or something as easy as having your cablemodem/dsl line run through a simple headless firewall linux box, have an internal network, and an open AP going through that, and only allowing specific mac addresses into the internal via the firewall... you can block or throttle outgoing traffic, and put something like driftnet on the linux machine.
not that this is on or off topic, but i was once arrested in roland, ok (not using a signal escalated into a 'zero tolerance' law violation)... dirty little town of 1500 or so people, 13 fully-loaded police cars, and using a double-wide as their community jail/court/police station. seems like ONE of those over zealous police officers would know this guy... or IS this guy, for that matter...
Ask yourself, if Valve/vivendi were to go out of business tomorrow, would you be able to play half life 2?
if Valve/Vivendi (swore i thought it was Venvidi, too lazy to check atm) went out of business, there would be no one to sue the open source developers who are determined to make their free steam clone and server work... necessity is the mother of all invention.
Back on topic, I personally did not like people that only farmed gold, as it is only a small part of the game. Playing on a PvP server, which allows you to kill opposing faction players, the unspoken rule of repeatedly killing farmers is pretty much a given for most guilds. The only farming that gets done is when you are in a group, which led to the formation of farming guilds. I am not joking. I once killed a few farmers solo, and in 15 minutes, a group of 40 arrived, all from the same guild. Then, my guild arrived. Ah... good times. WoW: Gang Warfare.
now i've never played WoW [but i did get a free trial in the mail and almost want to see what the hype now is about] but hearing your story about having 100+ level 60 people all on a team, why not vigilante-style hunt down and kill gold farmers? be like robin hood or something, going around figuring out who has been farming gold, and who has been robbing team-members (ninja style i gather), and kill them? take a commission of stolen gold, and return remainder to less fortunate (lower level) players? is this a bad idea, or just too much time and dedication for anyone playing a mmorpg to follow through with, eg: is it really really THAT bad a problem?
It can be argued that people who don't want to have their conversations monitored will not use keywords such as these that tip off the eavesdroppers or technology that recognizes them. And conversely, people may use meaningless conversations with many keywords to delay the processing of these investigations.... which is exactly why whenever i pickup the phone i say: "hello, jihad bomb george bush terror attack, how you doin'?"
actually, at first i thought it was funny, but i'm sure i'm on some red-flag list now.
No it doesn't. Is it saying 'Linux' (?) should start giving things super-generic names? Well that's a great idea. Let's call things 'Media Player'. But who gets to decide which media player gets named the definitive 'Media Player'?
well, a standardized desktop would help things. like the windows API, when you run 'the browser' your web browser pops up. be it firefox, or ie, or opera, whatever. it's whatever the default you set (or the program asks and sets) to be. so yes, under 'mediaplayer' i would put mplayer, under 'image editor' i would use gimp...
... why exactly is that funny? tennessee is a state in america much like the other fourty-nine... what would lead you to believe there are no businesses here? have you been to tennessee? did you stay in a hotel, or did you just drive the 500 or-so miles of i40 that runs through it?
we have a VERY low property tax, and no state income tax, making it an all-around cheap place to live, but what would lead you to believe that no one here owns or works at a 'business'... in fact, those reasons are why we have such big industry here, granted mostly manufacturing... we use computers, i swear we do. i own software, i promise.
your comment makes you look as uneducated as you assume the population of tennessee is, mr coward.
i've lived in a number of american states, and visited a number more, but never before have i found a place so peaceful, cheap, and crime-free as tennessee. so before you are quick to judge, visit. there is a big stereotype surrounding this whole area, which is unfortunate. most beautiful place... ever. good people, which is more than i can say for the likes of Cali, or New York, or Texas, or any number of other states...
[insert all the rest of the arguments about promoting oss or the legal issues of ownership vs. right-to-use software here] and you come out with a generally wonderful place to be.
and kind sir, i assure you, we have businesses. country music, to name an obvious. you've heard of nashville, no?
i noticed the point of the alcohol-enduced-sig, and wanted to comment, but you beat me to it... i've never known anyone to get high and oh, say, beat their wife, or wreck head-on at 90mph racing down roads, or even really do much of ANYTHING. the "party isn't over for hippies"... but i do know a multiple-sclerosis patient or two that enjoy a good toke, and, and my-chemo-therapy-buddy, he likes it too... not that i'm AGAINST alcohol in any real way/shape/form, but the evils associated therein are far more harmful to yourself, your family, your life, and everyone around you (especially when operating a motor vehicle)... i'd rather there be 100 stoners driving 35mph in a 60, scared out of their minds, than a single red-neck drunk on jack daniels showing you exactly how manuverable his F-350 is.
mod parent up... any reference to captured by robots deserves all of +1 insightful, +1 funny, and +1 informative...
had the pleasure of seeing him and his robotic couterparts here in east tennessee many times, and is always a pleasure. and with 36 comments on this thread, i thought *I* was the origional one with the thought to come in an provide the link. it's well worth the $3 admission to the dives they play...
off topic addendum: the coca-cola company is still the single largest importer of cocoa leaf from south america and is still used as a piece of flovouring in 'classic coke'.
ur parents were always heading outside to play baseball, while we stay inside and play Quake, leran about obscure topics, or program something we thought about earlier in the day.
Their parents were always criticizing them for having wild parties and never doing their studies because they're always playing X or Y.
In turn, they criticize our generation for the different lifestyle that we lead.
i agree with you, except that "going outside to play baseball" and "sitting on the internet all day and night" are worlds apart in regards to health. We have many many many EXTREMEMLY obsese no exercise barely walking much less jogging or playing sports tv watching internet addicted anti social children... i see that to be a problem.
on the other hand (you have different fingers and) i am always personally drawn to computers/information. i wake extra early to have quiet and coffee and check my overnight emails, jump on/., read the (currently worthless) UF comic, etc... i'll get back online if i come home for even a moment, more as a force-of-habbit. but i also frequently go on hikes/walks, and ride bikes, and do yard work, and exercise, which is the part of the balance of all things.
i would hesitate to call it an 'addiction' until we start sacrificing our health (or hygine for that matter) because of a fascination with information. i simply love computers and technology and reading and hearing other people's points of views on things.
some != half. and the 'some' that has been taken out of it has been taxed each year they were alive, without fail. pay on capital gains, pay on salaries, etc, then die, and 'pay' again.
and it IS the government taking the money. They use it where they see fit. Conflit of interest says i'd rather see a few extra million in inheritance tax go directly to the school systems, rather than being a small tiny portion of ONE F16 fighterjet.
and A large part of her success was "that's what she had left from her father who gave half of that to the government when he died," not 'society'...
the 'reclaiming' part is the bit i have a problem with: it doesn't 'belong' to the government, despite what they say. They will throw you in jail if you don't pay it, but the principle of it all is that it has already had its taxes paid, and there should be no claim to the remainder by anyone except the executor/beneficiaries.
then, with your new added 'wealth' (from inheritance) you will CONTINUE to pay a higher rate of tax (new bracket). So, they tax money, take half if someone dies, then continue to tax the beneficiary on the remainder, until they die. lather rinse repeat. (basically).
it's all very arbitrary and confusing, but i disagree with inheritance tax alltogether. it makes people work harder at *hiding* their current monies so their heirs won't lose mass sums when someone passes on. hiding current monies (read: tax shelter) does nothing but take cash/assests out of the economy, and in turn, hurts tax revenue more than the inheritance tax provides.
Fair share? They should pay more so someone can sit on the street and do crack (which was earned by stealing the money anyway)?
i am not a troll, nor do i believe the parent was either. crackheads are crackheads, and while that is a whole issue in and of itself: social security, welfare, medica[r|d]e, all totally being sucked dry by people with their eighth child or that come into the liquor store smelling like ass, shoeless and shirtless, asking me to sign something for his unemployment sheet saying he's 'out looking for jobs', end rant.
the point here is who DOES actually pay for all these things we take for granted (roads, police, fire dept)? i call them the 'working poor'... people that make money via hard work and 9..5 days and commuting and stress and their average 2.3 children, can't afford car insurance, braces for the teenager, no vacation time ever. the CEO's of all these companies making $500k/yr salaries are paying some taxes on those monies. How do you tax a $1 salary? Does the 499,999 difference go into the 'community' in any way? or does it simply go back into google? is google out paving roads?
it's a double edged sword though really. like inheritance. Someone leaves you $2 million, you pay $1mil in inheritance tax, but you are still up $1 million ahead of where you were before. But what claim does the government have on my dead grandma's money? it's all already had it's taxes paid, on the gains and whatnot. it just makes no sense to me... i would want the full two mil. does inheritance tax penalize people who 'save' rather than sinking large sums of cash in off-shore properties and untaxable/untraceable artifacts, like stamps for example (small small items with potentially great worth, easily hidden from your 'assests' in a safedepo box or similar)?
two things are certain in this world: death and taxes. not OR taxes, but death AND taxes. ridiculous.
Why bother giving warning boxes if the user isn't going to read them anyway? I mean they could always put out 'Beginner Edition' (Crippled), 'Advanced Edition' (something close to the home longhorn.), and finally 'Power User' (The full version of Longhorn.) I really think with what I've read about Longhorn, MS is taking a step in the right direction.
doesn't that translate to XP home and XP pro? maybe XP media beling the lowest level...
i find the differences between xp home and pro annoying. the differences that you can change, granted, but when i go to piddle with someone's computer, it's always the default 'way' and i spend a few seconds extra trying to familiarize myself with where things are (network connections window, control panel 'icon', etc)... hell it took me a week before i found the device manager when i first switched to XP:)
No offense, but you'd be a real assholes for that. Consider that a big retail store like Best Buy is staffed with worker bees who have zero say in policy.
i only left everything after trying to politely reason with the clerk about the validity of my alcohol purchase. i've worked in retail land a number of years, and have excellent customer service. i even go above and beyond (for the customer) and let obviously legitiment (although sometimes against company policty) things happen like: maybe the next guy in line isn't really with this guy just because he said hello, or: can i exchange this cd i bought, i don't have my ticket?
it was a large purchase in a food store, i am 25 years old, and they would not sell me six 12oz beers because someone else in the same line as me couldn't produce an id? that's not policy, thats assanine. everyone on/. always says speak with your wallet, and at that point i decided if i was going to be treated poorly i would buy my food elsewhere. i didn't throw things, or cause a ruckus, but i sure as well wasn't going to go return my cart (now all bagged up) to the shelves.
that's my point exactly. i was buying this alcohol, along with 150$ worth of food, for myself. it was a coincidence that i got hasseled for a friend who was in line and happened to speak to me. had he not spoken to me, i could have purchased the alcohol. and the brits talk about alcohol promoting antisocial behaviour... it WAS poor customer service for the clerk not to see that his being there was not planned (and most kids that would ask you to buy alcohol would have the brains to wait outside)... and then, what is the cutoff? if i had a child, could i purchase he or she alchol on my whim? if i have a six year old in my arms buying a six pack of beer, does the six year old have to proove s/he is of legal drinking age? i work in a liquor store a few days a week (for discounts:) ) people 'sting' all the time with fake id's and whatnot, and it's a loss of liscense or fine or whatever, but paranoia is no reason to interogate (sp) a valid legal drinking-age customer for his purchase. use common sense.
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or rather: novus ordo seclorum.
what, no emphasis on mandatory?
or something as easy as having your cablemodem/dsl line run through a simple headless firewall linux box, have an internal network, and an open AP going through that, and only allowing specific mac addresses into the internal via the firewall ... you can block or throttle outgoing traffic, and put something like driftnet on the linux machine.
not that this is on or off topic, but i was once arrested in roland, ok (not using a signal escalated into a 'zero tolerance' law violation) ... dirty little town of 1500 or so people, 13 fully-loaded police cars, and using a double-wide as their community jail/court/police station. seems like ONE of those over zealous police officers would know this guy ... or IS this guy, for that matter ...
People have NO IDEA the type of assholes cops have to deal with.
i contest, cops have no idea the type of assholes people have to deal with when they are in close proximity to a cop.
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exec("echo \' your name is: ".$_POST['name']." \'");
Ask yourself, if Valve/vivendi were to go out of business tomorrow, would you be able to play half life 2?
... necessity is the mother of all invention.
if Valve/Vivendi (swore i thought it was Venvidi, too lazy to check atm) went out of business, there would be no one to sue the open source developers who are determined to make their free steam clone and server work
Back on topic, I personally did not like people that only farmed gold, as it is only a small part of the game. Playing on a PvP server, which allows you to kill opposing faction players, the unspoken rule of repeatedly killing farmers is pretty much a given for most guilds. The only farming that gets done is when you are in a group, which led to the formation of farming guilds. I am not joking. I once killed a few farmers solo, and in 15 minutes, a group of 40 arrived, all from the same guild. Then, my guild arrived. Ah... good times. WoW: Gang Warfare.
now i've never played WoW [but i did get a free trial in the mail and almost want to see what the hype now is about] but hearing your story about having 100+ level 60 people all on a team, why not vigilante-style hunt down and kill gold farmers? be like robin hood or something, going around figuring out who has been farming gold, and who has been robbing team-members (ninja style i gather), and kill them? take a commission of stolen gold, and return remainder to less fortunate (lower level) players? is this a bad idea, or just too much time and dedication for anyone playing a mmorpg to follow through with, eg: is it really really THAT bad a problem?
It can be argued that people who don't want to have their conversations monitored will not use keywords such as these that tip off the eavesdroppers or technology that recognizes them.
And conversely, people may use meaningless conversations with many keywords to delay the processing of these investigations.
actually, at first i thought it was funny, but i'm sure i'm on some red-flag list now.
No it doesn't. Is it saying 'Linux' (?) should start giving things super-generic names? Well that's a great idea. Let's call things 'Media Player'. But who gets to decide which media player gets named the definitive 'Media Player'?
well, a standardized desktop would help things. like the windows API, when you run 'the browser' your web browser pops up. be it firefox, or ie, or opera, whatever. it's whatever the default you set (or the program asks and sets) to be. so yes, under 'mediaplayer' i would put mplayer, under 'image editor' i would use gimp
... why exactly is that funny? tennessee is a state in america much like the other fourty-nine ... what would lead you to believe there are no businesses here? have you been to tennessee? did you stay in a hotel, or did you just drive the 500 or-so miles of i40 that runs through it?
... in fact, those reasons are why we have such big industry here, granted mostly manufacturing ... we use computers, i swear we do. i own software, i promise.
... ever. good people, which is more than i can say for the likes of Cali, or New York, or Texas, or any number of other states ...
we have a VERY low property tax, and no state income tax, making it an all-around cheap place to live, but what would lead you to believe that no one here owns or works at a 'business'
your comment makes you look as uneducated as you assume the population of tennessee is, mr coward.
i've lived in a number of american states, and visited a number more, but never before have i found a place so peaceful, cheap, and crime-free as tennessee. so before you are quick to judge, visit. there is a big stereotype surrounding this whole area, which is unfortunate. most beautiful place
[insert all the rest of the arguments about promoting oss or the legal issues of ownership vs. right-to-use software here] and you come out with a generally wonderful place to be.
and kind sir, i assure you, we have businesses. country music, to name an obvious. you've heard of nashville, no?
i noticed the point of the alcohol-enduced-sig, and wanted to comment, but you beat me to it ... i've never known anyone to get high and oh, say, beat their wife, or wreck head-on at 90mph racing down roads, or even really do much of ANYTHING. the "party isn't over for hippies" ... but i do know a multiple-sclerosis patient or two that enjoy a good toke, and, and my-chemo-therapy-buddy, he likes it too ... not that i'm AGAINST alcohol in any real way/shape/form, but the evils associated therein are far more harmful to yourself, your family, your life, and everyone around you (especially when operating a motor vehicle) ... i'd rather there be 100 stoners driving 35mph in a 60, scared out of their minds, than a single red-neck drunk on jack daniels showing you exactly how manuverable his F-350 is.
mod parent up ... any reference to captured by robots deserves all of +1 insightful, +1 funny, and +1 informative ...
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had the pleasure of seeing him and his robotic couterparts here in east tennessee many times, and is always a pleasure. and with 36 comments on this thread, i thought *I* was the origional one with the thought to come in an provide the link. it's well worth the $3 admission to the dives they play
off topic addendum: the coca-cola company is still the single largest importer of cocoa leaf from south america and is still used as a piece of flovouring in 'classic coke'.
my favorite brit 'misspelling' is 'tyres' ...
or ...
have you stopped raping your dog?
ur parents were always heading outside to play baseball, while we stay inside and play Quake, leran about obscure topics, or program something we thought about earlier in the day.
... i see that to be a problem.
/., read the (currently worthless) UF comic, etc ... i'll get back online if i come home for even a moment, more as a force-of-habbit. but i also frequently go on hikes/walks, and ride bikes, and do yard work, and exercise, which is the part of the balance of all things.
Their parents were always criticizing them for having wild parties and never doing their studies because they're always playing X or Y.
In turn, they criticize our generation for the different lifestyle that we lead.
i agree with you, except that "going outside to play baseball" and "sitting on the internet all day and night" are worlds apart in regards to health. We have many many many EXTREMEMLY obsese no exercise barely walking much less jogging or playing sports tv watching internet addicted anti social children
on the other hand (you have different fingers and) i am always personally drawn to computers/information. i wake extra early to have quiet and coffee and check my overnight emails, jump on
i would hesitate to call it an 'addiction' until we start sacrificing our health (or hygine for that matter) because of a fascination with information. i simply love computers and technology and reading and hearing other people's points of views on things.
i like the die-cast 2 quid coins myself. now THEY look like are worth more than the rest of the change in my pockets.
some != half. and the 'some' that has been taken out of it has been taxed each year they were alive, without fail. pay on capital gains, pay on salaries, etc, then die, and 'pay' again.
...
and it IS the government taking the money. They use it where they see fit. Conflit of interest says i'd rather see a few extra million in inheritance tax go directly to the school systems, rather than being a small tiny portion of ONE F16 fighterjet.
and A large part of her success was "that's what she had left from her father who gave half of that to the government when he died," not 'society'
the 'reclaiming' part is the bit i have a problem with: it doesn't 'belong' to the government, despite what they say. They will throw you in jail if you don't pay it, but the principle of it all is that it has already had its taxes paid, and there should be no claim to the remainder by anyone except the executor/beneficiaries.
then, with your new added 'wealth' (from inheritance) you will CONTINUE to pay a higher rate of tax (new bracket). So, they tax money, take half if someone dies, then continue to tax the beneficiary on the remainder, until they die. lather rinse repeat. (basically).
it's all very arbitrary and confusing, but i disagree with inheritance tax alltogether. it makes people work harder at *hiding* their current monies so their heirs won't lose mass sums when someone passes on. hiding current monies (read: tax shelter) does nothing but take cash/assests out of the economy, and in turn, hurts tax revenue more than the inheritance tax provides.
Fair share? They should pay more so someone can sit on the street and do crack (which was earned by stealing the money anyway)?
... people that make money via hard work and 9..5 days and commuting and stress and their average 2.3 children, can't afford car insurance, braces for the teenager, no vacation time ever. the CEO's of all these companies making $500k/yr salaries are paying some taxes on those monies. How do you tax a $1 salary? Does the 499,999 difference go into the 'community' in any way? or does it simply go back into google? is google out paving roads?
i am not a troll, nor do i believe the parent was either. crackheads are crackheads, and while that is a whole issue in and of itself: social security, welfare, medica[r|d]e, all totally being sucked dry by people with their eighth child or that come into the liquor store smelling like ass, shoeless and shirtless, asking me to sign something for his unemployment sheet saying he's 'out looking for jobs', end rant.
the point here is who DOES actually pay for all these things we take for granted (roads, police, fire dept)? i call them the 'working poor'
it's a double edged sword though really. like inheritance. Someone leaves you $2 million, you pay $1mil in inheritance tax, but you are still up $1 million ahead of where you were before. But what claim does the government have on my dead grandma's money? it's all already had it's taxes paid, on the gains and whatnot. it just makes no sense to me ... i would want the full two mil. does inheritance tax penalize people who 'save' rather than sinking large sums of cash in off-shore properties and untaxable/untraceable artifacts, like stamps for example (small small items with potentially great worth, easily hidden from your 'assests' in a safedepo box or similar)?
two things are certain in this world: death and taxes. not OR taxes, but death AND taxes. ridiculous.
two words: coral cache.
Why bother giving warning boxes if the user isn't going to read them anyway? I mean they could always put out 'Beginner Edition' (Crippled), 'Advanced Edition' (something close to the home longhorn.), and finally 'Power User' (The full version of Longhorn.) I really think with what I've read about Longhorn, MS is taking a step in the right direction.
... hell it took me a week before i found the device manager when i first switched to XP :)
doesn't that translate to XP home and XP pro? maybe XP media beling the lowest level...
i find the differences between xp home and pro annoying. the differences that you can change, granted, but when i go to piddle with someone's computer, it's always the default 'way' and i spend a few seconds extra trying to familiarize myself with where things are (network connections window, control panel 'icon', etc)
No offense, but you'd be a real assholes for that. Consider that a big retail store like Best Buy is staffed with worker bees who have zero say in policy.
/. always says speak with your wallet, and at that point i decided if i was going to be treated poorly i would buy my food elsewhere. i didn't throw things, or cause a ruckus, but i sure as well wasn't going to go return my cart (now all bagged up) to the shelves.
i only left everything after trying to politely reason with the clerk about the validity of my alcohol purchase. i've worked in retail land a number of years, and have excellent customer service. i even go above and beyond (for the customer) and let obviously legitiment (although sometimes against company policty) things happen like: maybe the next guy in line isn't really with this guy just because he said hello, or: can i exchange this cd i bought, i don't have my ticket?
it was a large purchase in a food store, i am 25 years old, and they would not sell me six 12oz beers because someone else in the same line as me couldn't produce an id? that's not policy, thats assanine. everyone on
that's my point exactly. i was buying this alcohol, along with 150$ worth of food, for myself. it was a coincidence that i got hasseled for a friend who was in line and happened to speak to me. had he not spoken to me, i could have purchased the alcohol. and the brits talk about alcohol promoting antisocial behaviour ... it WAS poor customer service for the clerk not to see that his being there was not planned (and most kids that would ask you to buy alcohol would have the brains to wait outside) ... and then, what is the cutoff? if i had a child, could i purchase he or she alchol on my whim? if i have a six year old in my arms buying a six pack of beer, does the six year old have to proove s/he is of legal drinking age? i work in a liquor store a few days a week (for discounts :) ) people 'sting' all the time with fake id's and whatnot, and it's a loss of liscense or fine or whatever, but paranoia is no reason to interogate (sp) a valid legal drinking-age customer for his purchase. use common sense.