In the short term, any last resort backups are less preferable than busting this guys balls till he opens up the system for a variety of reasons. I'll put good money on him cracking before this article gets 200 comments.
Knowing how to run a system is not purely technical knowledge, it's also a measure of professional ability. That means knowing when to take advice, and knowing who to take it from.
Wow.
There is no need to spend $400 for a video card to play games. There are PLENTY of $150-range cards that are more than adequate to play everything currently available, and almost everything at "max settings."
I quite agree. Which is why I think that the extra markup Apple put on top of this is incredible.
The net effect would appear to be fewer bots in the game. As a paying customer, this works for me. Thanks Blizzard.
It's a game for fucks sake. If you think that's worth setting a legal precedent that supports blank-contract EULA's then you deserve the terrible world we're likely to end up living in.
It makes me laugh that people keep saying that Macs are too expensive, then they turn around and say stupid things like "400$ is a good price for a video card".
400$ is 2/3 of the price of a Mac mini.
What a stupid argument. If you want that video card you want to play games. If you want a Mac that will play games, it will cost damn near twice as much as a comparable PC that will do so. If all I want is a web browser I can pick one of those up for a couple of hundred dollars.
There are people out there opposed to such screening, especially parents of children with downs syndrome...
... who it is likely cannot seperate their love of their own children from the fact that Downs Syndrome is bloody undesirable.
Nobody is advocating killing their twelve year old kid with lasers.
I don't think that the right of an unborn fetus to life trumps the rights of a parent to have a life.
I have a great deal of respect for parents who have brought up children with Downs Syndrome, because it is hard, and thankless, and the amount of patience, time, energy and love that you have to put in is a burden many folks simply could not bear.
If science can give me a choice, that cross will not be mine to carry.
I'll take my next big ticket gaming purchase straight to newegg.com and replace my aging Radeon x1800 xt video card.
Why? The x1800xt will play any game on the market.
If you want games with the latest pretties, whilst the PC is still the most capable machine in the gaming arena (by a country mile) there's been a real drop off in graphics-itensive development for the PC since that 'aging' card of yours was new.
I bought a hot-rod DX10 card a year and half ago, and frankly I've never used it for anything that my previous X1900XT wouldn't have dealt with at least adequately.
Maybe it's my fault for not caring enough about Crysis, but I'm putting it on CryTek's boring gameplay mechanic, since there wasn't a lot else on the landscape, and I still didn't care...
Since most of the world's gaming dev time on graphically superior games now lies with the warring consoles, the smart investment is not on a PC super-rig. The PC is firmly in MMO territory, and bi-annual releases of interest, if you ask me.
It appears that, finally, the tables are turning against the RIAA and their counsel. Now, if the counsel are disciplined I'll believe that the system might just work.
The system almost always works, it just works incredibly slowly. If your life happens to get caught in the mill wheels of the legal system in between, tough tofu.
Unfortunately whilst the sensible course of action might be to refrain from downloading music illegally until everything sorts itself out in a decade or two, that's generally impractical, the RIAA might sue you anyway, and lets not forget the big one: pushing at the boundaries of a bad law is what helps to get that law changed.
While Usenet does have useful value, it IS full of kiddie porn.
alt.binaries.pictures.naturism.family
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young
alt.binaries.pictures.youth-and-beauty
alt.binaries.erotica.teen.female
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.mclt
I mean seriously, do any of these usenet categories contribute anything of value to society???
If there is a street in your town conveniently called Rapey Lane, just don't walk down it.
Demolishing Manchester becase of Moss Side is only a good idea on paper.
Alt was always going to be the internet's pariah, even before the binaries. Popular history has it that the first three newsgroups in the alt hierarchy were alt.sex, alt.drugs, and alt.rock-n-roll.
I've never seen any kiddy porn on usenet, but I know that there's 5 terrabytes a day of something illegal.
For me, the rub of it is that I just upgraded to an encrypted usenet service so that I can't get clapped in irons for downloading TV shows, and now I'm worried that I'll be labelled as a sex offender.
I firmly believe that one day, a new energy source will come, and it will blow us away, and the story on slashdot will be true. I firmly believe that in my lifetime we will see cheap, clean endless renewable energy from a currently undreamed of source. I also believe that this particular news story is horsecrap, and it's not even the first time I've heard the 'perfect garbage' horsecrap.
My favourite spam ever came on a real stinker of a day at work. You know the kind, nothing goes right, people fuck you over, you're in work all day to come away worse off than when you went in... It was that sort of day. Then I got this spam, which simply said:
'Louder screaming is only the beginning'
That may be the one and only spam that made my day better.
I had 8 years of part-time french in school, 4 years of immersion and a French girlfriend for a year and a half after that. I could probably just keep myself alive in France if I was left there alone with no help.
I'm sorry, but this is blatantly false, or hyperbole, or both. It does not take 14 years to become fluent in French.
Having said that, as electrodes become smaller and smaller, it should soon be possible to place electrodes a few microns thick inside the skull. Presumably in the future you will be able to have a USB like plug on your skull to control things. This is optimistically 10 - 15 years off in the future.
Call me old fashioned, but no fucking way I'm getting one of those.
About ten years ago I saw someone controlling a cursor (badly) on a computer screen using electrodes planted in a headband. Last couple of years it hasn't been much better and now they're shoving things right into the brain. Seems like the tech is going backwards if anything, and frankly until it is non-invasive I don't think it's going to catch on much - even in the medical field, even for those paralysed from the neck down, there are better options that getting wires in the brain.
a computer-engineering graduate... seldom have time to spend on other, less job-pertinent things like learning a foreign language (which might come in handy one day if a potential Japanese client is show interest in the company's product etc.).
You make an excellent point, but I like to strongly differentiate between my time, and work time. The question was 'is it worth my time to learn a foreign language?' My opinion is no. If you're a coder, it's not. It could be useful certainly, but it's not worth a personal time investment, from a career point of view. I like to believe that if it's not something you can make time for in your day job, then it's someone elses job.
If you plan to run your own company, or to do something more than just code - if you want to manage projects and/or interface directly with clients during the design process, then you're getting into the territory where it might be worth it. Of course, this is a question that only you yourself can answer, since it is a value judgement. For me, it would not be worth it, so that's the advice I'll give - unless you are a real go getter with bigger plans than coding.
A friend of mine is deeply embroiled in a PhD Thesis, in History. He's interested in the history of an order of monks. At the beginning of this, it became obvious that he was going to need to be pretty damn fluent in French. It's amazing what you can do when you have reason, and put your mind to it. He was reading in six weeks, and genuinely fluent in half a year. The motivation was clear.
Concentrate on what you need to concentrate on, and expand your horizons when it becomes necessary. This will provide the most efficient use of time in almost all cases - provided you don't become so focussed on whatever you're into that you genuinely don't notice when a new skill is required. (That's the only real risk of getting in too deep).
Despite this view on life, I've always had a great admiration for those who enjoy learning activities in their lesiure time. Personally I've always preferred video games.
PayPal started above the bike shop. ...and extorted 3.4% every time they sold a bike.
Pretty soon, everyone on the street was paying their dues.
You know why? Respect.
The reason for an opening in an enclosure is to provide an in/out mechanism. However creating the opening weakens the enclosure, therefore establishing the need for a door: a mechanism to preserve the enclosure and provide an in/out mechanism. Thus the door and the opening are functionally equivalent. They're not functionally equivalent. An opening is something you can get through, and a door is something designed to stop you getting through an opening. (A doorway is simply an opening that happens to have this barrier installed.)
Serving as an 'in/out mechanism' is the purpose of the opening, not the purpose of the door. The door is there to stop it being an 'in/out mechanism' when certain states obtain (i.e. when the door is closed).
If you don't need to close a door, you don't need a door at all! And when a door is closed, it is a barrier to entry. It's very straightforward really.
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With backups no data will be lost.
In the short term, any last resort backups are less preferable than busting this guys balls till he opens up the system for a variety of reasons. I'll put good money on him cracking before this article gets 200 comments.
Number one rule in IT. If i have PHYSICAL access to a system i can get in. Some way, some how.
Government Agency rule number one: If I have PHYSICAL access to a criminal, I can get information. Some way, some how.
If there's one thing that everyone should have learned by now, if someone says "trust me", you should be skeptical.
No, you're off message. They need to click continue, because the screen has gone all dark and they can't get back to their web browser.
Knowing how to run a system is not purely technical knowledge, it's also a measure of professional ability. That means knowing when to take advice, and knowing who to take it from.
Wow. There is no need to spend $400 for a video card to play games. There are PLENTY of $150-range cards that are more than adequate to play everything currently available, and almost everything at "max settings."
I quite agree. Which is why I think that the extra markup Apple put on top of this is incredible.
The net effect would appear to be fewer bots in the game. As a paying customer, this works for me. Thanks Blizzard.
It's a game for fucks sake. If you think that's worth setting a legal precedent that supports blank-contract EULA's then you deserve the terrible world we're likely to end up living in.
I, on the other hand, don't. So shut the fuck up.
It makes me laugh that people keep saying that Macs are too expensive, then they turn around and say stupid things like "400$ is a good price for a video card". 400$ is 2/3 of the price of a Mac mini.
What a stupid argument. If you want that video card you want to play games. If you want a Mac that will play games, it will cost damn near twice as much as a comparable PC that will do so. If all I want is a web browser I can pick one of those up for a couple of hundred dollars.
ObCarAnalogy: It's like if someone made a really trendy sportscar, but it was also run on electricity!
There are people out there opposed to such screening, especially parents of children with downs syndrome...
... who it is likely cannot seperate their love of their own children from the fact that Downs Syndrome is bloody undesirable.
Nobody is advocating killing their twelve year old kid with lasers.
I don't think that the right of an unborn fetus to life trumps the rights of a parent to have a life.
I have a great deal of respect for parents who have brought up children with Downs Syndrome, because it is hard, and thankless, and the amount of patience, time, energy and love that you have to put in is a burden many folks simply could not bear.
If science can give me a choice, that cross will not be mine to carry.
I'll take my next big ticket gaming purchase straight to newegg.com and replace my aging Radeon x1800 xt video card.
Why? The x1800xt will play any game on the market.
If you want games with the latest pretties, whilst the PC is still the most capable machine in the gaming arena (by a country mile) there's been a real drop off in graphics-itensive development for the PC since that 'aging' card of yours was new.
I bought a hot-rod DX10 card a year and half ago, and frankly I've never used it for anything that my previous X1900XT wouldn't have dealt with at least adequately.
Maybe it's my fault for not caring enough about Crysis, but I'm putting it on CryTek's boring gameplay mechanic, since there wasn't a lot else on the landscape, and I still didn't care... Since most of the world's gaming dev time on graphically superior games now lies with the warring consoles, the smart investment is not on a PC super-rig. The PC is firmly in MMO territory, and bi-annual releases of interest, if you ask me.
Seems like a huge investment in a technology that probably only has five to ten years of life left in it...
It appears that, finally, the tables are turning against the RIAA and their counsel. Now, if the counsel are disciplined I'll believe that the system might just work.
The system almost always works, it just works incredibly slowly. If your life happens to get caught in the mill wheels of the legal system in between, tough tofu.
Unfortunately whilst the sensible course of action might be to refrain from downloading music illegally until everything sorts itself out in a decade or two, that's generally impractical, the RIAA might sue you anyway, and lets not forget the big one: pushing at the boundaries of a bad law is what helps to get that law changed.
While Usenet does have useful value, it IS full of kiddie porn. alt.binaries.pictures.naturism.family alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young alt.binaries.pictures.youth-and-beauty alt.binaries.erotica.teen.female alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.mclt I mean seriously, do any of these usenet categories contribute anything of value to society???
If there is a street in your town conveniently called Rapey Lane, just don't walk down it.
Demolishing Manchester becase of Moss Side is only a good idea on paper.
I've never seen any kiddy porn on usenet, but I know that there's 5 terrabytes a day of something illegal.
For me, the rub of it is that I just upgraded to an encrypted usenet service so that I can't get clapped in irons for downloading TV shows, and now I'm worried that I'll be labelled as a sex offender.
I firmly believe that one day, a new energy source will come, and it will blow us away, and the story on slashdot will be true. I firmly believe that in my lifetime we will see cheap, clean endless renewable energy from a currently undreamed of source. I also believe that this particular news story is horsecrap, and it's not even the first time I've heard the 'perfect garbage' horsecrap.
'Louder screaming is only the beginning'
That may be the one and only spam that made my day better.
And remember, if you see something you don't like you've got the source code...
I had 8 years of part-time french in school, 4 years of immersion and a French girlfriend for a year and a half after that. I could probably just keep myself alive in France if I was left there alone with no help.
I'm sorry, but this is blatantly false, or hyperbole, or both. It does not take 14 years to become fluent in French.
Having said that, as electrodes become smaller and smaller, it should soon be possible to place electrodes a few microns thick inside the skull. Presumably in the future you will be able to have a USB like plug on your skull to control things. This is optimistically 10 - 15 years off in the future.
Call me old fashioned, but no fucking way I'm getting one of those.
About ten years ago I saw someone controlling a cursor (badly) on a computer screen using electrodes planted in a headband. Last couple of years it hasn't been much better and now they're shoving things right into the brain. Seems like the tech is going backwards if anything, and frankly until it is non-invasive I don't think it's going to catch on much - even in the medical field, even for those paralysed from the neck down, there are better options that getting wires in the brain.
a computer-engineering graduate... seldom have time to spend on other, less job-pertinent things like learning a foreign language (which might come in handy one day if a potential Japanese client is show interest in the company's product etc.).
You make an excellent point, but I like to strongly differentiate between my time, and work time. The question was 'is it worth my time to learn a foreign language?' My opinion is no. If you're a coder, it's not. It could be useful certainly, but it's not worth a personal time investment, from a career point of view. I like to believe that if it's not something you can make time for in your day job, then it's someone elses job.
If you plan to run your own company, or to do something more than just code - if you want to manage projects and/or interface directly with clients during the design process, then you're getting into the territory where it might be worth it. Of course, this is a question that only you yourself can answer, since it is a value judgement. For me, it would not be worth it, so that's the advice I'll give - unless you are a real go getter with bigger plans than coding.
Concentrate on what you need to concentrate on, and expand your horizons when it becomes necessary. This will provide the most efficient use of time in almost all cases - provided you don't become so focussed on whatever you're into that you genuinely don't notice when a new skill is required. (That's the only real risk of getting in too deep).
Despite this view on life, I've always had a great admiration for those who enjoy learning activities in their lesiure time. Personally I've always preferred video games.
If this technology were ready for prime-time the cameramen for NHL would be out of a job.
Serving as an 'in/out mechanism' is the purpose of the opening, not the purpose of the door. The door is there to stop it being an 'in/out mechanism' when certain states obtain (i.e. when the door is closed).
If you don't need to close a door, you don't need a door at all! And when a door is closed, it is a barrier to entry. It's very straightforward really.