"I'm pretty confident the winners of the competitions for the last few years (a) don't have the same flexibility for artists working with their demo engines as Square-Enix does and (b) would never be able to assemble enough assets and people to do the facial expression stuff with anywhere near the same quality (an area in which, AFAIK, Nvidia has been almost entirely pioneering.)"

Actually, they've had the assets and more for a LONG time. Procedural generation eliminates the need for a LOT of work, can be done with a HUGE degree of detail, takes up ungodly tiny amounts of space, and yes, we've had facial emotional animation in demoscene projects well matching up with stuff like LA Noire.

CB also appears to be very insecure spamming morons.

Good Job, CareerBuilder. Do you ever wonder why I tell people to avoid you like the plague?

"Still saddens me that one company that made a raytracer accelerator chip just sort of vanished."

That was Intel's Knights Landing coprocessor. I don't think Intel vanished. :)

Sorry, we've had graphics like this well before now in the Demoscene. At least since the 8*** series of nVidia GPUs - NINE GENERATIONS AGO.

Drop Linux, learn MenuetOS, don't worry about getting infected by this kind of crap, and enjoy INSTANT boot-up/reboot/shut down and about a 400% speed improvement over current Linux.

Sure, it's proprietary, but as long as you understand ASM, you can do anything you want, more than Linux can.

"Just for reference, just because you have some raspberry pi's running Linux, doesn't really mean you should be saying you run some servers."

Just like you can't say you run servers, because your shit 1P hardware doesn't even come close to my system.

"Second, if you don't know how to detect this, you shouldn't be running servers."

No, they shouldn't be running LINUX. Not that I'd recommend Linux to anyone anyways, given the attitude like yours that's given when people ASK A FUCKING QUESTION.

"Third, if you don't know how to prevent this from being useful, OR you don't take those actions be default, you shouldn't be running anything other than Windows."

If you can't provide an immediate answer to the person's question (How is this detected) then you're just as fucking useless. By the way, since the paper doesn't explain detection methods, only that this was discovered after someone had their server blackholed and was ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE, you can't run to your shit default "RTFA/M" meme, now.

So, start talking, or admit YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE ANSWER YOURSELF.

" It's a random program that someone has decided to install"

FTA: "The researchers believe that Mumblehard is also installed on servers compromised via Joomla and Wordpress exploits"

The bare fucking minimum you could do is read the fucking article before going off on a holier-than-thou rant AND BEING STRAIGHT FUCKING WRONG.

"But, please, continue to think you're superior because "lol OS is insecure""

I'm superior because I can at least RTFA and get correct information. The only thing you're superior at is opening your useless mouth.

"Clearly this debacle is indisputable proof that Linux security is a shambolic, shameful charade that needs to be stopped before the world collapses into chaos."

Pretty much, because once you understand Linux, you realize that it's a fucking tangled web of crap with no cohesion, and thus no real chance of ever being half secure.

MenuetOS does a better job at security, and it's fucking proprietary garbage.

"\u201cconservative\u201d"
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Looks like systemd already wrecked your shit. Your punctuation doesn't even fucking work!

Seriously, their 'smart' systems suck balls. CareerBuilder gives me programming jobs from my horticultural resume. Monster gives me retail jobs from my culinary resume. Neither can figure out my IT resume so I get shit from security guard to administrative assistant.

All they're doing is selling you out to data harvesters.

The airlines will simply insert a clause in the purchase agreement that says they can dock you the difference if you don't show up on the second leg.

That is very unlikely to survive a legal challenge, because although statistically people doing what you are doing may be costing them money, (difficult to prove, but plausible) they would have a very hard time proving that not providing YOU the service caused them additional expenses that requires recovery.

Just because it's included in the contract doesn't guarantee it's enforceable.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?...

Here's one done in 4 kilobytes. Hope you've got at LEAST a GTX680 to get it running, because it's some serious fucking code and needs serious hardware to operate.

" Waiting even four minutes for a demo is fairly long, which shows that higher speeds are in fact needed by average users today"

No, that just shows that programmers need to learn to tighten up their bloated code. I've seen demoscene stuff pushing PS3-level graphics before the PS3 was even available.

Oh, and the demo was written in 96 KILOBYTES.

"You're going for the sarcasm, but that's really the only point I see for these mega speed tiers"

I'll rape a 2Gbps link with just Camfrog alone.

"There is no real-time holographic display as of today."

If our universe turns out to be a 3D projection, I'm going to point and laugh, endlessly.