Ok when i first read this , i had images of a bunch of guys in orange suits bursting into peoples houses and Instaling firefox and anti spyware software on windows machines, then just before diving out the window shouting "All in a days work Ma'am"
After reading the story though , i must say "About fragleing time ". As the submitter mention razor,which has been around for a good while i have been amazed how many ISPs are actualy doing very little about it , I have my theorys why some do so little (pay per bandwidth is becoming rather popular these days) though most are not like this. The sooner ISPs take a proactive(shudder jargon word) stand against offenders and start to disalow the traffic or manage problems (im aware many people are victums , but this gives them an alert that they have an infected PC ), the sooner we can start to enjoy our times online without fear of Spam or fear that our servers will be DDoS'ed into the ground.,
It was a joke,Its actualy running Debian;) i just needed to slip in a bsd somewhere , yes i know i should of said netbsd but i was busy at the time and not concentraiting on the details of the post;)
I just discoverd Technocrat not to long ago and now have a really cool member number of 1725(im not a member number fanatic but "RFC 1725 (rfc1725) - Post Office Protocol - Version 3", if i were i would of joined slashdot as a member when i first found the site in 1999).. but i digress... I do belive this news is important enough to stay atop for a while , perhaps this was the reasoning,,,, ok im just trying to find excuses.
Brazil having a strong stance on OSS is great and will hopefully be joined by south korea (story avaliable yesterday , and tomorow probably;) ).
Its been a few years though.. This is how it functions in the UK , All the universitys are state owned and funded to a large degree. They collect records to keep track and allow sharing between universitys,Social security numbers are collected on forms iirc probably to check your not trying to claim benefits at the same time as studying and reciving your grant or loan. To me this sounds like a lot of paranoia as im sure its how it works in the rest of the world.
I was trying to sell a copy of Return to Castle wolfenstein over ebay.de a few weeks back , gues what hapend,,, the artical got pulled with little to no explination , other than it could of got into the hand of children. You can not buy that game easily
Steve Austin. Astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster..."
Windows aberchalenabrathnabronaheathnaCumri edition , ok i cant realy speak welsh but i do remember reading some welsh poetry , i could only image the pop up dialouge , infact , i think i will see if i can switch my debian install over to welsh for a laugh
;) this makes my point perfectly(in a round-about kind of way) , why should a legislator decide what is right for every child as everyone is difrent , Ok i confess to generlising a bit however the parents shoudl be the ones to decide what the children buy , or infact the children should discuss this with the parents. I disagree on GTA3 , i found it a great game . most of the time i was not playing it violently i was enjoying messing around with the physics doing stunts , or trying not to kill people (quite a challange).The story is funny and the radio stations are hillarious , the plot is not a great work of art though , GTA3 is juvinile mindless fun at times , thats why i love it , pure stress relife (same can be said for Diablo/2).;) suppose though when i was 13 i did not need my mum to get me games , i had freinds with older brothers , kids who are not ready for it are more likely to be getting the games fromt he parents so it kind of balances out the universe.
? i pay for my email server. yet i get spam,the spammers dont pay me so down to0ples that logic. I also pay for my internet conection, I dont mind ads on websites if the ads are non intrusive(i dont install shockwave on my reqular browser and use adblock for the worst offenders). This is not a Left wing vs wing argument,its an abusive trade tactic vs our rights argument. However i dont like the fact that a lawsuit alone can bankrupt people , this is open for abuse .
I was just reading up on that , luckly i think my powerbook will be one of those that works , however i can but try.First though i have some real work to do ( not much difrence really , system administration for fun and funds , i need to get out more)
I know this is not your point but I have to say , when i was 12 i would have loved GTA 3 , The impresionability of youth is highly exagerated , seriously. When i was younger I loved games like SFII or a little gem of a game called DOOM which was just as violent.Most of the kids in my school were playing these games , and you know what most of the kids now are playing games like GTA3 and having a great time.This was many years ago and things have not change , most of my school freinds are not a bunch of psychotic killing machine or über criminals. Seriously , when i was in my pre/early teens some things i remember clearly , Violent games and films were great fun, Sex scenes and nudity in movies ruled and we never cared about film ratings. We would whatch splatter zombie movies , horrers and other assorted 18 rating movies(perhaps thats 17 or 21 in the USA,18 is the max rating in the UK) The only film to realy upset me was a U(universal) , a movie of a book called "Watership down" I had a pet rabbit at the time and the psychotic tribal bunnies in that film really gave me a fright. But my point being , 12 -15 year olds love smut , violent games and swearing,This is natural , it has always been this way and always will
I really have ment to break out the 68k powerbook and play around with netbsd , I remember when it used to be about the love of the systems and their strengths and weakness , not about OMG FANBoizorzs.
Well all we really need to do if were getting beaten too badly is to shout out "hey look over there , windows fans"
Re:Let the flame war commence!
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Im confused , im sitting with a mac running OS X on my left , an old IMac running FreeBSD compiling a kernel to my right And behind me I have an x86 laptop running a Dist-upgrade to an install of Debian (unstable)... Its sitting on my sparc server running solaris 8... So what corner do I go to Ive been running around in circles for half and hour now!!
Dupes come and go , and I've seen them hapen in print papers. Editors make mistakes ! do you realise how many storys are showing up each day , a fair few , does that excuse not making checks ? No it does not however it makes it understandable . I will hapily point out dupes but i dont get mortaly offended by them. To counter one of your arguments though , perhaps these people would donate if they did not make as many dupes , anyway. I must agree on one point. thanking CmdrTaco for countless hours of news and entertainment !
Its only been out for a few weeks;) your really need to relax , ussualy it takes about 6 months or so for the swing to begin.
remember the PS2 lanuch line up or even the ps1 , they really did suck to high hell for the first few months.The xbox really had nothing other than Halo(which i always felt was a bit over-rated , still a great game but not 99/100 great 84 or so) or the shockingly underatted "Jet set radio future" for a great length of time. The only console with a great launch i can remember in the last decade was the dreamcast , now that was how to launch a console. I must say though your judging the DS far far too soon .
You do realise , when you insult people they tend to swear. I realise perhaps you were joking , but look at it from an apple Hardware users point of view. I use apple hardware and im no fanboi(im a unix fan though) , i love the products quality and design . I myself felt a bit offended by what you had to say. Do you know why , well i have invested a great deal of money into Apple hardware not to mention time in learnings the system , you just basicaly said i had wasted my money and also called me a slavering fanboi (this is perhaps not what was said , but its cleary how i and some others took it). Perhaps this was not your intention , but you really did come off as a troll
I now have this image of the Ballmer stomping around shouting "KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,..KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,KOREANS,..." It is not the most plesant mental image I've ever had.
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I have been a nintendo fan since the early 80s ( and several other consoles too and computers hell im just a techno fanboi though I do hate that word) and can tell you hoenstly the thing that killed off the Virtual-Boy was the fact that using it for longer than a few minutes caused massive migranes to alot of people , IIRC it was because the lenses were misaligned slighty (perhaps it was the refresh rate or both). Inovation has always been a good thing for nintendo , specificaly in the control front , to my mind the N64 controler was one of the best controlers ever devised for 3D games (lacking in 2d though) , and not to mention the SNES or NES pads which were amazing at the time(the snes pad can still hold its own for 2d). The problem nintendo has is the fact that alot of people wish to Apear ""COOL"" and nintendo is yet to shake off its For-Children image. This is the only thing limiting nintendo , However as a long term fan i would hate to see nintendo depart from this style , there is a kind of inocent charm in the games that gives them a timeless feel , not to mention amazing gameplay , Sometimes i love ripping the heads off of people , or gunning down the inocent citizens of liberty city , other times though i just want to relax and enjoy a game with a type of magic and wonder akin to the works of the brothers Grim.
The Reveloution will need two things if is to become a market leader, A Kudos factor with some maturity and A lot of grade A Games . Most importantly is the games , remembering the Gamecube launch , i remember being disapointed with the lack of options(some classic titles though like pikimin) and variety.Nintendo Will learn from there mistakes and i suspect the Reveloution will be both inovative , Cool , and have a menagre of titles at launch
No im not;) , Im living in germany and im from Scotland . In Germany we just have dodgy political decisions on baning the posesions of WW2 memorbelia , yet allowing Neo-Nazi scum to march. Idiot lawyers though are a world problem , however we have far better safe gaurds against them in civils case's at least.
Roll 3 d 6 : 14 or higher to go on a killing spree:: You rolled 6 add to that your previous pyschotic dispostion modifier of +20 for a score of 26 , pass lunacy check . You go nuts and go stab a bunch of people.
"I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those 'Dungeons and Dragons' fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can't say for sure."
? How the hell did this man get a law degree , Seriously it may have something to do with D&D , though the evidence is um,well,, if that is all they have to link it to D&D, then may i sugest the motive could have been related to pumping up a football , as that has lots of thrusting motions involved if you use a hand pump.
On a more serious note , The man obviously has some serious psychological issues of which i have no doubt contributed to these murders , the only reason the D&D link should be brought up is in establishing motive if you want to have the man released to the care of a mental health ward.
Games do not turn people into psychotic killing machines , they may however shape the style but if it was not the game it would have been some other influence.Jack the ripper was never known to play counter strike,Charlie manson Never played Mortal kombat.
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Ok when i first read this , i had images of a bunch of guys in orange suits bursting into peoples houses and Instaling firefox and anti spyware software on windows machines, then just before diving out the window shouting "All in a days work Ma'am"
. ,which has been around for a good while i have been amazed how many ISPs are actualy doing very little about it , I have my theorys why some do so little (pay per bandwidth is becoming rather popular these days) though most are not like this.
After reading the story though , i must say "About fragleing time "
As the submitter mention razor
The sooner ISPs take a proactive(shudder jargon word) stand against offenders and start to disalow the traffic or manage problems (im aware many people are victums , but this gives them an alert that they have an infected PC ), the sooner we can start to enjoy our times online without fear of Spam or fear that our servers will be DDoS'ed into the ground.,
It was a joke ,Its actualy running Debian ;) i just needed to slip in a bsd somewhere , yes i know i should of said netbsd but i was busy at the time and not concentraiting on the details of the post ;)
I just discoverd Technocrat not to long ago and now have a really cool member number of 1725(im not a member number fanatic but "RFC 1725 (rfc1725) - Post Office Protocol - Version 3", if i were i would of joined slashdot as a member when i first found the site in 1999) .. but i digress ... ,,,, ok im just trying to find excuses .
;) ).
I do belive this news is important enough to stay atop for a while , perhaps this was the reasoning
Brazil having a strong stance on OSS is great and will hopefully be joined by south korea (story avaliable yesterday , and tomorow probably
only a first edition print ..
Its been a few years though.. ,Social security numbers are collected on forms iirc probably to check your not trying to claim benefits at the same time as studying and reciving your grant or loan.
This is how it functions in the UK , All the universitys are state owned and funded to a large degree.
They collect records to keep track and allow sharing between universitys
To me this sounds like a lot of paranoia as im sure its how it works in the rest of the world.
I was trying to sell a copy of Return to Castle wolfenstein over ebay.de a few weeks back , gues what hapend ,,, the artical got pulled with little to no explination , other than it could of got into the hand of children .
You can not buy that game easily
Steve Austin. Astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster..."
Windows aberchalenabrathnabronaheathnaCumri edition , ok i cant realy speak welsh but i do remember reading some welsh poetry , i could only image the pop up dialouge , infact , i think i will see if i can switch my debian install over to welsh for a laugh
;) this makes my point perfectly(in a round-about kind of way) , why should a legislator decide what is right for every child as everyone is difrent , Ok i confess to generlising a bit however the parents shoudl be the ones to decide what the children buy , or infact the children should discuss this with the parents. /2). ;) suppose though when i was 13 i did not need my mum to get me games , i had freinds with older brothers , kids who are not ready for it are more likely to be getting the games fromt he parents so it kind of balances out the universe.
I disagree on GTA3 , i found it a great game . most of the time i was not playing it violently i was enjoying messing around with the physics doing stunts , or trying not to kill people (quite a challange).The story is funny and the radio stations are hillarious , the plot is not a great work of art though , GTA3 is juvinile mindless fun at times , thats why i love it , pure stress relife (same can be said for Diablo
Your fake sig is spam for a pyramid scheme . so i dont think you should be one to be commenting on greed or spam really.
? i pay for my email server . ,the spammers dont pay me so down to0ples that logic . . ,its an abusive trade tactic vs our rights argument.
yet i get spam
I also pay for my internet conection, I dont mind ads on websites if the ads are non intrusive(i dont install shockwave on my reqular browser and use adblock for the worst offenders)
This is not a Left wing vs wing argument
However i dont like the fact that a lawsuit alone can bankrupt people , this is open for abuse .
I was just reading up on that , luckly i think my powerbook will be one of those that works , however i can but try .First though i have some real work to do ( not much difrence really , system administration for fun and funds , i need to get out more)
I know this is not your point but I have to say , when i was 12 i would have loved GTA 3 , The impresionability of youth is highly exagerated , seriously. When i was younger I loved games like SFII or a little gem of a game called DOOM which was just as violent .Most of the kids in my school were playing these games , and you know what most of the kids now are playing games like GTA3 and having a great time .This was many years ago and things have not change , most of my school freinds are not a bunch of psychotic killing machine or über criminals . . ,18 is the max rating in the UK) ,This is natural , it has always been this way and always will
Seriously , when i was in my pre/early teens some things i remember clearly , Violent games and films were great fun, Sex scenes and nudity in movies ruled and we never cared about film ratings
We would whatch splatter zombie movies , horrers and other assorted 18 rating movies(perhaps thats 17 or 21 in the USA
The only film to realy upset me was a U(universal) , a movie of a book called "Watership down" I had a pet rabbit at the time and the psychotic tribal bunnies in that film really gave me a fright.
But my point being , 12 -15 year olds love smut , violent games and swearing
I really have ment to break out the 68k powerbook and play around with netbsd , I remember when it used to be about the love of the systems and their strengths and weakness , not about OMG FANBoizorzs .
Well all we really need to do if were getting beaten too badly is to shout out "hey look over there , windows fans"
Im confused , im sitting with a mac running OS X on my left , an old IMac running ...
FreeBSD compiling a kernel to my right And behind me I have an x86 laptop running a Dist-upgrade to an install of Debian (unstable)... Its sitting on my sparc server running solaris 8
So what corner do I go to
Ive been running around in circles for half and hour now!!
Dupes come and go , and I've seen them hapen in print papers .
Editors make mistakes ! do you realise how many storys are showing up each day , a fair few , does that excuse not making checks ? No it does not however it makes it understandable . I will hapily point out dupes but i dont get mortaly offended by them.
To counter one of your arguments though , perhaps these people would donate if they did not make as many dupes , anyway.
I must agree on one point.
thanking CmdrTaco for countless hours of news and entertainment !
hee the US joke was more aimed at the use of unexplained acronyms in general( an error i made ) rather than confusing cross border confusion.
Its only been out for a few weeks ;) your really need to relax , ussualy it takes about 6 months or so for the swing to begin . .The xbox really had nothing other than Halo(which i always felt was a bit over-rated , still a great game but not 99/100 great 84 or so) or the shockingly underatted "Jet set radio future" for a great length of time . .
remember the PS2 lanuch line up or even the ps1 , they really did suck to high hell for the first few months
The only console with a great launch i can remember in the last decade was the dreamcast , now that was how to launch a console
I must say though your judging the DS far far too soon .
You do realise , when you insult people they tend to swear . .
I realise perhaps you were joking , but look at it from an apple Hardware users point of view
I use apple hardware and im no fanboi(im a unix fan though) , i love the products quality and design . I myself felt a bit offended by what you had to say.
Do you know why , well i have invested a great deal of money into Apple hardware not to mention time in learnings the system , you just basicaly said i had wasted my money and also called me a slavering fanboi (this is perhaps not what was said , but its cleary how i and some others took it).
Perhaps this was not your intention , but you really did come off as a troll
Parent manages to clarify the story far more , with a more intresting link to boot .
Which also helps to make this lawyer look like more of a L'o'ier
I now have this image of the Ballmer stomping around shouting ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,..KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,KOREANS ,..." .
"KOREANS
It is not the most plesant mental image I've ever had
I have been a nintendo fan since the early 80s ( and several other consoles too and computers hell im just a techno fanboi though I do hate that word) and can tell you hoenstly the thing that killed off the Virtual-Boy was the fact that using it for longer than a few minutes caused massive migranes to alot of people , IIRC it was because the lenses were misaligned slighty (perhaps it was the refresh rate or both). .
.Nintendo Will learn from there mistakes and i suspect the Reveloution will be both inovative , Cool , and have a menagre of titles at launch
Inovation has always been a good thing for nintendo , specificaly in the control front , to my mind the N64 controler was one of the best controlers ever devised for 3D games (lacking in 2d though) , and not to mention the SNES or NES pads which were amazing at the time(the snes pad can still hold its own for 2d).
The problem nintendo has is the fact that alot of people wish to Apear ""COOL"" and nintendo is yet to shake off its For-Children image
This is the only thing limiting nintendo , However as a long term fan i would hate to see nintendo depart from this style , there is a kind of inocent charm in the games that gives them a timeless feel , not to mention amazing gameplay , Sometimes i love ripping the heads off of people , or gunning down the inocent citizens of liberty city , other times though i just want to relax and enjoy a game with a type of magic and wonder akin to the works of the brothers Grim.
The Reveloution will need two things if is to become a market leader,
A Kudos factor with some maturity and A lot of grade A Games . Most importantly is the games , remembering the Gamecube launch , i remember being disapointed with the lack of options(some classic titles though like pikimin) and variety
No im not ;) , Im living in germany and im from Scotland . In Germany we just have dodgy political decisions on baning the posesions of WW2 memorbelia , yet allowing Neo-Nazi scum to march .
Idiot lawyers though are a world problem , however we have far better safe gaurds against them in civils case's at least.
Karma be dammed
:: You rolled 6 add to that your previous pyschotic dispostion modifier of +20 for a score of 26 , pass lunacy check . You go nuts and go stab a bunch of people.
Roll 3 d 6 : 14 or higher to go on a killing spree
Obviously this lawyer never played D&D
On a more serious note , The man obviously has some serious psychological issues of which i have no doubt contributed to these murders , the only reason the D&D link should be brought up is in establishing motive if you want to have the man released to the care of a mental health ward
Games do not turn people into psychotic killing machines , they may however shape the style but if it was not the game it would have been some other influence