I'm going to argue there's never a time that "password" is ever really perfectly good. It's just too common, and the first thing to be checked. Even on throwaway accounts, unless you're literally trying to give away your email address and what other data points the site collects, you might as well make it not one of the first things anyone with any curiosity at all might try. Now your dog's name or your kid's name or your street, or anything else still week and relatively obvious to anyone who knows you is something I'd call perfectly fine to use. "Password" is the worst idea, under any circumstances.
So if my business is, say, making people unable to turn their TVs on...
Curiously enough, the TV I just got has a software bug and turns itself on once per day. If you offered me a tool that selectively prevented unwanted activations, I would embrace it gladly.
It's on GOG.com as well. I think they just released a graphically enhanced version of it, even, though it's of course more expensive. I did love that game. Like Civilization, but in a fantasy setting. It's been a while, so I'm about due for a replay.
Seconded. I saw the preview a dozen times, and thought it looked like it was going to be terrible. I would have gone if a single person had suggested to me it was actually good. It also wasn't until later that I realized it was related to the old books. I haven't read them, but I certainly know of them, and that might have also made me curious. Not having read the books, I did not know the name John Carter at all.
Arrow is particularly bad with the bullets. Repeated sprays from machine guns go all over the place, and nobody ever gets hit. He's not really dodging them, he's not out-thinking the gunners, or out-maneuvering them in a way that it's justified they're not hitting him. And sometimes it's not just the Green Arrow himself, but anybody standing with him at the time.
Ah, you can fudge it with 3d6. First die represents high/low and tells you whether you're looking at 1-10 or 11-20. Second die represents high-low to indicate if it's 1-5 or 6-10 (or plus ten, depending on the first die). Basically, the first two help you decide the quadrant that you're rolling in.
Third die gives you the actual number, and you reroll any 6s. Take that number and add 0, 5, 10, or 15 as appropriate to put it in the right quadrant.
True. I have a picture of a sign at a farm that advertises "Certified Weed." Then another picture taken two steps forward, where something no longer blocks the rest of the message, and you can see it says they're actually selling "Certified Weed Free Hay."
Well, kinda, but not entirely that simple. I've probably re-bought more computer games than console games, really.
I play my Atari and Nintendo (original NES, and SuperNintendo) games on my PC in emulation.
My original computer games were for the Mac OS 6 through 9, none of which are compatible with my curent MacBook running OS X, so I either don't get to play them anymore, or I re-purchased them for PC. GOG.com makes this relatively inexpensive, and honestly it's easier and cheaper (in terms of time) to re-buy rather than try to do the hacks.
I do still have a PS2 (maybe 15 years old) with a few games that I only play every few years, and my "new" console is a PS3 that's about 7. Even that doesn't get much use as a gaming box since the first kid was born 4 years ago. I don't have any duplicates here, but I do have a few that run in a series across consoles. For instance, Dynasty Warriors 4 for the PS2, and Dynasty Warriors 6 for the PS3.
Well, isn't that kind the entire point of social media? Taking every aspect of your life and broadcasting as if it was some earth-shattering news?
Is it? I would have said the merit of social media was the ability to share selected items with a particular audience that mostly can't be there in person. But probably I'm doing it wrong.
Did you end up having to pay an early withdrawal penalty for that check? Or income taxes? I mean, that's still probably a win, but it seems that there would be complications.
A quote from my most recent novel: "Wort rotated through a series of pole arms, including a halberd, bec-de-corbin, glaive, guisarme, glaive-guisarme, bill, and guisarme-o-nine-glaives, before settling on an HFAP.*"
* Huge Friggin' Axe on a Pole
And a related footnote about the THWACK rating: "To Hit With A Club or Knife, a system in decreasing 2% increments of the chances of making contact in combat. It’s not the only calculation in town, with the others being THWAP (To Hit With A Polearm), SLICE (Sword-Like Items Contact Estimation), and WHOMP (War Hammer Or Mace, by Priest)"
I think there's a joke here, but I'm not getting it. Something about the Latin expression, let justice be done though the heavens fall? As a Roman history buff, it's probably something I'd even enjoy, so please clarify if you can.
Shady indeed. Missing a single payment (due to a bank clerk error, not mine) and Chase upped my interest rate from almost nothing to 30%...which is evidently illegal in NY, if this site is accurate http://www.lectlaw.com/files/b... and yet they do it anyway.
I paid the fee for missing a payment and closed the account so for me impact was limited but for people caught in the trap 30% is, to say the least, abusive.
More than a decade something like that happened to me. I can remember the agent on the other end rebutting one of my points with the statement, "I am unaware of any applicable usury laws in the state of Colorado." That's when I knew I was in trouble.
Later I found out the rate spike hadn't been solely due to one late payment, but also due to a student loan that was supposed to be in deferral but messed up my credit rating before the paperwork cleared. Amazingly, once it did clear up, I was able to successfully argue with the credit card company that they had not properly informed me of the reasons for the rate hike. I not only got them to lower the rate back from 30%+ to something closer to 12%, but also got them to refund several months worth of inappropriate interest. Honestly, I'm still amazed I got that through the system. They gave me a ton of runaround and were repeatedly late following up on things (once even blaming a multi-week delay on a snow storm in North Dakota, as if snowstorms up there in midwinter were somehow an unusual thing). It took a ton of patience and documentation and pushing them.
Hm. Amazon certainly has plenty of negative reviews out there. Pretty weird that yours was flagged. I think I wrote one that wasn't just negative, but even included the phrase "this atrocity of a game" and they still let it through. Of all my reviews, it's the one voted most helpful, even. Maybe it got pulled in exchange for the replacement?
Good on them for showing some sense. I mean, I'm still canceling my SunTrust mortgage next week, but now it's just because I'm selling my house, and not because I find their policies personally reprehensible. Before it was both a coincidence of timing AND a sense of disgust. I'm happy to drop the disgust.
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I'm going to argue there's never a time that "password" is ever really perfectly good. It's just too common, and the first thing to be checked. Even on throwaway accounts, unless you're literally trying to give away your email address and what other data points the site collects, you might as well make it not one of the first things anyone with any curiosity at all might try. Now your dog's name or your kid's name or your street, or anything else still week and relatively obvious to anyone who knows you is something I'd call perfectly fine to use. "Password" is the worst idea, under any circumstances.
So if my business is, say, making people unable to turn their TVs on...
Curiously enough, the TV I just got has a software bug and turns itself on once per day. If you offered me a tool that selectively prevented unwanted activations, I would embrace it gladly.
I don't know, but it reminds me of that joke about Pete and Repeat sitting in a tree. Pete fell out. Who was left?
I'd say people who are bad at music ought to be taxed more than those bad at math, but maybe that's just me.
It's on GOG.com as well. I think they just released a graphically enhanced version of it, even, though it's of course more expensive. I did love that game. Like Civilization, but in a fantasy setting. It's been a while, so I'm about due for a replay.
Seconded. I saw the preview a dozen times, and thought it looked like it was going to be terrible. I would have gone if a single person had suggested to me it was actually good. It also wasn't until later that I realized it was related to the old books. I haven't read them, but I certainly know of them, and that might have also made me curious. Not having read the books, I did not know the name John Carter at all.
which it isn't why else would I time on ./
Well, at least you're not wasting any of your precious minutes on spellcheck and proofing. :P
Giving up red meat doesn't necessarily make someone a vegetarian. There are meats other than red meat.
I dunno. When the first four digits of the PIN are 1, 1, 1, and 1, what are the odds that the fifth digit is going to be something else?
But it was the door that wouldn't close, not the windows.
Arrow is particularly bad with the bullets. Repeated sprays from machine guns go all over the place, and nobody ever gets hit. He's not really dodging them, he's not out-thinking the gunners, or out-maneuvering them in a way that it's justified they're not hitting him. And sometimes it's not just the Green Arrow himself, but anybody standing with him at the time.
Ah, you can fudge it with 3d6. First die represents high/low and tells you whether you're looking at 1-10 or 11-20. Second die represents high-low to indicate if it's 1-5 or 6-10 (or plus ten, depending on the first die). Basically, the first two help you decide the quadrant that you're rolling in.
Third die gives you the actual number, and you reroll any 6s. Take that number and add 0, 5, 10, or 15 as appropriate to put it in the right quadrant.
True. I have a picture of a sign at a farm that advertises "Certified Weed." Then another picture taken two steps forward, where something no longer blocks the rest of the message, and you can see it says they're actually selling "Certified Weed Free Hay."
Well, kinda, but not entirely that simple. I've probably re-bought more computer games than console games, really.
I play my Atari and Nintendo (original NES, and SuperNintendo) games on my PC in emulation.
My original computer games were for the Mac OS 6 through 9, none of which are compatible with my curent MacBook running OS X, so I either don't get to play them anymore, or I re-purchased them for PC. GOG.com makes this relatively inexpensive, and honestly it's easier and cheaper (in terms of time) to re-buy rather than try to do the hacks.
I do still have a PS2 (maybe 15 years old) with a few games that I only play every few years, and my "new" console is a PS3 that's about 7. Even that doesn't get much use as a gaming box since the first kid was born 4 years ago. I don't have any duplicates here, but I do have a few that run in a series across consoles. For instance, Dynasty Warriors 4 for the PS2, and Dynasty Warriors 6 for the PS3.
I thought Cyber Monday was supposed to be the nerd holiday?
Personally, I do shop both, but only online, at my leisure, and usually just for a few dollars off something I've been planning to get anyway.
Well, isn't that kind the entire point of social media? Taking every aspect of your life and broadcasting as if it was some earth-shattering news?
Is it? I would have said the merit of social media was the ability to share selected items with a particular audience that mostly can't be there in person. But probably I'm doing it wrong.
Did you end up having to pay an early withdrawal penalty for that check? Or income taxes? I mean, that's still probably a win, but it seems that there would be complications.
A quote from my most recent novel: "Wort rotated through a series of pole arms, including a halberd, bec-de-corbin, glaive, guisarme, glaive-guisarme, bill, and guisarme-o-nine-glaives, before settling on an HFAP.*"
* Huge Friggin' Axe on a Pole
And a related footnote about the THWACK rating: "To Hit With A Club or Knife, a system in decreasing 2% increments of the chances of making contact in combat. It’s not the only calculation in town, with the others being THWAP (To Hit With A Polearm), SLICE (Sword-Like Items Contact Estimation), and WHOMP (War Hammer Or Mace, by Priest)"
I think there's a joke here, but I'm not getting it. Something about the Latin expression, let justice be done though the heavens fall? As a Roman history buff, it's probably something I'd even enjoy, so please clarify if you can.
Commentary on D&D by a Dr. Spear? That's a pretty suspicious last name, if you ask me.
I sea what you did their. Or maybe I herd it?
I've always figured the belt I wear could be used pretty effectively to disable an attacker with a knife or anything similar, if it came to it.
Shady indeed. Missing a single payment (due to a bank clerk error, not mine) and Chase upped my interest rate from almost nothing to 30%...which is evidently illegal in NY, if this site is accurate http://www.lectlaw.com/files/b... and yet they do it anyway.
I paid the fee for missing a payment and closed the account so for me impact was limited but for people caught in the trap 30% is, to say the least, abusive.
More than a decade something like that happened to me. I can remember the agent on the other end rebutting one of my points with the statement, "I am unaware of any applicable usury laws in the state of Colorado." That's when I knew I was in trouble.
Later I found out the rate spike hadn't been solely due to one late payment, but also due to a student loan that was supposed to be in deferral but messed up my credit rating before the paperwork cleared. Amazingly, once it did clear up, I was able to successfully argue with the credit card company that they had not properly informed me of the reasons for the rate hike. I not only got them to lower the rate back from 30%+ to something closer to 12%, but also got them to refund several months worth of inappropriate interest. Honestly, I'm still amazed I got that through the system. They gave me a ton of runaround and were repeatedly late following up on things (once even blaming a multi-week delay on a snow storm in North Dakota, as if snowstorms up there in midwinter were somehow an unusual thing). It took a ton of patience and documentation and pushing them.
Hm. Amazon certainly has plenty of negative reviews out there. Pretty weird that yours was flagged. I think I wrote one that wasn't just negative, but even included the phrase "this atrocity of a game" and they still let it through. Of all my reviews, it's the one voted most helpful, even. Maybe it got pulled in exchange for the replacement?
Good on them for showing some sense. I mean, I'm still canceling my SunTrust mortgage next week, but now it's just because I'm selling my house, and not because I find their policies personally reprehensible. Before it was both a coincidence of timing AND a sense of disgust. I'm happy to drop the disgust.