Is there a bigger indictment of Slashdot's blatant liberalism? +5 insightful for a post that blames Republicans for a Democratic derailment of a bill... Somehow you've actually found a way to blame the Republicans because a bill they supported didn't get passed....
How clever of those Republicans... to secretly not want the bill passed, and make the Democrats do all the work and take the publicity hit of shooting it down...
I've come to expect dupes, glaring ommissions, and outright falsehoods from Slashdot, but up until now it had resisted posting blatantly partisan rhetoric.
This is exactly where the game industry is headed. Essentially companies will pop up a new window that says
To prevent cheating, we will be scanning your process list, and comparing hashes to known cheating programs. We will also will ninja-patch this hash table without asking your permission. If you don't like it, don't play
And most people will play and happily be spied upon, including myself. There is obviously room for abuse... but I've trusted blizzard with my credit.. and the contents of my computer, already... so if all I need to do to gaurentee less cheating is give up my process list, then fine by me. This seems to be the one and only solution to a host of cheating problems (especially maphacking in RTS games).
Google and Mapquest are only good when you know where you.
Maps are necessary when you are lost.
Nothing like pulling up lost and in need of direction to Big Jimmy's Muffler and Diner in the middle of Alabama, with 7 pages of google maps and a laptop.
2) Classifying everything is equivalent to classifying nothing. People who work with classified information which they know is bullshit tend to get contemptuous of the rules (I've seen classified documents just sitting around in public areas, no one watching them, with people milling by!) So it increases the chances of genuinely important information getting leaked.
You are setting off my bullshit alarm. I think you might have just broken it, as a matter of fact. Anything that is classified above Confidential in any respectable government organization is treated like gold. It is one of the only concievable ways people can get fired, from any government job. It is true that contractors may not treat classified information as well as the Government, but most contractors are not handling things above Secret classification in their own facitilities without massive security measures (read: vaults) and constant inspections.
I can't pretend to know where you worked or what level of classification you worked with... but at my previous job, we had people who came to work wreaking Jim Beam, every day, and didn't get fired.. but if you left something labeled SECRET on your desk, or otherwise unattended, you were gone. Point blank.
The military takes its classified information -very- seriously, and the civilians who work for them learn very quickly what happens if you mess with it. Contractors who have -one- simple security violation will be out in the cold and out millions of dollars... which is clearly worth alot more then some cavalier employee who has decided the information is "overly classified". The biggest source of leaks are politicians at the very top.. so unless you worked in Washington, I call shennanigans.
We can all agree that the policy is dumb, and we can also all agree that the previous clause of this sentence is highly irrelevant. The name is very clearly in violation of their naming policy, and therefore should have been changed. I think that the major lesson here is: If you care that much about your online persona, and realize that your online identity in these types of games is exclusively linked to your name: You might want to make a name that isn't against the rules. If you don't liek the rules, obviously, don't buy the game.
I don't see the problem, really.
>It's not broke don't fix it. (+5, Insightful)
>>Yea but America controls it and I don't like America. (+4, Interesting)
>The UN IS CORRUPT (+4, Interesting)
>> We can just have some countries control it, then (+5, Insightful)
>>> Most of those countries already censor the internet! (+5, Interesting
>>>> At least they don't bomb people! (+4, Funny)
>>>>>We saved your ass in WWII. STFU (-1 Troll)
>>>>>>Arrogant Americans. Just like all Americans. All Americans are ignorant and generalize. (1, Redundant)
>I hate microsoft (+5, Off-Topic)
This is just simply not true. Stop letting your bias blind you.
Seeing the source code IS NOT ENOUGH to verify the system is operating correctly. Obviously you distrust the machine itself (which, as a blackbox, has been tested and verified as accurate)... therefore you have to free the code! But wait, why do you trust that the compiler is correct? Guess we better get a court order to free up all compiler code, as well. Oh crap. But the hardware could be bugged. How can we be sure it is correctly executing the code? Sorry Intel, you need to publish the complete design of the XSCALE used in that thing.
It's a simple trade secret... open and shut. Opening this door would cause a world of pain. I realize everyone on slashdot is inherently socialist and thinks no one deserves the right to make money off of anything... however at some point you need to use your brain and really realize what it is you are asking for.
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Hell -- even Carter! He made some really dumb mistakes, but nobody doubts his sincere willingness to try to do what he felt was best.
You misspelled George W Bush.
Is there a bigger indictment of Slashdot's blatant liberalism? +5 insightful for a post that blames Republicans for a Democratic derailment of a bill... Somehow you've actually found a way to blame the Republicans because a bill they supported didn't get passed....
How clever of those Republicans... to secretly not want the bill passed, and make the Democrats do all the work and take the publicity hit of shooting it down...
I've come to expect dupes, glaring ommissions, and outright falsehoods from Slashdot, but up until now it had resisted posting blatantly partisan rhetoric.
You must be new here.
This is exactly where the game industry is headed. Essentially companies will pop up a new window that says
To prevent cheating, we will be scanning your process list, and comparing hashes to known cheating programs. We will also will ninja-patch this hash table without asking your permission. If you don't like it, don't play
And most people will play and happily be spied upon, including myself. There is obviously room for abuse... but I've trusted blizzard with my credit.. and the contents of my computer, already... so if all I need to do to gaurentee less cheating is give up my process list, then fine by me. This seems to be the one and only solution to a host of cheating problems (especially maphacking in RTS games).
Google and Mapquest are only good when you know where you. Maps are necessary when you are lost. Nothing like pulling up lost and in need of direction to Big Jimmy's Muffler and Diner in the middle of Alabama, with 7 pages of google maps and a laptop.
2) Classifying everything is equivalent to classifying nothing. People who work with classified information which they know is bullshit tend to get contemptuous of the rules (I've seen classified documents just sitting around in public areas, no one watching them, with people milling by!) So it increases the chances of genuinely important information getting leaked.
You are setting off my bullshit alarm. I think you might have just broken it, as a matter of fact. Anything that is classified above Confidential in any respectable government organization is treated like gold. It is one of the only concievable ways people can get fired, from any government job. It is true that contractors may not treat classified information as well as the Government, but most contractors are not handling things above Secret classification in their own facitilities without massive security measures (read: vaults) and constant inspections.
I can't pretend to know where you worked or what level of classification you worked with... but at my previous job, we had people who came to work wreaking Jim Beam, every day, and didn't get fired.. but if you left something labeled SECRET on your desk, or otherwise unattended, you were gone. Point blank.
The military takes its classified information -very- seriously, and the civilians who work for them learn very quickly what happens if you mess with it. Contractors who have -one- simple security violation will be out in the cold and out millions of dollars... which is clearly worth alot more then some cavalier employee who has decided the information is "overly classified". The biggest source of leaks are politicians at the very top.. so unless you worked in Washington, I call shennanigans.
We can all agree that the policy is dumb, and we can also all agree that the previous clause of this sentence is highly irrelevant. The name is very clearly in violation of their naming policy, and therefore should have been changed. I think that the major lesson here is: If you care that much about your online persona, and realize that your online identity in these types of games is exclusively linked to your name: You might want to make a name that isn't against the rules. If you don't liek the rules, obviously, don't buy the game. I don't see the problem, really.
I have finished this thread for you:
>It's not broke don't fix it. (+5, Insightful)
>>Yea but America controls it and I don't like America. (+4, Interesting)
>The UN IS CORRUPT (+4, Interesting)
>> We can just have some countries control it, then (+5, Insightful)
>>> Most of those countries already censor the internet! (+5, Interesting
>>>> At least they don't bomb people! (+4, Funny)
>>>>>We saved your ass in WWII. STFU (-1 Troll)
>>>>>>Arrogant Americans. Just like all Americans. All Americans are ignorant and generalize. (1, Redundant)
>I hate microsoft (+5, Off-Topic)
This is just simply not true. Stop letting your bias blind you.
Seeing the source code IS NOT ENOUGH to verify the system is operating correctly. Obviously you distrust the machine itself (which, as a blackbox, has been tested and verified as accurate)... therefore you have to free the code! But wait, why do you trust that the compiler is correct? Guess we better get a court order to free up all compiler code, as well. Oh crap. But the hardware could be bugged. How can we be sure it is correctly executing the code? Sorry Intel, you need to publish the complete design of the XSCALE used in that thing.
It's a simple trade secret... open and shut. Opening this door would cause a world of pain. I realize everyone on slashdot is inherently socialist and thinks no one deserves the right to make money off of anything... however at some point you need to use your brain and really realize what it is you are asking for.