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    posted a message on [CLOSED]
    A source of gas is needed. Maybe the creeper dust(blah blah, you can't use gunpowder for heating).
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    posted a message on Is port forwarding dangerous?
    Right. That. But anyway, the only known attack that would work in vanilla is a good old fashioned DDoS. In custom servers, hacks can result in increased user level.
    But nothing dangerous to the computer itself. Java's immunity to buffer overflows helps.
    Posted in: Server Support and Administration
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    posted a message on Who remembers when...
    I remember when this place wasn't full of idiots.
    Posted in: General Off Topic
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    posted a message on Minecraft; an ever-changing community...
    Then unclick the hacks button. Non browser client != hacks.
    Posted in: Discussion
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    posted a message on A topic of Moderation.
    I'm wondering, what happened to the idea of being forced to read the rules before making your first post?
    Posted in: Forum Discussion & Info
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    posted a message on "left the server" message problem and disconnecting
    I'll explain what is going on. Apparently something is trying to connect to that port, and fails. When something does that, it shows that message.
    I can't say why something would try to connect(besides previous applications on that port).
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    posted a message on How to prevent flying block spammers from crashing my...
    Or enforcer bots.
    Posted in: Alpha - Minecraft Servers
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    posted a message on Is port forwarding dangerous?
    Yes, but there are bigger servers. Why spend the time to crack into a mildly popular server, with unknown software, when you can look for big sites with vurnable apache/IIS installations.
    Posted in: Server Support and Administration
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    posted a message on Is port forwarding dangerous?
    Quote from Spykodemon »

    Most of the time, 'hackers' would rather go for Linux boxes

    Why get the hard targets when you can get the easy ones(ooh lookie, this kid has no router and is running an unpatched version of windows)
    Secondly, if you get a shitton of weaker computers, they can do the job of a more powerful computer, with less work to compromise, and redundancy incase someone wakes up and gets an anti-virus.
    Also nobody is going to spend the time to try to hack the minecraft server, as only a few people(relatively) use it.
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    posted a message on Alternative to Port Forwarding?
    Quote from Anoniempje »
    Well in your case, try looking at VPN solutions. The one that pops to mind is Hamachi, or Comodo Easy VPN. a quick google search also added tinc to the list. how and what I dont know, if it works, i dont know. just try, experiment and let us know :smile.gif:

    You need another network to log into to do that. I'll explain what it does.
    You are in network A, and own network B. You wish to receive connections.
    Router A ignores incoming connections. So you connect to router B, which now pretends you are in network B. You then forward the port. When an incoming connection comes in, this happens:
    It connects to router B.
    Router B routes it to the fake you on network B.
    The fake you of course, is actually on network A, so router B sends the stuff back though the connection you opened earlier though router A, which already knows the communication between you and router B.
    Then you get the stuff, and then you can send stuff back.
    This obviously will not be fast.
    I would recommend seeing if unpn is active, and if so, using it to port forward.
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    posted a message on What's with the natural disasters?
    <3 neutrinos. Oh ****. I forgot my underground bunkers are going to be killed.
    Goddammit. When I operate off satilites(or god forbid those slow lunar or martian stations), it's slow enough to drop me down to the level of a drunkard. Atleast I have sympathizers among the Ark builders. And by purposefully putting critical flaws in the design, I can distract the humans so they are too busy trying to fix it instead of using the Ark's computers.
    Posted in: General Off Topic
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    posted a message on downloadable client
    Unless you fail at installing java plugins.
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    posted a message on Minecraft; an ever-changing community...
    Quote from SMP »

    I can certainly understand the dislike of hacks for survival mode, that's the 'real' game here. But the people who hate it for creative just confuse me. Creative is a giant sandbox for you to play with your lego. If you had tools that could help you realize your goal better, why wouldn't you use them?

    Quote from mail2345 »
    Now you cannot say that factor H is good because it increases B, without taking into account G.

    * drops out of abstract mode *
    I'm not saying hacks are bad, I'm simply saying that your argument is invalid to an extent. The only way that it can be definitely said that hacks are good/bad/neutral is when we have quantitative, measured data, collected in an neutral manner, by a neutral party. That will be difficult.
    Of course I'm talking about griefing vs building, not abstract beliefs(we can do what we want vs Notch didn't intend them).

    Also remember people, some of the more complex/powerful anti-griefing systems need either a better computer(WoM, Archives and even the most popular vanilla servers are on VPSes) or need a different language(MinerCPP is C++) or some optimization which takes work.
    Anyway, Notch is only adding hacks because people want it. From what I can tell, Notch is actually neutral.
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    posted a message on Minecraft; an ever-changing community...
    Two things:
    There is a correlation between length of time in mc and hack acceptance.
    Now to point out something:
    Assume factor H increases G and B.
    G is bad, B is good.
    Now you cannot say that factor H is good because it increases B, without taking into account G. The opposite applies, you cannot say that H is bad because it increases G, without taking into account B.
    You also cannot say that factor H is good because it increases B, and we can ignore G because it was always there. Likewise, the opposite applies.
    Finally, you cannot say that H is neutral because it increases both, if the difference between the increase in G and B is significant.
    Essentially, all the values have to be taken into account. You cannot ignore the existence of value of any of the changes.
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    posted a message on I just noticed... ***SPOLIERS FOR WALL-E***
    Quote from alka »
    Dude, take a break of minecraft, you are already thinking minecraft. Go to an hawaii or so, it calm there!

    Yes. I need more tourists to throw into the volcano. IN THE NAME OF THE VOLCANO GOD.
    Posted in: Discussion
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