Make him travel around the country, on his own nickel, and apologize in person to every individual he spammed. Each said individual gets one swing at'em.:P
A few rows up from the Enterprise video link (on that main page), there's a video for another plane that looks suspiciously like the Valkyrie fighter out of the old Macross anime series. Sucker flew pretty dang well too.
...though it may have just been alcohol, not drugs. The MUD was called "Armageddon", it was based off some old D&D-based novels, set in a desert. (I don't recall the name of the book series.)
I recall bumping into another character in a town, and everything he said came out on my end as garbled, and he would 'stagger around' i.e. he'd try to go north and would go east instead, etc. The effects would wear off in time. I don't think they had any sort of addiction built into the system.
Most of the time, the people complaining would just like the game to be changed in some way, and these feelings are usually shared by the majority.
Majority of the forum posters, perhaps, but not necessarily a majority of the customer base. Only a small fraction of any game's customer base are regular forum posters, and that small fraction tends to be the loudest/whiniest.
That was the main bit, yeah. But as it turns out, an employee there at the time was associated with the Legion of Doom hacker group - some of which were the folks who got a copy of Bellsouth's E911 document, which Bellsouth tried to claim was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars (basically by adding up all of the man-hours logged, AND the cost of every computer used to type the thing up). Operation Sun Devil (which the SJG raid was a part of) was primarily focused on this issue, IIRC.
The funny bits I remember about that whole episode was SJG telling the SS guy "This is a game" and the guy insisting "No, this is real."
...from *dying* in case they do decide to do 7/8/9, like, thirty years from now?:P
That 7/8/9 appearance requirement is probably, like others have said, the studio hedging their bets. Lucas said a good while back he wasn't going to do a sequel trilogy. But, who knows - he may let others run with it at some point.
Hah. Did you see the "Lowdown" on Sci-Fi for BG? Basically one of those behind-the-scenes/making-of type shows. They had Sackhoff (new Starbuck) sitting with Benedict (old Starbuck) in a... well... Starbucks Coffee.
Benedict is NOT looking good these days. The years have not been kind.
I imagine they'll show the Lowdown show again sometime soon, maybe even Sunday when they re-broadcast the two parts.
The big battle would have made a good seperate episode or movie, if not for the fact that the humans were totally ass-raped by the Cylons. Lots of explosions and people screaming "WTF" but not a lot of heroics.
They made mention of a bunch of other battlestars, and them all getting destroyed. There was the scene with Boomer and the guy-who-stays-behind flying into Caprica in the disabled Raptor, flying through all the debris, and you could make out the shapes of other battlestars floating around in pieces.
'reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems'
Couldn't Diebold et al do this themselves better - by simply making better products?:P
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where the guy has inherited a mess of string...
Unless you're talking about the two kids who *did* the killing (who had guns) having better aim, and hence, not killing folks they didn't mean to kill. Still a jackass comment.
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Keanu gets all the data locked in his head, and the password is a series of images...
...as far as the spamming goes -
:P
Make him travel around the country, on his own nickel, and apologize in person to every individual he spammed. Each said individual gets one swing at'em.
A few rows up from the Enterprise video link (on that main page), there's a video for another plane that looks suspiciously like the Valkyrie fighter out of the old Macross anime series. Sucker flew pretty dang well too.
Yah, but did you watch Richter on that show? (The Daily Show, FYI) He came across as a complete idiot.
This debate is going to be akin to Richter bringing a knife to a gunfight.
...though it may have just been alcohol, not drugs. The MUD was called "Armageddon", it was based off some old D&D-based novels, set in a desert. (I don't recall the name of the book series.)
I recall bumping into another character in a town, and everything he said came out on my end as garbled, and he would 'stagger around' i.e. he'd try to go north and would go east instead, etc. The effects would wear off in time. I don't think they had any sort of addiction built into the system.
Isn't that how the MCP got started in "Tron"... something... small...?
:)
It's time to nip this one in the bud! Before it's too late!!!
Shaaka - when he posted anonymously on /.
Eh, it may have been '88 in the sig. It's been a while, I put that date in the above post from fuzzy memory.
:P
I *did* research the earliest mention of IRC usage before I started using the sig back in the day, if that helps mollify you.
..."IRC: Making megalomaniacs out of little boys since 1985" :P
They are famous for nothing.
I wouldn't say "giving away several million dollars" is nothing...
I would, however, compare this to corporations buying naming rights to sports arenas and the like.
...who went to high school with these two people, brother and sister. The guy's name was Chip, the girl's name was Cookie.
The dog's name was Chocolate.
I shit thee not.
Most of the time, the people complaining would just like the game to be changed in some way, and these feelings are usually shared by the majority.
Majority of the forum posters, perhaps, but not necessarily a majority of the customer base. Only a small fraction of any game's customer base are regular forum posters, and that small fraction tends to be the loudest/whiniest.
DoubleClick says that it is 'developing technology that will enable pop-up ads to evade the blocking software.'
In other news, burlgars are developing new technology to evade locks.
Because, you know, the consumer is NEVER right.
That was the main bit, yeah. But as it turns out, an employee there at the time was associated with the Legion of Doom hacker group - some of which were the folks who got a copy of Bellsouth's E911 document, which Bellsouth tried to claim was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars (basically by adding up all of the man-hours logged, AND the cost of every computer used to type the thing up). Operation Sun Devil (which the SJG raid was a part of) was primarily focused on this issue, IIRC.
The funny bits I remember about that whole episode was SJG telling the SS guy "This is a game" and the guy insisting "No, this is real."
(from the kitchen)
AM I DRUNK YET????
*laugh*
...from *dying* in case they do decide to do 7/8/9, like, thirty years from now? :P
That 7/8/9 appearance requirement is probably, like others have said, the studio hedging their bets. Lucas said a good while back he wasn't going to do a sequel trilogy. But, who knows - he may let others run with it at some point.
Yah. Old Baltar = just plain evil, yawn. New Baltar = very self-oriented, "looking out for no. 1".
:P
The zoomy-fx shots got to me after a bit. Kind of vomit-inducing. Very much like what they did in Firefly.
And the mini was two parts... McDonald was still there.
Hah. Did you see the "Lowdown" on Sci-Fi for BG? Basically one of those behind-the-scenes/making-of type shows. They had Sackhoff (new Starbuck) sitting with Benedict (old Starbuck) in a... well... Starbucks Coffee.
Benedict is NOT looking good these days. The years have not been kind.
I imagine they'll show the Lowdown show again sometime soon, maybe even Sunday when they re-broadcast the two parts.
The big battle would have made a good seperate episode or movie, if not for the fact that the humans were totally ass-raped by the Cylons. Lots of explosions and people screaming "WTF" but not a lot of heroics.
"Frack" was the f-word replacement in the original series, 25 yrs ago. Just another small carryover from days gone by. :P
They made mention of a bunch of other battlestars, and them all getting destroyed. There was the scene with Boomer and the guy-who-stays-behind flying into Caprica in the disabled Raptor, flying through all the debris, and you could make out the shapes of other battlestars floating around in pieces.
...conclusively proved that "War of the Worlds" was indeed real. :P
'reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems'
:P
Couldn't Diebold et al do this themselves better - by simply making better products?
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where the guy has inherited a mess of string...
Unless you're talking about the two kids who *did* the killing (who had guns) having better aim, and hence, not killing folks they didn't mean to kill. Still a jackass comment.
"At least fewer people will be killed inadvertently the next time a Columbine happens. The kids will have better aim."
What kind of jackass comment is that? The kids killed at Columbine *didn't have guns*.