1. Microsoft pushes Dell into selling new systems with no OS in order to meet customer preference. 2. Customers find old Dell OEM XP ISOs on Usenet. 3. ??? 4. Profit! (But not for Microsoft.)
"Ayers said future assaults by hackers can be similarly fixed by replacing compromised keys with new ones."
They're going to have to institute an MS-like "patch Tuesday" to issue new keys.
On the down side, I'm going to have to wait until the weekend before the HDDVD hackers break the new scheme and resume their regular distribution schedule.:(
"recent GTA-style games that glamorise killing civilians in a realistic setting."
I realize you said "GTA-style" there, but GTA itself doesn't glamorize killing civilians at all. In fact, there are immediate consequences for doing so unless no one else is around at all--just like in real life.
I've played San Andreas with my toddler on my lap. Granted, it was me getting into a semi and driving around at about 5mph trying to avoid smashing other cars or people, but he liked it anyway. You can even get a camera to take a weapon slot! I avoided the dildo melee weapon.
"4)Call up the sales department of each ISP and ask them all of the questions that are important to you. [...] Hang up on sales once you've gotten your answers and dial into their support queue. When someone picks up, ask them the same questions as above"
I would reverse the order of those calls, so that if the sales person's answers differ significantly from the tech's you can say "your support people gave me different information. Thanks anyway." and hang up. Enough of those and the lying sales employee will be out of a job (assuming company phone monitoring).
To answer the post author's question, I have never run into a cap with Speakeasy, and I have had usenet downloads running for a week straight, saturating my connection. The situation may change now that Best Buy owns them, but we'll see.
"When returning to the surface, I found out the freakin' village was under siege by the military! They freakin' came to avenge the death of their fallen comrades."
That's not what happened. Next time, run away and hide, and watch them. They head in the direction they saw you running, then a mercenary from the camp sees them and opens fire, then they all start fighting.
The AI in STALKER is so good that enemies can't climb ladders to chase you, and eventually forget that you're trapped in an attic. It's so good that I pulled out my knife and ran around knifing camp dwellers in the face until they were all dead, while they ran around aimlessly not squeezing off a single shot. It's so good that I can intrude in the off-limits Duty area and pick them off from the end of a long hallway while the loudspeakers blare "intruder alert, kill the intruder," then wait two minutes for the loudspeaker to stop and go about my business with the rest of the village.
With the exception of ladders the pathing algorithms are very good, but that's about the extent of it.
"I find it odd that people get so angry when evolution is attacked."
I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally get angry when the theory of evolution is attacked by ignorant people who don't know that their criticisms have already been addressed many, many times over. For instance:
"If evolution does exisit, that means man had to have had relations with a monkey in order to get more of the same species and a purifying of this to the human species we have now."
You braying fucking jackass.
"science does not really clarify whether or not evolution is the answer."
"However, statements like 'current administration in general needs to stop wiping their ass with the Constitution!' just make me smile. I smile to keep from cussing.
Clinton [...]"
Sorry, you lose.
Both parties do suck. On the other hand, when my 3-year-old tells me "but [random kid] did it too!" I don't accept that as a valid excuse. Apparently your parents had different ideas.
Perhaps some financial gurus can field this one...is it possible for a publicly traded stock to go negative? I mean, will Wall Street start attempting to collect from SCO stockholders soon? Stay tuned!
"so Congress is placing a burden on some (mostly poor) citizens who could become disenfranchised from the democracy through not being able to watch news broadcasts on their TV as a direct result of Congress' actions."
That's hilarious. Anyone who gets their news from TV has already been disenfranchised, regardless of what congress does.
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I thought the message they left was "so long, and thanks for all the pollen."
1. Microsoft pushes Dell into selling new systems with no OS in order to meet customer preference.
2. Customers find old Dell OEM XP ISOs on Usenet.
3. ???
4. Profit! (But not for Microsoft.)
"You are quite correct in buying CDs from non RIAA labels (there's a website for this, can't remember it)."
http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp
"Ayers said future assaults by hackers can be similarly fixed by replacing compromised keys with new ones."
:(
They're going to have to institute an MS-like "patch Tuesday" to issue new keys.
On the down side, I'm going to have to wait until the weekend before the HDDVD hackers break the new scheme and resume their regular distribution schedule.
Any machine intelligence worth its salt (silicon?) would give the answer "2" when asked to calculate PI to the last digit (rounding errors may apply).
"recent GTA-style games that glamorise killing civilians in a realistic setting."
I realize you said "GTA-style" there, but GTA itself doesn't glamorize killing civilians at all. In fact, there are immediate consequences for doing so unless no one else is around at all--just like in real life.
I've played San Andreas with my toddler on my lap. Granted, it was me getting into a semi and driving around at about 5mph trying to avoid smashing other cars or people, but he liked it anyway. You can even get a camera to take a weapon slot! I avoided the dildo melee weapon.
"How old is 'old enough' to start fragging?"
When they're mature enough to handle it with the realization that it's not real life.
What, you expected a number? Sucker.
The lights were, of course, completely random. Bet you felt safer, though!
That was a joke. Probably.
"4)Call up the sales department of each ISP and ask them all of the questions that are important to you. [...] Hang up on sales once you've gotten your answers and dial into their support queue. When someone picks up, ask them the same questions as above"
I would reverse the order of those calls, so that if the sales person's answers differ significantly from the tech's you can say "your support people gave me different information. Thanks anyway." and hang up. Enough of those and the lying sales employee will be out of a job (assuming company phone monitoring).
To answer the post author's question, I have never run into a cap with Speakeasy, and I have had usenet downloads running for a week straight, saturating my connection. The situation may change now that Best Buy owns them, but we'll see.
"When returning to the surface, I found out the freakin' village was under siege by the military! They freakin' came to avenge the death of their fallen comrades."
That's not what happened. Next time, run away and hide, and watch them. They head in the direction they saw you running, then a mercenary from the camp sees them and opens fire, then they all start fighting.
The AI in STALKER is so good that enemies can't climb ladders to chase you, and eventually forget that you're trapped in an attic. It's so good that I pulled out my knife and ran around knifing camp dwellers in the face until they were all dead, while they ran around aimlessly not squeezing off a single shot. It's so good that I can intrude in the off-limits Duty area and pick them off from the end of a long hallway while the loudspeakers blare "intruder alert, kill the intruder," then wait two minutes for the loudspeaker to stop and go about my business with the rest of the village.
With the exception of ladders the pathing algorithms are very good, but that's about the extent of it.
I tell you, I never tire of seeing the exact same "news" every single year. It's a tradition!
You'll notice that I said nothing at all about Christians, troll.
"I find it odd that people get so angry when evolution is attacked."
I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally get angry when the theory of evolution is attacked by ignorant people who don't know that their criticisms have already been addressed many, many times over. For instance:
"If evolution does exisit, that means man had to have had relations with a monkey in order to get more of the same species and a purifying of this to the human species we have now."
You braying fucking jackass.
"science does not really clarify whether or not evolution is the answer."
Could you be any more vague, please?
"Can I get my geek card stamped please?"
Sure thing...hey, that's 10! Here's your free Davros keychain.
"However, statements like 'current administration in general needs to stop wiping their ass with the Constitution!' just make me smile. I smile to keep from cussing.
Clinton [...]"
Sorry, you lose.
Both parties do suck. On the other hand, when my 3-year-old tells me "but [random kid] did it too!" I don't accept that as a valid excuse. Apparently your parents had different ideas.
If that's your attitude, I'm not going to show you my bald eagle skull casemod.
Perhaps some financial gurus can field this one...is it possible for a publicly traded stock to go negative? I mean, will Wall Street start attempting to collect from SCO stockholders soon? Stay tuned!
"If you know so much about them, what are your goals?"
What do my goals have to do with anything?
"don't get all your information from companies that make money from media companies" [incomprehensibly cryptic sentence snipped]
I see. And which companies might those be? You know, the ones I get all my information from.
"so-called sysadmins in Corporate settings who will not learn ipconfig, iptables and basic Unix commands"
Why would they need basic unix commands and iptables under Vista? Or were you trying to say "ifconfig" there?
Wine is usually used to make dresses disappear.
Here--have some punctuation: .....,,,,!!!
I haven't noticed any issues recording and converting TV with a Hauppauge tuner. Sounds like TiVo shares at least as much blame as Concast here.
"How else do you think they're supposed to reach everybody with their propaganda that terrorists are bad"
Don't get carried away. Terrorists *are* bad, regardless of your political leanings.
"so Congress is placing a burden on some (mostly poor) citizens who could become disenfranchised from the democracy through not being able to watch news broadcasts on their TV as a direct result of Congress' actions."
That's hilarious. Anyone who gets their news from TV has already been disenfranchised, regardless of what congress does.
My money's too secret for AT&T, then.