I wouldn't have thought that you would get banned for doing it, at worse if they thought that your were cheating they might get in touch, maybe suspend your account for a little while (I highly doubt more than a week). If you really want to know before just ploughing in though you could e-mail them and ask if it will work or if there would be any issues, after that even if it does show up you could get in touch and explain.
I disagree with your first point, but agree fully about people selling crap anti-malware (why buy it? linux is free).
If all the other 0day attacks that have existed and the old classics which still rumble on aren't enought to make people care nothing will, not even myspace. Someone who lives in my building has a worm which could easily be stopped if they updated XP (It keeps trying to probe my linux box and registers as "microsoft-ds" on port 445, if you're wondering), but some people will just never care.
Still, I suppose there might be some money to be made from selling really basic anti-malware programs which might do nothing - but because they're closed source it'd be illegal to find out ; )
I like the idea of F@H, but I do worry about 1) opening up my computer to security risks and 2)damaging my computer because the processor (or now GPU) is getting hammered by always being accessed.
Are either of my worries vaild? can it damage it (or speed up its death) and what's the probability of a security threat?
They could always install GAIM in FC5, I had to ask someone to find out where the logs are kept and strangely things like Off the Record (which encrypts messages on the fly to prevent man in the middle attacks) doesn't encrypt the logs, so all you'd need to do is "cd ~/.gaim/logs" and then you know what they've been saying. If they know how to do this to cover their tracks, chances are you don't need to (or can't) monitor them.
I always used to cover my tracks pretty well when looking at pr0n, but I guess you can tell from me writting that that I'm hardly in the danger zone for posting sexual content on myspace ; )
I've been disapointed to see that the UK government hasn't been leaning on Bush more over this issue, a lot of UK based compainies lost a lot of money today (although I think that the sensible ones have been spreading the risk). The US quite rightly leant on the EU over the MS issues because MS is worth a lot to them... I would have liked to see Blair at least being active on this issue.
"one tankful of fuel drives the generator for about 10 hours at peak 100 watt performance"
they talk about putting these in mobile phones, but I wonder if they are gas powered how they will be re-filled. I wonder if we will end up in a situation where we have to wait for the gas man to come each morning if we run out
very true, although I could use something like this to plan a mission I would die immidiately if my gun didn't act exactly like it does in the game, people have better than average AI, I actually die when I get shot once (and a medi-pack couldn't stop the blood and make me ready for action again).
I would also need to be able to find guns lying around...
Other than that it would be exactly like the game and I'd be an ace terrorist.
don't use a template, it'd make it look like it's just a bot doing it, it's better to have a slightly worse e-mail which at least looks personal than just a generic one
Don't we already send out enough signals into space, many of which deal with the subject of life on our planet? If anything aliens would be getting pissed off with being inundated with out crap 24/7... and it doesn't help that they'd be getting about 3000 channels all the time so would find it really hard to tell the difference between them.
On a slightly less serious note, is it really a good idea to teach potentially hostile aliens about how we work (and by extension how to kill us)? Not to mention we know that the only people who are really going to watch are 1000 light-years away waiting for single female lawyer
so you think people should be able to permantently bind themselves and a company to one course of action eternally and that that is a sign of someone with moral responsibility? Can people not change their mind>
I think that this would be different if MS suddenly decided to GPL windows because now they think freedom and open source is important. Similarly if the RIAA continued to force people out to pay up on dubious claims based on legal might... I wonder if you would say that they have "a moral responsibility" to continue?
People change their minds, sometimes it's for the best, others it's not... it's not a bad thing
Your right on a few things, but I'll clear up the TV tuner thing. A licence costs about £130 a year.
You need to have a TV Licence to watch TV, or I think to own any equiptment which can be used to watch tv. For a TV tuner for a PC you need to fill out a form to say that you have a licence before you can buy one (or at least I did when I bought one). They do have vans which go round and look for people without licences who are watching TV, although in the first instance they just send threats through the post (I got a few last year dispite having a TV licence - they use them like mail drops really, especially in student housing).
If you are found without a tv licence watching tv you will be given £1000 fine or you could try and fight it in court (you wouldn't win) and if you lose then I'd imagine that the fine would increase.
Note that this is still true even if you never watch the BBC channels (I pretty much exclusively watch 4 and 5)... which sounds shit, but our terrible culture, media and sport minister (who is married to an "alleged" con man) said that the only way we could get rid of the licence is to replace it with a tax on computers... still, that'll be no earlier than about 2015 by which time David Cameron will be PM, and we can only hope that he's more sensible.
I pay a hell of a lot of money to the BBC every year*, all I want in return is that all of their digital content to be available through open source technology... this is a step in the wrong direction, or at best a side step. Why can't they also make it work with something like Helix player?
*which they largely squander on stupidly high pay for the executives whilst sacking many of the people responsible for content - Damn them.
Brilliant, I got mine with Goldeneye, a fantastic game and still the gold standard for FPSs, Then there was Zelda:OoT, a perfect game, stunning in every way, then Majora's mask - even better. The best game ever. In fact it was one of the best systems I've ever owned, and my first downloads on the wii back game system will be n64 games.
It didn't seem to be for me, I guess there's no excuse for not RTFA.
What I would say on this issue though, and what we should have learnt from AOL is that it's not just the small companies who either get compromised or make huge mistakes, it seems rather harsh to focus just on the small companies as if they are always bad. The best advice that I think that I could give anyone for buying anything online (regardless of who from) would be to use a credit card - then your contract is with the credit card company so it's their issue if your data gets stolen or you don't get your goods... and they have deep pockets ; )
It does make sense that in TV and films people would use free and open software on computers, they need it to look like people think a computer should look (and KDE does that) and they need to have the right to use it without worrying about being sued because it's proprietry and they like to not have to give thousands of dollars and coppies of the script over to people so the whole show doesn't get pulled for creating a negative image of software.
The only thing that amazes me is that more people aren't doing this
partly I agree, but how far up does China own the space above it? If Mars is over the UK at the moment does the Queen own that too? At what point does it stop belonging to the earth and start belonging to everyone/everything in the universe? What if these satelites were above that point?
Because you're meant to have the right to do so, if you want to say something in protest at sanctions which you see as stupid (and lets face it, banning liquids but not crystaline powers and still allowing laptops is the hight of idiocy) then you should be able to say so
I remember reading a prediction (I think it was from the 50/60s era but don't have a source) that one day there would be computers which weighs less than 3 tonnes and could fit in a standard size room!
OK, so they might not see how far somethings will go but over estimate others (moon bases?). But I would say that their accuracy is probably not as bad as you think (I'll take Nostradamous as 0-1% accurate). If you look at the original star trek then quite a few things which they had we are getting close to, such as the tricorders (which, arguably, are worse than current PDAs - they couldn't even play Vorbis files!).
I hope we get the name Biohazard in the UK (where so far all the games have been Resident Evil titles) I always did think it sounded better and so far all the games have related more to a biohazard than some kind of "evil"...
If this is just $60 for the game and that is everything you need to buy that seems like a pretty good deal, I wouldn't want to pay that then have to pay loads more for "added content"... like cars and tracks in a racing game. I don't know what the US people are used to paying for games as soon as they come out though, is $60 really that much? We're paying £50 for 360 games!
why is that unfortunate? software and hardware have always run at pretty much the same pace, but I would rather have an 80 core processor which I can keep for 10 years and update my OS to take advantage of more of the cores as time goes by than have to buy a whole new system every 3 years at least.
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I wouldn't have thought that you would get banned for doing it, at worse if they thought that your were cheating they might get in touch, maybe suspend your account for a little while (I highly doubt more than a week). If you really want to know before just ploughing in though you could e-mail them and ask if it will work or if there would be any issues, after that even if it does show up you could get in touch and explain.
Give it a go!
I disagree with your first point, but agree fully about people selling crap anti-malware (why buy it? linux is free).
If all the other 0day attacks that have existed and the old classics which still rumble on aren't enought to make people care nothing will, not even myspace. Someone who lives in my building has a worm which could easily be stopped if they updated XP (It keeps trying to probe my linux box and registers as "microsoft-ds" on port 445, if you're wondering), but some people will just never care.
Still, I suppose there might be some money to be made from selling really basic anti-malware programs which might do nothing - but because they're closed source it'd be illegal to find out ; )
I like the idea of F@H, but I do worry about 1) opening up my computer to security risks and 2)damaging my computer because the processor (or now GPU) is getting hammered by always being accessed.
Are either of my worries vaild? can it damage it (or speed up its death) and what's the probability of a security threat?
They could always install GAIM in FC5, I had to ask someone to find out where the logs are kept and strangely things like Off the Record (which encrypts messages on the fly to prevent man in the middle attacks) doesn't encrypt the logs, so all you'd need to do is "cd ~/.gaim/logs" and then you know what they've been saying. If they know how to do this to cover their tracks, chances are you don't need to (or can't) monitor them.
I always used to cover my tracks pretty well when looking at pr0n, but I guess you can tell from me writting that that I'm hardly in the danger zone for posting sexual content on myspace ; )
I've been disapointed to see that the UK government hasn't been leaning on Bush more over this issue, a lot of UK based compainies lost a lot of money today (although I think that the sensible ones have been spreading the risk). The US quite rightly leant on the EU over the MS issues because MS is worth a lot to them... I would have liked to see Blair at least being active on this issue.
"one tankful of fuel drives the generator for about 10 hours at peak 100 watt performance"
they talk about putting these in mobile phones, but I wonder if they are gas powered how they will be re-filled. I wonder if we will end up in a situation where we have to wait for the gas man to come each morning if we run out
very true, although I could use something like this to plan a mission I would die immidiately if my gun didn't act exactly like it does in the game, people have better than average AI, I actually die when I get shot once (and a medi-pack couldn't stop the blood and make me ready for action again).
I would also need to be able to find guns lying around...
Other than that it would be exactly like the game and I'd be an ace terrorist.
don't worry, that was essentially a dupe too http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/14/182825 3
indeed, I saw this on amazon (.co.uk - and we have to wait longer than the US for everything) about a year ago, infact it is so old that it's now been discontinued from amazon, still, there are some reviews; http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Tech-C51-A04031-XX-Bluet ooth-Virtual-Keyboard/dp/B000BBQQRY/sr=8-34/qid=11 59734652/ref=sr_1_34/026-5191554-0026041?ie=UTF8&s =electronics
don't use a template, it'd make it look like it's just a bot doing it, it's better to have a slightly worse e-mail which at least looks personal than just a generic one
Don't we already send out enough signals into space, many of which deal with the subject of life on our planet? If anything aliens would be getting pissed off with being inundated with out crap 24/7... and it doesn't help that they'd be getting about 3000 channels all the time so would find it really hard to tell the difference between them.
On a slightly less serious note, is it really a good idea to teach potentially hostile aliens about how we work (and by extension how to kill us)? Not to mention we know that the only people who are really going to watch are 1000 light-years away waiting for single female lawyer
so you think people should be able to permantently bind themselves and a company to one course of action eternally and that that is a sign of someone with moral responsibility? Can people not change their mind>
I think that this would be different if MS suddenly decided to GPL windows because now they think freedom and open source is important. Similarly if the RIAA continued to force people out to pay up on dubious claims based on legal might... I wonder if you would say that they have "a moral responsibility" to continue?
People change their minds, sometimes it's for the best, others it's not... it's not a bad thing
ok, you don't like that site... how about this one; http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/ ?
Your right on a few things, but I'll clear up the TV tuner thing. A licence costs about £130 a year.
You need to have a TV Licence to watch TV, or I think to own any equiptment which can be used to watch tv. For a TV tuner for a PC you need to fill out a form to say that you have a licence before you can buy one (or at least I did when I bought one). They do have vans which go round and look for people without licences who are watching TV, although in the first instance they just send threats through the post (I got a few last year dispite having a TV licence - they use them like mail drops really, especially in student housing).
If you are found without a tv licence watching tv you will be given £1000 fine or you could try and fight it in court (you wouldn't win) and if you lose then I'd imagine that the fine would increase.
Note that this is still true even if you never watch the BBC channels (I pretty much exclusively watch 4 and 5)... which sounds shit, but our terrible culture, media and sport minister (who is married to an "alleged" con man) said that the only way we could get rid of the licence is to replace it with a tax on computers... still, that'll be no earlier than about 2015 by which time David Cameron will be PM, and we can only hope that he's more sensible.
I pay a hell of a lot of money to the BBC every year*, all I want in return is that all of their digital content to be available through open source technology... this is a step in the wrong direction, or at best a side step. Why can't they also make it work with something like Helix player?
*which they largely squander on stupidly high pay for the executives whilst sacking many of the people responsible for content - Damn them.
alright,
"I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords!"
Brilliant, I got mine with Goldeneye, a fantastic game and still the gold standard for FPSs, Then there was Zelda:OoT, a perfect game, stunning in every way, then Majora's mask - even better. The best game ever. In fact it was one of the best systems I've ever owned, and my first downloads on the wii back game system will be n64 games.
Simply stunning, no room for "meh"
It didn't seem to be for me, I guess there's no excuse for not RTFA.
What I would say on this issue though, and what we should have learnt from AOL is that it's not just the small companies who either get compromised or make huge mistakes, it seems rather harsh to focus just on the small companies as if they are always bad. The best advice that I think that I could give anyone for buying anything online (regardless of who from) would be to use a credit card - then your contract is with the credit card company so it's their issue if your data gets stolen or you don't get your goods... and they have deep pockets ; )
It does make sense that in TV and films people would use free and open software on computers, they need it to look like people think a computer should look (and KDE does that) and they need to have the right to use it without worrying about being sued because it's proprietry and they like to not have to give thousands of dollars and coppies of the script over to people so the whole show doesn't get pulled for creating a negative image of software.
The only thing that amazes me is that more people aren't doing this
partly I agree, but how far up does China own the space above it? If Mars is over the UK at the moment does the Queen own that too? At what point does it stop belonging to the earth and start belonging to everyone/everything in the universe? What if these satelites were above that point?
But why do it in the first place?
Because you're meant to have the right to do so, if you want to say something in protest at sanctions which you see as stupid (and lets face it, banning liquids but not crystaline powers and still allowing laptops is the hight of idiocy) then you should be able to say so
I remember reading a prediction (I think it was from the 50/60s era but don't have a source) that one day there would be computers which weighs less than 3 tonnes and could fit in a standard size room!
OK, so they might not see how far somethings will go but over estimate others (moon bases?). But I would say that their accuracy is probably not as bad as you think (I'll take Nostradamous as 0-1% accurate). If you look at the original star trek then quite a few things which they had we are getting close to, such as the tricorders (which, arguably, are worse than current PDAs - they couldn't even play Vorbis files!).
I hope we get the name Biohazard in the UK (where so far all the games have been Resident Evil titles) I always did think it sounded better and so far all the games have related more to a biohazard than some kind of "evil"...
If this is just $60 for the game and that is everything you need to buy that seems like a pretty good deal, I wouldn't want to pay that then have to pay loads more for "added content"... like cars and tracks in a racing game. I don't know what the US people are used to paying for games as soon as they come out though, is $60 really that much? We're paying £50 for 360 games!
why is that unfortunate? software and hardware have always run at pretty much the same pace, but I would rather have an 80 core processor which I can keep for 10 years and update my OS to take advantage of more of the cores as time goes by than have to buy a whole new system every 3 years at least.