Indeed. Shocked and surpised that it's him that ruled it, I ain't. He's been pushing for a 'police state' type legal system as long as I've read the news... and likely, longer.
I Am Not a Doctor, but any high dosage of stimulants (and coffee is a stmiulant - specifically, caffiene is) runs the risk of nervous system failures - the brain can only take -so- much activity. The heart can only pump so fast, as well.
It is a standard for law only because 'the people' decided that it was what is to be expected of the 'reasonable person.' Of course, religious zaelots who practice the 'guilty until proven innocent' inquisiton-sih regime are not seen as reasonable people.
What makes you trustworthy, even, to yourself? If wait for everyone you come across to prove 'worthiness' then you're going to be waiting for a -really- long time, because most people are -not- going to go out of themselves to prove themself to you. You either accept them on the readily observable merits they have, or you do not; it's simply unrealistic to expect to have the time, or even the inclination 90% of the time to wait for people to prove themselve trustworthy.
'Ping' is hardly a comphrehensive network analysis. You're tracking one token amount of data (or a small string of packets) in a single burst, to a computer of your choice. Basically, an ideal situation. Now, in the gaming world, the reality is much different. You're often forced to use a network (usually gamespy) and are only as fast as that network you're on, and the server responding.
Is this an 'innocent until proven guilty' world or a 'guilty until proven innocent' world?
I tend to take a decidedly buddhist view when it comes to that, nothing to do with the religion (before I get a religious flamewar going here), but I believe in moderation. Completely distrusting everyone is no worse than complete trusting everyone. You have to strike a balance - the way our world works depends upon it. Buisness depend upon trusting that the average consumer is not a theif (someone should tell the RIAA that, before they strangle the music industry), relationships depend upon trusting that the person you are with will be true to you, in whatever way that means to you.
The changes on client side are a matter of milliseconds, and aren't going to make up for the low speed (56k) and congested (cable) connections. Something like that is hoping that your mail gets delivered faster by putting it in a hot pink envelope.
Now, I Am Not An American Politician Nor Am I An American Lawyer, but isnt something of this scope -completely- out of the scope of a state? How are you going to keep people from other states from posting anonymously in a forum? How are you going to keep people in your state from posting in other states' forums anonymously? It sounds almost completely unenforcable to me.
Its not as easy as that. The register that the program addresses in an Intel chip is the same as the one that AMD uses to label their chip "AuthenticAMD". As well, such signatures are read only, they're burned into a chip as a part of the manufacturing process. (at least, afaik. I Am Not a CPU Manufacturer)
The requirement is that the Intel chip returns a 'GenuineIntel' signature, which, if the chip IS an Intel chip, any Intel chip (at least since they introduced such ID signatures on chips) should be every single Intel chip. So yes, it pretty much is AMD they're locking out. It should be interesting to see how this revelation pans out in court with AMD already pressing charges to this effect, this article should be all the evidence they really need, although the courts have done weirder things in the past. I hope that such evidence as presented here is allowed into court.
The common mistake that people make is they think the French Army (which didnt put up much of a fight) equates to the Resistance (which put up a concerted and continued fight, even during occupation.)
The SourceForge framework is freely available under an OSI license, so if you don't like their TOS, or don't fit under their acceptable projects filtering, then you can simply install the software for yourself.
To suggest EA is innovative in any way when it's software series are nothing but shovelware remakes with better graphics is insulting to the entertainment industry.
To say that there aren't innovative Independant developers out there today is to show a gross ignorance of the Independant games industry.
You obviously don't know much about the history of PC entertainment. Each one of those individulas started out as independant developers.
Richard Garriot's first titles, called 'Akalabeth' and 'Ultima' were packaged in ziploc bags, with a map, cassettes, and a page or two's worth of manual. Such humble beginnings...
This man seems woefully uninformed at best, a killjoy cynic at worst. Obviously, this man has not heard of the Will Wrights, Warren Spectors, and Richard Garriots of the world.
"No feature-comparable version of Linux runs on a 486 (particulary a 486 as it would have existed ca. 1994). No KDE, no GNOME, no Firefox - at least not at any sort of acceptable performance level. "
Well that's a funny thing to say, because I have an old 486 Toshiba labtop with a perfectly fine install of Red Hat Linux on it. It runs Gnome fine, and KDE with some of the more processor-instensive features disabled.
These sites are catering to more people who have nefarious intentions then benign ones. There are few legitimate uses for call spoofing (law enforcement sting ops being one that come to mind); and most of the people who would -need- this service (aforementioned law enforcement) have the tools to do it themselves.
With all the scams that use a veneer of authority to fool people into all sorts of financial, political, or other loss, this spoofing only gives those fraudsters another tool to use when defrauding people of money. Evn in your example, a less benevolent individual could have -easily- taken advantage of that situation should they have been crafty enough.
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Indeed. Shocked and surpised that it's him that ruled it, I ain't. He's been pushing for a 'police state' type legal system as long as I've read the news ... and likely, longer.
~ Wizardry Dragon
I Am Not a Doctor, but any high dosage of stimulants (and coffee is a stmiulant - specifically, caffiene is) runs the risk of nervous system failures - the brain can only take -so- much activity. The heart can only pump so fast, as well.
~ Wizardry Dragon
It is a standard for law only because 'the people' decided that it was what is to be expected of the 'reasonable person.' Of course, religious zaelots who practice the 'guilty until proven innocent' inquisiton-sih regime are not seen as reasonable people.
What makes you trustworthy, even, to yourself? If wait for everyone you come across to prove 'worthiness' then you're going to be waiting for a -really- long time, because most people are -not- going to go out of themselves to prove themself to you. You either accept them on the readily observable merits they have, or you do not; it's simply unrealistic to expect to have the time, or even the inclination 90% of the time to wait for people to prove themselve trustworthy.
~ Wizardry Dragon
There is no hardware card which cures user incompetence.
~ Wizardry Dragon
'Ping' is hardly a comphrehensive network analysis. You're tracking one token amount of data (or a small string of packets) in a single burst, to a computer of your choice. Basically, an ideal situation. Now, in the gaming world, the reality is much different. You're often forced to use a network (usually gamespy) and are only as fast as that network you're on, and the server responding.
~ Wizardry Dragon
Is this an 'innocent until proven guilty' world or a 'guilty until proven innocent' world?
I tend to take a decidedly buddhist view when it comes to that, nothing to do with the religion (before I get a religious flamewar going here), but I believe in moderation. Completely distrusting everyone is no worse than complete trusting everyone. You have to strike a balance - the way our world works depends upon it. Buisness depend upon trusting that the average consumer is not a theif (someone should tell the RIAA that, before they strangle the music industry), relationships depend upon trusting that the person you are with will be true to you, in whatever way that means to you.
~ Wizardry Dragon
The changes on client side are a matter of milliseconds, and aren't going to make up for the low speed (56k) and congested (cable) connections. Something like that is hoping that your mail gets delivered faster by putting it in a hot pink envelope.
~ Wizardry Dragon
Union: an enitity which you pay to tell you what your opinion is.
~ Wizardry Dragon
Someone had to mention it: Using Linux solutions kills at least two of those problems, Steve ~_^
~ Wizardry Dragon
Now, I Am Not An American Politician Nor Am I An American Lawyer, but isnt something of this scope -completely- out of the scope of a state? How are you going to keep people from other states from posting anonymously in a forum? How are you going to keep people in your state from posting in other states' forums anonymously? It sounds almost completely unenforcable to me.
~ Wizardry Dragon
I hate RFID tags as much as the next guy, but isnt calling the mark of Satan just a -little- extreme?
Its not as easy as that. The register that the program addresses in an Intel chip is the same as the one that AMD uses to label their chip "AuthenticAMD". As well, such signatures are read only, they're burned into a chip as a part of the manufacturing process. (at least, afaik. I Am Not a CPU Manufacturer)
The requirement is that the Intel chip returns a 'GenuineIntel' signature, which, if the chip IS an Intel chip, any Intel chip (at least since they introduced such ID signatures on chips) should be every single Intel chip. So yes, it pretty much is AMD they're locking out. It should be interesting to see how this revelation pans out in court with AMD already pressing charges to this effect, this article should be all the evidence they really need, although the courts have done weirder things in the past. I hope that such evidence as presented here is allowed into court.
I'd say something, but there's a sign between you and I that reads 'Don't feed the trolls'
An anonymous coward calling someone full of shit? *rolls eyes* -1 flamebait and -1 troll right there.
I believe it was Borderbund (?) (sp?) ... but I know for a fact that there was at least a handful of games a year before (1982) that were similar.
~ Wizardry Dragon
Not really. Even with their first titles (M.U.L.E, Murder on the Zunderneuf, etc.) weren't something that hadn't been done before.
The common mistake that people make is they think the French Army (which didnt put up much of a fight) equates to the Resistance (which put up a concerted and continued fight, even during occupation.)
The SourceForge framework is freely available under an OSI license, so if you don't like their TOS, or don't fit under their acceptable projects filtering, then you can simply install the software for yourself.
To suggest EA is innovative in any way when it's software series are nothing but shovelware remakes with better graphics is insulting to the entertainment industry.
To say that there aren't innovative Independant developers out there today is to show a gross ignorance of the Independant games industry.
You obviously don't know much about the history of PC entertainment. Each one of those individulas started out as independant developers.
Richard Garriot's first titles, called 'Akalabeth' and 'Ultima' were packaged in ziploc bags, with a map, cassettes, and a page or two's worth of manual. Such humble beginnings...
~ Wizardry Dragon
This man seems woefully uninformed at best, a killjoy cynic at worst. Obviously, this man has not heard of the Will Wrights, Warren Spectors, and Richard Garriots of the world.
~ Wizardry Dragon
I have four words that apply, a concept that has apparently seeped from the programming world into the political one:
"Release now, patch later"
~ Wizardry Dragon
"No feature-comparable version of Linux runs on a 486 (particulary a 486 as it would have existed ca. 1994). No KDE, no GNOME, no Firefox - at least not at any sort of acceptable performance level. "
Well that's a funny thing to say, because I have an old 486 Toshiba labtop with a perfectly fine install of Red Hat Linux on it. It runs Gnome fine, and KDE with some of the more processor-instensive features disabled.
~ Wizardry Dragon
These sites are catering to more people who have nefarious intentions then benign ones. There are few legitimate uses for call spoofing (law enforcement sting ops being one that come to mind); and most of the people who would -need- this service (aforementioned law enforcement) have the tools to do it themselves.
With all the scams that use a veneer of authority to fool people into all sorts of financial, political, or other loss, this spoofing only gives those fraudsters another tool to use when defrauding people of money. Evn in your example, a less benevolent individual could have -easily- taken advantage of that situation should they have been crafty enough.
~ Wizardry Dragon