every time the BullShit Alliance releases its "piracy survey" I have to say this again:
Their Calculation goes like this:
piracy = software necessity per PC (estimate) * number of PCs - sold software
(see: Wikipedia)
as you can see, they just have to raise their estimates of "how much software a PC needs" a little bit to skyrocket the piracy... also they don't consider people using free software or older versions of software, so all in all their piracy report means nothing more than "we would have wanted to sell THIS much more software!"
And I thought after we got rid of george w bush, all the "al quaeda this" and "axis of evil that" and "osama this" and "emmanuel goldstein that", "give me all your money and all your rights or they'll kill you" would finally stop...
you know the literal translation of the word "terror" from latin is "fear" and a "terrorist" by definition is someone who makes you afraid. some people make you afraid by crashing planes or detonating bombs in your country or by sending you terror-threat videos. some people make you afraid by constantly telling you there was a bogeyman that is about to kill you - using his weapons of mass destruction unless we start a war etc.
wake up! your own government and your own media terrorize you far worse than al quaeda ever did! If you run scared everytime someone says "bogeyman", then the terrorists have won, because you are scared and THAT is exactly what they WANT
if this game was amazing, I wouldn't ask this, but what has this to do with "stuff that matters"? it's just a pretty lame game - no innovative ideas, no innovative gameplay (like in "this is the only level"), not very funny concept (like "fantasy telemarketer"), no sweet sweet violence (like "barbarian onslaught") - just plain NOTHING interesting about it
I just don't see what this game "finally gets right" - IMHO its is like tons of other games, just with worse graphics...
PLUS i have to say, that I find it ridiculous (and a very noob thing to do) that they offer 2 zip files instead of embedding the.swf into the website (do they want to save traffic?) - especially it's ridiculous that there is a 2.76 MB "pc" version (that does not run on my linux pc) and a 468 KB "mac" version (that runs on my linux pc)... the mac version would even run on windows, too and given its smaller filesize, why would you offer the.exe version, if you wanted to save traffic!? you could play it 6 times on average in an embedded form until the download of the.exe pays off, trafficwise...
and as a german it pisses me off, that "z" is for jumping, since german keyboards have "z" where americans have "y", so I constantly have to move my left hand around on my keyboard, which gets you killed if you have to react fast
BOTTOM LINE: its a lame, dispensable game and the form of distribution is stupid... save your time and do something else!
July 287th, 1914: Start of WW1 September 1916: First panzers used by britains January 19th, 1917: Zimmerman note April 6th, 1917: USA enters WW1 Spring 1918s: USA starts producing panzers November 11th, 1918: End of WW1
But I guess for someone who visited an american "school", wars don't exist until YOU participate and Panzers don't exist until YOU use them... man, how can a whole country be so f*cking self-centered?
yes, but the numbers clearly show that this isn't a security problem in unix(oid) systems - it's a misconfiguration of SOME unix(oid)s, which only shows that SOME users of unix(oid)s are incompetent - and that is far from newsworthy...
It amazes me how a botnet with < 1000 hosts gets a news article... not all linux admins are competent - wow!
how does that compare to windows-botnets with > 1,000,000 zombies? (don't tell me this was because of linux' low marketshare - linux has around 10% marketshare if you count the servermarket. So if marketshare was the only factor, then there shouldn't be much more than 9 times as many infected windows machines, so windows botnets with more than 6,930 zombies would already be newsworthy either)
rtfa - it says there are 770 bots with 32 attempts each - that's less than 26^4 so this can't even brute-force
passwords with 5 lowercase characters!. So this means that
either they have very short passwords with a high probability of being guessed in an attack with randomized passwords (I don't think you could compromise >100 machines that way, since even if all machines had lowercase 6-character passwords your expectation-value is 1 success in 12,537 attempts)
or their root-passwords are on wordlists
in both cases: if you use such a weak ROOTpassword, it's your own fault!
IMHO this is just an attempt to badmouth linux, by an OpenBSD fanboi (btw. I respect OpenBSD, but I think its installer should be easy enough for a graduate computerscientist to use it...)
The industry will be satisfied when they gain the ability to monitor everyone's net connection
which will cause anonymous p2p to catch on (like frost in the freenet). And if that happens - and nobody ever has to be afraid to be caught again - then the content industry is dead...
so to rephrase your statement: the industry will be satisfied when they commited suicide...
It's so simple: both cost 60 bucks because that is what people are prepared to pay TODAY... I remember when I started gaming on a PC in 1996, in germany a top game cost DM 70 (which was about $45-$50 back then) - over the time they increased the price for a top game slowly but steadily and today we pay EUR 60 (which is about $90).
given, games today look much better (more work), but on the other hand: back then there were no programming frameworks, no unified level-editors, no armature, tougher hardware boundaries and they had a much smaller target group (because not so many people had PCs), so all in all I guess that little of the increased prices is actually justified...
some day the price will go to $70 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle"
some day the price will go to $80 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle"
some day the price will go to $90 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle" ...
That doesn't sound so puzzling but I might be thinking four-dimensionally like Doc Brown told me to... no actually I think I understand it because I can imagine how it is programmed: it makes a savegame, then it records a demo of you playing, then it loads the savegame and plays the demo but lets you play while the demo is running...
so it might be like this: go and push the button that opens the door across the room (which closes when you leave the button) then you shift back, the recording of your actions goes and pushes the button (because that is what you did before), opening the door and you can pass it...
If COBOL still mattered that much today, then WHY can you hardly find any tutorials online? let alone formal language definitions! all I could find were some code examples which acutally look like the language is designed to be "compiled" using search & replace! seriously, it hardly looks like more than ASM with different names for the opcodes...
because it can be used to assist copyright infringement. "He went on to suggest that any website offering the software alongside advertising (i.e, trying to profit from offering it) would be committing a crime, punishable by between two and four years in jail."
well you can use any webbrowser to download copyrighted stuff from filehosters, so why isn't steve ballmer in jail for 4 years? they distribute IE on their website and even sell it (together with some other stuff) on discs!
furthermore you CAN use a butterknife for murder, so why isn't every owner of a supermarket, that sells butterknifes, in jail?
this is one of the most stupid court descisions I have EVER heared of!
you just bought yourself a lawsuit from Disney, because of trademark infringement (on the phrase "happiest place on earth") - rewriting "happi" to "sad" is just a minor change, that won't get you off the hook...
backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible
in other words:
buy windows 7, damn it!
it's the same feigned argument as when they refused to port DX10 to XP to boost Vista sales - uh - I mean it was because it's technically impossible... it's just that hackers ported it to XP later....
OOOOOOH! NOW I SEE! I should have been HAPPY about the GREAT DRM, when 3 games, that I bought didn't run and the fucking stores didn't take them back, because they were opened...
THANK YOU for opening my eyes, fuckhead!
[...] uses FTP passwords that have been stolen using password sniffers.
so this is just about some servers which were hacked MANUALLY (which I guess means that we are talking about less than 100 machines) and which are used as command-and-control servers for a windows-botnet!?
THAT is your story!? "some Admins are underqualified"!? NOTHING MORE!? and that is why you proclaim the end of linux security!? ARE YOU FSCKING KIDDING ME!?
then why can the following program create any possible AI?
// this program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 3 #include<iostream> #include<string> #include<fstream> using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char** argv) { string prog; while(true) { for(int i = prog.size()-1; i >= 0; --i)// change program if(prog[i] < 127) { prog[i]++; goto writeprog; } // all cells were 255 => make bigger programs prog = string(prog.size()+1, (char)(0));
writeprog: ofstream progfile("latestprog.cpp"); progfile << "// this program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 3\n"; progfile << prog; progfile.close();
btw - this program licenses every possible program under the GPL3 - thus every non-GPL3 program from now on infringes the intellectual property of this program...
That is really the only way to keep them up-to-date.
you must be a windows user... every friggin Linux Distro keeps flash up-to-date without third-party apps doing stuff, which is OS-business (especially when the user might not have administrator privileges)
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Their Calculation goes like this:
as you can see, they just have to raise their estimates of "how much software a PC needs" a little bit to skyrocket the piracy... also they don't consider people using free software or older versions of software, so all in all their piracy report means nothing more than "we would have wanted to sell THIS much more software!"
And I thought after we got rid of george w bush, all the "al quaeda this" and "axis of evil that" and "osama this" and "emmanuel goldstein that", "give me all your money and all your rights or they'll kill you" would finally stop...
you know the literal translation of the word "terror" from latin is "fear" and a "terrorist" by definition is someone who makes you afraid. some people make you afraid by crashing planes or detonating bombs in your country or by sending you terror-threat videos. some people make you afraid by constantly telling you there was a bogeyman that is about to kill you - using his weapons of mass destruction unless we start a war etc.
wake up! your own government and your own media terrorize you far worse than al quaeda ever did! If you run scared everytime someone says "bogeyman", then the terrorists have won, because you are scared and THAT is exactly what they WANT
not before SP2...
if this game was amazing, I wouldn't ask this, but what has this to do with "stuff that matters"? it's just a pretty lame game - no innovative ideas, no innovative gameplay (like in "this is the only level"), not very funny concept (like "fantasy telemarketer"), no sweet sweet violence (like "barbarian onslaught") - just plain NOTHING interesting about it
.swf into the website (do they want to save traffic?) - especially it's ridiculous that there is a 2.76 MB "pc" version (that does not run on my linux pc) and a 468 KB "mac" version (that runs on my linux pc)... the mac version would even run on windows, too and given its smaller filesize, why would you offer the .exe version, if you wanted to save traffic!? you could play it 6 times on average in an embedded form until the download of the .exe pays off, trafficwise...
I just don't see what this game "finally gets right" - IMHO its is like tons of other games, just with worse graphics...
PLUS i have to say, that I find it ridiculous (and a very noob thing to do) that they offer 2 zip files instead of embedding the
and as a german it pisses me off, that "z" is for jumping, since german keyboards have "z" where americans have "y", so I constantly have to move my left hand around on my keyboard, which gets you killed if you have to react fast
BOTTOM LINE: its a lame, dispensable game and the form of distribution is stupid... save your time and do something else!
July 287th, 1914: Start of WW1
September 1916: First panzers used by britains
January 19th, 1917: Zimmerman note
April 6th, 1917: USA enters WW1
Spring 1918s: USA starts producing panzers
November 11th, 1918: End of WW1
But I guess for someone who visited an american "school", wars don't exist until YOU participate and Panzers don't exist until YOU use them... man, how can a whole country be so f*cking self-centered?
yes, but the numbers clearly show that this isn't a security problem in unix(oid) systems - it's a misconfiguration of SOME unix(oid)s, which only shows that SOME users of unix(oid)s are incompetent - and that is far from newsworthy...
how does that compare to windows-botnets with > 1,000,000 zombies? (don't tell me this was because of linux' low marketshare - linux has around 10% marketshare if you count the servermarket. So if marketshare was the only factor, then there shouldn't be much more than 9 times as many infected windows machines, so windows botnets with more than 6,930 zombies would already be newsworthy either)
rtfa - it says there are 770 bots with 32 attempts each - that's less than 26^4 so this can't even brute-force passwords with 5 lowercase characters!. So this means that
in both cases: if you use such a weak ROOTpassword, it's your own fault!
IMHO this is just an attempt to badmouth linux, by an OpenBSD fanboi (btw. I respect OpenBSD, but I think its installer should be easy enough for a graduate computerscientist to use it...)
which will cause anonymous p2p to catch on (like frost in the freenet). And if that happens - and nobody ever has to be afraid to be caught again - then the content industry is dead...
so to rephrase your statement: the industry will be satisfied when they commited suicide...
Sorry, nothing to see here - I have no time to comment, I have to go to bed...
It's so simple: both cost 60 bucks because that is what people are prepared to pay TODAY... I remember when I started gaming on a PC in 1996, in germany a top game cost DM 70 (which was about $45-$50 back then) - over the time they increased the price for a top game slowly but steadily and today we pay EUR 60 (which is about $90).
...
given, games today look much better (more work), but on the other hand: back then there were no programming frameworks, no unified level-editors, no armature, tougher hardware boundaries and they had a much smaller target group (because not so many people had PCs), so all in all I guess that little of the increased prices is actually justified...
some day the price will go to $70 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle"
some day the price will go to $80 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle"
some day the price will go to $90 and people will say "well, that's just 10 bucks more than what I'm used to - I'm prepared to pay such a little extra for a TOP title like $TopTitle"
and watching the vid on the site confirms everything I had thought...
That doesn't sound so puzzling but I might be thinking four-dimensionally like Doc Brown told me to... no actually I think I understand it because I can imagine how it is programmed: it makes a savegame, then it records a demo of you playing, then it loads the savegame and plays the demo but lets you play while the demo is running...
so it might be like this: go and push the button that opens the door across the room (which closes when you leave the button) then you shift back, the recording of your actions goes and pushes the button (because that is what you did before), opening the door and you can pass it...
If COBOL still mattered that much today, then WHY can you hardly find any tutorials online? let alone formal language definitions! all I could find were some code examples which acutally look like the language is designed to be "compiled" using search & replace! seriously, it hardly looks like more than ASM with different names for the opcodes...
well you can use any webbrowser to download copyrighted stuff from filehosters, so why isn't steve ballmer in jail for 4 years? they distribute IE on their website and even sell it (together with some other stuff) on discs!
furthermore you CAN use a butterknife for murder, so why isn't every owner of a supermarket, that sells butterknifes, in jail?
this is one of the most stupid court descisions I have EVER heared of!
you just bought yourself a lawsuit from Disney, because of trademark infringement (on the phrase "happiest place on earth") - rewriting "happi" to "sad" is just a minor change, that won't get you off the hook...
in other words:
it's the same feigned argument as when they refused to port DX10 to XP to boost Vista sales - uh - I mean it was because it's technically impossible... it's just that hackers ported it to XP later....
OOOOOOH! NOW I SEE! I should have been HAPPY about the GREAT DRM, when 3 games, that I bought didn't run and the fucking stores didn't take them back, because they were opened...
THANK YOU for opening my eyes, fuckhead!
Will it have GPS or can you circumvent the system by attatching a photo of your garage to it?
so this is just about some servers which were hacked MANUALLY (which I guess means that we are talking about less than 100 machines) and which are used as command-and-control servers for a windows-botnet!?
THAT is your story!? "some Admins are underqualified"!? NOTHING MORE!? and that is why you proclaim the end of linux security!? ARE YOU FSCKING KIDDING ME!?
In other words
"damn, why didn't we come up with this? Can we steal the idea?"
"no, it would be TO obvious"
"damn, what else can we do?"
Telnet or VNC?
btw - this program licenses every possible program under the GPL3 - thus every non-GPL3 program from now on infringes the intellectual property of this program...
Hi Richard ;-)
you must be a windows user... every friggin Linux Distro keeps flash up-to-date without third-party apps doing stuff, which is OS-business (especially when the user might not have administrator privileges)