Yeah man, don't be such a douche, think about the environment and use solar powered tools or something. Also get some weed and mellow out, you need it dude.
Did these idiot devs not even consider that Firefox does URL prefetching
No, why should they? This is due to a design (flaw) in Firefox/Mozilla, where it will happy visit anything asked to without the user even knowing about it. I will venture a bet that most users of Firefox/Mozilla doesn't even know about this feature.
One would expect this feature to be present in the privacy or security options, as this article points out, it can be used to grab information without people knowing it (and have been known for years to happen). But it isn't, one have to know about the feature and got to about:config and set network.prefetch-next to false.
Out of curiosity did the links have rel="prefetch"? As this will force Firefox/Mozilla to prefetch, if it didn't it is my understanding that it isn't generally prefetched.
I hope they have learned how to do this properly since they made Battlespire. One "interesting" feature happened when you traded between players as the results were rather random, a good pair of boots could turn into a sword.
Following several years of alcohol and drugs abuse, Mr. Ring Finger snapped one day while scratching the chin. When he refuse to stop choking the throat the police (after several attempts to calm down Mr. Finger) resolved to the use of lethal force, Mr. Finger died on the way to the hospital. He is survived by Mrs. Ring Finger and their two little fingers.
I seriously hope someone is fired or loses a contract over this.
You'll be happy to know that the person responsible have been found. The person in question was described as having unusual bushy eyebrows and speaking in a thick Swedish accent. His last comment about the incident, before being dragged away, was "bork bork bork".
Uhm, I guess someone should tell you this before you get your hopes up too high, you can't really hear 192KHz (and very few speaker and amplifiers can even go that high). I'm afraid to have to do with the old tada.wma.;p
You have mentioned 3 occations where he is not at the computer; sleeping, toilet breaks and stopping to eat ready-meals.
Which leads to some scenarioes that you can put him through. Sleeping pills might seem like a good idea, but in the long run it is expensive and dangerous.
Interestingly the other two options can actually be combined into one, i.e. makeing it so that eating will force him to go to the toilet as often as possible. And your answer here is a good strong laxative. He will now be so busy eating to keep his stomach full and being on the toilet that any attempts to play a MMO will fail. If he should move the computer into the toilet, look into how to shield it against wifi and/or make sure he is always on online voice com.
For you own safety and health: Know where there is a spare toilet you can use. Wait a few days before seran wrapping the toilet.
... It's not that user created content is bad, it's that user created content for an MMO has to be vetted by the developers themselves. Letting users create content with no filter for an MMO is stupid.
Take Saga of Ryzom (which I think is the first MMO which did player created content), they have none of the problems CoH is experiencing. For one simple reason, all items in the content is for missions (i.e. no gear) and no experience can be gained from killing mobs, this lead to the content being story driven or places to meet.
Interesting, how so? Not even clever by a mile. As I see it there are several flaws present.
First of, the firm and the bank can see that the transactions are not normal and can probably work out a deal to minimise the finacial impact.
Secondly, the bank (after being contacted by the laywers) can cancel/reverse all 1 dollar/sek/... payments to the account.
In both the above cases, assuming it is possible to do, it won't really affect the lawyers, but instead office workers at the firm and bank(s). So they are hassling people that have nothing to do directly with the MPAA/RIAA/etc.
And why should the firm even accept these payments anyway, they are not even from TPB. It seems very far fetched that they would even spend the time to process any of them. Most likely they will just box them up and store them away. Who knows, maybe they can even use it to show the character of the people running/using TPB in future cases.
All in all if you want revenge, go after the right target and in a fitting manner. This just makes Gottfrid Svartholm look like a giant douche bag to me, the MPAA/RIAA/... will not be affected by this at all.
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but its not like you need nuclear tools
Yeah man, don't be such a douche, think about the environment and use solar powered tools or something. Also get some weed and mellow out, you need it dude.
It is their standard response time of 2/3 of a year, so 0.6*12 months which is equal to 7 months. ;P
Did these idiot devs not even consider that Firefox does URL prefetching
No, why should they? This is due to a design (flaw) in Firefox/Mozilla, where it will happy visit anything asked to without the user even knowing about it. I will venture a bet that most users of Firefox/Mozilla doesn't even know about this feature.
One would expect this feature to be present in the privacy or security options, as this article points out, it can be used to grab information without people knowing it (and have been known for years to happen). But it isn't, one have to know about the feature and got to about:config and set network.prefetch-next to false.
Out of curiosity did the links have rel="prefetch"? As this will force Firefox/Mozilla to prefetch, if it didn't it is my understanding that it isn't generally prefetched.
Google Readying To Pull Out of China
Get ready for the money shot!
I hope they have learned how to do this properly since they made Battlespire. One "interesting" feature happened when you traded between players as the results were rather random, a good pair of boots could turn into a sword.
I knew it, Yoda was a Forth programmer!
Your ring finger will get over the neglect.
Following several years of alcohol and drugs abuse, Mr. Ring Finger snapped one day while scratching the chin. When he refuse to stop choking the throat the police (after several attempts to calm down Mr. Finger) resolved to the use of lethal force, Mr. Finger died on the way to the hospital. He is survived by Mrs. Ring Finger and their two little fingers.
If you can't give a woman orgasms with a Magic Wand, you need to adjust your drool cup.
Or just stop putting on your wizard robe and hat.
Some trackers do have a (completed) download counter. Not that I would trust that number much either as a statistic.
I wonder who will be first to abuse this. Spammers, crackers or politicians sending messages during elections or when polls are low.
I seriously hope someone is fired or loses a contract over this.
You'll be happy to know that the person responsible have been found. The person in question was described as having unusual bushy eyebrows and speaking in a thick Swedish accent. His last comment about the incident, before being dragged away, was "bork bork bork".
Windows 7 launch party confirms it, timecube is real science.
She could make a fortune writing them for kids now!
Fatty acids? That is great news for all the overweight junkies, now they will be paid to do drugs and given free acid while on work at the farms! ;P
To be honest I was hoping for/expecting a usability test for disabled people. If it useless for them, any other usability test seems a bit moot.
it's now widely known that the first movie's plot was actually stolen from another author, Sophia Stewart
A quick look on the net bears another story, Snopes is a good place to start.
Other than that, you are spot on.
Don't get a backup wife!
It will hurt you in the long run, both financial and physically (besides it is illegal in some countries). Backup is only a good idea for data.
And the kitten litters come pre-measured in the metric system for your convenience!
Uhm, I guess someone should tell you this before you get your hopes up too high, you can't really hear 192KHz (and very few speaker and amplifiers can even go that high). I'm afraid to have to do with the old tada.wma. ;p
Is that in normal or Verizon dollars? :p
... the guy used a signal wand to find it.
One would have expected Harry Potter to get a less mundane job.
Great, maybe we can now get the answer to what an android experince when it goes into sleep mode. :P
You have mentioned 3 occations where he is not at the computer; sleeping, toilet breaks and stopping to eat ready-meals.
Which leads to some scenarioes that you can put him through. Sleeping pills might seem like a good idea, but in the long run it is expensive and dangerous.
Interestingly the other two options can actually be combined into one, i.e. makeing it so that eating will force him to go to the toilet as often as possible. And your answer here is a good strong laxative. He will now be so busy eating to keep his stomach full and being on the toilet that any attempts to play a MMO will fail. If he should move the computer into the toilet, look into how to shield it against wifi and/or make sure he is always on online voice com.
For you own safety and health:
Know where there is a spare toilet you can use.
Wait a few days before seran wrapping the toilet.
... It's not that user created content is bad, it's that user created content for an MMO has to be vetted by the developers themselves. Letting users create content with no filter for an MMO is stupid.
Take Saga of Ryzom (which I think is the first MMO which did player created content), they have none of the problems CoH is experiencing. For one simple reason, all items in the content is for missions (i.e. no gear) and no experience can be gained from killing mobs, this lead to the content being story driven or places to meet.
Interesting, how so? Not even clever by a mile. As I see it there are several flaws present.
First of, the firm and the bank can see that the transactions are not normal and can probably work out a deal to minimise the finacial impact.
Secondly, the bank (after being contacted by the laywers) can cancel/reverse all 1 dollar/sek/... payments to the account.
In both the above cases, assuming it is possible to do, it won't really affect the lawyers, but instead office workers at the firm and bank(s). So they are hassling people that have nothing to do directly with the MPAA/RIAA/etc.
And why should the firm even accept these payments anyway, they are not even from TPB. It seems very far fetched that they would even spend the time to process any of them. Most likely they will just box them up and store them away. Who knows, maybe they can even use it to show the character of the people running/using TPB in future cases.
All in all if you want revenge, go after the right target and in a fitting manner. This just makes Gottfrid Svartholm look like a giant douche bag to me, the MPAA/RIAA/... will not be affected by this at all.