So... to sum up the article: "Some companies are working on games that have not been announced and they are mysterious and we don't actually know anything about them really."
Wow, how does one about getting a job in games journalism again? I want me a piece of that action.
Pick your favorite retailer, and just call them once a day when they open.
Minor correction: Call any and all retailers you suspect of getting them in, find out when they are arriving, show up an hour before the store opens, discover that people started camping out at midnight the previous night and that all vouchers were given away hours earlier, go home dejected, and decide you're not even going to bother with the damn thing until March.
I know I know, off topic, I'll get modded down and all that, but they're Belgian beers. Not Belgium beers. Never Belgium beers. Unless you also enjoy Germany beers, England beers, America beers, etc., which seems unlikely.
I can't believe people still suggest entity obfuscation.. you're assuming bot programmers are lazy and/or stupid[...]
I've never actually heard it suggested for this type of application (perhaps I don't read up enough - or at all, really - on web security), but I suppose you're right, overly hostile AC that you are. Still, TFA suggests nothing more than a simple display style, and an added layer of obfuscation should count for something, no?
I would say that if I'm underestimating the bot writers, then TFA is seriously underestimating them.
As opposed to using just adding "display: none" to the style of an input element (as TFA advocates), which the spambot writers can easily detect and ignore, would it be more useful to convert the style information into the equivalent ascii entities?
For example "display: none" -> "display: 2;none" or, now that I've revealed my clever scheme to the world, some variation thereof. Alternately, the display style could be set in a class somewhere and the class name could be set as entities.
Would this even slow the spambots down, or do they generally have access to the entire DOM?
For a second there I thought that said Wes Anderson.
My first thought was, wow, that's a bit out of his milieu. My second thought was, wow, that's is gonna be the best movie ever.
The problem with multi-species science fiction is that it assumes contemporaneous (nearly synchronous!) technological development.
There's a novel by Stanislaw Lem (http://lem.pl/) called Fiasco that involves humanity's attempt to contact the one species in the universe that's both close enough to travel to and has a relatively similar level of intelligence and technological development. In other words, our one chance to ever contact another intelligent species, for the reasons you mention. Although, in case you couldn't guess by the title, things don't go incredibly well.
It's a fantastic book though, and I'd highly recommend it. (Or anything else by Lem, for that matter.)
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There were some supposed "spoilers" of Dumbledore's death
Yeah, like that one right there. Some of us are still a couple books behind, you insensitive clod.
So... to sum up the article: "Some companies are working on games that have not been announced and they are mysterious and we don't actually know anything about them really."
Wow, how does one about getting a job in games journalism again? I want me a piece of that action.
Pick your favorite retailer, and just call them once a day when they open.
Minor correction: Call any and all retailers you suspect of getting them in, find out when they are arriving, show up an hour before the store opens, discover that people started camping out at midnight the previous night and that all vouchers were given away hours earlier, go home dejected, and decide you're not even going to bother with the damn thing until March.
Hmm? No, I'm not bitter or anything.
-I love Belgium beers. The U.S. buys Budweiser.
I know I know, off topic, I'll get modded down and all that, but they're Belgian beers. Not Belgium beers. Never Belgium beers. Unless you also enjoy Germany beers, England beers, America beers, etc., which seems unlikely.
And coming up later in the program: Space Elevators - What are they? And could they be killing your children? Channel 6 investigates!
I can't believe people still suggest entity obfuscation.. you're assuming bot programmers are lazy and/or stupid[...]
I've never actually heard it suggested for this type of application (perhaps I don't read up enough - or at all, really - on web security), but I suppose you're right, overly hostile AC that you are. Still, TFA suggests nothing more than a simple display style, and an added layer of obfuscation should count for something, no?
I would say that if I'm underestimating the bot writers, then TFA is seriously underestimating them.
As opposed to using just adding "display: none" to the style of an input element (as TFA advocates), which the spambot writers can easily detect and ignore, would it be more useful to convert the style information into the equivalent ascii entities?
3 2;none" or, now that I've revealed my clever scheme to the world, some variation thereof. Alternately, the display style could be set in a class somewhere and the class name could be set as entities.
For example "display: none" -> "display:&#
Would this even slow the spambots down, or do they generally have access to the entire DOM?
For a second there I thought that said Wes Anderson.
My first thought was, wow, that's a bit out of his milieu. My second thought was, wow, that's is gonna be the best movie ever.
Ah well, I can dream.
There's a novel by Stanislaw Lem (http://lem.pl/) called Fiasco that involves humanity's attempt to contact the one species in the universe that's both close enough to travel to and has a relatively similar level of intelligence and technological development. In other words, our one chance to ever contact another intelligent species, for the reasons you mention. Although, in case you couldn't guess by the title, things don't go incredibly well.
It's a fantastic book though, and I'd highly recommend it. (Or anything else by Lem, for that matter.)