In the meantime, your idea about what I am referring to is so abstract that you have no basis for making that judgment.
So why not tell us exactly what happened?
Probably because this is only Slashdot, and his desire to impress people on a message board is less than the desire to not reveal classified information or countermand the orders given to him.
It already was an enormous conspiracy by a well organised terrorist group - why do people have to pretend it's a different conspiracy?
Because people love to believe that the wrong man was caught, and only they and a select number of "smart" people believe the real truth. They're fighting the good fight against an evil, if only anyone else would ever wake up and listen to them.
People keep saying "oh my god, Social Security is broke!" and yet it keeps running. It's a system that pays out based on how much it's funded every year.
If we want to stay a bit more in this universe, I'd speculate that Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, and wouldn't have allowed ACTA to continue as it has been.
True, however they probably would have allowed far more crazier things through, depending on whether you're talking about the left-wing politicians or right-wing politicians on that list.
Do you use Ventrilo or some other voice server? Or even a phone call? The authentication codes the authenticators give are good for 10-15 seconds, so if you still wanted to do it that way..
Price of the unit really isn't that important -- if anything, the unit purchase price is a loss leader. It's the 2-year contract that is incredibly expensive, and that's where the real money is made.
While Apple/AT&T certainly charge a premium on that, they're not much more than other "smart phone" plans. They're all ridiculously pricey.
When you look at Seinfeld... and then you compare the post-Seinfeld work of the actors against, say, Curb Your Enthusiasm, it seems clear where the humor came from. Collaboration IS extremely important (good actors are creative people too and do a lot more than just recite a pre-written script for the camera), but I think people gave more credit than was due to Jerry Seinfeld for the show's success, and not enough to Larry David.
I know I'll probably get modded-down for saying this, but whenever I have mod points, I specifically seek out those, "I don't care about karma," and, "I know I'll probably get modded down..." posts and mod them down, especially if they're crap because they're trolling or just lack meaningful commentary.
Same here. If someone tries pulling the emotional strings then I'm happy to give them what they state (even if they clearly don't want that)
given the choice, would you have the only password or give it to people that you know (from past experience) would screw it up and ruin your night's sleep? From what I've read, that's where childs was.
I would prefer the latter. No, I never want to be the sole arbiter, the sole gatekeeper. What a horrific situation to be in.
I've also found it to be very common in the nerd/it world for an admin to believe that everyone was incompetent except for him, that he was the only person who could be trusted, and that he had to do everything himself. I don't think I've ever actually observed one of those ego bubbles where it was actually warranted.
While "Score Whore" made his points in a terrible way, he was correct that's a very poor administration decision to have yourself as the -only- source of the passwords to the city's network infrastructure. That shows a lack of judgement in both himself for putting himself in that position, an in the writer of any regulations that led to this situation.
It depends on the importance of the company. For some shitty web startup, this sounds like it would be a bit much.
If you worked at a place where real damage could be done through a security breach, I would expect this sort of thing to be done on a routine basis. At least, I would hope it would.
If I could dig it up to link to it I would, but I have seen a person rip me a new one and when I accused them of simply blathering easy answers to jack up their karma the reply was a plain and simple "I couldn't care less about my karma, I'm saying you're wrong because I think you're wrong. And just to prove I don't care about it I'll just say Linux sux, MicroSoft is God, and here's a goatse link", which he did link.
And it was modded +5 insightful.
When someone stands on a soapbox to announce that, yes, they get modded up.
When they do it as part of normal everyday commenting, they get modded down.
It's shaming the mods into moderating the way you want them to.
WoW has had cross-server instances for a few years now -- they're called cross-server battlegrounds. A battleground is really just another instance with different pvp rules.
I've found that resolution doesn't actually have that big an impact on frame rates. When the game lags to, oh, 6 fps for me, switching from 2560x1600 to 1280x800 doesn't really seem to make any difference.
It's not just FPS though, processor and video card also affect how fast models load in, especially noticable in a crowded city like Dalaran.
Something funny happened with the Icecrown patch -- during the first boss in the 25-man, my FPS dropped to about 5-6, while it's normally around 30+, even in raids.
Some of the lag is server side, but much of it is actually client-side as well, trying to maintain all the textures of each person who is in range, with each person wearing different armor pieces.
Some people get confused talking about server-side lag, where instant-cast abilities take seconds to fire, and client-side frame rates, where things slow down enough to look like a slide-show.
When I first started playing WoW there wasn't any of this fancy "meeting stones" or "looking for group". If you wanted to get people together to play you shouted into random channels in Ironforge. No cross realm ques for battlegrounds and there were no PVP rewards, and we liked it!
I would ask your raid leaders from back then if they really liked having a warlock and two others run back to the instance entrance to summon a latecomer! And if you were in Molten Core, a ton of pointless trash that wasn't tied to any boss had already respawned.
Or ask the mages if it was fun spending a quarter of their mana creating two waters (not two stacks... two waters, 1/10 of a stack), and have to make enough water to give two stacks to the entire raid.
Yeah, from a raid leader perspective.. those were the bad old days.
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In the meantime, your idea about what I am referring to is so abstract that you have no basis for making that judgment.
So why not tell us exactly what happened?
Probably because this is only Slashdot, and his desire to impress people on a message board is less than the desire to not reveal classified information or countermand the orders given to him.
These days it's "lone underpants-man". Get with the times!
"Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground!"*
*Apologies to anyone reading this past Summer of 2010; this is a _very_ topical joke.
No way man, that song will be a classic years from now.
From TFA:
*snip*
Don't quote from the article. It's bullshit, like most other things on World News Daily.
Heh. Troll rating, nice. Now if I could just figure out why.... outside of me calling WND a crackpot site.
There are crackpots everywhere. Even/especially on Slashdot.
And that one isn't a conspiracy theory. ;-)
It already was an enormous conspiracy by a well organised terrorist group - why do people have to pretend it's a different conspiracy?
Because people love to believe that the wrong man was caught, and only they and a select number of "smart" people believe the real truth. They're fighting the good fight against an evil, if only anyone else would ever wake up and listen to them.
People keep saying "oh my god, Social Security is broke!" and yet it keeps running. It's a system that pays out based on how much it's funded every year.
YHBT
Lol, for all the good that would actually do you.
Your pistols and rifles won't protect you one bit from our hostile government. It might make invasion from an outside occupier very difficult though.
If we want to stay a bit more in this universe, I'd speculate that Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, and wouldn't have allowed ACTA to continue as it has been.
True, however they probably would have allowed far more crazier things through, depending on whether you're talking about the left-wing politicians or right-wing politicians on that list.
Better idea... why not just enforce good password practices and educate your users?
Since when has that worked in the history of computer use?
Do you use Ventrilo or some other voice server? Or even a phone call? The authentication codes the authenticators give are good for 10-15 seconds, so if you still wanted to do it that way..
At first I thought so too, but then I looked at For a Free Internet's previous posts. Definitely paranoid sociopath material there.
I think he's really simply a troll. A nicely talented one. Who clearly hates Italians, heh.
Price of the unit really isn't that important -- if anything, the unit purchase price is a loss leader. It's the 2-year contract that is incredibly expensive, and that's where the real money is made.
While Apple/AT&T certainly charge a premium on that, they're not much more than other "smart phone" plans. They're all ridiculously pricey.
When you look at Seinfeld... and then you compare the post-Seinfeld work of the actors against, say, Curb Your Enthusiasm, it seems clear where the humor came from. Collaboration IS extremely important (good actors are creative people too and do a lot more than just recite a pre-written script for the camera), but I think people gave more credit than was due to Jerry Seinfeld for the show's success, and not enough to Larry David.
Jerry's stand-up is pretty funny though.
I know I'll probably get modded-down for saying this, but whenever I have mod points, I specifically seek out those, "I don't care about karma," and, "I know I'll probably get modded down..." posts and mod them down, especially if they're crap because they're trolling or just lack meaningful commentary.
Same here. If someone tries pulling the emotional strings then I'm happy to give them what they state (even if they clearly don't want that)
given the choice, would you have the only password or give it to people that you know (from past experience) would screw it up and ruin your night's sleep? From what I've read, that's where childs was.
I would prefer the latter. No, I never want to be the sole arbiter, the sole gatekeeper. What a horrific situation to be in.
I've also found it to be very common in the nerd/it world for an admin to believe that everyone was incompetent except for him, that he was the only person who could be trusted, and that he had to do everything himself. I don't think I've ever actually observed one of those ego bubbles where it was actually warranted.
While "Score Whore" made his points in a terrible way, he was correct that's a very poor administration decision to have yourself as the -only- source of the passwords to the city's network infrastructure. That shows a lack of judgement in both himself for putting himself in that position, an in the writer of any regulations that led to this situation.
It depends on the importance of the company. For some shitty web startup, this sounds like it would be a bit much.
If you worked at a place where real damage could be done through a security breach, I would expect this sort of thing to be done on a routine basis. At least, I would hope it would.
If I could dig it up to link to it I would, but I have seen a person rip me a new one and when I accused them of simply blathering easy answers to jack up their karma the reply was a plain and simple "I couldn't care less about my karma, I'm saying you're wrong because I think you're wrong. And just to prove I don't care about it I'll just say Linux sux, MicroSoft is God, and here's a goatse link", which he did link.
And it was modded +5 insightful.
When someone stands on a soapbox to announce that, yes, they get modded up.
When they do it as part of normal everyday commenting, they get modded down.
It's shaming the mods into moderating the way you want them to.
WoW has had cross-server instances for a few years now -- they're called cross-server battlegrounds. A battleground is really just another instance with different pvp rules.
I've found that resolution doesn't actually have that big an impact on frame rates. When the game lags to, oh, 6 fps for me, switching from 2560x1600 to 1280x800 doesn't really seem to make any difference.
It's not just FPS though, processor and video card also affect how fast models load in, especially noticable in a crowded city like Dalaran.
Something funny happened with the Icecrown patch -- during the first boss in the 25-man, my FPS dropped to about 5-6, while it's normally around 30+, even in raids.
Some of the lag is server side, but much of it is actually client-side as well, trying to maintain all the textures of each person who is in range, with each person wearing different armor pieces.
Some people get confused talking about server-side lag, where instant-cast abilities take seconds to fire, and client-side frame rates, where things slow down enough to look like a slide-show.
WoW is not a game because it lacks a basic aspect of a game: you can't lose.
That's a pretty artificial/arbitrary definition of a game.
When I first started playing WoW there wasn't any of this fancy "meeting stones" or "looking for group". If you wanted to get people together to play you shouted into random channels in Ironforge. No cross realm ques for battlegrounds and there were no PVP rewards, and we liked it!
I would ask your raid leaders from back then if they really liked having a warlock and two others run back to the instance entrance to summon a latecomer! And if you were in Molten Core, a ton of pointless trash that wasn't tied to any boss had already respawned.
Or ask the mages if it was fun spending a quarter of their mana creating two waters (not two stacks... two waters, 1/10 of a stack), and have to make enough water to give two stacks to the entire raid.
Yeah, from a raid leader perspective.. those were the bad old days.