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Reply to I Had No Idea Amiga OS Was a Real Thing... in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

[quote]if it's possible to get this OS still[/quote] It is, but it only runs on PowerPC.

Reply to I don't... I cant... but why?!?! in Star Control Stardock Forums

[quote]Why in the holy mother of all thats holy to baby jesus would this be greenlit over a well established and very much beloved series like Sins? I seriously give up on you guys.... [/quote] Ironclad owns Sins. If there's to be a Sins 2, that's up to them. SCO is not in any way mutually exclusive with that.

Reply to Rebellion Question... in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Rebellion uses Steamworks so you'll end up with a Steam key in the end, same as buying it any other way.

Reply to Weapons modifiers stacking overflowing in Ashes of the Singularity Stardock Forums

[quote]i was astouned that it happened in this game that is arguably advertised as being build on a native x64 engine called the oxide engine[/quote] 64-bit memory addressing does not mean an application has to use 64-bit integers; there are still any number of reasons to continue to use 32-bit integers (bandwidth, interoperability, etc). Checking math for overflows is a fine thing to do, but it doesn't come for free. There is a reason that few languages do that by default; it

Reply to Unbelievable...but true in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]So what you're saying is that gov't contractors could sell to north Korea, Iran and other rogue nations [if they can get away with it]?[/quote] If there is no law, sanction, or export control governing the sale? Yes. The US government has been involved with this product for more than a decade; if they wanted to restrict its sale, they'd have done so by now. This is not military-grade or custom software. It is off-the-shelf big-data reporting software used by a number of

Reply to Unbelievable...but true in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Entirely normal and believable. Govt contractors typically sell to other countries too. Sometimes there are restrictions on what features they are permitted to offer (particularly in weapons software), sometimes not. This is not unique to HP. The DOD can of course require the same sort of reviews, or prohibit sale to other countries in any contracts it makes, though that will obviously have an impact on the cost, and there is only so much that can be restricted on software that isn't

Reply to The Orville in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

It's not so much sci-fi as a crude sitcom parody of trek, which is pretty much exactly what most would expect as soon as they hear Seth Mcfarlane is running it. Anyone expecting actual sci-fi didn't need to watch it to realize that isn't what it is about. Not that it's terrible, but if you go in expecting 'Family Guy in Space' you won't be nearly as disappointed. I don't expect it to last long though either way.

Reply to Equifax: Part 2 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]As for credit freezes? That's a lot of work. The phone call is simple. The mailing of the necessary documents is a lot more cumbersome, and you have to do it for the three agencies. Separately. And it lasts all of three months, then all over again, id you want to continue it. [/quote] Credit freezes can be done online for any reason and without any special documentation, for costs ranging from free to $15 depending on what state you're in. The worst of them is Transu

Reply to Potentially 143 Million Peoples' Data Breached in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm in no hurry to trust Equifax at this point although thet're offering free credit monitoring at this point to customers... [/quote] I certainly would not trust their competence to protect anyone's identity. 'Fool me once' and all that. Also I saw it mentioned on another site that their T&C for monitoring requires you give up any right to sue them. That said, in general credit monitoring is a purely reactive solution. By the time they alert you to anything, i

Reply to Victory by Type Stats? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Every single game on there is a 'real' game that was posted to the metaverse, which does not permit cheat codes or non-cosmetic mods. The data will be by definition skewed because it doesn't include non-metaverse games, which are the only way to play with functional mods and are probably the greater majority of games played. There are no records of non-metaverse games for GC2 (GC3 has better stats since it can track all games played). Bear in mind also that the data spans all the way

Reply to Victory by Type Stats? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Here is all the game data from 2006 to 2015 (when the altmeta was shut down)- http://altmeta.kryofx.com/altmeta.csv

Reply to Galactopedia is not working in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Galactopedia isn't compatible with the latest version. Per the stack trace you got, the developer hardcoded for some values in the XML, and the newer version of the XML has a value he didn't account for. The only fix would be to fix the tool itself. The package on the library doesn't contain the source code, though absent getting in contact with the developer for the source, it sounds from the comments on the library and the thread that no one would object to someone just decompiling

Reply to Victory by Type Stats? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I can't speak for the metaverse proper, but this is the breakdown that was captured on the AltMeta during its nine years of operation: <td class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 98pt;" width="130" height="20" data-decimals="0" data-typ

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="50" id="3683497"] Don't you willingly go through that invasion of privacy to prevent criminals from harming you and others? [/quote] No.

Reply to Random GC2 questions in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="DMF" reply="11" id="3683461"] So is there a score advantage to one type over another? To how early the win date? [/quote] I don't recall the specifics, but yes.

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="47" id="3683369"] Who's talking about free speech? I'm talking about the abuse of criminal conduct. Crime is not entitled to free speech. It is not free speech to cause others' property damage. [/quote] You cannot take anonymity from them without taking it from everyone. And the internet is a communication medium, so yes, freedom of speech applies. See the EFF paper I linked for their opinion on the applicability of the SCOTUS ruling quoted.

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

That anonymity can be abused was never in dispute. The SCOTUS made that comment specifically for purposes of calling out that abuse of anonymity is not valid grounds for eliminating the anonymity of the law-abiding. It is a small part of a decision finding that the outlawing of anonymous speech was unconstitutional. Ergo, anonymous speech is not only a freedom, but a legal right in the US. I mean, it's even right there in the text you quoted... "the right to

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="42" id="3683340"] Anonymity is not freedom at all. [/quote] [quote who="The United States Supreme Court"]Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. See generally J. S. Mill, On Liberty, in On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government 1, 3-4 (R. McCallum ed. [ McINTYRE v. OHIO ELECTIONS COMM'N, ___ U.S. ___ (1995) , 24] 1947). It thus exe

Reply to Global Ransomware Attack - here we go again in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="1" id="3683278"] Least Privilege is the only thing that can/will protect us from these types of breaches and only if society embraces it completely! [/quote] There's also air-gapping... [quote who="the article"]The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has also had to monitor radiation levels manually after its Windows-based sensors were shut down.[/quote] It takes a special level of incompetence to put a nuclear reactor on the internet.

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It's clear at this point you're not even reading a word I type. Asserting the impossible should be possible because it's in peoples' best interest doesn't make it any more true. No matter how many times you repeat the claim . I sincerely hope you never get the totalitarian/surveillance state you're ignorantly wishing for (because that is the closest humans could

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3683171"]The problem is attributability and accountability and the internet...That's what needs fixing, and it can be and should be fixed.[/quote] Saying it doesn't make it so, doc. This is the same argument being made by the law enforcement folks. They insist there must be some way to hold bad actors to account, but they don't know what they're actually asking for because they don't understand how things actually work. It's like telling a homeless p

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The redundancy argument isn't really germane--the point of the analogy was the issue of addressing vs proxies; the pony express bit was just to illustrate that it involves decentralized communication via intermediaries who can't read the content of the communications. It's not an engineering issue, nor one that engineering can solve. It's not about vested interests either. The point is that it is simply impossible, for two big reasons among others: - Attribution gets you nothi

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I'll make it simple with an analogy. Normal, direct traffic can be likened to corresponding via letter using pony express. The letter has the recipient and return address on it, so you know who sent it, and you can reply back to them, etc. There are other people involved with getting the letter from point to point (the pony riders), but they don't change the address on it. Malicious traffic on the other hand, is akin to sending a coded letter to a middleman rather than the int

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Trust is all good and well, but we're not talking beliefs or subjectives here. He made statements of fact which are easily proven to be unequivocally wrong. So clearly he didn't avail himself of the experts he has access to when he did this interview. This is a lot like all the law enforcement officials asserting that encryption should be illegal or the government should have a back door. They really don't understand what they are actually asking for--they just know that it makes thei

Reply to The Internet Has to Change for Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

An administrative position, doc. Managing researchers does not a researcher make. Maybe it's different in medicine, but elsewhere the folks in charge are pretty much never experts of the field (though they may have some distant past experience in it or something related)--they're experts of being in charge . And often even they themselves tend to confuse that distinction.