I then painted the bike pink with bright green polkadots. I painted the seat and wheels this garish pattern too and made sure that a good amount of pink overspray ended up on the tires (very nice tires, Continental real rubber). You know what? They never ever touched the bike after that. That was the smartest thing I ever did.
My dad drove a POS 94 Ford Ranger up until a few months ago and he never locked the doors. The only time it was broken into in the whole time he owned it was when kids were going around the movie theater parking lot stealing change out of cars. I bet they made a whole lot of money doing that...
I had a cousin who never locked his doors because if someone was going to steal his shit he didn't want them breaking his windows to do it. Eventually someone got into his car to steal his stereo, but even though the doors were unlocked they had smashed the driver side window.
"We've captured and saved thousands of IP addresses of alleged offenders, along with logs and screenshots which prove wrong behaviour.
"We are initiating a conversation with enforcement agencies and we are willing to provide all the information we have."
Are they going to press charges? Do you think that site created by a lone developer has the legal resources to do that against that many offenders? Do you really think any law enforcement agency has the resources to investigate thousands of complaints with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address? It's the internet. Your effort is futile. What ever happened to the recognition software? Has that already fallen through? Too many false positives? Light problems?
You missed the best part, where the presupposed that this is all "wrong behavior".
Andrey has judged chatroulette's users and is attempting to control them through social engineering. This is like putting up a sign that says "Anonymous, please destroy me in every way conceivable."
A good idea crippled by human failings. Too bad. I have a hard time believing that the founders didn't think that it would serve as a platform for ugly old men to masturbate to each other though.
I'm personally not offended by reproductive organs and I am quite capable of hitting "next".
This does, however, give me the idea to set a webcam up on a planter of petunias and a desk fan.
...underpinnings that would drive a male to show his genitalia? Seriously...WTF is going through these people's minds? Do they think they're funny? Are they true predators? Are they incredibly proud of their package? I'm just trying to understand here...
"The founder of Chatroulette has announced the company has hired developers to collect IP addresses and take screenshots of those users breaking the rules."
... And? What? Have their ISP forward a letter to them asking them to please censor themselves? It's not a public display, users know full well what they may be stepping into before they choose to connect. Sorry, Chatroulette, tough titty. You've opened Pandora's box, don't start blaming the supposed problem on what comes out of it.
Cute idea, it could realistically mean 2D for two different people already. Feel real' sorry for the onlookers though. Stereoscopy is headache-inducing enough when the images flicker back and forth but two different images would give anyone a seizure.
By the time 240hz come around (only see it happening with DLP with multiple synced projectors) you could even have 4 players seeing a different 2D image.
For something that's free, people sure do get enraged when it changes in the slightest, or has bugs, or decides to try to profit from the information that people love to dump on it.
Just it becomes free doesn't mean you can't grow dependent on it. When your peers feel just as stuck as you do, it makes it even harder to seek out an alternative.
Really though, I wonder if it has such poor ratings because it's free.
I don't believe we need more "cyberwarriors" for a "cyberwar" with "cyberterrorists", but on the whole we certainly could use more in the way of competent, every day users who won't install every bit of shit on their computer because they're aware of the risks and who can independently reinstall their OS if they get compromised.
The harm isn't in people not knowing how to "cyberfight", it's not understanding the value of "cyberdefense". It is all the compromised home computers and small business servers that create weapons that can hurt our ability to communicate and look at porn.
I have to say "You password must be at least seven characters, contain and uppercase letter, lowercase letter and a number and can not contain you name or birth year" so much it loses all meaning to myself. I know it doesn't mean shit and will only make things harder on people.
The problem isn't too simple of passwords. The problem is servers allowing brute force or dictionary attacks to occur. The only time password complexity matters is static data that can be brought "home" to the attacker, like encrypted archives or filesystems, where no such penalty for automated attacks can be imposed.
Don't throw rules at people, just tell them "don't be stupid", make their password be at least 8 characters, and when something tries to log into an account more than once every so many seconds ban that IP. If multiple IPs are trying to log into one account in a short period of time, lock that account, contact the user and ask them to change their username.
This bastardization of Italian culture is not unique at all to Italian culture... "Chinese food" is actually 7 different cuisines from one country plus Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Burma, Thailand, India, Malaysia and many more and even those countries have for centuries borrowed from each other, but we still call it "Chinese". After that we inject some America fads like fortune cookies and I think disposable bamboo chops sticks were an American idea.
"Mexican food" arguably has it even worse, a perverse combination of South and Central American foods mixed in with European expectations, Spanish rule and Catholicism. Now it's lumped together with a narrow spectrum of ingredients and spices and all called "Mexican".
I'm not trying to attack you personally, the point is it's just "The American Way" to assimilate other things and throw blankets on them to simplify it.
I do agree with your general argument, but the little things like how a shape of noodles is spelled won't win any wars. Americans don't care or are too shallow to realize that they're mocking an entire civilization when they try aspire to "authenticity" of... fucking food!
So, please continue your quest to protect your origins. Just don't waste too much time with the details (pistachio and pistacchio), especially with Americans. Hell, my browser puts red squigglies under pistacchio! I'd readily expect my mindless peers right-click autocorrect.
Whatever, I remain of my idea especially because in the original language no one will ever say linguini. So I don't even consider it a convention, just an "american convention".
In the realm of Americans then an "American Convention" is just a "Convention"
Just let it go. You interjected trying to sound all informative but it's no different than playing grammar Nazi. We're not "the uninformed masses", we've just derived a different spelling that is no less "correct".
Occasionally seeing disturbing images is not a problem for most people, but if you spend 40 hours a week, every week, looking at all sorts of disturbing crap, your mind will become twisted.
I think just about anyone could handle seeing someone after a "BOOM HEADSHOT" or one of those other things we take lightly in so-called "violent video games". It's easy to say "It's not me, it's not someone I know" or anything else we tell ourselves.
After seeing it over and over, though, you start to wonder what if it were you or someone you knew. You start immersing yourself in possibilities like we're programmed to, rehearsing the situation in case you ever had to face it. You start living life making sure it doesn't happen to you, watching out for attackers, people out to hurt your family, people out to rape your children. You start to worry about yourself, wondering if another human being did it so can you... because you can't tell yourself to be cruel is inhuman anymore.
When you're immersed in the worst the killer instinct kicks in. Not the Counter Strike bullshit, not that stuff you see in the movies where there's a cause or justification, everything loses intrinsic value, every life but your own loses meaning. It's all about you and surviving.
After that it takes years to fit back in, but it'll never be a perfect fit.
I'm not, there are a lot of wrong conventions especially with italian words used abroad, that doesn't make them more correct at all, it just makes the amount of ignorant people bigger. This is not valid only for italian words of course but convention doesn't make something correct and it sucks when convention makes its way in written words and not just in slang.
If one person says the Earth is spherical and a million say the Earth is flat, it is conventional to say the Earth is flat. It's not a matter of fact and when you get into language it's even more inappropriate to argue such nonsense.
It doesn't fucking matter what the Italians or anyone says. When a large group of people accept one thing as truth it really doesn't matter what an individual in that population or an entirely different group thinks.
The only way would be reversing it so american people would read linguine as linguini but then they'd start writing it the wrong way: linguini instead of linguine.
Yes but you have to throw something that exists...linguini don't! The name of that kind of italian pasta is actually linguine not linguini, even though people in the USA keep calling them linguini. Go to Italy and ask for linguini, people will look at you in a weird way lol!
When a word is wrong it interrupts the flow of the sentence - the reader may understand what the person meant, but at the cost of being figuratively knocked sideways so they are now thinking about something else. If the point of your writing is to get across an idea, then something that interrupts your message is doing you a disservice.
There's a difference between being "correct" (1+1=Derp) and "conventional". By convention, the alloy we commonly use is spelled "steel". That doesn't make it correct, that doesn't write some law into the universe that says it must always be spelled that way lest a paradox sever the bindings of space and destroy us all.
I agree that improving our ability to communicate with one another is significant but I prefer to set that precedent by example instead of wasting time playing grammar police. If they cared, they would learn.
That's right. Instead of having at least the semblance of a positive retail end-user experience, you sell a game that you know won't provide a good enough experience, then require they go online to get a chance of eventually getting a good game.
If you can't charge 'em, cheat 'em. Though, you are completely right and I see a poor future for anyone who plays this shit.
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I then painted the bike pink with bright green polkadots. I painted the seat and wheels this garish pattern too and made sure that a good amount of pink overspray ended up on the tires (very nice tires, Continental real rubber). You know what? They never ever touched the bike after that. That was the smartest thing I ever did.
Perhaps that was their plan all along.
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkWf4crJ9uI#t=2m18s :)
I want that car. It's like staring at the sun against the dark, gloomy area.
Yeah, that's smart. Discharging a gun at a gas station, of all places. He really didn't think things through, did he?
I suspect most people who use firearms to try to coerce people don't actually intend to use them until alternatives have been exhausted.
My dad drove a POS 94 Ford Ranger up until a few months ago and he never locked the doors. The only time it was broken into in the whole time he owned it was when kids were going around the movie theater parking lot stealing change out of cars. I bet they made a whole lot of money doing that...
I had a cousin who never locked his doors because if someone was going to steal his shit he didn't want them breaking his windows to do it. Eventually someone got into his car to steal his stereo, but even though the doors were unlocked they had smashed the driver side window.
he loaned me a screwdriver...and it was pink.
Maybe it's some sort of code.
Yeah, "Don't fucking steal my screwdriver."
"We've captured and saved thousands of IP addresses of alleged offenders, along with logs and screenshots which prove wrong behaviour.
"We are initiating a conversation with enforcement agencies and we are willing to provide all the information we have."
Are they going to press charges? Do you think that site created by a lone developer has the legal resources to do that against that many offenders? Do you really think any law enforcement agency has the resources to investigate thousands of complaints with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address? It's the internet. Your effort is futile. What ever happened to the recognition software? Has that already fallen through? Too many false positives? Light problems?
You missed the best part, where the presupposed that this is all "wrong behavior".
Andrey has judged chatroulette's users and is attempting to control them through social engineering. This is like putting up a sign that says "Anonymous, please destroy me in every way conceivable."
A good idea crippled by human failings. Too bad. I have a hard time believing that the founders didn't think that it would serve as a platform for ugly old men to masturbate to each other though.
I'm personally not offended by reproductive organs and I am quite capable of hitting "next".
This does, however, give me the idea to set a webcam up on a planter of petunias and a desk fan.
...underpinnings that would drive a male to show his genitalia? Seriously...WTF is going through these people's minds? Do they think they're funny? Are they true predators? Are they incredibly proud of their package? I'm just trying to understand here...
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I hope that clears things up for you.
"The founder of Chatroulette has announced the company has hired developers to collect IP addresses and take screenshots of those users breaking the rules."
... And? What? Have their ISP forward a letter to them asking them to please censor themselves? It's not a public display, users know full well what they may be stepping into before they choose to connect. Sorry, Chatroulette, tough titty. You've opened Pandora's box, don't start blaming the supposed problem on what comes out of it.
Tell that to Galileo. At one point in time, a large group of people thought the world was flat. One individual thought differently, and said so.
The only thing worse than a bad joke is someone explaining that bad joke.
Onion news ISN'T REAL!? This sets me back on some things I believe to be fact... oh dear...
Cute idea, it could realistically mean 2D for two different people already. Feel real' sorry for the onlookers though. Stereoscopy is headache-inducing enough when the images flicker back and forth but two different images would give anyone a seizure.
By the time 240hz come around (only see it happening with DLP with multiple synced projectors) you could even have 4 players seeing a different 2D image.
Is it virtually impossible and totally unrealistic to assume that Google will keep my Gmail contact list private?
Yes.
For something that's free, people sure do get enraged when it changes in the slightest, or has bugs, or decides to try to profit from the information that people love to dump on it.
Just it becomes free doesn't mean you can't grow dependent on it. When your peers feel just as stuck as you do, it makes it even harder to seek out an alternative.
Really though, I wonder if it has such poor ratings because it's free.
sounds like software in general.... want a working feature.. that'll be in the next version that you'll want to upgrade to.
The alternative is keeping up with compatibility for OS updates which also keeps you reaching for features.
I don't believe we need more "cyberwarriors" for a "cyberwar" with "cyberterrorists", but on the whole we certainly could use more in the way of competent, every day users who won't install every bit of shit on their computer because they're aware of the risks and who can independently reinstall their OS if they get compromised.
The harm isn't in people not knowing how to "cyberfight", it's not understanding the value of "cyberdefense". It is all the compromised home computers and small business servers that create weapons that can hurt our ability to communicate and look at porn.
I have to say "You password must be at least seven characters, contain and uppercase letter, lowercase letter and a number and can not contain you name or birth year" so much it loses all meaning to myself. I know it doesn't mean shit and will only make things harder on people.
The problem isn't too simple of passwords. The problem is servers allowing brute force or dictionary attacks to occur. The only time password complexity matters is static data that can be brought "home" to the attacker, like encrypted archives or filesystems, where no such penalty for automated attacks can be imposed.
Don't throw rules at people, just tell them "don't be stupid", make their password be at least 8 characters, and when something tries to log into an account more than once every so many seconds ban that IP. If multiple IPs are trying to log into one account in a short period of time, lock that account, contact the user and ask them to change their username.
This bastardization of Italian culture is not unique at all to Italian culture... "Chinese food" is actually 7 different cuisines from one country plus Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Burma, Thailand, India, Malaysia and many more and even those countries have for centuries borrowed from each other, but we still call it "Chinese". After that we inject some America fads like fortune cookies and I think disposable bamboo chops sticks were an American idea.
"Mexican food" arguably has it even worse, a perverse combination of South and Central American foods mixed in with European expectations, Spanish rule and Catholicism. Now it's lumped together with a narrow spectrum of ingredients and spices and all called "Mexican".
I'm not trying to attack you personally, the point is it's just "The American Way" to assimilate other things and throw blankets on them to simplify it.
I do agree with your general argument, but the little things like how a shape of noodles is spelled won't win any wars. Americans don't care or are too shallow to realize that they're mocking an entire civilization when they try aspire to "authenticity" of... fucking food!
So, please continue your quest to protect your origins. Just don't waste too much time with the details (pistachio and pistacchio), especially with Americans. Hell, my browser puts red squigglies under pistacchio! I'd readily expect my mindless peers right-click autocorrect.
Whatever, I remain of my idea especially because in the original language no one will ever say linguini.
So I don't even consider it a convention, just an "american convention".
In the realm of Americans then an "American Convention" is just a "Convention"
Just let it go. You interjected trying to sound all informative but it's no different than playing grammar Nazi. We're not "the uninformed masses", we've just derived a different spelling that is no less "correct".
Occasionally seeing disturbing images is not a problem for most people, but if you spend 40 hours a week, every week, looking at all sorts of disturbing crap, your mind will become twisted.
I think just about anyone could handle seeing someone after a "BOOM HEADSHOT" or one of those other things we take lightly in so-called "violent video games". It's easy to say "It's not me, it's not someone I know" or anything else we tell ourselves.
After seeing it over and over, though, you start to wonder what if it were you or someone you knew. You start immersing yourself in possibilities like we're programmed to, rehearsing the situation in case you ever had to face it. You start living life making sure it doesn't happen to you, watching out for attackers, people out to hurt your family, people out to rape your children. You start to worry about yourself, wondering if another human being did it so can you... because you can't tell yourself to be cruel is inhuman anymore.
When you're immersed in the worst the killer instinct kicks in. Not the Counter Strike bullshit, not that stuff you see in the movies where there's a cause or justification, everything loses intrinsic value, every life but your own loses meaning. It's all about you and surviving.
After that it takes years to fit back in, but it'll never be a perfect fit.
I'm not, there are a lot of wrong conventions especially with italian words used abroad, that doesn't make them more correct at all, it just makes the amount of ignorant people bigger.
This is not valid only for italian words of course but convention doesn't make something correct and it sucks when convention makes its way in written words and not just in slang.
If one person says the Earth is spherical and a million say the Earth is flat, it is conventional to say the Earth is flat. It's not a matter of fact and when you get into language it's even more inappropriate to argue such nonsense.
It doesn't fucking matter what the Italians or anyone says. When a large group of people accept one thing as truth it really doesn't matter what an individual in that population or an entirely different group thinks.
So give it up.
The only way would be reversing it so american people would read linguine as linguini but then they'd start writing it the wrong way: linguini instead of linguine.
You're confusing correctness with convention.
Yes but you have to throw something that exists...linguini don't!
The name of that kind of italian pasta is actually linguine not linguini,
even though people in the USA keep calling them linguini.
Go to Italy and ask for linguini, people will look at you in a weird way lol!
I think you've missed the point.
When a word is wrong it interrupts the flow of the sentence - the reader may understand what the person meant, but at the cost of being figuratively knocked sideways so they are now thinking about something else. If the point of your writing is to get across an idea, then something that interrupts your message is doing you a disservice.
There's a difference between being "correct" (1+1=Derp) and "conventional". By convention, the alloy we commonly use is spelled "steel". That doesn't make it correct, that doesn't write some law into the universe that says it must always be spelled that way lest a paradox sever the bindings of space and destroy us all.
I agree that improving our ability to communicate with one another is significant but I prefer to set that precedent by example instead of wasting time playing grammar police. If they cared, they would learn.
That's right. Instead of having at least the semblance of a positive retail end-user experience, you sell a game that you know won't provide a good enough experience, then require they go online to get a chance of eventually getting a good game.
If you can't charge 'em, cheat 'em. Though, you are completely right and I see a poor future for anyone who plays this shit.