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re: Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE
I love the idea of having the irony Badge. it should have a perk alongside it whereby when you have the irony badge and you are playing games, whenever another character aims at you, you freeze and...
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re: IShellFolder::BindToObject is a high-traffic method; don't do any heavy...
@stasoid: a froodad is a frozen doodad. The doodad, in turn, is a kind of thingummy, thingamajigger, whatchamacallit -- kin to gizmos, doohickeys and widgets.
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re: Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE
Team Fortress 2, however, allows people to mod their servers all they want, and since most of the game logic runs on the server, it means you can turn the game into a completely different game. That's...
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re: Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE
As mentioned in other comments, this has been implemented by Rockstar Games for Max Payne 3. Reference: www.rockstargames.com/.../taking-aim-at-cheaters-in-max-payne-3.html
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re: Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE
A game that I play (that still has a reasonably active online community) has an interesting history of cheating. Originally the online server had ranks. This was back in 1998/99 (nobody is quite sure)....
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re: Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE
Apparently Second Life has its own "limbo" for this - a cornfield where you can be banished for some time to regret your evil deeds before you can re-enter virtual society. A neat concept. The idea of...
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re: I brought this process into the world, and I can take it out!
@Avi the problem is, "using RunAs to change to a low-privileged account" sounds like it should be, in this metaphor, shoving the new process out of the airtight hatchway so it can't do exactly that...
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There is an interesting puzzle -- how do I spawn an interactive processes from a service. This breaks down into two further subproblems: how do I spawn an interactive process as the user, and how do I...
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re: A classification of faces with eyes open and closed in Dr. Seuss's ABC...
Style suggestion: right-align <td>s with numeric content.
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Hmmm... I see that the post has <colgroup> with ALIGN settings, but for some reason they're not having any effect in my browser (everything's left-aligned.)
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re: I brought this process into the world, and I can take it out!
@Random832 It seems a logical extension of Raymond's post. If the chain of (interactive) processes can be followed back to a(n interactive) process that has privileges to kill other processes, there's...
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@Joshua The problem is, stealing anyone's token can leave your service open to problems. The reason for this is because you would end up with you needing to use the Local System account and maybe even...
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@Crescens2k: The code grabbed the active session ID to decide which session to create the process in. If no users were logged in, the code would have grabbed the service session, but due to other...
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I like how the main column headings are repeated at the bottom of the table - I'll copy that for all my future tables that are more than a handful of rows long.
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re: In vollen Zügen genießen
Today, smoking isn't allowed anymore in German trains. In the old days, you could sit in a crowded smokers compartment and have both!
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Book cover: 3 open. But maybe that was just to help sell the book and therefore was not guided by pure artistic intention, so it shouldn't count.
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"User Interface Privilege Isolation, which prevents low-integrity processes from manipulating the user interface of higher-integrity processes." I feel that killing the process should count as...
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seems odd that there is no Vowel versus Consonant breakout. I'd also like to see a breakdown by page number- Primes versus Non primes
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re: Does the CopyFile function verify that the data reached its final...
There was a bug in Server 2003 that corrupted files written to shared folders (corrupts on receive). After that, I started using a program that verifies copied files.
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re: A classification of faces with eyes open and closed in Dr. Seuss's ABC...
Raymond has a small child in the family. I'd hazard a guess of the age of learning to read.
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