Yes. And it sucked. Players and DMs had to be very careful or you'd TPK before anyone got to 2nd level. PCs were so fragile you couldn't role-play because you can't waste emotional energy becoming attached to a character that was probably going to die before the end of the session.
The solution was building characters that started at level 5, or thereabouts. So 3rd and now 4th edition are just being honest and getting rid of the 1st-4th levels that sucked to play, sucked to DM, and actively encouraged min-maxing and not roleplaying.
I'm a little disappointed. Yeah, I got a few chuckles out of it.
But I was hoping for more of something like "This work is important because it was the first use of x" where x is a technique that is then explained in mathematical detail. Or "this looks good because of the use of negative space which happens to be expressable as the function y".
It is still only works on Windows with Internet Explorer. I have to assume Apple's solution will work on my Macs running OS X.
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Your example is only valid for retail items that are essentially commodities.
No one gives a shit if they have to buy no-brand plastic containers instead of Ziploc-brand plastic containers.
But people do care about the difference between a recording of Beethoven's 5th by the Berlin Philharmoniker on Deutsche Grammaphon (recorded and engineered by experts) versus a recording by Pudunk Symphony on Budget Classic Hits! (recorded and engineered by Pudunk State college students).
I mean, retailers can't replace the latest Hannah Montana album with something else. Recording personalities are not commodities.
OMG, Amazon is tracking Kindle users' physical locations via GPS!
It seems there is a location capability (GPS?) in the CDMA module. I cannot check it as I'm not in USA but the following shortcuts are programmed inside the browser. Alt-1 show current location in google maps Alt-2 find gas station nearby Alt-3 find restaurants nearby Alt-4 request department of homeland security respond to current location to investigate suspicious brown-skinned person Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby Alt-D dump debug info to the log and toggle highlight default item Alt-Z toggle zone drawing and show log
For the record, I've never had any problem canceling. Just called their 800 number, told the operator I wanted to cancel, was transfered to a nice young woman who simply asked me why I was canceling for quality improvement purposes, and turned it off.
I do get the occasional email, maybe three times since canceling last year, asking me to re-subscribe.
The only thing good ECMA is widely known for is ECMAscript. I'll assume everyone here knows that is Javascript (a.k.a. ECMA-262, ratified in 1999; 56-63 years ago in Internet Years). Otherwise, all ECMA is knowing for is taking Microsoft's money and then bending over.
By this point ECMA should have as much pull with sovereign governments (and the populaces that grant them power) as the hand written standard for communicating standards via written language I have here beside me that I just wrote.
That stupidity such as what is demonstrated here persists demonstrates the failure of geeks. I am a geek (for evidence, just ask my long suffering wife who succumbed to my deceit during the two years in college when I became "preppy" and thin to attract a mate; she has since mostly succumbed to the charms and advantages of marrying a smart person who isn't a cover model [such charms consist mostly of being able to fix broken things and provide enough comedic relief to save $50-$150/month on cable TV. Also, as Revenge of the Nerds taught us, we're great at sex because we think about it all the time.) and it is to my personal shame that Microsoft still has a monopoly on desktop operating systems and electronic document formats.
Geeks! learn how to talk to people and convince them that your position is the correct one. THIS will be the most challenging yet rewarding effort of you life. This is our World War II.
Doctorow is our Churchill. Lessig is our Roosevelt (the crippled one). I don't know who our Stalin is, but we're probably better off without him.
A meme is beginning to grow that asks what have we done to live up to the precedent set by our grandparents?
This will be the legacy we leave to our grandchildren (assuming we as a group learn how to convince the opposite sex to allow us to copulate with them in order to have grandchildren).
I always imagined slashdot ran on hundreds (perhaps thousands) of modded Dreamcast consoles powered by lucky, randomly selected registered users running in hamster wheels who were lured by blocks of Wisconsin cheese dangling just out of reach.
Thanks for destroying my sense of childlike wonder, you insensitive clods!
The kernel hasn't been Windows's problem since NT 4.
The real problem is the middle-management clusterfuck. The direct result of which is the bizarro world of Windows the platform and its zillion libraries and APIs that have subtle (and not so subtle, but probably undocumented) incompatibilities.
Microsoft's own devs can't figure that shit out and they've been trying since XP. It has only become worse since they shoved all the digital restrictions management into the system.
Feel safe with your applications. A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity. All applications shipped with Leopard are signed by Apple, and third-party software developers can also sign their applications.
How does the third-party software signing work? How does this make a Mac safer? How does it prevent malicious software developers from signing their software and making it look nice and pretty?
Security is a subset of IT, and IT as a whole is not a profit-center...
Wow. That is so incredibly absofuckinglutely wrong I almost didn't post a reply.
Welcome to Earth post digital computers. Where have you been for the past almost-a-century?
Information technology is a source of efficiency and innovation. Both of those drive profits. IT doesn't come without risks, however. Mitigating those risks is IT security.
IT security isn't really part of IT, even though it's usually placed in the same department of the org chart and in the same budget. It is a part of the insurance package every business owns.
Flying Spaghetti Monster, I love surveys and statistics. I've worked in internal security for the past couple years at a big accounting firm and as a security consultant for many years before this.
Everyone knows they should be doing more to stay secure, but that fact is security doesn't do anything obviously positive for the bottom line. It's like flossing: most people floss when they have some chicken stuck between their molars but they don't do it every night. (Little tip for everyone trying to get money for security: give up on ROI; sell it like you're selling an insurance policy.)
When CIOs or CISOs get these surveys they fluff the numbers because they know they are supposed to be secure even if they have a hard time justifying security spending to the Board. "Oh yeah, we spent $X on Security. That's about 15-25% of our IT budget." What they don't say is that number includes the payroll (including salary, benefits, and payroll taxes) of all IT staff that have anything to do with security, audit, or regulatory compliance.
Contrast that with asking them what they spent on email they'd probably tell you about their Exchange license fees and maybe some server hardware. They'll leave out staffing costs, retention software and SAN, etc.
My guess is that the average IT budget is spending maybe -- MAYBE -- 10% on security, audit, and compliance related expenses.
I will admit here that I didn't RTFA. If the survey population was mostly US-based publicly traded companies that fall under SOX regulations the 20% number is a tiny bit more believable because CFOs and CEOs don't want to go to jail based on a fuckup by a minimum wage (in their frame of reference) IT staffer.
It is great news that established artists are able to leave the big labels behind.
But has any music artist achieved anything like their success without the marketing power of a major label behind them?
I do understand that making enough money by playing music to have a decent standard of living and support a family should be enough for a real artist.
But is there even a remote possibility for an independent artist to win the lottery and make it to the big time without a major label?
If this has happened already, please enlighten me because I've missed it (I know who NIN and Radiohead are, but haven't heard of any, so you have some serious convincing to do.)
We use Utimaco SafeGuard Easy and we also bypass pre-boot authentication (PBA).
The problem is a company may have thousands of laptops in the wild and Active Directory passwords that expire every 90 days. Because the PBA credentials aren't integrated with AD that means you have a nightmare password management situation. Utimaco does provide a server to try to alleviate this problem, but it's still a major management pain.
It's true that by default the PBA bypass key gets stored obfuscated but in plain text on the hard drive if you bypass PBA. But if you have a modern computer with a trusted platform module (TPM) you can configure SafeGuard Easy to store the key there. You can also bind the hard drive to that particular TPM chip so that it is unaccessible if attached to another computer. http://americas.utimaco.com/safeguard_easy/manual_v430/1-245.html
I've been reading since '98, but didn't create an account for ages.
I finally had to create an account because the signal to noise ratio became so bad I needed to set my viewing threshold permanently at +3. I think I've read the same in many of these type of threads.
(BTW, IMHO the best way to read Slashdot is with comments nested and threaded, with the threshold set at least to +3, and with simple design, low bandwidth, and no icons set in your preferences.)
I have read in several places on the web, including in the comments here at/., that the reason the iPhone is closed is to prevent the development and widespread use of a VoiP app.
In light of this article, here is my questions: do VoiP apps exist for these other phones? If so, are such apps widely used? If not, why not?
Has a VoiP app been written for hacked iphones? If not, why not?
I have no experience with either the iphone or unlocked gsm phones that allow third-party development because I'm on Verizon. (They are the only network provider with decent coverage over the vast swathes of non-urban areas that make up the majority of where I need a mobile phone in the US.)
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Yes. And it sucked. Players and DMs had to be very careful or you'd TPK before anyone got to 2nd level. PCs were so fragile you couldn't role-play because you can't waste emotional energy becoming attached to a character that was probably going to die before the end of the session.
The solution was building characters that started at level 5, or thereabouts. So 3rd and now 4th edition are just being honest and getting rid of the 1st-4th levels that sucked to play, sucked to DM, and actively encouraged min-maxing and not roleplaying.
I personally prefer Savage and now Savage 2.
Same basic concept, though NS is based on Half Life while Savage was developed independently.
And it can be really frustrating if your commander doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
This looks good too, by the same author:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300052413/
Thanks for the tip. I just put it on my Amazon wishlist. (I blew my entertainment budget for January about two weeks ago!)
I'm a little disappointed. Yeah, I got a few chuckles out of it.
But I was hoping for more of something like "This work is important because it was the first use of x" where x is a technique that is then explained in mathematical detail. Or "this looks good because of the use of negative space which happens to be expressable as the function y".
It is still only works on Windows with Internet Explorer. I have to assume Apple's solution will work on my Macs running OS X.
Your example is only valid for retail items that are essentially commodities.
No one gives a shit if they have to buy no-brand plastic containers instead of Ziploc-brand plastic containers.
But people do care about the difference between a recording of Beethoven's 5th by the Berlin Philharmoniker on Deutsche Grammaphon (recorded and engineered by experts) versus a recording by Pudunk Symphony on Budget Classic Hits! (recorded and engineered by Pudunk State college students).
I mean, retailers can't replace the latest Hannah Montana album with something else. Recording personalities are not commodities.
Alt-1 show current location in google maps
Alt-2 find gas station nearby
Alt-3 find restaurants nearby
Alt-4 request department of homeland security respond to current location to investigate suspicious brown-skinned person
Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby
Alt-D dump debug info to the log and toggle highlight default item
Alt-Z toggle zone drawing and show log
What bitrate is necessary for H.264 to look as good as MPEG-2 off a DVD?
I'm asking because when that bitrate is available as residential Internet speeds we'll finally see downloadable movies begin to replace DVDs.
For the record, I've never had any problem canceling. Just called their 800 number, told the operator I wanted to cancel, was transfered to a nice young woman who simply asked me why I was canceling for quality improvement purposes, and turned it off.
I do get the occasional email, maybe three times since canceling last year, asking me to re-subscribe.
How does this increase Sun's revenues? Insanity.
That list was compiled early in 2007. Mr. Slim was declared the richest man on Earth in August: http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/03/news/international/carlosslim.fortune/
The only thing good ECMA is widely known for is ECMAscript. I'll assume everyone here knows that is Javascript (a.k.a. ECMA-262, ratified in 1999; 56-63 years ago in Internet Years). Otherwise, all ECMA is knowing for is taking Microsoft's money and then bending over.
By this point ECMA should have as much pull with sovereign governments (and the populaces that grant them power) as the hand written standard for communicating standards via written language I have here beside me that I just wrote.
That stupidity such as what is demonstrated here persists demonstrates the failure of geeks. I am a geek (for evidence, just ask my long suffering wife who succumbed to my deceit during the two years in college when I became "preppy" and thin to attract a mate; she has since mostly succumbed to the charms and advantages of marrying a smart person who isn't a cover model [such charms consist mostly of being able to fix broken things and provide enough comedic relief to save $50-$150/month on cable TV. Also, as Revenge of the Nerds taught us, we're great at sex because we think about it all the time.) and it is to my personal shame that Microsoft still has a monopoly on desktop operating systems and electronic document formats.
Geeks! learn how to talk to people and convince them that your position is the correct one. THIS will be the most challenging yet rewarding effort of you life. This is our World War II.
Doctorow is our Churchill. Lessig is our Roosevelt (the crippled one). I don't know who our Stalin is, but we're probably better off without him.
A meme is beginning to grow that asks what have we done to live up to the precedent set by our grandparents?
This will be the legacy we leave to our grandchildren (assuming we as a group learn how to convince the opposite sex to allow us to copulate with them in order to have grandchildren).
And that someone is Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world.
I always imagined slashdot ran on hundreds (perhaps thousands) of modded Dreamcast consoles powered by lucky, randomly selected registered users running in hamster wheels who were lured by blocks of Wisconsin cheese dangling just out of reach.
Thanks for destroying my sense of childlike wonder, you insensitive clods!
The kernel hasn't been Windows's problem since NT 4.
The real problem is the middle-management clusterfuck. The direct result of which is the bizarro world of Windows the platform and its zillion libraries and APIs that have subtle (and not so subtle, but probably undocumented) incompatibilities.
Microsoft's own devs can't figure that shit out and they've been trying since XP. It has only become worse since they shoved all the digital restrictions management into the system.
From the fine article:
Signed Applications
Feel safe with your applications. A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity. All applications shipped with Leopard are signed by Apple, and third-party software developers can also sign their applications.
How does the third-party software signing work? How does this make a Mac safer? How does it prevent malicious software developers from signing their software and making it look nice and pretty?
Security is a subset of IT, and IT as a whole is not a profit-center ...
Wow. That is so incredibly absofuckinglutely wrong I almost didn't post a reply.
Welcome to Earth post digital computers. Where have you been for the past almost-a-century?
Information technology is a source of efficiency and innovation. Both of those drive profits. IT doesn't come without risks, however. Mitigating those risks is IT security.
IT security isn't really part of IT, even though it's usually placed in the same department of the org chart and in the same budget. It is a part of the insurance package every business owns.
hahahahahaha!
Twenty percent...
Oh, that's rich. Oh my. Oh. Hoo!
Flying Spaghetti Monster, I love surveys and statistics. I've worked in internal security for the past couple years at a big accounting firm and as a security consultant for many years before this.
Everyone knows they should be doing more to stay secure, but that fact is security doesn't do anything obviously positive for the bottom line. It's like flossing: most people floss when they have some chicken stuck between their molars but they don't do it every night. (Little tip for everyone trying to get money for security: give up on ROI; sell it like you're selling an insurance policy.)
When CIOs or CISOs get these surveys they fluff the numbers because they know they are supposed to be secure even if they have a hard time justifying security spending to the Board. "Oh yeah, we spent $X on Security. That's about 15-25% of our IT budget." What they don't say is that number includes the payroll (including salary, benefits, and payroll taxes) of all IT staff that have anything to do with security, audit, or regulatory compliance.
Contrast that with asking them what they spent on email they'd probably tell you about their Exchange license fees and maybe some server hardware. They'll leave out staffing costs, retention software and SAN, etc.
My guess is that the average IT budget is spending maybe -- MAYBE -- 10% on security, audit, and compliance related expenses.
I will admit here that I didn't RTFA. If the survey population was mostly US-based publicly traded companies that fall under SOX regulations the 20% number is a tiny bit more believable because CFOs and CEOs don't want to go to jail based on a fuckup by a minimum wage (in their frame of reference) IT staffer.
Ah, didn't realize they were indie. I'm a big fan and they're doing pretty well, so I guess they count.
It is great news that established artists are able to leave the big labels behind.
But has any music artist achieved anything like their success without the marketing power of a major label behind them?
I do understand that making enough money by playing music to have a decent standard of living and support a family should be enough for a real artist.
But is there even a remote possibility for an independent artist to win the lottery and make it to the big time without a major label?
If this has happened already, please enlighten me because I've missed it (I know who NIN and Radiohead are, but haven't heard of any, so you have some serious convincing to do.)
We use Utimaco SafeGuard Easy and we also bypass pre-boot authentication (PBA).
The problem is a company may have thousands of laptops in the wild and Active Directory passwords that expire every 90 days. Because the PBA credentials aren't integrated with AD that means you have a nightmare password management situation. Utimaco does provide a server to try to alleviate this problem, but it's still a major management pain.
It's true that by default the PBA bypass key gets stored obfuscated but in plain text on the hard drive if you bypass PBA. But if you have a modern computer with a trusted platform module (TPM) you can configure SafeGuard Easy to store the key there. You can also bind the hard drive to that particular TPM chip so that it is unaccessible if attached to another computer.
http://americas.utimaco.com/safeguard_easy/manual_v430/1-245.html
I've been reading since '98, but didn't create an account for ages.
I finally had to create an account because the signal to noise ratio became so bad I needed to set my viewing threshold permanently at +3. I think I've read the same in many of these type of threads.
(BTW, IMHO the best way to read Slashdot is with comments nested and threaded, with the threshold set at least to +3, and with simple design, low bandwidth, and no icons set in your preferences.)
I have read in several places on the web, including in the comments here at /., that the reason the iPhone is closed is to prevent the development and widespread use of a VoiP app.
In light of this article, here is my questions: do VoiP apps exist for these other phones? If so, are such apps widely used? If not, why not?
Has a VoiP app been written for hacked iphones? If not, why not?
I have no experience with either the iphone or unlocked gsm phones that allow third-party development because I'm on Verizon. (They are the only network provider with decent coverage over the vast swathes of non-urban areas that make up the majority of where I need a mobile phone in the US.)
http://bash.org/?104383