Just ask regular players about the security of the MMORPG's that they play. Most are regular hack fests.
Ultima Online: Scripting in the number one player complaint, but EA doesn't give a rats ass, they never ban, despide their TOS saying otherwise. Other cheats include ways to make players drop items, and using bots to monitor certain parts of the game for the sole purpose of knowing exactly when to raid, and then there is all the speed hacking (EG movement hacks) that goes on.
Lineage II: I played for 6 months, and never met another player, just about 4000 different bots.
LOTRO: Besides the game missing something, it had its share of bots.
WoW: I get spammed with cheat site URL's every time I login, regardless of realm.
Of all the above WoW seems to have it the most under control, but that doesn't mean they don't have room to improve. Cheating is so rampant in Ultima Online anymore, that the fricken game isn't worth logging into.
....Have more books available than Google, but at least Google lets you download the books for offline viewing. This library currently does not, which means for certain purposes (EG taking a library with you to an area that doesn't have internet access) this library at CMU is useless.
[Quote]This brings us to my favorite type of mail, the crazies. They range from the mildly disturbed to schizophrenics. I honestly wish i got more of these.
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:41:39 "I try to be very circumspect in the emails that I generate. Some of my contacts are personal friends and some are serious business contacts. I am sending this link because it reflects the hours of study that I have done (far less than the 10,000 that the author mentions). In the 1960's while being trained to go to Vietnam, I was taught that you never can understand your enemy till you understand his religion. This nation is in a war - not because we chose to be in the war - but because those on the other side believe that we have no right to exist and they are determined to destroy us and our way of life - simply because we do not share their religion. I will never try to FORCE anyone to believe as I believe. I will openly discuss the evidence that has made me believe as I do, and if you accept that evidence then we will be agreed. If I have accepted false evidence, or if my logic is flawed, you are my friend to show me a better way. But for others to determine that if I will not accept their religion, then they must kill me and destroy all that I have is completely repugnant to all humanity. Read, study, think and make decisions that are logical based upon available evidence. May you always walk with God." [/End Quote]
This is the only email, I disagree with the classification of. While the Sender may have exaggerated his time spent studying, the overall point of his post is far from crazy, unless of course you are a blind left wing loon.
He is referring to the fact (yes fact, it is in the history books) that Islam declared war on Western Civilization over 900 years ago now, and that culturally they (Muslims) do not care how long it takes to win a war, be it hours, days, years, centuries, or millenniums. Muslims (especially those in the middle east) do not share the same concept of time that Western Civilization follows.
It is all about world view, and Muslims do not share, or respect, the Western World view.
Perhaps you should study cultures other than those in Western Europe and North America before declaring someone crazy.
RedHat already stabbed the home user in the back with Fedora, and no box in the store for $49 anymore. So I seriously doubt any of their MS loving customers would care if MS bought them out.
Tell me that in 15 years when England is an Islamic State. When your women wear burkas. When your Liberals lie dead in the streets. When your Christians serve as torches for the sport of Imams. When Sharia is the Law of the Land, and the Magna Carte is no more. Then Tell my your way of life is not under threat.
The Fact of the matter is, Islam has been at war with the West since the Crusades. Muslims do not think like Westerners. To Put Western Logic over Muslims and expect them to ask as we would shows a complete lack of understanding of who and what they are. Islam has been in Active jihad against the West since the end of WW1, when the Brits and Frenchies lied to them about giving them their own state.
Unless the West wakes up, and sees the same Big Picture that Islams sees, The West is lost.
One of the reasons we don't want to spend all the $$ to comply with RealID, is that we just completely redid our driver's licenses in the last 4 years, at a significant cost. The new ones are much harder to fake, and have both index finger's prints electronically bar coded on them. Our ID's have plenty of info about us now, no more is necessary.
The Fed, just needs to mind its own broken fences, instead of telling us how to keep ours from falling.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
It is true, Windows NT 3.1 = MS OS/2 with windows 3.1 interface on top. Basically Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 are the MS version of OS/2 with their own GUI tacked on top, so technically Gates got this one correct.
And here I thought Slashdotter's were a bunch of love, peace, and compassion liberal types. The bottom of the foot in Thailand is just as offensive as a Mohamed Cartoon is to Muslims, or a Statue of Jesus made of feces is to Christians.
The laws against doing this to the King, are enforced. The cops in Thailand don't have to come looking for you either, The people will turn you in, for stepping on a Coin with the Kings image on it.
Frankly, if the persons doing this become known, they should expect assassination. Doing this is stupid, and it is obviously being done by a non-Thai.
What happened to respecting other peoples cultures and religious beliefs anyway?
If people are making real world cash playing an mmorpg, then yes they should pay taxes on that income. However, where no real world cash is involved the government has no business even contemplating taxing people.
I play the old school Ultima Online, I am not going to pay taxes on virtual items, that I don't own (all in game items belong to EA, they just let us use them for a monthly fee).
Now If I was selling that stuff on a website, for U.S. Dollars, then yea, I pay Tax, but otherwise, Uncle Sam, Kiss me hairy arse.
I got a Death threat on one of my blogs Yesterday. WTF is wrong with people. The stupid part was it was a response to a complaint I posted about the Business Practices of Electronic Arts Inc.
I took the 90 day trial of OneCare a while back. It worked fine for the first 45 days, and then It Inexplicably decided one of its key files needed deleting (didn't call it a virus) and then I found out the only way to fix it was to completely remove the product and then reinstall it. I went back to Norton after that, At least Norton's Add/Remove function has a repair the install option.
Just look at my post in/. politics and my bad karma rating:)
Frankly I think you socialists make better software than the capitalists in Redmond:) That and even a right winger like me knows it is not a good idea for one Individual/Company to control information flow.
Bleh Windows 95 Wanted a 486 66 with 8mb ram minimum.
Just for kicks, I got it to run on a 386 SX 16 with 4mb of ram. (I had to install it with 8mb, but it still booted with 4). Granted it really did take 8 hours to install win95 and averaged 15 minute boot times, but it was none the less a fun experiment to try.
As a long time Windows User,and Linux experimenter(never used it for anything serious yes, though i do have fun with it)
I am not the least bit offended by the apple ads. I don't take them as an insult to me in the least. I take them as pointing out the lameness, etc of MS Windows and its creator.
I have already made up my mind, that I will be ordering a Macbook Pro within the next few months, to replace my aging dell notebook.
simple fact of the matter is, I want nothing to do with Vista.
I will keep Xp for a while on my old dell, but I plan to switch it to ubuntu as soon as I leave my current job within the next 9 months.
"Because it's anticompetitive to make deals to lock competition out of the market."
Erhm.. Dell isn't a market, its a company that competes in one.
Dell Competes with HP/Compaq, Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo etc. Intel making a deal with Dell, hardly stopped the other more that 3/4 of the market from using AMD.
Now if intel was making these deals with all of Dells competitors, then AMD would have a legit bitch.
Most likely, Like Microsoft back during the Clinton era, Intel forgot to pay their DNC bribe money.
Slashdot Mirror
This release is FUBAR..... Mandatory Tabs on top WTF????????? If i wanted to use #@$@#!!!%^&&@#!@! Chrome or IE I would!!!! DAMN YOU MOZILLA..
The TSA, AFLCIO, and the Sturmabteilung (SA)...... Ding, Ding, Ding, Their native language.....
Just ask regular players about the security of the MMORPG's that they play.
Most are regular hack fests.
Ultima Online: Scripting in the number one player complaint, but EA doesn't give a rats ass, they never ban, despide their TOS saying otherwise. Other cheats include ways to make players drop items, and using bots to monitor certain parts of the game for the sole purpose of knowing exactly when to raid, and then there is all the speed hacking (EG movement hacks) that goes on.
Lineage II: I played for 6 months, and never met another player, just about 4000 different bots.
LOTRO: Besides the game missing something, it had its share of bots.
WoW: I get spammed with cheat site URL's every time I login, regardless of realm.
Of all the above WoW seems to have it the most under control, but that doesn't mean they don't have room to improve.
Cheating is so rampant in Ultima Online anymore, that the fricken game isn't worth logging into.
I don't remember which Atari system it was, but the game was FROGGER.
Which is still one of my all time favorite games.
Where is the Ubisoft game Storm of War: Battle of Britain on that vaporware list?
It was originally supposed to ship in fall 06, and has been delayed at least 4 times that I know of.
....Have more books available than Google, but at least Google lets you download the books for offline viewing. This library currently does not, which means for certain purposes (EG taking a library with you to an area that doesn't have internet access) this library at CMU is useless.
Can someone say this in English please?
[Quote]This brings us to my favorite type of mail, the crazies. They range from the mildly disturbed to schizophrenics. I honestly wish i got more of these.
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:41:39 "I try to be very circumspect in the emails that I generate. Some of my contacts are personal friends and some are serious business contacts. I am sending this link because it reflects the hours of study that I have done (far less than the 10,000 that the author mentions). In the 1960's while being trained to go to Vietnam, I was taught that you never can understand your enemy till you understand his religion. This nation is in a war - not because we chose to be in the war - but because those on the other side believe that we have no right to exist and they are determined to destroy us and our way of life - simply because we do not share their religion. I will never try to FORCE anyone to believe as I believe. I will openly discuss the evidence that has made me believe as I do, and if you accept that evidence then we will be agreed. If I have accepted false evidence, or if my logic is flawed, you are my friend to show me a better way. But for others to determine that if I will not accept their religion, then they must kill me and destroy all that I have is completely repugnant to all humanity. Read, study, think and make decisions that are logical based upon available evidence. May you always walk with God." [/End Quote]
This is the only email, I disagree with the classification of.
While the Sender may have exaggerated his time spent studying, the overall point of his post is far from crazy, unless of course you are a blind left wing loon.
He is referring to the fact (yes fact, it is in the history books) that Islam declared war on Western Civilization over 900 years ago now, and that culturally they (Muslims) do not care how long it takes to win a war, be it hours, days, years, centuries, or millenniums. Muslims (especially those in the middle east) do not share the same concept of time that Western Civilization follows.
It is all about world view, and Muslims do not share, or respect, the Western World view.
Perhaps you should study cultures other than those in Western Europe and North America before declaring someone crazy.
REDHAT......
RedHat already stabbed the home user in the back with Fedora, and no box in the store for $49 anymore.
So I seriously doubt any of their MS loving customers would care if MS bought them out.
"Our way of life is not under threat!"
Tell me that in 15 years when England is an Islamic State.
When your women wear burkas.
When your Liberals lie dead in the streets.
When your Christians serve as torches for the sport of Imams.
When Sharia is the Law of the Land, and the Magna Carte is no more.
Then Tell my your way of life is not under threat.
The Fact of the matter is, Islam has been at war with the West since the Crusades.
Muslims do not think like Westerners. To Put Western Logic over Muslims and expect them to ask as we would shows a complete lack of understanding of who and what they are.
Islam has been in Active jihad against the West since the end of WW1, when the Brits and Frenchies lied to them about giving them their own state.
Unless the West wakes up, and sees the same Big Picture that Islams sees,
The West is lost.
Does it run Linux?
I am from Oklahoma.
One of the reasons we don't want to spend all the $$ to comply with RealID, is that
we just completely redid our driver's licenses in the last 4 years, at a significant cost.
The new ones are much harder to fake, and have both index finger's prints electronically bar coded on them.
Our ID's have plenty of info about us now, no more is necessary.
The Fed, just needs to mind its own broken fences, instead of telling us how to keep ours from falling.
For me, I just like to use it, to make people think I am doing something.
Keeps the snoops on their toes.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
It is true, Windows NT 3.1 = MS OS/2 with windows 3.1 interface on top.
Basically Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 are the MS version of OS/2 with their own GUI tacked on top, so technically
Gates got this one correct.
[quote]The bank down the street from me still has windows 98 desktops on their desks![/quote]
I hope you don't bank there, but if you do can I have your ID?
And here I thought Slashdotter's were a bunch of love, peace, and compassion liberal types.
The bottom of the foot in Thailand is just as offensive as a Mohamed Cartoon is to Muslims,
or a Statue of Jesus made of feces is to Christians.
The laws against doing this to the King, are enforced.
The cops in Thailand don't have to come looking for you either,
The people will turn you in, for stepping on a Coin with the Kings image on it.
Frankly, if the persons doing this become known, they should expect assassination.
Doing this is stupid, and it is obviously being done by a non-Thai.
What happened to respecting other peoples cultures and religious beliefs anyway?
If people are making real world cash playing an mmorpg, then yes they should pay taxes on that income.
However, where no real world cash is involved the government has no business even contemplating taxing people.
I play the old school Ultima Online, I am not going to pay taxes on virtual items, that I don't own (all in game items belong to EA, they just let us use them for a monthly fee).
Now If I was selling that stuff on a website, for U.S. Dollars, then yea, I pay Tax, but otherwise, Uncle Sam, Kiss me hairy arse.
Yea, its a war zone,
I got a Death threat on one of my blogs Yesterday.
WTF is wrong with people. The stupid part was it was a
response to a complaint I posted about the Business
Practices of Electronic Arts Inc.
Me: EA suxxors
Them: DIE SCUM
WTH?
I took the 90 day trial of OneCare a while back. It worked fine for the first 45 days, and then It Inexplicably decided one of its key files needed deleting (didn't call it a virus) and then I found out the only way to fix it was to completely remove the product and then reinstall it. I went back to Norton after that, At least Norton's Add/Remove function has a repair the install option.
Bah, I liked Doom 3, and bought it and its expansion pack.
I also Enjoyed Quake 4.
But then I have purchased almost every game ID has made since Wolfenstein 3D too.
That being said, they should have spent more time on the Story elements (like the folks that made Half-life/Half-life 2 did.
Just look at my post in /. politics and my bad karma rating :)
:)
Frankly I think you socialists make better software than the capitalists in Redmond
That and even a right winger like me knows it is not a good idea for one Individual/Company to control information flow.
cheers
Bleh Windows 95 Wanted a 486 66 with 8mb ram minimum.
Just for kicks, I got it to run on a 386 SX 16 with 4mb of ram. (I had to install it with 8mb, but it still booted with 4). Granted it really did take 8 hours to install win95 and averaged 15 minute boot times, but it was none the less a fun experiment to try.
As a long time Windows User,and Linux experimenter(never used it for anything serious yes, though i do have fun with it)
I am not the least bit offended by the apple ads. I don't take them as an insult to me in the least.
I take them as pointing out the lameness, etc of MS Windows and its creator.
I have already made up my mind, that I will be ordering a Macbook Pro within the next few months, to replace my aging dell notebook.
simple fact of the matter is, I want nothing to do with Vista.
I will keep Xp for a while on my old dell, but I plan to switch it to ubuntu as soon as I leave my current job within the next 9 months.
"Because it's anticompetitive to make deals to lock competition out of the market."
Erhm.. Dell isn't a market, its a company that competes in one.
Dell Competes with HP/Compaq, Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo etc.
Intel making a deal with Dell, hardly stopped the other more that 3/4 of the market from using AMD.
Now if intel was making these deals with all of Dells competitors, then AMD would have a legit bitch.
Most likely, Like Microsoft back during the Clinton era, Intel forgot to pay their DNC bribe money.
The Last time I quit a job, I have my employer a 14 month notice. I knew my boss, I knew when I needed to leave, so I gave him notice.
It took him almost that long to find my replacement too.
Either way, I have a great reference with him if I need it, and a job there anytime I want it.