In reality, it is EA who are the thieves. Try this: Buy a game for download from EA at a friends house (since there is no "gift" function like in Steam), and start the download. Go home and buy it for yourself, using Paypal. EA will take you through the Paypal payment process, charge you, then spit you out on a page that says "Oops! Our records show you have already purchased SPORE Creature Creator (PC Download). Only 1 digital download purchase of a particular title is allowed. You will not be charged for SPORE Creature Creator (PC Download) at this time."
Lucky for EA, they already charged you. I tried to get my money back and it took WEEKS after the support email told me it would be addressed in 24 hours. The only reason I really knew EA had robbed me was looking through my Paypal history, so I can't help but wonder how many people they have gotten away with double-charging.
C. The 2005 Chevy Tahoe gets around 19 mpg on the highway per fueleconomy.gov, while the 2005 Hummer H2 gets anywhere from 8 to 11 depending on who you ask. Ofcourse, consuming nearly double the gasoline isn't "destroying the earth more quickly" or anything... (weight being an important factor)
Heap overflows can be just as dangerous as stack overflows, although nontrivial to exploit.
Stack overflows are preventable too though. Overwriting returns via stack overflows are totally preventable by using a separate stack for storing return addresses (as in Forth). Data overwrites are preventable in varying degrees with sentry values.
You are right, in that booting off the hard will not be as fast as booting off flash memory.
However, it is established that the original poster does not have flash memory, and will not upgrade hardware. So we have to look for the optimal solution short of that. I think it is a reasonable assumption that a fair portion of the speed gains from a specialized "speed-boot" os will not be lost. An os designed to boot from flash memory should be very small in the first place, meaning less drive read time.
Why do good posts like this so often get modded badly, while FALSE posts like those contradicting it get modded insightful.
Read: "Splashtop is preinstalled on the hard drive or in the on-board Flash memory of new PCs and motherboards by their manufacturers. Splashtop is a software-only solution that requires no additional hardware. A small component of Splashtop is embedded in the BIOS of the PC - that's the part that runs as soon as you press the power button."
This should make it obvious, along with the couple intelligent posters who noted that it can boot from an HD.
Maybe Slashdot needs to start restricting mod points to those who aren't idiots?
"Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time."
Fuck all you who modded me troll. Troll isn't "-1 I disagree with poster", if that is how you feel have the fucking balls to respond. I hope you all burn in meta-mod hell
Killfiles were a feature of the newsreaders, so it is fitting that the equivalent should be done on the client end. And it is: there are dozens of GreaseMonkey scripts to enable FireFox to have this feature in certain contexts. These could be adapted to any forum context, for example there is one for WOW forums. (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/816). This one is for PHPbb: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12299
It would probably be better to handle it server side in reality, but I don't see any obvious software like that in existence. Make it, maybe?
Explain? There is nothing Usenet does that can't be duplicated in web application form, and I've never seen a forum with anywhere near the amount of spam Usenet has. Throw in, basically, everything you could call a feature (PMs, access levels to private forums, shoutboxes, infinite extendability to add any feature you want...), and your statement sounds like BS.
What are you talking about? Did you read my logic? I said nothing even remotely like that, I didn't even support the banning of alt.*.
My argument is over whether or not anyone gives a crap. If you extended my logic to the entire internet, the outcome would be opposite: 21% of the earths populating uses the internet, so we should damn fucking well care.
A) My analysis is being applied to the medium. Applying it to websites is not an extension of the logic, it is applying it in an entirely different way: HTTP vs Usenet is a very different comparison than TMZ.com vs Slashdot.org. Additionally, if Slashdot.org became infamous as having a large segment (say linux.slashdot.org) that contained a notable percentage warez and child porn, it would not just be that segment that would be shut down, and noone would be weeping for us.
B) First off, television is transmitted over radio. The radio you are referring to is broadcast audio, while TV is broadcast audio+video. Arguing that radio should be bagged (...) is more like arguing the TCP/IP protocol should be bagged because HTTP is better. Secondly, audio radio serves a variety of purposes that audio-video radio is ineffective for: listening to music, getting information portably (in a car/at a work site). A television set is unwieldy and unsuitable for these purposes.
Meanwhile, the difference between usenet and, say, an HTTP clone are not comparable at all. There is no mass societal want for "discussion group" sans web browser.
It's called HTTP and it allows for services that are _BETTER THAN USENET_.
Lets take a look at who really cares about usenet. I can't really guess how many usenet users there are, but according to (1) I can say usenet message volume (this month) is between 9 and 10 million messages per day, including spam which is a very significant portion. Based on (2), I can get a good estimate of the number of internet users world wide: about 1.4 billion. That comes out to 0.0071 messages per user/per day. It is probably a safe assumption that usenet users responsible for a majority of those posts post atleast once every 2 days (50% of all days). This puts an extremely outward guess on the number of usenet users at 0.0142% of total internet users.
Botting programs aren't all it is intended to stop. As a matter of fact, botting is not preventable, it can only be limited in power. You could always hook up a device that would give keyboard input, and pass the video through it. What they do a fairly good job of stopping (making very difficult at least) is getting read/write access to the memory, forcing bots to rely on interpreting pixel data, which is rather unreliable, and preventing many hacks that result from those games having bad client/server separation of trust.
For example, the Korean game MapleStory relies on the client to handle lots of the monster positioning: in a given map, every client is responsible for an equal share of monster positions. This means that when you are alone, you could cause your client to lie, and warp all the monster to one spot. It would cost huge amounts to upgrade their infrastructure to handle all that positioning on the server, so they do their best to make the client trusted.
Nowadays, people use CPU virtualization to circumvent such rootkits.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world,
those who make binary jokes, and the other 9, but I won't go into those.
This article is already at -1, what do you think Idle is?
Wait, you can use Usenet interactively without an internet connection, using SOUP? So it generates fake messages?
In reality, it is EA who are the thieves. Try this:
Buy a game for download from EA at a friends house (since there is no "gift" function like in Steam), and start the download. Go home and buy it for yourself, using Paypal.
EA will take you through the Paypal payment process, charge you, then spit you out on a page that says "Oops! Our records show you have already purchased SPORE Creature Creator (PC Download). Only 1 digital download purchase of a particular title is allowed. You will not be charged for SPORE Creature Creator (PC Download) at this time."
Lucky for EA, they already charged you. I tried to get my money back and it took WEEKS after the support email told me it would be addressed in 24 hours.
The only reason I really knew EA had robbed me was looking through my Paypal history, so I can't help but wonder how many people they have gotten away with double-charging.
C. The 2005 Chevy Tahoe gets around 19 mpg on the highway per fueleconomy.gov, while the 2005 Hummer H2 gets anywhere from 8 to 11 depending on who you ask. Ofcourse, consuming nearly double the gasoline isn't "destroying the earth more quickly" or anything... (weight being an important factor)
~nog_lorp
Obviously the best choice is stet. The corrected versions are hardly funny at all! But, "How girl get pragnent" - priceless comedy.
Heap overflows can be just as dangerous as stack overflows, although nontrivial to exploit.
Stack overflows are preventable too though.
Overwriting returns via stack overflows are totally preventable by using a separate stack for storing return addresses (as in Forth).
Data overwrites are preventable in varying degrees with sentry values.
Watch out, they are making laws against this "cyber-stalking" stuff. Crazy times we live in!
As said elsewhere, his existing hardware can run Splashtop - there is no limitation forcing it to be run from flash memory.
Mod parent "-1 Oversight-ful"
Wrong, click Open Source -> Developers, and fill in the form, and they email you a download link for the source code.
Why does this go up every time I see it. There is no limitation from running it on a harddrive, so this is wrong.
You are right, in that booting off the hard will not be as fast as booting off flash memory.
However, it is established that the original poster does not have flash memory, and will not upgrade hardware. So we have to look for the optimal solution short of that. I think it is a reasonable assumption that a fair portion of the speed gains from a specialized "speed-boot" os will not be lost. An os designed to boot from flash memory should be very small in the first place, meaning less drive read time.
http://www.splashtop.com/open_source.php
not sure if this will work for more than one download:
http://www.splashtop.com/download3.php?token=65eb5d4d45596da51f6a92f44811e0a2
Read my post much?
"preinstalled on the hard drive or in the on-board Flash memory"
you DO NOT NEED flashable bios memory.
Why do good posts like this so often get modded badly, while FALSE posts like those contradicting it get modded insightful.
Read:
"Splashtop is preinstalled on the hard drive or in the on-board Flash memory of new PCs and motherboards by their manufacturers. Splashtop is a software-only solution that requires no additional hardware. A small component of Splashtop is embedded in the BIOS of the PC - that's the part that runs as soon as you press the power button."
This should make it obvious, along with the couple intelligent posters who noted that it can boot from an HD.
Maybe Slashdot needs to start restricting mod points to those who aren't idiots?
Lol, fine :(
"Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time."
Fuck all you who modded me troll. Troll isn't "-1 I disagree with poster", if that is how you feel have the fucking balls to respond. I hope you all burn in meta-mod hell
I thought it went like so:
:(.
electron, anti-electron (aka positron)
proton, anti-proton (aka negatron)
but alas, I am wrong
Anti-proton doesn't get a cool name? Electron's taking negatron just leaves anti-protons with... antitron? That sucks!
Damn you Irish physicist G. J. Stoney (1826â€"1911)!
Killfiles were a feature of the newsreaders, so it is fitting that the equivalent should be done on the client end. And it is: there are dozens of GreaseMonkey scripts to enable FireFox to have this feature in certain contexts. These could be adapted to any forum context, for example there is one for WOW forums. (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/816). This one is for PHPbb: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12299
It would probably be better to handle it server side in reality, but I don't see any obvious software like that in existence. Make it, maybe?
Explain? There is nothing Usenet does that can't be duplicated in web application form, and I've never seen a forum with anywhere near the amount of spam Usenet has. Throw in, basically, everything you could call a feature (PMs, access levels to private forums, shoutboxes, infinite extendability to add any feature you want...), and your statement sounds like BS.
What are you talking about? Did you read my logic? I said nothing even remotely like that, I didn't even support the banning of alt.*.
My argument is over whether or not anyone gives a crap. If you extended my logic to the entire internet, the outcome would be opposite: 21% of the earths populating uses the internet, so we should damn fucking well care.
A) My analysis is being applied to the medium. Applying it to websites is not an extension of the logic, it is applying it in an entirely different way: HTTP vs Usenet is a very different comparison than TMZ.com vs Slashdot.org. Additionally, if Slashdot.org became infamous as having a large segment (say linux.slashdot.org) that contained a notable percentage warez and child porn, it would not just be that segment that would be shut down, and noone would be weeping for us.
B) First off, television is transmitted over radio. The radio you are referring to is broadcast audio, while TV is broadcast audio+video. Arguing that radio should be bagged (...) is more like arguing the TCP/IP protocol should be bagged because HTTP is better.
Secondly, audio radio serves a variety of purposes that audio-video radio is ineffective for: listening to music, getting information portably (in a car/at a work site). A television set is unwieldy and unsuitable for these purposes.
Meanwhile, the difference between usenet and, say, an HTTP clone are not comparable at all. There is no mass societal want for "discussion group" sans web browser.
It's called HTTP and it allows for services that are _BETTER THAN USENET_.
Lets take a look at who really cares about usenet. I can't really guess how many usenet users there are, but according to (1) I can say usenet message volume (this month) is between 9 and 10 million messages per day, including spam which is a very significant portion. Based on (2), I can get a good estimate of the number of internet users world wide: about 1.4 billion.
That comes out to 0.0071 messages per user/per day. It is probably a safe assumption that usenet users responsible for a majority of those posts post atleast once every 2 days (50% of all days). This puts an extremely outward guess on the number of usenet users at 0.0142% of total internet users.
Really, just let the fucking thing die already.
1: http://newsadmin.com/feedmessages.htm
2: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Botting programs aren't all it is intended to stop. As a matter of fact, botting is not preventable, it can only be limited in power. You could always hook up a device that would give keyboard input, and pass the video through it. What they do a fairly good job of stopping (making very difficult at least) is getting read/write access to the memory, forcing bots to rely on interpreting pixel data, which is rather unreliable, and preventing many hacks that result from those games having bad client/server separation of trust.
For example, the Korean game MapleStory relies on the client to handle lots of the monster positioning: in a given map, every client is responsible for an equal share of monster positions. This means that when you are alone, you could cause your client to lie, and warp all the monster to one spot. It would cost huge amounts to upgrade their infrastructure to handle all that positioning on the server, so they do their best to make the client trusted.
Nowadays, people use CPU virtualization to circumvent such rootkits.
Because to do that you need to be a Senator!