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Jun 21, 2007, 22:38 |
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"The US wouldn't allow it unless there was an easy way around it - they "need" to be able to read everyones email. Just like after 9/11 email from around the world was routed through the US, I learnt from an engineer at NTL (UK ISP). The US likes to police the world and technologies like this don't exactly fill me with confidence."
So use an encryption algorithm that wasn't designed by the US government... you can encrypt your e-mail however the hell you want. Its yours. I'm sorry, the US government does not have magical wiretaps on everyone in the world's computers, they do not control the software that you choose to use, and they do not have "secret keys" to all encryption algorithms used in the world. If you really believe that the government can read any e-mail no matter how it was encrypted then you should start wearing tinfoil hats to keep the government from injecting the voices into your head.
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Jun 21, 2007, 20:12 |
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"It's already amusing that email encryption is fine as long as the US has a key to defeat it"
sigh.... and what exactly makes you believe that the US government has everyone in the world's PGP/GPG keys? Try it out sometime... you can generate your own key with entirely open-source tools. There is no way for the federal government to get a hold of it without confiscating or hacking into the machine on which the private key resides.
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| News Comments > Ubi: Help us Fix Silent Hunter IV |
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Re: Boycott UBI |
May 21, 2007, 22:01 |
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OK, I know everyone's going to hate me for this, but I fell in love with SH3 two years ago and I think SH4 is a worthy successor.
There were far more serious bugs in SH3, which took several months to fix. I bought SH3 at least 3 or 4 months after it was originally released, and there were still crashing bugs present, even at 1.2 or 1.3 which SH3 was at at the time. It wasn't until 1.4b that I really could play SH3 without stability problems.
1.2 was released just a few weeks ago, I think its the community that looks bad causing all this uproar. The ubisoft.com forums are nothing but threats to sue and other nonsense, all such talk is banned on subsim.com because people are being such asses about it. I'm actually perfectly happy with the game as it is... mods are going to be released anyway so if they need to roll in a minor fix here and there they can.
That said, I don't use the TDC or chronometer, so those bugs are irrelevant to me. The only bug I've run into is getting the same mission twice in a row.... not really a huge deal since missions are a fairly minor part of the gameplay, and they tend to send you to the same areas anyway based on where your base is.
I understand the uproar from die-hard sim fans, but the problems really aren't that serious compared to most other games, even the previous game. I understand that people are just trying to make a point, but really..... if any mods were to come out I'd be much more interested in the new features they provide rather than any minor bugs that they fix.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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May 5, 2007, 11:41 |
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"How many new Apple owners even realise there's a difference between a PC and a Mac?"
Every Apple owner that I know (all non-techies) realize there's a difference. If they've really stuck their head that deep in the sand, they'd figure it out the first time they went to to buy software.
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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ATI Linux Drivers |
Apr 11, 2007, 17:42 |
skyguy |
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Strange, I have MythTV working wonderfully with the proprietary ATI Linux driver. The open source drivers were slow as hell and almost unusable.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: Retarded |
Feb 1, 2007, 10:13 |
skyguy |
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Guys wanna know something funny about Windows Vista? It doesn't support the SB Live, probably, despite its age, one of the most common gaming sound cards in use today. Even XP supports the SB Live out of the box.... MS decided not to support it in Vista, well, I guess out of spite or something. There are hacked drivers to get it working in 32-bit Vista, but with 64-bit Vista's "signed drivers only" crap, you are shit out of luck if you have a SB Live. It supports my crappy onboard audio, but I don't have a 5.1 surround system for only listening to 2 channels.
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: top ten |
Jan 16, 2007, 15:09 |
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"Using a flash drive as RAM? Not much of an improvement over using the HD really."
Has anyone ever heard anything about what the theory behind this is? All of the flash drives I own, even drives that are less that a year old, are FAR slower than using a hard drive, at least with regard to throughput. Many flash drives write a lot slower than they read, too, which would seem to be even more of a disqualifier for the supposed "speed-up" that ReadyDrive is supposed to bring. Why does Microsoft think that using flash drives as RAM is going to speed things up?
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| News Comments > New Year Mobilization |
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Re: I expected more... |
Jan 2, 2007, 18:37 |
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At every courthouse I've ever been to they do not allow camera phones. You're searched when you enter the building, and you're told to leave it in your car or they'll confiscate it (and not give it back). If you protest that you don't have a car, they tell you to pay the guy at the hot dog stand out front $10 to hold on to it for you.
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