This is something it takes a special kind of person to really appreciate.
You must know a bit about MySQL. You must know a bit about TCP. You must be able to recognize what causes flaming computers to fall from the sky when the year rolls over.
This bug report, and the people adding to it, are truly special individuals.
Report: Kicking the no-good president out of office
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:06 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2008
Well, it does appear that even though there was ample complaining being done after 911 about people bungling intelligence reports that certain posts in our government are being filled by people who still haven't learned a less.
Regardless of whether or not all intelligence reports confirm that Iran has actually not been working on any nuclear weapons programs since 2003, Bush and Cheney appear determined to proactively attack Iran before they leave office.
We don't need any more fucking wars.
I say, kick the bums out. Bring on the impeachments before the ever-escalating conflicts driven by our megalomaniac from Texas ruin everything.
Really, seriously. The people at Time Warner have lost their minds. They're rolling out a new metered Internet service in Beaumont Texas that gives customers a 768K/s for $30/month with a 5Gb/month limit (and a $55/month service that about in proportion to that, with a 40Gb/month limit). Costs for going over these limits will be $1/Gb.
They have truly lost their minds. I can find semi-professional co-location services better prices than that.
Hey, here's a nice story that really makes you wonder if the FBI are actually serious about prosecuting criminal behaviour, or do they just like to go after teenage kids. I mean, we know they're going to bring the hammer down on the two kids who social-engineered Comcast's domain for giggles, regardless of how little the actual cost was, but 700Mb of email which was mostly dirty laundry getting leaked never did result in anything that I could see happening to MediaDefender.
Now we've got a news story about how MediaDefender apparently just launched a large denial of service attack against a company for having been kicked off their torrent servers for filling them with bogus torrents, when said torrent servers were only for the companies own content in the first place (like, this apparently wasn't a place you could push up bootlegs, or even home movies to).
The article does mention that the FBI is "looking into the matter" but if 700Mb of admissions of guilt didn't do it, I don't see how this is going to affect much.
OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works. Exherbo isn't in a fit state for users. We might get there one day, but it's not a priority. Right now, all we care about is getting it into a fit state for a small number of developers.
In the tradition of such financial windfalls as VideoCD and EPSN Baseball, EA and Bioware are now using "copy protection" as a means to ensure that at some future point, every game they make will be able to be forcibly obsolesced in order to manage their own "classics" channel, much like Sony and Nintendo are now selling all their old titles again, which also ensures that their copyrights on these titles never really expire. Ever.
Basically, the deal is this: For both Spore and Mass Effect, which both are primarily single-player games, you will now be required to do an online authorization for the machine you install it on. It's a near certainty that at some point in the future, they're simply going to declare it not worth their time to continue authorizing installs of these games. It probably won't even be a terribly long time before this happens, as EA has a particularly miserable track record for this... How long exactly was it that SSX3 actually retained it's online multiplayer ability?
Me, I'm probably buying them both (didn't have time to finish Mass Effect on the XBox 360 before I realized I should have gotten a PS3) but I'm going to crack the holy thunderfsck out of them. So much for being sure your grandkids might be able to play a game you enjoyed if you hang onto it long enough.
Note, I say "probably" not because I'm hinting at some other method of obtaining them. I say this because depending on how things turn out, I might just skip dealing with either of them at all just because of this online authentication bullshit. If it isn't worth me paying money to support the people who wrote the game, then screw playing it.
Update: Also, let's not forget what this does to the ability of resellers (or, god forbid, game rental companies) to handle these titles. That's right, you can forget about renting these from Gamefly or picking them up used anywhere.
Here's an NYT article in case you're like me and starting to really get annoyed at stupid people arguing for stupidity instead of against it like any race that is expected to continue breeding should.
Just in case any of the words are just too big for you, double-click on them.
This is old news I know, but my question is, as a service provider are they allowed MIM attacks like this (am I misreading this, isn't that what masquerading as the other computer your talking to and sending false data is?).
