I used a desktop world clock programm (dunno remember the name) for a long time.
So I always knowed whats BST CEST CET PST etc. etc. compared to my time.
Today I usually only use http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
Good I'm not a fan of Audi or Mercedes so I watched the race without much emotions but:
1.
To "hold up" someone up (or defend your position against faster cars as long as you can) is normal and legitimate part of racing.
So it's not like they did something wrong
2.
To brake waaaaay to late like Häkkinen and take out the leader is a stupid mistake (2 times world champion or not) It was just over optimistic and looked like a typical LFS T1 noob crash :nod
3.
When you lost the corner and don't lift then you end up on the green like la Rosa but then to just give full speed and brake like 5 meter before reentering the track and do a revenge hit to take out the Championship leader!! Ekström is more then unsportsmenlike imo.
And then say afterwards it was Ekströms fault on german TV is just unbelievable.
4.
With all those touches, crashes and passings it was much more entertaining then (to me completly boring) 1 WTCC Race at Brands.
5.
To proof my words :
- Häkkinnen have to pay 20000 Euros fine
- La Rosa 10000 Euros fine
- Both are afterwards excluded from the race (but they didn't finished)
- Both have to go back 10 places in the grid in the next race
I haven't read your earlier post properly and posted something quickly.
Then I read it again and understood what you meant and thought it makes sense
Then I deleted my post (because it was useless)
True but that's not the point.
If you would have read the mail from Nikimere (to which the link goes) then you would see he was in contact with the Dev and he offered the track for free (+free licenses) and the Devs said/pm'd/mailed him they don't want it but they might consider it in the future.
So to me it looks like that at this point of the development they have other things to do then adding new cars or tracks.
And if no one is asking them directly it's useless to discuss or post all these "I want this track", "can we have that track", or get in contact with some track or car brand owner
Yes I know and didn't said anything about it (that was obsolum).
But Scawen said it in another thread:
So deleting the complete stats (only vic can do that) would be extra work for them without being paid again.
That's all I meant.
An imo if we start editing some user stats then it would also falsify the whole stats (like complete driven laps and car choice by all users etc. etc.)
I don't think Victor will do it because,
I speculate on this, the reason for him trying to delete everything is: He got an "old" S2 license yesterday from somebody.
They showed Ditzy Chick here in the news some hours ago and they also showed some others.
The funniest was (to bad I can't find a vid):
A Miss Somewhere was asked what she eats.
She: I'm vegetarian
Reporter: So you don't eat meat
She: No, I can't eat cows or animals when I looked into his eyes
Reporter: What do you eat instead
She: Chicken
Reporter: But chicken is ehhm
She: Yes chicken is a bird and a cow is an animal
Reporter: hmm ehhh ...
I meant if one of the goals of this exploit is to show others an easy way how to modify replays to take over others computers like muhaa said. Then it's an instruction how to do illegal things and this is criminal in a lot of countries.
Releasing an instruction manual how to make a simple suitcase bomb is the same thing. Some would say it's just a poc and if someone then using it to bomb away some others, the author of that, of course, has nothing to do with it.
That's crazy imo.
I said a buffer overflow alone doesn't do anything to anyone till someone used his criminal energy and wrote code to use or let others use this part of the software illegally.
So now we had a problem were no problem was just because the software was used in an illegal way.
You said it: if the replays weren't ILLEGALLY modified (which is criminal) then there wouldn't be a problem at all.
For me the point with the LFS exploits is (I make it very short):
It's a sim game and exploit searching people using parts (i.e the replays) of the software in a way it shouldn't be used.
It's a replay of a race nothing more. Not a code example to play with.
No one told them to do it and it's not made by the devs for things like this.
But they dig in the code of the replays till they find something that allows i.e. a buffer overflow.
Which doesn't do anything to anyone nor is it a real security hole except
till the day these people write code to use the software part in a way the software wasn't made for.
An imo illegal way.
Then the LFS community/the devs have a problem were no problem was before,
and it wouldn't be there if they would use the software like it should be used:
For playing and having fun while racing.
So these "security holes" are only there because people searching for gaps to use the software
or parts of it in an illegal way or to show others how they can perform illegal things on other people computers with it etc.
In the end it's not making the software more secure but it steals my time, your time, and especially the devs time and delays the release of LFS final.