If you listen to the podcast linked on the page they explain that the idea was kind of a reaction against the whole Janet Reno violent video game crusade. Hell of a solution, no?
Reminds me of the Futurama episode where Fry is sent in to stop the brains from destroying the Universe once they finish collecting every piece of info about it...
When I read this article this morning my gut reaction was to side with Continental on this. Obviously the airports major concern is their revenue stream. Then I thought about and remembered that A) I don't have a continental platinum flier card B) I don't ever fly first class so since I cant meet either of their requirements for getting into the Continental President's Club and thus won't be able to use their wifi....
here's my problem with the whole "its not his job to go hacking other people's systems" argument. I think it is MY problem, when I am a customer/ user of the system. Take one of his previous hacks for example, Excite@home. I was a customer of Excite at the time. He helped point out secuirty flaws to them. Now, Excite had all my pertinent information somewhere in their system. My name, my SSN, my address, anything needed to become me online. He wasn't invited to hack their system, but because he did and told them about it, my personal information is now a little bit safer. I am appreciative that it was he that got there before some random Eastern European hacker who only wants my CC number.
reread the article. Austria != Australia One is in Europe the others somwhere way the hell on the other side of the globe. One has kangaroos, the other has... what the hell does Austria have, except apparently good hackers?
I'm not sure if the argument is the same in Brazil but here the reasoning is that all music CDs are labelled with that little "Compact Disc" symbol which means it complies with the red book standard for audio CDs. Copy protected CDs still have that label, but they don't completely conform to the standard.
The problem that this argument leads to is where to draw the line. How similar can two works be before one is infringing on the copyright of the other? AFAIK the only real similarity between the Tanya Grotter and Harry Potter books are the names. Yes, the Russian author is trying to get some free sales off the name, but from what I know of copyright law in the US (which I admit is little) the name of a character is not protected, that would instead fall under an appropriately filed trademark.
Speaking of the 7th Guest, I would have to say that was the scariest game I played as a kid. Being 11-12 and seeing that freaky clown in the Game Room ("WANT A BALLOON SONNY?! WANT A BALLOON") was one of the scariest things I ever saw or played. That was the one same I couldnt play late at night.
I graduated from St. Paul's in Louisiana about 2 years ago but while I was there I spend one period a day acting as the assitant sys admin. As such, I had a lot of sway with the computer teacher and the sys admin and convinced them to open up the library (which the computer labs were a part of) to allow a bunch of guys to set up a LAN there every few weeks. Since the school computers at the time were Pentium 133s it was very much a BYOC affair but still a lot of fun.
I thought it had one shot value
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My Opinion of the movie: It was probably the worst movie I have ever sat through in a movie theater (never wasted money on Battlefield Earth) but despite how horrible it was I laughed my ass off the entire movie. Now, when a second group of friends invited me to go see it with them, I told them there weren't enough tea in China...
I know. And look at all these damn fps where one bullet doesn't kill!
Or look at some of those crazy games like Descent where they make use of technology that doesn't even exist. What a crock! WHat the hell are they thinking?
Seriously though, that's why it's called a computer game and not a Real World Simulator or something like that.
I still don't after all this time understand exactly what is the point, or rather the benefit of.NET. I've even had the on-campus M$ rep try to explain it to me, all to no avail. As to M$ sucking something else into one of their own products, what's new with that? Isn't that what they do best?
Thank you MadAhab. Yes, my comment was supposed to end up in the disussion about the body heat powered battery. Sucks to lose karma for an error but I don't think I post to slashdot enough to really care about karma anyway.
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How does a company with no bosses lay off a good chunk of workers?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/14/layoffs-hit-valve
I've seen plenty of security camera footage on youtube. All it takes is a desire on the part of those with the footage.
right down to the price tag. Although I think it was only 25k/lb in the show.
I don't see how calling it cow shit makes it extreme.
Seen the design for their new one?
Unless it's got an integrated garage, most of the parking looks like it's hundreds of yards from the building.
I believe the new design has parking underneath significant portions of the building and the central coutyard.
AFAIK that map is a critique of the modern 'rails' shooter rather than DNF in particular.
If you listen to the podcast linked on the page they explain that the idea was kind of a reaction against the whole Janet Reno violent video game crusade. Hell of a solution, no?
or better yet, these.
Anyone have an alternate link or a server thats running it since the site is borked?
Reminds me of the Futurama episode where Fry is sent in to stop the brains from destroying the Universe once they finish collecting every piece of info about it...
When I read this article this morning my gut reaction was to side with Continental on this. Obviously the airports major concern is their revenue stream. Then I thought about and remembered that
A) I don't have a continental platinum flier card
B) I don't ever fly first class
so since I cant meet either of their requirements for getting into the Continental President's Club and thus won't be able to use their wifi....
I don't care who wins.
...from a virus? In my mind this is even more invasive than the spyware/adware I have to delete daily from my machine.
here's my problem with the whole "its not his job to go hacking other people's systems" argument. I think it is MY problem, when I am a customer/ user of the system. Take one of his previous hacks for example, Excite@home. I was a customer of Excite at the time. He helped point out secuirty flaws to them. Now, Excite had all my pertinent information somewhere in their system. My name, my SSN, my address, anything needed to become me online. He wasn't invited to hack their system, but because he did and told them about it, my personal information is now a little bit safer. I am appreciative that it was he that got there before some random Eastern European hacker who only wants my CC number.
reread the article.
Austria != Australia
One is in Europe the others somwhere way the hell on the other side of the globe.
One has kangaroos, the other has... what the hell does Austria have, except apparently good hackers?
I'm not sure if the argument is the same in Brazil but here the reasoning is that all music CDs are labelled with that little "Compact Disc" symbol which means it complies with the red book standard for audio CDs. Copy protected CDs still have that label, but they don't completely conform to the standard.
The problem that this argument leads to is where to draw the line. How similar can two works be before one is infringing on the copyright of the other? AFAIK the only real similarity between the Tanya Grotter and Harry Potter books are the names. Yes, the Russian author is trying to get some free sales off the name, but from what I know of copyright law in the US (which I admit is little) the name of a character is not protected, that would instead fall under an appropriately filed trademark.
Speaking of the 7th Guest, I would have to say that was the scariest game I played as a kid. Being 11-12 and seeing that freaky clown in the Game Room ("WANT A BALLOON SONNY?! WANT A BALLOON") was one of the scariest things I ever saw or played. That was the one same I couldnt play late at night.
joke, right? Because You're at it = you are at it, which is correct.
I graduated from St. Paul's in Louisiana about 2 years ago but while I was there I spend one period a day acting as the assitant sys admin. As such, I had a lot of sway with the computer teacher and the sys admin and convinced them to open up the library (which the computer labs were a part of) to allow a bunch of guys to set up a LAN there every few weeks. Since the school computers at the time were Pentium 133s it was very much a BYOC affair but still a lot of fun.
My Opinion of the movie: It was probably the worst movie I have ever sat through in a movie theater (never wasted money on Battlefield Earth) but despite how horrible it was I laughed my ass off the entire movie. Now, when a second group of friends invited me to go see it with them, I told them there weren't enough tea in China...
HLTV generally has a built in 3 minute delay to prevnt just that :P
Somehow, this makes sense. I mean, Microsoft already has control of everything else digital, why not extend that (slowly) to everything, period.
I know. And look at all these damn fps where one bullet doesn't kill!
Or look at some of those crazy games like Descent where they make use of technology that doesn't even exist. What a crock! WHat the hell are they thinking?
Seriously though, that's why it's called a computer game and not a Real World Simulator or something like that.
I still don't after all this time understand exactly what is the point, or rather the benefit of .NET. I've even had the on-campus M$ rep try to explain it to me, all to no avail. As to M$ sucking something else into one of their own products, what's new with that? Isn't that what they do best?
Thank you MadAhab. Yes, my comment was supposed to end up in the disussion about the body heat powered battery. Sucks to lose karma for an error but I don't think I post to slashdot enough to really care about karma anyway.