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For C&C's 10th anniversary EA has announced one heck of a compilation. Command & Conquer The First Decade will feature quote:--Command & Conquer (Aug. 1995) -- Command & Conquer The Covert Operations (April 1996) -- Command & Conquer Red Alert (Oct. 1996) -- Command & Conquer Red Alert The Aftermath (Sept. 1997) -- Command & Conquer Red Alert Counterstrike (Mar. 1997) -- Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun (Aug. 1999) -- Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm (Feb. 2000) -- Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (Oct. 2000) -- Command & Conquer Yuri's Revenge (Oct. 2001) -- Command & Conquer Renegade (Feb. 2002) -- Command & Conquer Generals (Feb. 2003) -- Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour (Sept. 2003)Link

Uh, that was my driver's license, luckily I was photogenic that day.

greatest50games quote:The Greatest 50 Games poll is all about finding out what the greatest fifty games are. Every year we'll run the poll for two months to find out who'll win the coveted G50 award for that year! It's you, the public, who decides the greatest 50 games so get voting now! Everyone who votes for their greatest game ever will be entered into our weekly prize draw! So get voting, it costs you nothing! Stretch that arm and make your mouse work! If your favourite game isn't listed then why not add it! One vote per email address.

quote:Originally posted by Grizzle: Give Cc a break, he's alright. He's like the Muhammad Ali of 3000ad, jumps in with a quick jab when he finds an opening, that's just his style....and it seems it's Remo's style to keep banning him. Congrats Jag on the bundle of joy/terror.

I would rather have a story and a spaceship.

...unless they cloned him! No law that says his clone could not run for office Otherwise this is just a useless poll.

I like Spybot - Search & Destroy.

Yes, that's right! Crazy Frog! Link quote:Ubisoft announced today that it has signed a deal with Digital Jesters to distribute ÔÇ£Crazy Frog RacerÔÇØ, the first Crazy Frog video game, which is set to launch for PC, PlayStation 2 and Gameboy Advance this Christmas. ÔÇ£Crazy Frog RacerÔÇØ is a fast, high-octane wacky races style game that will appeal to all fans, young and old. Players can either choose to play as ÔÇ£The Annoying ThingÔÇØ and D'Ding Ding their way to victory or take on the role of one of eight other unique playable characters and beat the frog at its own game. There are 12 different tracks to work through, including cityscapes and underground mazes, plus the option to have a single-player game or take on your mates in multi-player mayhem. "We are delighted to have formed this partnership with Digital Jesters," said Rob Cooper, managing director northern Europe/Australia-NZ/export at Ubisoft. "We're extremely hopeful that Crazy Frog Racer will be just as big a success as the other Crazy Frog products have been to date. This is a truly mass market game with wide appeal to a very broad audience." Crazy Frog Racer is scheduled to launch in November 2005 for PC and PlayStation 2.

I think this option more or less sums it up quote:They're all the same trash to me!

A poll on the IMDb, you must be registered to take part in the poll. At last count Super Mario Bros. is in the lead. link

The cache he is talking about is built into the drive and can not be changed.

Link quote:BAGHDAD (AFP) - Around 18,000 detainees in US- and Iraqi-run jails began voting on the constitution, two days before the rest of Iraq votes on a charter that has sharply divided the country along ethnic lines. ADVERTISEMENT "The detainees have started to vote," said Abdel Hussein Hindawi, an official with the Independent Electoral Commission. Inmates were authorised to exercise their democratic right at 17 sites, including the notorious US-run Abu Ghraib prison that holds 4,600 Iraqis and Camp Bucca with a capacity of 6,500. "Several teams from the ministry of human rights have gone to the prisons under American and Iraqi control in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country," a ministry official said. "Deputy Prime Minister Abed Motlaq al-Juburi is at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq" to check on how the voting was going, he added. The country's most famous prisoner, Saddam Hussein, is believed held at a US jail near Baghdad Airport that was not one of the facilities identified by the top Iraqi election officer Adel al-Lami. The referendum is being held three years after Saddam -- who is awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity -- was re-elected for the last time in a poll that showed 100 percent of the vote in his favour. He and seven former henchmen are due to go on trial beginning October 19 over the 1982 murder of 143 people following an attempt on his life in a Shiite village. More than 15.5 million Iraqis are registered to vote on Saturday for a draft constitution that lays out the legal framework for a post-Saddam Iraq. Voting in prisons and hospitals was to continue for three days with detention centers in the northern Kurdish provinces of Sulaimaniyah and Arbil to start on Friday owing to logistical problems, electoral commission spokesman Farid Ayyar said. In a Baghdad hospital, doctors, nurses and security guards joined patients in early voting, electoral commission employee Yussef Ibrahim said. In all, about 1,000 people were expected to cast their ballots, in addition to at least 100 patients.

The last few multiple CD games I've had you didn't need to swap CD's as the game installed all the files on the hard drive. Guess one of these days I need to add a DVD drive to this rig

I would agree there is nothing really wrong with it in it's current form, but I am curious as to what Blizzard would do when the 'warden client' gives a false positive.

Link quote:I recently performed a rather long reversing session on a piece of software written by Blizzard Entertainment, yes - the ones who made Warcraft, and World of Warcraft (which has 4.5 million+ players now, apparently). This software is known as the 'warden client' - its written like shellcode in that it's position independant. It is downloaded on the fly from Blizzard's servers, and it runs about every 15 seconds. It is one of the most interesting pieces of spyware to date, because it is designed only to verify compliance with a EULA/TOS. Here is what it does, about every 15 seconds, to about 4.5 million people (500,000 of which are logged on at any given time): The warden dumps all the DLL's using a ToolHelp API call. It reads information from every DLL loaded in the 'world of warcraft' executable process space. No big deal. The warden then uses the GetWindowTextA function to read the window text in the titlebar of every window. These are windows that are not in the WoW process, but any program running on your computer. Now a Big Deal. I watched the warden sniff down the email addresses of people I was communicating with on MSN, the URL of several websites that I had open at the time, and the names of all my running programs, including those that were minimized or in the toolbar. These strings can easily contain social security numbers or credit card numbers, for example, if I have Microsoft Excel or Quickbooks open w/ my personal finances at the time. Once these strings are obtained, they are passed through a hashing function and compared against a list of 'banning hashes' - if you match something in their list, I suspect you will get banned. For example, if you have a window titled 'WoW!Inmate' - regardless of what that window really does, it could result in a ban. If you can't believe it, make a dummy window that does nothing at all and name it this, then start WoW. It certainly will result in warden reporting you as a cheater. I really believe that reading these window titles violates privacy, considering window titles contain alot of personal data. But, we already know Blizzard Entertainment is fierce from a legal perspective. Look at what they have done to people who tried to make BNetD, freecraft, or third party WoW servers. Next, warden opens every process running on your computer. When each program is opened, warden then calls ReadProcessMemory and reads a series of addresses - usually in the 0x0040xxxx or 0x0041xxxx range - this is the range that most executable programs on windows will place their code. Warden reads about 10-20 bytes for each test, and again hashes this and compares against a list of banning hashes. These tests are clearly designed to detect known 3rd party programs, such as wowglider and friends. Every process is read from in this way. I watched warden open my email program, and even my PGP key manager. Again, I feel this is a fairly severe violation of privacy, but what can you do? It would be very easy to devise a test where the warden clearly reads confidential or personal information without regard. This behavior places the warden client squarely in the category of spyware. What is interesting about this is that it might be the first use of spyware to verify compliance with a EULA. I cannot imagine that such practices will be legal in the future, but right now in terms of law, this is the wild wild west. You can't blame Blizz for trying, as well as any other company, but this practice will have to stop if we have any hope of privacy. Agree w/ botting or game cheaters or not, this is a much larger issue called 'privacy' and Blizz has no right to be opening my excel or PGP programs, for whatever reason.

Blu-ray backers rebuff MS, Intel moves quote:They insist that Blu-ray and its AACS rights management system will permit managed copying and network streaming and that the Blu-ray players will play standard DVDs in the same way that HD DVD players will, by the addition of a red laser. Moreover they argue that Blu-ray hybrid discs will in fact be superior to its rival's.

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: Call me crazy but I do enjoy Wallace and Gromit. Glad to hear they still got it.Well send me to the loony bin, as I'm a Wallace and Gromit fan too.

Trojan targeting PSP

Magic marker not included?

quote:Originally posted by Ben Zwycky: I guess it would have been better to have a few empty lines before the answer is given so that it's not on the same screen as the test, since when I opened the thread, the answer was in the middle of the screen, spoiling the test.Forgot to alternate new lines and spaces when I posted. I doubt it would change anything though, you being a professional proof reader.

So... who is going to tell the boss?

Can't believe that the brain could not handle "OF", but it seems to be true.

Design of $100 Laptop for Kids Unveiled quote:CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant. The machines' AC adapter would double as a carrying strap, and a hand crank would power them when there's no electricity. They'd be foldable into more positions than traditional notebook PCs, and carried like slim lunchboxes. For outdoor reading, their display would be able to shift from full color to glare-resistant black and white. And surrounding it all, the laptops would have a rubber casing that closes tightly, because "they have to be absolutely indestructible," said Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT Media Lab leader who offered an update on the project Wednesday. Negroponte hatched the $100 laptop idea after seeing children in a Cambodian village benefit from having notebook computers at school that they could also tote home to use on their own. Those computers had been donated by a foundation run by Negroponte and his wife. He decided that for kids everywhere to benefit from the educational and communications powers of the Internet, someone would have to make laptops inexpensive enough for officials in developing countries to purchase en masse. At least that's Negroponte's plan. Within a year, Negroponte expects his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child to get 5 million to 15 million of the machines in production, when children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa are due to begin getting them. In the second year ÔÇö when Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hopes to start buying them for all 500,000 middle and high-school students in this state ÔÇö Negroponte envisions 100 million to 150 million being made. (He boasts that these humble $100 notebooks would surpass the world's existing annual production of laptops, which is about 50 million.) While a prototype isn't expected to be shown off until November, Negroponte unveiled blueprints at Technology Review magazine's Emerging Technologies conference at MIT. Among the key specs: A 500-megahertz processor (that was fast in the 1990s but slow by today's standards) by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and flash memory instead of a hard drive with moving parts. To save on software costs, the laptops would run the freely available Linux operating system instead of Windows. The computers would be able to connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks and be part of "mesh" networks in which each laptop would relay data to and from other devices, reducing the need for expensive base stations. Plans call for the machines to have four USB ports for multimedia and data storage. Perhaps the defining difference is the hand crank, though first-generation users would get no more than 10 minutes of juice from one minute of winding. This certainly wouldn't be the first effort to bridge the world's so-called digital divide with inexpensive versions of fancy machinery. Other attempts have had a mixed record. With those in mind, Negroponte says his team is addressing ways this project could be undermined. For example, to keep the $100 laptops from being widely stolen or sold off in poor countries, he expects to make them so pervasive in schools and so distinctive in design that it would be "socially a stigma to be carrying one if you are not a student or a teacher." He compared it to filching a mail truck or taking something from a church: Everyone would know where it came from. As a result, he expects to keep no more than 2 percent of the machines from falling into a murky "gray market." And unlike the classic computing model in which successive generations of devices get more gadgetry at the same price, Negroponte said his group expects to do the reverse. With such tweaks as "electronic ink" displays that will require virtually no power, the MIT team expects to constantly lower the cost. After all, in much of the world, Negroponte said, even $100 "is still too expensive."

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: The problem is that even though Starforce advises the devs to include the driver removal in their game uninstall program, most NEVER do it.Which is why if people are angry about it they should be contacting the developer, not the makers of the copy protection software. quote: I don't include the SF driver uninstall in the UCAWA uninstall program either. Why? Because I have no way of knowing if another game requires them or not. So, I leave it up to the user to remove it themselves.To my knowledge if you use the tool to remove the SF driver, when you go and run a different StarForce protected game, the game automatically reinstalls the SF driver.

Count every "F " in the following text: quote:FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... (SEE BELOW) WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke. READ IT AGAIN ! The reasoning behind is further down. The brain cannot process "OF". Incredible or what? Go back and look again!! Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.