I remember the newspaper articles about Kildall's death. They indicated he had been attacked and beaten and left for dead. The police never tracked down his attackers.
Random news articles all around the world indicated all kinds of ridiculous bullshit. The San Jose Mercury, however, his local paper, indicated that he'd suffered a massive heart attack and fallen down; the latter possibly caused by the former. I don't feel like spending $5 to get the autopsy report, but feel free to do so yourself.
Certainly the people inside the restaurant with him who called the ambulance didn't feel like he'd been "left for dead" somewhere.
What if a person commits a crime and uses this surgery to escape identification and/or conviction.
Yeah, or what if an undercover cop takes the face of a major criminal and uses it to infiltrate his organization, and then the criminal takes HIS face, and goes around pretending to be him, and they have a big gunfight, and the cop kills the criminal and decides to adopt his son?
They were spending money on asphalting roadways and cleaning fuel tanks, even after being warned of likely catastrophe.
Frankly, I'm surprised that you're a local and you don't know about something that the rest of the country considers to be a huge scandal. It does answer the oft-asked question of how the hell your politicians stay in office, though; everybody around here has been scratching their heads over it.
There is only one casino in New Orleans - Harrah's. And they actually pay New Orleans quite a bit of money each year to be the exclusive casino in town.
FEMA did studies that showed the levees would break and up to 60,000 people would die. The local government was given tons of money to fix the levees, and spent it facilitating the building of casinos. Your information is several decades out of date.
I think anybody savvy enough to need WiFi is smart enough not to move back below sea level after having it demonstrated to them that the local government accepts massive drownings every generation or so as "the cost of doing business".
The problem is a potential collaboration between this guy and a/. editor. Maybe he's providing content, but maybe 20 other people provide the same content and are rejected in favour of this guy. Maybe Scuttlemonkey even gets a small kickback for favouring him.
So what? It's not like you get paid for accepted submissions, or pay to submit them. Even if Scuttlemonkey was getting paid for it, so what? What's wrong with commerce? Slashdot isn't a public utility provisioning limited resources; it's a web site. It is, in point of fact, a business. If you enjoy his stories, read them; if you don't, filter him. Either way, if you don't like how the product is produced, patronize a competing product, start a competitive one, or complain to the management in private. Stop bothering the rest of us who don't care.
I think the real question is: how long do you expect to be able to maintain that sort of activity, and how do you expect to extend that sort of activity into a means to actually overthrow the government? What you need is popular widespread support for your cause, and unless you've managed to get some control of media to tell your side of the story I think you'll find knocking off a hummer full of guys from your local military base is going to alienate a lot of the very people you want to support you.
The actual question related to the disparity in arms. An insurrection with everybody carrying G-36 assault rifles equipped with night-vision scopes and armor-piercing ammo wouldn't be any more successful than one equipped with level-action 30-30s, without a public support base.
Semi-automatic weapons are very good tools for killing people. Fully-automatic weapons aren't so much better that the disparity matters in the kind of situation we're discussing; unless you invision an insurrection as being a million rebels facing off against a million soldiers in a major battle.
If I were participating in an insurrection, I'd probably rely on pistols more than assault rifles; you wouldn't know I was a rebel until it was way too late to bring your "superior weapon" to bear.
I would be interested to hear a detailed explanation of how you would plan to proceed with an insurrection in such a way that currently permissable firearms in the hands of private citizens are a vital component.
While I have no intention to start or participate in an insurrection, the concept here isn't a new one. You don't have to have a weapon good enough to outshoot the military; you just have to have one good enough for you and a few friends to ambush a solitary patrol, and take THEIR weapons.
Two things to Google related to this are the FP-45 "Liberator" and the "CIA Deer Gun".
You're leaving out "someone with authorized access to the server and to the code could send out malicious code with the next software update".
Disregarding any personal anecdotes about the integrity of the known authors and dealing strictly with statistics, this about 5 times as likely as an external hacker doing it. I personally doubt it's going to happen, but it can't be discounted as a possibility.
Why is it evil that the RIAA wants to "line their pockets", but not evil that the artist wants to line his pocket and therefore signed with an RIAA member record company instead of giving away his music for free?
It was only 3 meters tall. You should be looking for the words "Mighty", "Joe", and "Young".
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The problem is that gamers tend to be less well-off financially. People who can afford to ignore the costs of their hobbies are less likely to also be able to pull 12-hour Saturdays or all-nighter Thursdays playing games, and so can't always buy from their local vendor, even though I'm sure most of us can agree that's better for the community. However, although things are once again in the bleak side of the cycle for your local game shop, they're improving for your local gamer.
There are an increasing number of systems that available directly over the internet; I'm not talking about ordering a paper book, I'm talking about downloading a PDF or text file directly. In many cases, they're cheaper than the printed version of the same system. There is a limit to how much cheaper they can be, however; the majority of the cost of producing a professional RPG or supplement isn't in the printing. You still have to do just as much work writing, editing, procuring or commissioning artwork, etc. However, you can cut out the distribution costs, which are a good half the total price to the consumer.
Many games now have "fast-play" rules sets for download, which are good enough for everybody but the GM, but some even have full systems available for download free. If you have a laptop this is a godsend, but more than a few gamers have downloaded these things at work and printed 'em out on the company laser printer for non-laptop use. Not that I'm recommending the latter course of action, of course. As disposable computing becomes more commonplace, I expect to see e-book readers cross a hurdle or two and supplement laptops, opening this course up to a lot of people who can't really afford a decent laptop presently.
Additionally, I think it's only a matter of time at this point before somebody starts offering print-on-demand book sales; the only question is whether the big book chains (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.) beat the big printing chains (Kinkos, uhm I don't care who else, etc.) to the punch. When that happens, you'll be able to walk into your local Kinkos or whatever and walk out the door with a professionally-printed book.
When these things combine, your local game shop may not recover, unless it focuses on dice, figures, and services; provide comfortable chairs and computers so that the local gamers can meet in your store and use your computers, and you might even be able to sell the service, IF you do it right. A really good player-locating service and an active gamer club run from your store can bring people in. Of course, places like Kinkos can fight you there, too, since many have conference rooms.
I envision the successful gaming store of 10 years from now consisting of a small merchandise area with lots of dice and t-shirts, a concession area with cheap but profitable food and drinks, and a lot of comfy couches with permanently-tethered GM laptops and free WiFi. It would offer a web-based player locator service, ideally through a partner instead of trying to run the web server themselves. The most successful ones would be within walking distance of a Kinkos, and preferably also of a college.
...why their FTP sites were on BSD for so many years. It still remains to be proven that they actually switched them to NT, not just set up their BSD servers to act like NT.
Do you really think recent events in France would have been any different if they weren't an ESA member?
No, but I think ESA priorities would have been different if recent events in France had started two years ago, and I think ESA priorities will be different next year.
Mostly, things that add capability to the stuff in the base. For instance, you can build items for your base that duplicate the medical teleporters in the hospitals. However, by default they only heal 25% of your max HP. With Salvage, you can build items that enhance that capability, with several of them (I think it might be three, but I don't recall) raising it up to 100%.
Also, you can use Salvage to build teleporters that let you exit your base in another zone than the one from which you entered it.
The dynamic that Salvage adds is interesting, too. You use Salvage to build nifty gear for the base. That gear, however, requires Control and Power, and adding those things not only costs Prestige, but increases the "Rent" tax.
Unfortunately the testing we did in the Beta was very much functional, and not very much economics; SGs got 36,000,000 Prestige and went hog-wild, but I don't think anybody knows how it's going to work out in play. Of course, it can always be bumped/nerfed. I just hope they don't get too fiddly with it; economies generally straighten themselves out in the long run, as long as you don't stick big stakes in pieces of them. Nudge it once in a while to smooth out the highs and lows, and otherwise leave it alone.
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I remember the newspaper articles about Kildall's death. They indicated he had been attacked and beaten and left for dead. The police never tracked down his attackers.
Random news articles all around the world indicated all kinds of ridiculous bullshit. The San Jose Mercury, however, his local paper, indicated that he'd suffered a massive heart attack and fallen down; the latter possibly caused by the former. I don't feel like spending $5 to get the autopsy report, but feel free to do so yourself.
Certainly the people inside the restaurant with him who called the ambulance didn't feel like he'd been "left for dead" somewhere.
Who at Microsoft overserved him alcohol until he hurt himself?
What if a person commits a crime and uses this surgery to escape identification and/or conviction.
Yeah, or what if an undercover cop takes the face of a major criminal and uses it to infiltrate his organization, and then the criminal takes HIS face, and goes around pretending to be him, and they have a big gunfight, and the cop kills the criminal and decides to adopt his son?
Somebody should totally make a movie about that!
Ooops, clicked submit before I was done. Here's a link to one of the journalistic investigations into the misspending of the levee board.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9342186/
They were spending money on asphalting roadways and cleaning fuel tanks, even after being warned of likely catastrophe.
Frankly, I'm surprised that you're a local and you don't know about something that the rest of the country considers to be a huge scandal. It does answer the oft-asked question of how the hell your politicians stay in office, though; everybody around here has been scratching their heads over it.
There is only one casino in New Orleans - Harrah's. And they actually pay New Orleans quite a bit of money each year to be the exclusive casino in town.
f &ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=new+orle ans+casinos
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-f
2 seconds on Google and I have three casinos. It took longer to post that you're wrong than it did to obtain the proof.
FEMA did studies that showed the levees would break and up to 60,000 people would die. The local government was given tons of money to fix the levees, and spent it facilitating the building of casinos. Your information is several decades out of date.
I think anybody savvy enough to need WiFi is smart enough not to move back below sea level after having it demonstrated to them that the local government accepts massive drownings every generation or so as "the cost of doing business".
The problem is a potential collaboration between this guy and a /. editor. Maybe he's providing content, but maybe 20 other people provide the same content and are rejected in favour of this guy. Maybe Scuttlemonkey even gets a small kickback for favouring him.
So what? It's not like you get paid for accepted submissions, or pay to submit them. Even if Scuttlemonkey was getting paid for it, so what? What's wrong with commerce? Slashdot isn't a public utility provisioning limited resources; it's a web site. It is, in point of fact, a business. If you enjoy his stories, read them; if you don't, filter him. Either way, if you don't like how the product is produced, patronize a competing product, start a competitive one, or complain to the management in private. Stop bothering the rest of us who don't care.
I think the real question is: how long do you expect to be able to maintain that sort of activity, and how do you expect to extend that sort of activity into a means to actually overthrow the government? What you need is popular widespread support for your cause, and unless you've managed to get some control of media to tell your side of the story I think you'll find knocking off a hummer full of guys from your local military base is going to alienate a lot of the very people you want to support you.
The actual question related to the disparity in arms. An insurrection with everybody carrying G-36 assault rifles equipped with night-vision scopes and armor-piercing ammo wouldn't be any more successful than one equipped with level-action 30-30s, without a public support base.
Semi-automatic weapons are very good tools for killing people. Fully-automatic weapons aren't so much better that the disparity matters in the kind of situation we're discussing; unless you invision an insurrection as being a million rebels facing off against a million soldiers in a major battle.
If I were participating in an insurrection, I'd probably rely on pistols more than assault rifles; you wouldn't know I was a rebel until it was way too late to bring your "superior weapon" to bear.
I would be interested to hear a detailed explanation of how you would plan to proceed with an insurrection in such a way that currently permissable firearms in the hands of private citizens are a vital component.
While I have no intention to start or participate in an insurrection, the concept here isn't a new one. You don't have to have a weapon good enough to outshoot the military; you just have to have one good enough for you and a few friends to ambush a solitary patrol, and take THEIR weapons.
Two things to Google related to this are the FP-45 "Liberator" and the "CIA Deer Gun".
I just wanted to make note to the geeks who care that there is a use for the X360 other than gaming!
:)
Good, 'cause it won't stay up long enough to use it FOR gaming.
You're leaving out "someone with authorized access to the server and to the code could send out malicious code with the next software update".
Disregarding any personal anecdotes about the integrity of the known authors and dealing strictly with statistics, this about 5 times as likely as an external hacker doing it. I personally doubt it's going to happen, but it can't be discounted as a possibility.
Trust but verify.
Why is it evil that the RIAA wants to "line their pockets", but not evil that the artist wants to line his pocket and therefore signed with an RIAA member record company instead of giving away his music for free?
A bash shell won't do you much good without a terminal emulator.
It was only 3 meters tall. You should be looking for the words "Mighty", "Joe", and "Young".
The problem is that gamers tend to be less well-off financially. People who can afford to ignore the costs of their hobbies are less likely to also be able to pull 12-hour Saturdays or all-nighter Thursdays playing games, and so can't always buy from their local vendor, even though I'm sure most of us can agree that's better for the community. However, although things are once again in the bleak side of the cycle for your local game shop, they're improving for your local gamer.
There are an increasing number of systems that available directly over the internet; I'm not talking about ordering a paper book, I'm talking about downloading a PDF or text file directly. In many cases, they're cheaper than the printed version of the same system. There is a limit to how much cheaper they can be, however; the majority of the cost of producing a professional RPG or supplement isn't in the printing. You still have to do just as much work writing, editing, procuring or commissioning artwork, etc. However, you can cut out the distribution costs, which are a good half the total price to the consumer.
Many games now have "fast-play" rules sets for download, which are good enough for everybody but the GM, but some even have full systems available for download free. If you have a laptop this is a godsend, but more than a few gamers have downloaded these things at work and printed 'em out on the company laser printer for non-laptop use. Not that I'm recommending the latter course of action, of course. As disposable computing becomes more commonplace, I expect to see e-book readers cross a hurdle or two and supplement laptops, opening this course up to a lot of people who can't really afford a decent laptop presently.
Additionally, I think it's only a matter of time at this point before somebody starts offering print-on-demand book sales; the only question is whether the big book chains (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.) beat the big printing chains (Kinkos, uhm I don't care who else, etc.) to the punch. When that happens, you'll be able to walk into your local Kinkos or whatever and walk out the door with a professionally-printed book.
When these things combine, your local game shop may not recover, unless it focuses on dice, figures, and services; provide comfortable chairs and computers so that the local gamers can meet in your store and use your computers, and you might even be able to sell the service, IF you do it right. A really good player-locating service and an active gamer club run from your store can bring people in. Of course, places like Kinkos can fight you there, too, since many have conference rooms.
I envision the successful gaming store of 10 years from now consisting of a small merchandise area with lots of dice and t-shirts, a concession area with cheap but profitable food and drinks, and a lot of comfy couches with permanently-tethered GM laptops and free WiFi. It would offer a web-based player locator service, ideally through a partner instead of trying to run the web server themselves. The most successful ones would be within walking distance of a Kinkos, and preferably also of a college.
I'm thinking they forgot to take into account how much driving you'd have to do to plant one million trees.
I told him "walk it off".
If that hadn't worked, I was prepared to recommend "cowboy up", but looks like it won't be necessary.
...why their FTP sites were on BSD for so many years. It still remains to be proven that they actually switched them to NT, not just set up their BSD servers to act like NT.
Microsoft lost badly in court, mainly because of the First Sale doctrin (which in Germany is called Erschoepfungsgrundsatz).
Because who could compete with a word like "Erschoepfungsgrundsatz"?
Plus, they can tell the other inmates that they think you have kiddie porn on your computer and they'll let the inmates do the torturing.
Nah, this is the UK we're talking about.
Do you really think recent events in France would have been any different if they weren't an ESA member?
No, but I think ESA priorities would have been different if recent events in France had started two years ago, and I think ESA priorities will be different next year.
Mostly, things that add capability to the stuff in the base. For instance, you can build items for your base that duplicate the medical teleporters in the hospitals. However, by default they only heal 25% of your max HP. With Salvage, you can build items that enhance that capability, with several of them (I think it might be three, but I don't recall) raising it up to 100%.
Also, you can use Salvage to build teleporters that let you exit your base in another zone than the one from which you entered it.
Other than that I don't recall.
Both major desktop OSes? Shouldn't that mean the top two, not the number one and number three?
The dynamic that Salvage adds is interesting, too. You use Salvage to build nifty gear for the base. That gear, however, requires Control and Power, and adding those things not only costs Prestige, but increases the "Rent" tax.
Unfortunately the testing we did in the Beta was very much functional, and not very much economics; SGs got 36,000,000 Prestige and went hog-wild, but I don't think anybody knows how it's going to work out in play. Of course, it can always be bumped/nerfed. I just hope they don't get too fiddly with it; economies generally straighten themselves out in the long run, as long as you don't stick big stakes in pieces of them. Nudge it once in a while to smooth out the highs and lows, and otherwise leave it alone.