If you own the Windows or Mac version of a game and there is also a Linux version. Guesss what? That game is also available on Steam Linux for your enjoyment.
I forgot how awesome Half-Life is/was. I was pleasantly surprised about how well some of these older games hold up. Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike!
I was waiting for someone to state the obivous. RTFA before commenting about how "your" vehicle has 4 wheel disc brakes, a handbrake, a drag chute, and a pneumaticly fired grappling hook system to prevent runaways.
This guy is getting/has been paid for his effort to play with computerized light sequencing using the Bay Bridge to hold the lamps.
Don't lose the coolness factor just because the term "art hack" has raised your hackles. Sure the artist is not using assembly programming to make robot arm peel a banana faster. At least the hacker term is being used as a positive descriptor/moniker. I loathe to think of all the discussions 10-12 years ago when the/. discussion was that we would never educate the general public on cracker vs hacker.
As the the "art" of it. Here are the points to all art as created or transformed by me. -The definition of art is in the eye of the beholder. -Create something and call it art and yourself an artist. (doesn't make it "good", another subjective word) -Appreciation of the "art' means it was successful (even if just the appreciation of the artist themselves) -Money for Art is one of the most profound "life hacks" (see what I did there)
I was on the other end of a story like that. In early BETA. I was simply walking around the edge of Britian when someone running from the wild into town was killed by a guard (bug). I spent the rest of that server cycle wearing the shiny full plate I looted from his body. Acting like I earned it. Well I did sorta.
You can't only count game time. Full and Half contact practices occur also. There is pre-season and post season. Certainly, post-season stakes are higher so players risk more, hit harder, and play with more intensity.
Divorce radically changes the power dynamic of the relationship. It shifts drastically into the womans favor. Court ordered alimony and child-support is collected from the man. The woman now has complete control over how that money is spent. She also has majority shareholder type authority over what is going on with the kids.
It's not right. It's not fair. It shouldn't be allowed to continue. Some women are wretched things with no souls and do all this out of selfishness.
With that said, when my wife and I divorced (no kids) we were pretty amicable. I made more money, but she didn't want alimony. I pulled some money together out of my pocket and paid for a new vehicle (nothing extravagant but she picked it out) and set her up in a rental, paying the deposit and 6 months rent. After some healing/recalibration time, we are still friends today and our kids (from later relationships) play together on occasion. I am also lucky enough to have a good relationship with my kids' mom (we never married). We never went to court over custody and support. We share 50% custody and no substantial amounts of money have ever changed hands.
Not all women are harpies but the ones who are seem to have no depth to which they will sink. (just like not all men are ogres.. but the ones who are....)
They don't get paid if they don't have any gray area to litigate with. IANAL and only read the linked article, but that indicates the fuss is over protecting the manufacturing, parts, and supply chain as well as the operator of the space flight.
If a contract is made with the operator to launch a satellite there must be a defined responsibile party if the rocket blows up destroying the payload and perhaps raining death and destruction onto the ground.
Failing parts or operational failures are not "acts of God" and someone should will have to pay. I am guessing they should refer to how the BP oil spill liability shook out in the end. Good and Bad.
I do disagree on the status of the question being relevant or not. Quantity is entirely relevant. Just as type of offense is entirely relevant.
I think there is common ground between us on the idea that some offenses should not automatically require registration. I also agree that pursuing producers of child porn should also be a focus for law enforcement. However, it sounds like you are advocating the decriminalizaion of possesion of child porn. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I totally disagree with that idea. Just browsing posts here on/. is not an accurate data pool to represent the entire real world population.
To expand on the quantity point above why would anyone want or need to possess multiple drives full of child porn? Why would someone need kilos of cocaine?
Possession of such imagery is not always an indication of more severe problems. It should always be a case by case consideration. Maybe not on the first offense, but what if the first time someone is caught they are caught with drives full of child porn?
I don't disagree with your post. Yet possession of some material is illegal and that includes child porn. Any adult knows this and also knows the penalty exists.
Convicted criminals give up some rights based on the crime and sentencing schedule.
I don't really feel the law is akin to shunning or banishment in total from society. It's more like an extension of sex offenders not being allowed to hang out at playgrounds or anywhere "children are likely to congregate". Now again someone will say "not all sex offenders are child molesters".
Right, I would not argue against a more incremental penalty for some offenses on a case by case basis.
Recently in the news was a story about a convicted sex offender that was volunteering as a church festival of some kind. The church also operated a school. Children were present at the festival. A mother recognized the person from the Megan's Law website and called police. The person was not arrested because he had written permission from the church minister to be present. He was asked to leave the area by the cop. I felt sorry for him since it seems that he was following the rules and wasn't bothering anyone. I also feel sorry for the felon who can't get a job because he can't pass a background check.
Still, it is the penalty that comes with being convicted of the crime. It is rarely thought of as a consequence during the commision of the crime. Yet it is a deterrent when you know someone who is in that situation personally.
Surely, I will have "the talk" and plenty more with my kids when the time comes. Not there yet, but I will make it a comprehensive as possible.
I agree that parents buying kids M rates games and letting them play online are most likely not being responsible and taking parenting seriously. However, these adults have been convicted of a crime and the penalty for those crimes includes regulation of their online presense.
Right and on/. it should be expected that everyone is better than elsewhere on the internet so they don't have to actually RTFA or posts accurately. This is exaclty from the website I linked. "Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime." This is what I wrote "there is enough historcal case data that indicates recidivism is 4x higher for released sex offenders than other released offenders." It something getting lost in the translation here?
I don't compeletely understand your statement about your grandmother's lament and laws that scare the 16 year old girl instead of the 18 year old boy. Please explain further.
I did make the comment "Maybe it just means that there are 5 sex offenders on./ with mod points.". It wasn't meant to be accusatory as much as a statement of disbelief.
I am not advocating the curtailing of rights held by the general public. The hue and cry to the contrary is incorrect. Period. We are talking about people convicted of the crime. We are not talking about innocents falsely accused or those acquitted or any one else. That is something entirely different.
To sum up : If you can't do the time (or suffer the penalties) then don't do the crime. I fail to see the arguement that banning people from an online gaming service is that big of a deal anyway. If someone really wants to play, they can always make another account and not report that they are using the alias.
Get OUT with this non-sense!! Gaming Online is NOT public life or commerce. It is an online arena that is populated with tons of underage teens/kids. SOME (not all) sex offenders target these kids for vicitimization and allowing them access to them is insane.
If banning the convicted sex offenders from online gaming keeps one person (kid or not) from being victimized by a sexual predator then so be it. Comparing existing modern societal norms to the acts of an "extremist religious cult" is not very rational.
Apparently, the combination of your low./ id and the way you framed the last sentence of the post gave you the +5 Informative rating. Maybe this is informative, but it's bad information. Maybe it just means that there are 5 sex offenders on./ with mod points.
I get that abuses of power happen and labeling someone who is innocent as a sex offender is the WORST type of crime and should be punishable to the same extent as someone who is found guilty of the accused crime.
As a society we have passed laws that identify sex offenders for life because there is enough historcal case data that indicates recidivism is 4x higher for released sex offenders than other released offenders. Keep in mind that this does not include sex offenders that are never caught. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1136
My last point is that by now, sex-offenders know the risks of getting caught. The stigma. The Megan's Law websites. The prison time served in protective custody, but still fear being the target of violence. The fact that the sex offense will always appear on your background check. The banning of internet use or online gaming seems minor in comparison.
There is and always has been a line that a society will use to determine who should be banished. Spartans tossed less that perfect physical specimens off a cliff. In the US, sex offenders get a life long tag as a sex offender.
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If you own the Windows or Mac version of a game and there is also a Linux version. Guesss what? That game is also available on Steam Linux for your enjoyment.
I forgot how awesome Half-Life is/was. I was pleasantly surprised about how well some of these older games hold up.
Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike!
I was waiting for someone to state the obivous. RTFA before commenting about how "your" vehicle has 4 wheel disc brakes, a handbrake, a drag chute, and a pneumaticly fired grappling hook system to prevent runaways.
This guy is getting/has been paid for his effort to play with computerized light sequencing using the Bay Bridge to hold the lamps.
Don't lose the coolness factor just because the term "art hack" has raised your hackles. Sure the artist is not using assembly programming to make robot arm peel a banana faster. At least the hacker term is being used as a positive descriptor/moniker. I loathe to think of all the discussions 10-12 years ago when the /. discussion was that we would never educate the general public on cracker vs hacker.
As the the "art" of it. Here are the points to all art as created or transformed by me.
-The definition of art is in the eye of the beholder.
-Create something and call it art and yourself an artist. (doesn't make it "good", another subjective word)
-Appreciation of the "art' means it was successful (even if just the appreciation of the artist themselves)
-Money for Art is one of the most profound "life hacks" (see what I did there)
Ahhh...UO!
Magic Stealth Lumberjack Fletcher Archer here.
also
Super Stealth Sneak Pickpocket
And many many others.
I was on the other end of a story like that. In early BETA. I was simply walking around the edge of Britian when someone running from the wild into town was killed by a guard (bug). I spent the rest of that server cycle wearing the shiny full plate I looted from his body. Acting like I earned it. Well I did sorta.
Easy to do. RFID tag is implanted in the user if it travels beyond the designated distance BOOM. Dead user...eh....wait..
In version 2.0, the ...
Hello Exactly! One fighter with tatical knowledge of the can make a huge difference.
Why would you post this as an AC?
Grip = Traction = Less Spin Outs in Rain and Ice.
You can't only count game time. Full and Half contact practices occur also. There is pre-season and post season. Certainly, post-season stakes are higher so players risk more, hit harder, and play with more intensity.
AD inegration is important for small, medium, and large businesses if you want to connectivity to be "out of the box" easy.
It's as simple at this one fact.
Divorce radically changes the power dynamic of the relationship. It shifts drastically into the womans favor. Court ordered alimony and child-support is collected from the man. The woman now has complete control over how that money is spent. She also has majority shareholder type authority over what is going on with the kids.
It's not right. It's not fair. It shouldn't be allowed to continue. Some women are wretched things with no souls and do all this out of selfishness.
With that said, when my wife and I divorced (no kids) we were pretty amicable. I made more money, but she didn't want alimony. I pulled some money together out of my pocket and paid for a new vehicle (nothing extravagant but she picked it out) and set her up in a rental, paying the deposit and 6 months rent. After some healing/recalibration time, we are still friends today and our kids (from later relationships) play together on occasion. I am also lucky enough to have a good relationship with my kids' mom (we never married). We never went to court over custody and support. We share 50% custody and no substantial amounts of money have ever changed hands.
Not all women are harpies but the ones who are seem to have no depth to which they will sink. (just like not all men are ogres.. but the ones who are....)
If I can pay a fee to get the Disney Princess of my choice to surprise my daughter during our time at the park then I like this.
They don't get paid if they don't have any gray area to litigate with. IANAL and only read the linked article, but that indicates the fuss is over protecting the manufacturing, parts, and supply chain as well as the operator of the space flight.
If a contract is made with the operator to launch a satellite there must be a defined responsibile party if the rocket blows up destroying the payload and perhaps raining death and destruction onto the ground.
Failing parts or operational failures are not "acts of God" and someone should will have to pay. I am guessing they should refer to how the BP oil spill liability shook out in the end. Good and Bad.
I wish NVIDIA distriubted a driver that could be installed via the .inf file using the Windows Control Panel.
Wouldn't this solve the problem.
Junk Mail that comes via the Post Office is the same thing. They charge other people to deliver crap to you, that you don't want.
I imagine that "select users" could mean advertisers and they could possible get volume discounts to message people.
Razor-sharp and that go through meat like warm butter. Seems only fair that we have better blunt bashers.
I do disagree on the status of the question being relevant or not. Quantity is entirely relevant. Just as type of offense is entirely relevant.
I think there is common ground between us on the idea that some offenses should not automatically require registration. I also agree that pursuing producers of child porn should also be a focus for law enforcement. However, it sounds like you are advocating the decriminalizaion of possesion of child porn. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I totally disagree with that idea. /. is not an accurate data pool to represent the entire real world population.
Just browsing posts here on
To expand on the quantity point above why would anyone want or need to possess multiple drives full of child porn? Why would someone need kilos of cocaine?
To strike a balance between Order and Choas.
Possession of such imagery is not always an indication of more severe problems. It should always be a case by case consideration. Maybe not on the first offense, but what if the first time someone is caught they are caught with drives full of child porn?
I don't disagree with your post. Yet possession of some material is illegal and that includes child porn. Any adult knows this and also knows the penalty exists.
I totally disagree with public urination being considered "exposure".
Do you know someone that this has happened to and they were not able to get it dismissed? Was it a first/one-time incident?
Convicted criminals give up some rights based on the crime and sentencing schedule.
I don't really feel the law is akin to shunning or banishment in total from society. It's more like an extension of sex offenders not being allowed to hang out at playgrounds or anywhere "children are likely to congregate". Now again someone will say "not all sex offenders are child molesters".
Right, I would not argue against a more incremental penalty for some offenses on a case by case basis.
Recently in the news was a story about a convicted sex offender that was volunteering as a church festival of some kind. The church also operated a school. Children were present at the festival. A mother recognized the person from the Megan's Law website and called police. The person was not arrested because he had written permission from the church minister to be present. He was asked to leave the area by the cop. I felt sorry for him since it seems that he was following the rules and wasn't bothering anyone. I also feel sorry for the felon who can't get a job because he can't pass a background check.
Still, it is the penalty that comes with being convicted of the crime. It is rarely thought of as a consequence during the commision of the crime. Yet it is a deterrent when you know someone who is in that situation personally.
We draw the line through being active in our own community and government. But the line must exist somewhere...
Surely, I will have "the talk" and plenty more with my kids when the time comes. Not there yet, but I will make it a comprehensive as possible.
I agree that parents buying kids M rates games and letting them play online are most likely not being responsible and taking parenting seriously. However, these adults have been convicted of a crime and the penalty for those crimes includes regulation of their online presense.
Right and on /. it should be expected that everyone is better than elsewhere on the internet so they don't have to actually RTFA or posts accurately. This is exaclty from the website I linked. "Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime."
This is what I wrote "there is enough historcal case data that indicates recidivism is 4x higher for released sex offenders than other released offenders." It something getting lost in the translation here?
I don't compeletely understand your statement about your grandmother's lament and laws that scare the 16 year old girl instead of the 18 year old boy. Please explain further.
I did make the comment "Maybe it just means that there are 5 sex offenders on ./ with mod points.". It wasn't meant to be accusatory as much as a statement of disbelief.
I am not advocating the curtailing of rights held by the general public. The hue and cry to the contrary is incorrect. Period. We are talking about people convicted of the crime. We are not talking about innocents falsely accused or those acquitted or any one else. That is something entirely different.
To sum up : If you can't do the time (or suffer the penalties) then don't do the crime. I fail to see the arguement that banning people from an online gaming service is that big of a deal anyway. If someone really wants to play, they can always make another account and not report that they are using the alias.
So - Possesion of child pornography shouldn't be a sexual offense?
Get OUT with this non-sense!! Gaming Online is NOT public life or commerce. It is an online arena that is populated with tons of underage teens/kids. SOME (not all) sex offenders target these kids for vicitimization and allowing them access to them is insane.
If banning the convicted sex offenders from online gaming keeps one person (kid or not) from being victimized by a sexual predator then so be it. Comparing existing modern societal norms to the acts of an "extremist religious cult" is not very rational.
Apparently, the combination of your low ./ id and the way you framed the last sentence of the post gave you the +5 Informative rating. Maybe this is informative, but it's bad information. Maybe it just means that there are 5 sex offenders on ./ with mod points.
I get that abuses of power happen and labeling someone who is innocent as a sex offender is the WORST type of crime and should be punishable to the same extent as someone who is found guilty of the accused crime.
As a society we have passed laws that identify sex offenders for life because there is enough historcal case data that indicates recidivism is 4x higher for released sex offenders than other released offenders. Keep in mind that this does not include sex offenders that are never caught. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1136
My last point is that by now, sex-offenders know the risks of getting caught. The stigma. The Megan's Law websites. The prison time served in protective custody, but still fear being the target of violence. The fact that the sex offense will always appear on your background check. The banning of internet use or online gaming seems minor in comparison.
There is and always has been a line that a society will use to determine who should be banished. Spartans tossed less that perfect physical specimens off a cliff. In the US, sex offenders get a life long tag as a sex offender.