See here for an explanation on how it was likely done. Basically, they were using email authorization and all it takes is a bogus return address. Technically a Network Solutions issue, but Comcast does deserve some of the blame for using a weak authorization method for their domain.
I had sound stutters for a while, and the fix was, of all things, updating my mobo's raid controller drivers from the manufacturer's site rather than through asus's shitty outdated driver page. YMMV, but from the research I did it seems it's almost always a mobo issue, apparently caused by pci latency spikes from faulty drivers. Probably a minor underlying issue amplified by the new driver architecture, but not strictly Vista's fault.
The main problems I've run into in the year or so I've used it are the lack of wifi drivers and the driver signing requirement on x64 versions which makes it a bloody pain in the ass to get rid of the goddamn half-open connection limit. Also it's somewhat of a resource hog, but in my experience very snappy if your hardware can handle it, and DWM is a godsend. Also it's ridiculously easy to crack. I'd advise you to try it out and decide for yourself rather than fall prey to someone else's prejudice.
Wouldn't work on the heart, the heart muscle is self-exciting, i.e. it'll keep going with no intervention from the brain. All the brain does is slow it down or speed it up. Could work on breathing tho, if you could get at the relevant areas.
This is, of course, all my opinion, IANAL and so forth, and it's ultimately up to the courts, but the point is that she caused a death. It doesn't *matter* that she didn't intend to do so, or that what she did might not have caused a death in other circumstances, or that you think what she did isn't wrong, because she did and it did and your opinion doesn't matter.
I am, and as usual anything I say should be treated as my opinion and my opinion only. I'm not the courts, thus I don't decide if she's guilty or not, whatever I say is simply my interpretation of what I know of the facts and not guaranteed to be correct.
She might not be guilty of murder, but causing the death of another human being is a crime regardless of whether it was her intention to do so. There are circumstances that might exculpate someone, such as self-defense (in some cases), but none of them apply here.
Damn right it's murder. She might not have physically killed the kid, but she damn well helped. Just because the violence wasn't physical doesn't mean it wasn't violence.
CC verification doesn't even really work as a check of legal age anymore. I've yet to run into a site that didn't accept Visa Electron, and those are pretty damn common to have for people under 18, at least in Finland. I know I used mine to get access to porn as a minor. To answer your question tho, I'd guess you'd need a scan of your ID or a SSN to register, which obviously isn't gonna go over very well.
If the content is ever on your computer, it can be cracked. And it has to be for you to actually see it. Thus, even a method this draconian would ultimately fail. The only way to avoid this would be to have the actual game on a remote server and just pipe the output to you and your input to the server, which is obviously unworkable on current technology (altho mmogs do show an aspect of this). I'm not entirely sure if that's what you meant, so sorry if I'm being redundant here. And other than that, you're completely right.
Ignore this, tinyurl is an abomination that should never be used where embedded links are possible. Especially not on forums, since you can't tell where the damn thing actually goes, thus it could very well be a malware page or a shock site. Stick to anchor tags.
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It doesn't physically damage the servers per se, but it does damage legitimate players, mainly by disrupting the game economy (also by players getting for free what others have worked for, which damage to the economy is one aspect of, but that's not exactly a clear-cut issue), which I'd count as damage to the game. I'm not necessarily saying that Blizzard is in the right here, but glider *is* harmful.
Which is exactly what the gp meant, as I understood it. You say 'wow, that makes sense' not because it does, but because it fits some preconceived notion of truth and thus doesn't get examined further. And obviously, this makes sense to me because it fits a preconceived notion of truth I have. There's almost certainly a lot more to it. One major factor, as explained by another post somewhere else in this thread, is likely the fact that these things often get told to you by people you trust.
You're right about rural areas, of course. Other countries have managed just fine tho, despite being less urbanized. Regardless, you claim that they're the reason for the US slipping down the charts, yet one of the most glaring issues with broadband availability in the country is the ridiculously high costs, even in heavily populated areas. The chart has a reference for the lowest available cost per mbps, and it's way beyond ours. If, as you suggest, this is due to geography and city dwellers not subsidizing the country hicks (which they don't do here either), then how is it that pricing is consistently so high even in major cities with population densities way beyond anything in Finland?
And off on the tangent again, the problem with an absolutely free market for internet connectivity is that without regulation it's prohibitively difficult for new players to enter the market, which leads to massive monopolization and thus isn't free in any way but the strictly laissez-faire one. Supply and demand can't work when supply is controlled by just one company in any given area. Also, why do you think the term laissez-faire as it applies to market economy exists (and is in use) in the first place? Here's a hint: the point of regulation in a free market is not to restrict supply and demand, it's to keep companies from using a position of power to alter them to their own benefit. Regulation, in fact, *keeps* supply and demand from being regulated. Jives rather well with the dictionary (disregarding the point that dictionaries very rarely capture the subtleties of language correctly anyhow) definition, dontcha think?
And how is absolute distance relevant in any way? Obviously the absolute cost of infrastructure will be higher, but it'll cost less per person. You also have a higher GDP, thus could afford *more* per person to do it. That makes it easier, not harder.
Also, by your definition, there is no such thing as a free market in the world right now. However, there are degrees of freedom, and the term is commonly used for markets that are goverment regulated to an extent but where prices are mainly determined by supply and demand. It's not a contradiction of terms if you use the commonly accepted range of freedom rather than the absolute. Obviously if you don't agree with that definition, you're free to do so, have fun railing against the bloody English language for not using words like you want them to be used.
340E3 km^2 vs 9.8E6 km^2. Your "rural" is fairly urban, on a US scale. Finland: 16/km^2, US: 31/km^2. 'Nuff said.
Also, you're misunderstanding the gp completely on the laissez-faire thing, he's not talking about regulation in a laissez-faire market, he's talking about regulation in a free market and how that's different from (and better than) a complete laissez-faire system, thus I don't see how he's trying to redefine anything.
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See here for an explanation on how it was likely done. Basically, they were using email authorization and all it takes is a bogus return address. Technically a Network Solutions issue, but Comcast does deserve some of the blame for using a weak authorization method for their domain.
100MB/sec is faster than current hard drives, so I wouldn't exactly call that slow.
I pirated it, and I actually like it and use it, but I'm not sure if that qualifies.
I had sound stutters for a while, and the fix was, of all things, updating my mobo's raid controller drivers from the manufacturer's site rather than through asus's shitty outdated driver page. YMMV, but from the research I did it seems it's almost always a mobo issue, apparently caused by pci latency spikes from faulty drivers. Probably a minor underlying issue amplified by the new driver architecture, but not strictly Vista's fault.
The main problems I've run into in the year or so I've used it are the lack of wifi drivers and the driver signing requirement on x64 versions which makes it a bloody pain in the ass to get rid of the goddamn half-open connection limit. Also it's somewhat of a resource hog, but in my experience very snappy if your hardware can handle it, and DWM is a godsend. Also it's ridiculously easy to crack. I'd advise you to try it out and decide for yourself rather than fall prey to someone else's prejudice.
Anti-virus software that takes a special removal tool to get rid of? Yeah.
Wouldn't work on the heart, the heart muscle is self-exciting, i.e. it'll keep going with no intervention from the brain. All the brain does is slow it down or speed it up. Could work on breathing tho, if you could get at the relevant areas.
This is, of course, all my opinion, IANAL and so forth, and it's ultimately up to the courts, but the point is that she caused a death. It doesn't *matter* that she didn't intend to do so, or that what she did might not have caused a death in other circumstances, or that you think what she did isn't wrong, because she did and it did and your opinion doesn't matter.
I am, and as usual anything I say should be treated as my opinion and my opinion only. I'm not the courts, thus I don't decide if she's guilty or not, whatever I say is simply my interpretation of what I know of the facts and not guaranteed to be correct.
You're right, sorry, I wasn't using the legal definition of the term. I'm pretty much certain it does (or at least, should) qualify as homicide tho.
She might not be guilty of murder, but causing the death of another human being is a crime regardless of whether it was her intention to do so. There are circumstances that might exculpate someone, such as self-defense (in some cases), but none of them apply here.
Damn right it's murder. She might not have physically killed the kid, but she damn well helped. Just because the violence wasn't physical doesn't mean it wasn't violence.
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CC verification doesn't even really work as a check of legal age anymore. I've yet to run into a site that didn't accept Visa Electron, and those are pretty damn common to have for people under 18, at least in Finland. I know I used mine to get access to porn as a minor. To answer your question tho, I'd guess you'd need a scan of your ID or a SSN to register, which obviously isn't gonna go over very well.
There's such a thing as being overprotective, and this is it.
I can do (and have done) 250GB in a day. Thank god I don't live in the US.
If the content is ever on your computer, it can be cracked. And it has to be for you to actually see it. Thus, even a method this draconian would ultimately fail. The only way to avoid this would be to have the actual game on a remote server and just pipe the output to you and your input to the server, which is obviously unworkable on current technology (altho mmogs do show an aspect of this). I'm not entirely sure if that's what you meant, so sorry if I'm being redundant here. And other than that, you're completely right.
Ignore this, tinyurl is an abomination that should never be used where embedded links are possible. Especially not on forums, since you can't tell where the damn thing actually goes, thus it could very well be a malware page or a shock site. Stick to anchor tags.
It doesn't physically damage the servers per se, but it does damage legitimate players, mainly by disrupting the game economy (also by players getting for free what others have worked for, which damage to the economy is one aspect of, but that's not exactly a clear-cut issue), which I'd count as damage to the game. I'm not necessarily saying that Blizzard is in the right here, but glider *is* harmful.
Which is exactly what the gp meant, as I understood it. You say 'wow, that makes sense' not because it does, but because it fits some preconceived notion of truth and thus doesn't get examined further. And obviously, this makes sense to me because it fits a preconceived notion of truth I have. There's almost certainly a lot more to it. One major factor, as explained by another post somewhere else in this thread, is likely the fact that these things often get told to you by people you trust.
You're right about rural areas, of course. Other countries have managed just fine tho, despite being less urbanized. Regardless, you claim that they're the reason for the US slipping down the charts, yet one of the most glaring issues with broadband availability in the country is the ridiculously high costs, even in heavily populated areas. The chart has a reference for the lowest available cost per mbps, and it's way beyond ours. If, as you suggest, this is due to geography and city dwellers not subsidizing the country hicks (which they don't do here either), then how is it that pricing is consistently so high even in major cities with population densities way beyond anything in Finland?
And off on the tangent again, the problem with an absolutely free market for internet connectivity is that without regulation it's prohibitively difficult for new players to enter the market, which leads to massive monopolization and thus isn't free in any way but the strictly laissez-faire one. Supply and demand can't work when supply is controlled by just one company in any given area. Also, why do you think the term laissez-faire as it applies to market economy exists (and is in use) in the first place? Here's a hint: the point of regulation in a free market is not to restrict supply and demand, it's to keep companies from using a position of power to alter them to their own benefit. Regulation, in fact, *keeps* supply and demand from being regulated. Jives rather well with the dictionary (disregarding the point that dictionaries very rarely capture the subtleties of language correctly anyhow) definition, dontcha think?
I realize it's bad form to comment about specific moderations, but *informative*? Oh god.
And how is absolute distance relevant in any way? Obviously the absolute cost of infrastructure will be higher, but it'll cost less per person. You also have a higher GDP, thus could afford *more* per person to do it. That makes it easier, not harder.
Also, by your definition, there is no such thing as a free market in the world right now. However, there are degrees of freedom, and the term is commonly used for markets that are goverment regulated to an extent but where prices are mainly determined by supply and demand. It's not a contradiction of terms if you use the commonly accepted range of freedom rather than the absolute. Obviously if you don't agree with that definition, you're free to do so, have fun railing against the bloody English language for not using words like you want them to be used.
Er, you have to have code for what to show to the user at some point, and as such it's pretty much trivial for a bot to get the same information.
Also, you're misunderstanding the gp completely on the laissez-faire thing, he's not talking about regulation in a laissez-faire market, he's talking about regulation in a free market and how that's different from (and better than) a complete laissez-faire system, thus I don't see how he's trying to redefine anything.