Sometimes the best thing to do, even if you are a really smart person (heck, particularly if you are a really smart person), is to STFU and listen to people who have different experiences than you. If a lot of them are saying the same thing, but it doesn't jibe with the information you have, you are almost certainly missing something.
The most appropriate answer to a problem is sometimes the result of listening to both your teammates/staff and even the customer. It's difficult to keep your pride from interfering and causing you ignore people who you feel know less about the subject matter or have little experience.
This is the truth, some customers are not partial to jumping through hoops for secured access, at all. For those of us that want the hoops, why don't these companies offer you the ability to opt-out of the 'workaround' security practices?
Previously I was using Net10 - also a good alternative. Buy the phone on sale at Target or WalMart ($20) that comes with 300 free minutes. Net10, if you sign up online, also has a special $10 a month option if you set it up to automatically deduct funds from your account every month. Perfect for low volume callers. By far the least expensive way to get a phone.
Disclaimer: I use Tracfone.
Net10 is owned by Tracfone, which is also a "no-contract" cell phone provider. I think they piggy back on AT&T and Verizon's networks. When you purchase either of these phones, your minutes will expire, however. Particularly with Tracfone, you have about 3 months to use the minutes. Also, Tracfone bundles 3 months of service extension with each purchase of air time.
If you purchase the Air Time Cards from retailers, you are never asked for any identifying information. If you fill your minutes online, you need to create a login to their web service.
If you go with either, ask yourself these questions:
Do I talk constantly, and use large a large volume of minutes?
-If yes, go with Net10; they sell large blocks of minutes but they have short expiration dates
-I think minutes are cheaper than tracfone...but don't quote me on that
Do I use the phone very little, and use very few minutes?
-If yes, go with Tracfone, you get a consistent $0.03/minute rate and minutes expire more slowly (you can actually purchase a
longer expiration date if you need to, without needing to buy minutes)
As an aside, they used to have free incoming text, if you used a Nokia 1100 phone. There was another phone with this feature, but I can't seem to find any information on their web page. As far as I can tell, they don't offer this feature anymore.
I see you've been modded, "Informative."
Either some folks failed to get the joke, or you have some information about the FBI that I'd like to see.
Care to share?;)
One note on Exult (not Exile!)...
If you want to play U7 or U7:SI, the underlying combat system is borked. The Exult team still hasn't figured out how the Armour Class system works in those games.
On a related note, the U7 series plays VERY WELL in DOSBOX. No Voodoo Memory manager problems, just pure fun, and the graphics scale beautifully!
I've heard some rumblings like this; where high-level characters can manipulate the surroundings and create quests and such.
Some MUD's have done this since there have been terminal emulators on college campuses. Maybe even before.
http://3k.org/ is a good example. You can play the game to max level, completing quests, etc. with the option of being able to join the MUD staff by becoming a 'Wizard' in the end if you feel like contributing your own areas/quests. You're still limited as far as interactivity is concerned (it's just text and a procedural scripting language), but theres still room to maneuver as long as you're creative.
MTV's The Real Cancun http://imdb.com/title/tt0360916/?fr=c2l0ZT 1kZnxteD 0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9VGhlIFJlYWwg Q2FuY3VufGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=6
You can probably guess what it's about. A little more plot that your average porno flick...but not much.
It puzzles me why nobody ever goes after USENET backbones, etc. for having such an extensive archive of commercial software. Is it possible to hold a service like Supernews (www.supernews.com) accountable for hosting certain binary groups? Is there some kind of loophole I'm unaware of that makes the worlds most persistant warez distro (alt.binaries.*) invisible to legal radar?
Perhaps it's just to obscure (read: hard for morons to use).
Great game. Lots of bugs, however. Sadly, the majority of them were within the very conversational dialogs that garnered so much praise. Whole portions of backstory and in-game dialog are hidden in any unpatched installation.
Thank god for the fan community around it (and incidentally that of Baldur's Gate) or we wouldn't have Platter's Fix packs nor the ability to play around with BioWare's Infinity Engine which powers it.
True, it has nothing to do with _your_ rights in the immediate sense. However, governing bodies tend observe each other in the course of formulating and prescribing the law (at least in more democratic governments). While this doesn't matter to you on a local level right now, there is no guarantee that it won't start a trend of similar regulation that eventually rears its ugly head close to home. Bad ideas can catch on like that, as terrible as it may seem.
John Locke would roll over in his grave if he heard this. His treatise on government (which is the basis for a large amount of democratic theory) would have been unprotected if published today. Can you honestly deny the right of the people to speak their mind about government without fear of injury? Specifically, John Locke would have been executed if the king of Britain had determined his true identity, his revolutionary words were against the very basis of a monarchy based goverment. Does this new ruling mean that we as citizens are losing the right to criticize our own goverment without fear of retribution?
Slashdot Mirror
This reminded me of a Mr. Show sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(probably nsfw, ymmv)
This should really be modded up.
Sometimes the best thing to do, even if you are a really smart person (heck, particularly if you are a really smart person), is to STFU and listen to people who have different experiences than you. If a lot of them are saying the same thing, but it doesn't jibe with the information you have, you are almost certainly missing something.
The most appropriate answer to a problem is sometimes the result of listening to both your teammates/staff and even the customer. It's difficult to keep your pride from interfering and causing you ignore people who you feel know less about the subject matter or have little experience.
This is the truth, some customers are not partial to jumping through hoops for secured access, at all.
For those of us that want the hoops, why don't these companies offer you the ability to opt-out of the 'workaround' security practices?
I cannot believe I didn't think of MX records as a big vulnerability here.
Thank you sir, for noting this in your post!
I approve of this thread.
Carry on!
I really appreciate this comment. Thank you.
Previously I was using Net10 - also a good alternative. Buy the phone on sale at Target or WalMart ($20) that comes with 300 free minutes. Net10, if you sign up online, also has a special $10 a month option if you set it up to automatically deduct funds from your account every month. Perfect for low volume callers. By far the least expensive way to get a phone.
Disclaimer: I use Tracfone.
Net10 is owned by Tracfone, which is also a "no-contract" cell phone provider. I think they piggy back on AT&T and Verizon's networks. When you purchase either of these phones, your minutes will expire, however. Particularly with Tracfone, you have about 3 months to use the minutes. Also, Tracfone bundles 3 months of service extension with each purchase of air time.
If you purchase the Air Time Cards from retailers, you are never asked for any identifying information. If you fill your minutes online, you need to create a login to their web service.
If you go with either, ask yourself these questions:
Do I talk constantly, and use large a large volume of minutes?
-If yes, go with Net10; they sell large blocks of minutes but they have short expiration dates
-I think minutes are cheaper than tracfone...but don't quote me on that
Do I use the phone very little, and use very few minutes?
-If yes, go with Tracfone, you get a consistent $0.03/minute rate and minutes expire more slowly (you can actually purchase a
longer expiration date if you need to, without needing to buy minutes)
As an aside, they used to have free incoming text, if you used a Nokia 1100 phone. There was another phone with this feature, but I can't seem to find any information on their web page. As far as I can tell, they don't offer this feature anymore.
I see you've been modded, "Informative." Either some folks failed to get the joke, or you have some information about the FBI that I'd like to see. Care to share? ;)
One note on Exult (not Exile!)... If you want to play U7 or U7:SI, the underlying combat system is borked. The Exult team still hasn't figured out how the Armour Class system works in those games. On a related note, the U7 series plays VERY WELL in DOSBOX. No Voodoo Memory manager problems, just pure fun, and the graphics scale beautifully!
Trendmicro owns that app now. http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis I think it was started by the anti-malware community though. I think the forum name for the dev was Merijn. His website is no longer in service.
I think this only happens when you access their content from a crawled search result. At least, that's what happens from the links Google serves you.
Windows-On-Windows (WOW). Often paired with Virtual DOS Machine (NTVDM).
Is WOWEXEC an emulator or is it more comparable to WINE?
Some MUD's have done this since there have been terminal emulators on college campuses. Maybe even before.
http://3k.org/ is a good example. You can play the game to max level, completing quests, etc. with the option of being able to join the MUD staff by becoming a 'Wizard' in the end if you feel like contributing your own areas/quests. You're still limited as far as interactivity is concerned (it's just text and a procedural scripting language), but theres still room to maneuver as long as you're creative.
We don't have Reality Show based movies??
T 1kZnxteD 0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9VGhlIFJlYWwg Q2FuY3VufGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=6
MTV's The Real Cancun
http://imdb.com/title/tt0360916/?fr=c2l0Z
You can probably guess what it's about. A little more plot that your average porno flick...but not much.
Isnt there a Phil Dick story about this?
I believe its called "Second Variety".
Of course, there arn't any hot feminine robots being built by the army yet...are there?
Legend of the Green Dragon
http://lotgd.net/
I really don't think Seth gave it the green light.
It's (almost) the same. Perhaps better in some ways.
And no, the JENNY codes do not work.
It puzzles me why nobody ever goes after USENET backbones, etc. for having such an extensive archive of commercial software. Is it possible to hold a service like Supernews (www.supernews.com) accountable for hosting certain binary groups? Is there some kind of loophole I'm unaware of that makes the worlds most persistant warez distro (alt.binaries.*) invisible to legal radar?
Perhaps it's just to obscure (read: hard for morons to use).
Great game. Lots of bugs, however. Sadly, the majority of them were within the very conversational dialogs that garnered so much praise. Whole portions of backstory and in-game dialog are hidden in any unpatched installation.
Thank god for the fan community around it (and incidentally that of Baldur's Gate) or we wouldn't have Platter's Fix packs nor the ability to play around with BioWare's Infinity Engine which powers it.
Fix Packs for Torment
http://www.accesswave.ca/~cthorpe/
Jon Olav Hauglid's Infinity Engine Editor
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~joh/ni/about.html
Misc Torment stuff c/o Platter
SPOILER WARNING
http://platter.jink.org/
True, it has nothing to do with _your_ rights in the immediate sense. However, governing bodies tend observe each other in the course of formulating and prescribing the law (at least in more democratic governments).
While this doesn't matter to you on a local level right now, there is no guarantee that it won't start a trend of similar regulation that eventually rears its ugly head close to home. Bad ideas can catch on like that, as terrible as it may seem.
John Locke would roll over in his grave if he heard this. His treatise on government (which is the basis for a large amount of democratic theory) would have been unprotected if published today. Can you honestly deny the right of the people to speak their mind about government without fear of injury? Specifically, John Locke would have been executed if the king of Britain had determined his true identity, his revolutionary words were against the very basis of a monarchy based goverment. Does this new ruling mean that we as citizens are losing the right to criticize our own goverment without fear of retribution?