broadcom chip.
> Older ones used the Orinoco chip.
> I think the shift happened when they went form 802.11b to
> 11g
Airport = Orinoco = 802.11b
Airport Express = Broadcom = 802.11g
But what if your TV watermarks everything it puts out and your camcorder can detect that watermark and will not record tha data? Same for Audio. Technology for this kind of stuff is there and is working quite good! Also, of course, TVs, camcorders and Stereos / Speakers without that technology are ILLEGAL!
Fuel-cells are, in a way, batteries.
Also, the market for cars is obvoisly not driven by efficiency. The market for energy is, in a way, lass "free" and easier to control with laws and taxes. It is more agile. At least in theory.
But it's easier to build better power plants every few years than to get everyone to buy better cars every few years. Centralized energy production may not be more effective right now but it has a better perspective. At least so I think.
"Now, well the terrorists are playing right into the hands of George Bush!"
The question: Who is playing into whose hands?
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