There's more grey area there than you are allowing for.
For one, it was overhanded that CCP baned him for his out of game actions, but the fact is that CCP provide a service at their discresion, and can cancel anyone's account for any reason.
For two, he didn't do a bunch of sherlock holmes deducing of the situation, he HACKED INTO SOMEONE'S WEBSITE AND TEAMSPEAK SERVER and got the website forum's IP logs and used them to determine that T20 was a CCP employee.
Also, guys, the total profit from a Sabre Blueprint over the course of 6 months is about 4 billion isk. I don't even think he had it for 6 months, but whatever, let's assume 4 billion. Band of Brothers has a HUGE infrastructure - they charge pet alliances 6 billion per month per constillation to live in their space, in addition to their huge stock of legit Tech 2 blueprints, their massive moon mining operations, and other things that they use to make money. 4 billion for Band of Brothers is a drop in the bucket. Everyone is just up in arms because for other alliances, 4 billion is a huge investment. BoB plays on a different level than everyone else.
They should have fired the guy. As they said, the company's senior managers were out of town at the time, so the junior guys didn't want to overstep their boundries and fire someone. And then, the senior guys thought that it would be unfair to punish someone twice for the same misdeed. But, having said that, if you read the CCP forums, it would seem that the fact that this guy cheated and generated a few ammo blueprints and a sabre blueprint is causing the sky to fall, the servers to explode, and every one who has ever played Eve to get the aids and parvo at the same time.
Now, see, that radio add that I heard specifically said you wouldn't have to ask your friends or girlfriend to switch netowrks, and you wouldn't have to avoid calling people that weren't on your "favs" list. I dunno.
Truth in advertising, or it's a new thing coming out.
I know, and *your* reason I totally respect ("I feel better, and I lose a little weight on the side while eating whatever I want").
I just hate the idea that we're all "supposed" to find an hour and a half a day to work out.
If you're going to get in shape, you should do it because you want to - for health reasons, or to feel better about your body, etc. You shouldn't do it because the kids on The OC will look down on you for being fat. Ya know?
1.) I don't like arriving to work sweaty. We don't have a shower, and I'm usually running late as it is.
2.) Sometimes it's clear in the morning and raining in the afternoon.
3.) Where do you put the carseat for the sidetrip to the daycare?
People wonder why I don't exercise. Screw you, that's why. I hate this culture where 6 feet tall people are fat if they weigh more than 150 lbs. Fuck that. Tell you what, some time go back through famous paintings for the last 1000 years and see what most of the people look like. Our obsession with thin is fucking annoying and depressing.
I get up and I go to work. I work 8-5, then I pick the kid up from daycare, come home, make dinner. Mommie gets home around 7, the kid gets a bath and bedtime between 8 and 9. Know what I do after 9? I play video games. I just spent all day working, and all evening watching a 2 year old watch seseme street and cooking dinner. Riding a bike, or running, or whatever is more work. I want to relax and unwind.
You know what? Some people are fat. It's always been that way. Get over it, and stop telling us how terrible our lives are compared to your triple-decker stress sandwitch and your orange jumpsuits.
The other thing you need to mention in this excellent rant is that WE PAID FOR THEIR GODDAMN NETWORK.
Well, not me, I wasn't alive, but fuck, see those surcharges on your phone bill? Those don't go to the government (not permanently, at least). They're redistributed to the phone companies to make imporvements to existing networks and to install new networks, on the theory that even though the phone companies are private corporations, they're providing a public service.
Which is the worst part about net neutrality. They want to have their cake, and eat it too, and then eat it again tomorrow.
The citizens have paid for those lines to be installed.
Then the citizens are paying the company for internet access.
Then the phone companies want to charge content providers for traffic.
Look, the basic guiding principle of the internet, the one cornerstone on which everything else rests, is carrier transit. Also known as don't piss in my pool. Everyone carries everyone else's bandwidth if the BGP tables dictate that you're the fastest route for it. If any one person stops honoring this method, the whole concept stops working. It only works because of common carrier.
I'm tired, I hope I read this and it makes sense in the morning.
Well, here in Virginia, it seems that the speed limit serves only to fund the police.
Honestly, if the speed limit were posted as a suggested top safe speed, I think we'd still be ok.
Research has shown that regardless of the speed limit, almost all motorists will drive roughly the same speed on the same road, indicating that most people have common sense and will find a "max safe" speed that they're comfortable with. Some people will speed, some will go far slower. But when a speed limit is lowered below this "natural speed", it only serves to line the coffers of the Police, filling their quotas.
For instance, here in Blacksburg, they've just recently decreased the speed limit of Patrick Henry Drive from 35 to 25. This road is four clearly marked lanes, has a sidewalk on both sides, a bike lane, and is clearly lit with streetlights on both sides of the road. Why is it 35? I dunno, but I can tell you there have been a lot more police on it since then.
I really believe that if the powers that be started enforcing reckless driving statutes - ticketing people for weaving in and out of traffic, not using signals, etc - and stopped enforcing speed limits, we'd have fewer accidents and everyone would be happier (fewer "speed traps"). But then, I'm a firm believer in less police and that police should "Keep the peace", not "enforce the law".
It'll never happen, though, cause old people are the only ones that vote anymore (cause it's all they have left to look forward to, other than death and the daily delivery of the mail), and they all drive at 15mps regardless of the speed limit (causing more problems than people who speed).
Actually almost every butcher uses red dye. And it's more of a meat packing plant thing anyway.
But yes, that fluid is not blood. Rarely, you will see actual blood in a cut of meat, and it looks - shocker - just like human blood - viscous, dark red, high surface tension.
Almost all blood is drained out of animals when they are slaughtered now.
Now, see, I've heard that "Camel" is a mistranslation of "Rope". I've also heard that camel is correct, and that "eye of the needle" is a phrase or a nickname for a certain gate of Jerusalem that was very small, and thus difficult for someone mounted to pass through (camels would have to bend to the knee to pass through or whatever).
Know what it sounds like to me? Apologetics. Making excuses for the bible. You can't in one instance go and say "oh it's a mistranslation" or "you have to interpret it this way", and then turn back around and say that the bible is literally true and inspired by god, perfectly preserved through the ages.
Anyway, to people that try to re-interpret the phrasing about the passage where the rich man is not entering heaven, I have this to say:
Also, BBC for a while licensed Top Gear out to the discovery channel (I think) but it just isn't the same as the UK version. They re-recorded all the parts in the studio to replace "bonnet" with "hood", "boot" with "trunk", and to remove all of Clarkson's "Everything from America is rubbish". They also switched the videos such that they were reviewing cars available in the US (Ford GT, Cadillac STS-R, and like a bently or something)
Now, I don't think that Clarkson really is fair about the quality of American cars, but without his ascorbic wit, the show just isn't worth watching.
Plus, I can get a High-Def copy hours after it airs on BBC here in America on the following Monday.
not to mention, i seem to remember something about fedora/gnome asking for root password to run things like system-config-authorization or system-config-printers or whatever, but it also asked if you wanted to carry your authorization token forward for the current session? Or something like that.
That was only a problem for a short while. There was about a year, maybe year and a half of motherboards manufactured that required that, and I guess it's still required on some server raid cards (but why install XP instead of 2003?). Anyway, almost all motherboards made in, oh, the past 3 years or more have a feature that's called something like "ATA mode" or "ATA emulation" or something along those lines for SATA chipsets that XP doesn't know what are.
In other words, to solve the floppy program, rather than Microsoft releasing upgrades, motherboard manufacturers dumbed down their interfaces for XP.
Nope. I've been posting here since 1999, and it's always been sandbox HTML. Used to be much less of a sandbox, too, with all the PWP's (page widening posts), ascii penis birds, etc.
Anyway, BBCode is something new. I remember the first time I ran across a BBCode webpage, and I was like... "WTF. How hard is it to write a link in HTML? This is exactly as complicated, but now those of us who learned HTML so we could make our geocities pages in 1996 have to learn some random other way to do it".
A 10 base T port wouldn't be faster than a decent wireless connection, but I was under the impression that there weren't many of them left on campus, that almost all the ports were now either 100-base Tx or gig-e.
I run the CS department's mirror (http://mirror.cs.vt.edu) at VT, and I have contacted the Knoppix folks about becoming an official mirror. I never got a response, and got lazy and never set up my mirror server to mirror knoppix. I'll look into it; you could then download it off of my server at (presumably) 10 megabytes per second if you get full linespeed.
I use the local university computing center mirror to load fedora core - I just get the iso for the network boot, and boot it up, and point it at mirror: mirror.cc.vt.edu, path/pub/fedore/linux/core/6/i386/os/ and it downloads the installer and runs everything from the network, at roughly 7 or so megaBytes per second - far faster than I ever could via CD and without swapping the CD's out. I also try to set up a Fedora repo in/etc/yum.repos.d/ to use the local vt mirror. Still not 100% sure how that all works, though.
I work for the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech (www.cs.vt.edu).
Our campus networking people (communications network services, or CNS) run all our networking and telephone services, and they have FULL campus coverage for 802.11 wireless. They use positional testers to make sure that all indoor areas have full signals. They use full cisco systems access points, and power-over-ethernet to ensure that they can put them pretty much everywhere.
All classrooms, libraries, dorms and cafeterias on VT's campus have wireless, with very few exceptions - it's about 40 acres of wireless access coverage, excepting some areas where there are large outdoor expanses.
So, yes, I'd say it is the standard in most universities with decent funding for their network services. Our CNS people do charge - each ethernet port on campus is subject to an activation fee and monthly fee which is transfered from department overhead or other sources to CNS as cost recovery, which means that CNS is very well funded.
I have observed two things. If the imposed deadline is shorter than the time actually needed to do the job, then the job will appear to be finished (i.e., people will say they are done), but there will be many things missing. Later, people will say "Oh, we were all under a tight deadline, so I guess we must have forgotten to do that".
More interestingly, if the deadline is longer than the time actually needed to do the job, I have observed that the job is done early. But (and this is an important but), all of the functionality is actually there.
Good points, except that you miss the key part of his post: Government employees. It probably works that way in the private sector, but not so much for uncle sam.
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There's more grey area there than you are allowing for.
For one, it was overhanded that CCP baned him for his out of game actions, but the fact is that CCP provide a service at their discresion, and can cancel anyone's account for any reason.
For two, he didn't do a bunch of sherlock holmes deducing of the situation, he HACKED INTO SOMEONE'S WEBSITE AND TEAMSPEAK SERVER and got the website forum's IP logs and used them to determine that T20 was a CCP employee.
Also, guys, the total profit from a Sabre Blueprint over the course of 6 months is about 4 billion isk. I don't even think he had it for 6 months, but whatever, let's assume 4 billion. Band of Brothers has a HUGE infrastructure - they charge pet alliances 6 billion per month per constillation to live in their space, in addition to their huge stock of legit Tech 2 blueprints, their massive moon mining operations, and other things that they use to make money. 4 billion for Band of Brothers is a drop in the bucket. Everyone is just up in arms because for other alliances, 4 billion is a huge investment. BoB plays on a different level than everyone else.
They should have fired the guy. As they said, the company's senior managers were out of town at the time, so the junior guys didn't want to overstep their boundries and fire someone. And then, the senior guys thought that it would be unfair to punish someone twice for the same misdeed. But, having said that, if you read the CCP forums, it would seem that the fact that this guy cheated and generated a few ammo blueprints and a sabre blueprint is causing the sky to fall, the servers to explode, and every one who has ever played Eve to get the aids and parvo at the same time.
~Wx
aristocrats hedonistically consuming grapes on a chaise lounge
Now, see, that radio add that I heard specifically said you wouldn't have to ask your friends or girlfriend to switch netowrks, and you wouldn't have to avoid calling people that weren't on your "favs" list. I dunno.
Truth in advertising, or it's a new thing coming out.
Yeah, I was going to say - my Sidekick II gets unlimited data and 300 minutes + free weekends already for $50/month.
And I could swear I heard a cingular commercial on the radio proclaiming unlimited minutes (nothing about data, though) for $50/month.
~Wx
I know, and *your* reason I totally respect ("I feel better, and I lose a little weight on the side while eating whatever I want").
I just hate the idea that we're all "supposed" to find an hour and a half a day to work out.
If you're going to get in shape, you should do it because you want to - for health reasons, or to feel better about your body, etc. You shouldn't do it because the kids on The OC will look down on you for being fat. Ya know?
~Wx
Yeah, here's the problems with this.
1.) I don't like arriving to work sweaty. We don't have a shower, and I'm usually running late as it is.
2.) Sometimes it's clear in the morning and raining in the afternoon.
3.) Where do you put the carseat for the sidetrip to the daycare?
People wonder why I don't exercise. Screw you, that's why. I hate this culture where 6 feet tall people are fat if they weigh more than 150 lbs. Fuck that. Tell you what, some time go back through famous paintings for the last 1000 years and see what most of the people look like. Our obsession with thin is fucking annoying and depressing.
I get up and I go to work. I work 8-5, then I pick the kid up from daycare, come home, make dinner. Mommie gets home around 7, the kid gets a bath and bedtime between 8 and 9. Know what I do after 9? I play video games. I just spent all day working, and all evening watching a 2 year old watch seseme street and cooking dinner. Riding a bike, or running, or whatever is more work. I want to relax and unwind.
You know what? Some people are fat. It's always been that way. Get over it, and stop telling us how terrible our lives are compared to your triple-decker stress sandwitch and your orange jumpsuits.
~Wx
Which reminds me i need to update our card-swipe door locks.
Make sure you add the subroutine to find Sara Conner.
The other thing you need to mention in this excellent rant is that WE PAID FOR THEIR GODDAMN NETWORK.
Well, not me, I wasn't alive, but fuck, see those surcharges on your phone bill? Those don't go to the government (not permanently, at least). They're redistributed to the phone companies to make imporvements to existing networks and to install new networks, on the theory that even though the phone companies are private corporations, they're providing a public service.
Which is the worst part about net neutrality. They want to have their cake, and eat it too, and then eat it again tomorrow.
The citizens have paid for those lines to be installed.
Then the citizens are paying the company for internet access.
Then the phone companies want to charge content providers for traffic.
Look, the basic guiding principle of the internet, the one cornerstone on which everything else rests, is carrier transit. Also known as don't piss in my pool. Everyone carries everyone else's bandwidth if the BGP tables dictate that you're the fastest route for it. If any one person stops honoring this method, the whole concept stops working. It only works because of common carrier.
I'm tired, I hope I read this and it makes sense in the morning.
I hate to say it, but that's an acceptable risk.
300 people on a large jumbo-jet vs. 3000+ in an office building in manhattan. I would have taken the 300.
~Wx
Well, here in Virginia, it seems that the speed limit serves only to fund the police.
Honestly, if the speed limit were posted as a suggested top safe speed, I think we'd still be ok.
Research has shown that regardless of the speed limit, almost all motorists will drive roughly the same speed on the same road, indicating that most people have common sense and will find a "max safe" speed that they're comfortable with. Some people will speed, some will go far slower. But when a speed limit is lowered below this "natural speed", it only serves to line the coffers of the Police, filling their quotas.
For instance, here in Blacksburg, they've just recently decreased the speed limit of Patrick Henry Drive from 35 to 25. This road is four clearly marked lanes, has a sidewalk on both sides, a bike lane, and is clearly lit with streetlights on both sides of the road. Why is it 35? I dunno, but I can tell you there have been a lot more police on it since then.
I really believe that if the powers that be started enforcing reckless driving statutes - ticketing people for weaving in and out of traffic, not using signals, etc - and stopped enforcing speed limits, we'd have fewer accidents and everyone would be happier (fewer "speed traps"). But then, I'm a firm believer in less police and that police should "Keep the peace", not "enforce the law".
It'll never happen, though, cause old people are the only ones that vote anymore (cause it's all they have left to look forward to, other than death and the daily delivery of the mail), and they all drive at 15mps regardless of the speed limit (causing more problems than people who speed).
~Wx
Actually almost every butcher uses red dye. And it's more of a meat packing plant thing anyway.
But yes, that fluid is not blood. Rarely, you will see actual blood in a cut of meat, and it looks - shocker - just like human blood - viscous, dark red, high surface tension.
Almost all blood is drained out of animals when they are slaughtered now.
~X
Hahahaha, your sibling post got it... why didn't you?
Clearly, sir, your statements have no place in a scientific debate. Those numbers you so lightly toss around add up to 146%.
You may fool the uneducated masses, sir, but you won't fool me so easily.
Now, see, I've heard that "Camel" is a mistranslation of "Rope". I've also heard that camel is correct, and that "eye of the needle" is a phrase or a nickname for a certain gate of Jerusalem that was very small, and thus difficult for someone mounted to pass through (camels would have to bend to the knee to pass through or whatever).
Know what it sounds like to me? Apologetics. Making excuses for the bible. You can't in one instance go and say "oh it's a mistranslation" or "you have to interpret it this way", and then turn back around and say that the bible is literally true and inspired by god, perfectly preserved through the ages.
Anyway, to people that try to re-interpret the phrasing about the passage where the rich man is not entering heaven, I have this to say:
"Nice try, senator."
Sooo... Gambon Bend is YOUR fault!
You've nearly KILLED the Stig!
Also, BBC for a while licensed Top Gear out to the discovery channel (I think) but it just isn't the same as the UK version. They re-recorded all the parts in the studio to replace "bonnet" with "hood", "boot" with "trunk", and to remove all of Clarkson's "Everything from America is rubbish". They also switched the videos such that they were reviewing cars available in the US (Ford GT, Cadillac STS-R, and like a bently or something)
Now, I don't think that Clarkson really is fair about the quality of American cars, but without his ascorbic wit, the show just isn't worth watching.
Plus, I can get a High-Def copy hours after it airs on BBC here in America on the following Monday.
Fair Dinkum?
not to mention, i seem to remember something about fedora/gnome asking for root password to run things like system-config-authorization or system-config-printers or whatever, but it also asked if you wanted to carry your authorization token forward for the current session? Or something like that.
That was only a problem for a short while. There was about a year, maybe year and a half of motherboards manufactured that required that, and I guess it's still required on some server raid cards (but why install XP instead of 2003?). Anyway, almost all motherboards made in, oh, the past 3 years or more have a feature that's called something like "ATA mode" or "ATA emulation" or something along those lines for SATA chipsets that XP doesn't know what are.
In other words, to solve the floppy program, rather than Microsoft releasing upgrades, motherboard manufacturers dumbed down their interfaces for XP.
~Wd
Nope. I've been posting here since 1999, and it's always been sandbox HTML. Used to be much less of a sandbox, too, with all the PWP's (page widening posts), ascii penis birds, etc.
Anyway, BBCode is something new. I remember the first time I ran across a BBCode webpage, and I was like... "WTF. How hard is it to write a link in HTML? This is exactly as complicated, but now those of us who learned HTML so we could make our geocities pages in 1996 have to learn some random other way to do it".
BBCode needs to die, people need to use HTML.
~W
A 10 base T port wouldn't be faster than a decent wireless connection, but I was under the impression that there weren't many of them left on campus, that almost all the ports were now either 100-base Tx or gig-e.
/pub/fedore/linux/core/6/i386/os/ and it downloads the installer and runs everything from the network, at roughly 7 or so megaBytes per second - far faster than I ever could via CD and without swapping the CD's out. I also try to set up a Fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to use the local vt mirror. Still not 100% sure how that all works, though.
I run the CS department's mirror (http://mirror.cs.vt.edu) at VT, and I have contacted the Knoppix folks about becoming an official mirror. I never got a response, and got lazy and never set up my mirror server to mirror knoppix. I'll look into it; you could then download it off of my server at (presumably) 10 megabytes per second if you get full linespeed.
I use the local university computing center mirror to load fedora core - I just get the iso for the network boot, and boot it up, and point it at mirror: mirror.cc.vt.edu, path
Anyway, if you need linux distros, almost all the popular ones are mirrored by either the computing center ( http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/ ) or by me ( http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ ).
~Wx
I work for the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech (www.cs.vt.edu).
Our campus networking people (communications network services, or CNS) run all our networking and telephone services, and they have FULL campus coverage for 802.11 wireless. They use positional testers to make sure that all indoor areas have full signals. They use full cisco systems access points, and power-over-ethernet to ensure that they can put them pretty much everywhere.
All classrooms, libraries, dorms and cafeterias on VT's campus have wireless, with very few exceptions - it's about 40 acres of wireless access coverage, excepting some areas where there are large outdoor expanses.
So, yes, I'd say it is the standard in most universities with decent funding for their network services. Our CNS people do charge - each ethernet port on campus is subject to an activation fee and monthly fee which is transfered from department overhead or other sources to CNS as cost recovery, which means that CNS is very well funded.
~X
I have observed two things. If the imposed deadline is shorter than the time actually needed to do the job, then the job will appear to be finished (i.e., people will say they are done), but there will be many things missing. Later, people will say "Oh, we were all under a tight deadline, so I guess we must have forgotten to do that".
More interestingly, if the deadline is longer than the time actually needed to do the job, I have observed that the job is done early. But (and this is an important but), all of the functionality is actually there.
Good points, except that you miss the key part of his post: Government employees. It probably works that way in the private sector, but not so much for uncle sam.
*THAT*, sir, is an excellent point, and one that I hadn't thought of. I bow to your cynical-yet-probably-true powers of reasoning.
Sigh, sometimes I wish I would never post on here.