This is probably the only painless way to curtail online cheating. Even matchmaking systems that put people amongst those with the same 'skill' will miss cheaters who are either really bad, or ones who don't cheat all the time and thus are in a lower skill bracket.
Why do I say painless? At the end of the day... it's a game console that plays blu-rays. I'm not ordering things online (save for the PSN) or logging in to my bank accounts or email on it. If something hacks my PSN account and buys a bunch of crap, chances are I wouldn't be the only one and it would be rectified via a class action or my credit card company's fraud department in short order. If it somehow manages to do something to the other machines behind my router, then shame on me for not securing them properly. The worst I could think of is it activating the wifi card and attempting to sniff the wireless nearby, but I've never given it the WPA key and wireless "security" is forfeit to begin with.
In any case there seems to be a ton of FUD spreading regarding this. They could have just as easily built that function in on day 1 and this would be a non-story.
It depends. If you use the guest account all of what you say is true. However if you are unable to connect to battle.net (no network connection, down for maintenance, etc) you will be able to "login" locally with your ID and play single player vs AI, challenge maps, etc...
The pope said there was "a Christian way of being present in the digital world: this takes the form of a communication which is honest and open, responsible and respectful of others."
If people would actually follow this it would increase the quality of the discourse on the internet. Regardless of what you think of the religion, this is a good thing.
And why must every Catholic article get the same tired pedophile priest jokes? There's no more pedophile priests than there are pedophile psychiatrists, teachers, and scout masters out there.
Regardless of the truthfulness of that thread, I had a HTC WinMobile phone for 3 years before switching to the Samsung Moment. Lets just say... if it weren't for all the community support (custom ROMs, m900-only implementations of tethering, flashlight and other important root apps) I would have jumped ship within the 14 day "grace period". The stock ROM had a bug where the sensor would lock the screen when you put it to your ear. This created a two-step game: 1. To turn the screen back on, sometimes you would need to hit the on button... which is also the 'end call' button. So if the sensor decides your face is no longer there as you hit the button to turn the screen on, you hang up. 2. Lets say you win that bet. Now in order to enter numbers (say you're using a touch tone menu) you needed to double tap on the phone icon in the middle... which sometimes resulted in you pressing 5.
Repeat this process every time you put the phone to your ear to hear the menus. Sprint was useless regarding fixing this - The Update to 2.1 did fix #2, however, in that at the very least the interface unlocks with sliding instead of double tapping. It still blanks out though, which causes the same end call button dilemma.
Apparently 2.2 is even better in that you can set an inactivity timeout independent of the timeout for the screen blanking out for when it "locks". So I would be able to turn the screen on and off and I wouldn't need to slide / enter the password every time. However there will never be official support for this, which makes me sad.
Next phone is definitely not going to be a Samsung. I have to find one that doesn't use the 'end call' button as the 'screen on' button. Several important incoming calls have been lost due to me hitting it to turn it on to check the time as the call came in.
Read the links. The D link router there is most consumer friendly. What it does is prevent one person from slowing down everyone's internet, by allowing you to set priorties. If everyone has the same priority it is divided evenly, or you could chose to lower the priority of his devices so that whenever you are using the internet, his slows down but not the reverse.
Please, don't impose your will on the rest of the users on your ISP just because you are not competent enough to set up your own QoS. It could be technical based (ie: Fancy router, linux router, software on his pc), or it could be as simple as unplugging his ethernet cable/blocking his mac whenever the internet slows down for you. Do that a few times and he'll start running his downloads when no one else is on.
Ads do not waste your time, and help pay for the site you are visiting, so not using adblocking makes perfect sense. I don't use it either (but noscript/flashblock is great for avoiding 'talkie' ads, which disrupt my workflow).
But skip screen simply avoids the annoyances put in place by the download sites to get you to subscribe to their service. But if you have no intention of ever subscribing, not using skipscreen simply wastes your time. It's not like you are discovering some new product or service, or helping fund the site by waiting 45 seconds.
It's about trying things out. A CD's presence on a shelf doesn't make it any easier to try before buying, the online song samples do. But, you need to actually see/touch a piece of furniture to see if its suitable.
A good example is things with drawers. If you plan on putting heavy things in drawers, you'll want to see how sturdy the bottom is, and you can't do that based purely on pictures.
The New York subway in 2001 decided to test a new service pattern by running rush hour levels of service on a Sunday morning with a new pattern. After they found the problems with the pattern (congestion, delays), they repeated the test a few months later with a tweaked pattern, which ended up going into 'production'.
This type of test will help push ISPs and network managers to find where the problems lie in their IPv6 implementation and hopefully give them time to correct them.
After 235 years it seems the militias are the greater threat. You really need to go back and re-read your history. The history books are full of this stuff.
Eliminate the right to bear arms and thus the militias, and the government no longer has any fear of a militia uprising. Then they can do anything they want without limit, and there is no recourse by the people. It is the final "check" of checks and balances. There are all kinds of ways the government can slowly strangle the population... it's already happening, simply compare what we are free to do now to what was freely allowed in the 1800s, the taxes, etc. That timeline could be sped up nicely if there was no chance of a large, armed group of civilians storming the Capitol. Tax the middle class to the point where everyone is on food stamps, all anyone can do is throw rocks as the military fires at them with weapons paid for by those tax dollars...
+Informative! If I am understanding it correctly this arrangement would actually hurt the military and other government pension systems if USPS were to reduce staffing...
Ah yes, animation, probably the best hope real scifi has left. Unlike live action, two aliens talking on a space ship costs the same as two guys talking in a kitchen. A battle using advanced weaponry or psychic powers costs only slightly more than a good fistfight or car chase.
But unlike Japan, the US has an aversion for animation being used for anything other than comedy or kids' shows. Even Stargate Infinity was targeted for young audiences and aired in a kids' block.
Gin had greatly improved the atmosphere on there... god forbid anyone on this show can actually be *happy* for a little while. Reminds me of the fail that was Buffy season 6, a contest to see who could get into a more depressing situation. Without her, Eli is like Harper on Andromeda... the genius who ends up forever alone.
I'd counter this with Roswell... a show even more emo than SG:U, and with (what appears to be) a similar target audience, saved by fan pressure (and lots of bottles of Tabasco sauce).
Still, network TV is a different beast than cable...
Time Warner out here just rolled out "extreme" internet, which for $10/month more gave me 30/5 instead of 15/1. This is a fairly recent development, too. Maybe other ISPs have stagnated (even FiOs has no plans to expand into our area), but Time Warner seems to be decent enough. As I'm fairly certain my city of pop 100,000 is not one of those two cities you are speaking of, so perhaps other places have seen improvement as well?
So you'd favor shutting down one of the greatest advances in technology purely on the grounds that the auxilliary effects would be expensive?
Where did I say that? I'm guessing reading comprehension is not your strong suit. I was simply speculating that there are *a lot* of interests that would rather this technology never see the light of day for that reason, as the expense is astronomical. Think about subway systems, hospitals, college campuses, any corporate office building. Anyone with a vested interest in keeping these places secure would support any initiative that would kill it. Just look at any non-residential door you see throughout the course of your day: all of those would need a lock upgrade. Otherwise any janitor at these places could start a side business of selling keys to restricted areas in these buildings. A terminated employee would retain access. Wouldn't matter if the blanks are rare or the key chain is welded shut and they have to turn it in at the end of their shift; all someone'd need is the opportunity to take a good enough picture of the key and a little time with some CAD software.
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned this yet. A lot of keys who's primary copy protection is specialized blanks would suddenly become as easy to copy as a standard house key. Sure integrating an electronic component would deter that, but that's many billions of locks that would need to be upgraded. I wouldn't be surprised if this is killed on some shaky legal grounds as it is an opportunity for an easy-out from this problem.
A train is much less of a target though. You can't hijack it and take it anywhere, you can't easily kill all persons aboard. They certainly *could* screen it but at that point a shopping mall or the TSA screening line would become a better target.
Europe and Asia aren't paranoid about their HSR networks (well at least not Asia), why should we be? If screening does happen it would be from inertia; people would be used to getting molested in order to get from A to B quickly, and would feel wrong if that experience was missing from the journey.
Amtrak works too... sometimes it takes a while longer to get from A to B but, you might be able to get away with it for a company trip if it is (1) cheaper than flying and (2) your "dead time" is at least partially outside business hours. Since you get an outlet and are always allowed to use a cell phone, you can get a good chunk of work done while en route.
The solution is simple then: those areas keep the 8-2 system, and pedestrian friendly areas try out the 10-5. Or even just private schools. The statistics that come from this experiment would show whether or not there is a meaningful difference.
If 10-5 is shown to work it would be another incentive to write off middle-of-nowhere developments and move somewhere more pedestrian friendly.
A third option would be to have some before-school activities. Or some exercise first thing in the morning wouldn't be horrible. Or drop 'em off at 8 for a 2 hour free period. Plenty of time to finish up that homework they never started.
If you're ever visiting Europe or Japan, you'll get just such an option. Of course, to use it here you're limited to T-Mobile and AT&T, and good luck using the warranty...
Not even, just give their board members "bonuses" of $5k with the implication that it should go to the party of choice... Unless the total donation from individuals cannot be > $5000.
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This is probably the only painless way to curtail online cheating. Even matchmaking systems that put people amongst those with the same 'skill' will miss cheaters who are either really bad, or ones who don't cheat all the time and thus are in a lower skill bracket.
Why do I say painless? At the end of the day... it's a game console that plays blu-rays. I'm not ordering things online (save for the PSN) or logging in to my bank accounts or email on it. If something hacks my PSN account and buys a bunch of crap, chances are I wouldn't be the only one and it would be rectified via a class action or my credit card company's fraud department in short order. If it somehow manages to do something to the other machines behind my router, then shame on me for not securing them properly. The worst I could think of is it activating the wifi card and attempting to sniff the wireless nearby, but I've never given it the WPA key and wireless "security" is forfeit to begin with.
In any case there seems to be a ton of FUD spreading regarding this. They could have just as easily built that function in on day 1 and this would be a non-story.
It depends. If you use the guest account all of what you say is true. However if you are unable to connect to battle.net (no network connection, down for maintenance, etc) you will be able to "login" locally with your ID and play single player vs AI, challenge maps, etc...
The pope said there was "a Christian way of being present in the digital world: this takes the form of a communication which is honest and open, responsible and respectful of others."
If people would actually follow this it would increase the quality of the discourse on the internet. Regardless of what you think of the religion, this is a good thing.
And why must every Catholic article get the same tired pedophile priest jokes? There's no more pedophile priests than there are pedophile psychiatrists, teachers, and scout masters out there.
Regardless of the truthfulness of that thread, I had a HTC WinMobile phone for 3 years before switching to the Samsung Moment. Lets just say... if it weren't for all the community support (custom ROMs, m900-only implementations of tethering, flashlight and other important root apps) I would have jumped ship within the 14 day "grace period".
The stock ROM had a bug where the sensor would lock the screen when you put it to your ear. This created a two-step game:
1. To turn the screen back on, sometimes you would need to hit the on button... which is also the 'end call' button. So if the sensor decides your face is no longer there as you hit the button to turn the screen on, you hang up.
2. Lets say you win that bet. Now in order to enter numbers (say you're using a touch tone menu) you needed to double tap on the phone icon in the middle... which sometimes resulted in you pressing 5.
Repeat this process every time you put the phone to your ear to hear the menus.
Sprint was useless regarding fixing this - The Update to 2.1 did fix #2, however, in that at the very least the interface unlocks with sliding instead of double tapping. It still blanks out though, which causes the same end call button dilemma.
Apparently 2.2 is even better in that you can set an inactivity timeout independent of the timeout for the screen blanking out for when it "locks". So I would be able to turn the screen on and off and I wouldn't need to slide / enter the password every time. However there will never be official support for this, which makes me sad.
Next phone is definitely not going to be a Samsung. I have to find one that doesn't use the 'end call' button as the 'screen on' button. Several important incoming calls have been lost due to me hitting it to turn it on to check the time as the call came in.
Read the links. The D link router there is most consumer friendly. What it does is prevent one person from slowing down everyone's internet, by allowing you to set priorties. If everyone has the same priority it is divided evenly, or you could chose to lower the priority of his devices so that whenever you are using the internet, his slows down but not the reverse.
Please, don't impose your will on the rest of the users on your ISP just because you are not competent enough to set up your own QoS. It could be technical based (ie: Fancy router, linux router, software on his pc), or it could be as simple as unplugging his ethernet cable/blocking his mac whenever the internet slows down for you. Do that a few times and he'll start running his downloads when no one else is on.
Ads do not waste your time, and help pay for the site you are visiting, so not using adblocking makes perfect sense. I don't use it either (but noscript/flashblock is great for avoiding 'talkie' ads, which disrupt my workflow).
But skip screen simply avoids the annoyances put in place by the download sites to get you to subscribe to their service. But if you have no intention of ever subscribing, not using skipscreen simply wastes your time. It's not like you are discovering some new product or service, or helping fund the site by waiting 45 seconds.
It's about trying things out. A CD's presence on a shelf doesn't make it any easier to try before buying, the online song samples do. But, you need to actually see/touch a piece of furniture to see if its suitable.
A good example is things with drawers. If you plan on putting heavy things in drawers, you'll want to see how sturdy the bottom is, and you can't do that based purely on pictures.
I'll counter this with a service-related example.
The New York subway in 2001 decided to test a new service pattern by running rush hour levels of service on a Sunday morning with a new pattern. After they found the problems with the pattern (congestion, delays), they repeated the test a few months later with a tweaked pattern, which ended up going into 'production'.
This type of test will help push ISPs and network managers to find where the problems lie in their IPv6 implementation and hopefully give them time to correct them.
After 235 years it seems the militias are the greater threat. You really need to go back and re-read your history. The history books are full of this stuff.
Eliminate the right to bear arms and thus the militias, and the government no longer has any fear of a militia uprising. Then they can do anything they want without limit, and there is no recourse by the people. It is the final "check" of checks and balances. There are all kinds of ways the government can slowly strangle the population... it's already happening, simply compare what we are free to do now to what was freely allowed in the 1800s, the taxes, etc. That timeline could be sped up nicely if there was no chance of a large, armed group of civilians storming the Capitol. Tax the middle class to the point where everyone is on food stamps, all anyone can do is throw rocks as the military fires at them with weapons paid for by those tax dollars...
+Informative!
If I am understanding it correctly this arrangement would actually hurt the military and other government pension systems if USPS were to reduce staffing...
Ah yes, animation, probably the best hope real scifi has left. Unlike live action, two aliens talking on a space ship costs the same as two guys talking in a kitchen. A battle using advanced weaponry or psychic powers costs only slightly more than a good fistfight or car chase.
But unlike Japan, the US has an aversion for animation being used for anything other than comedy or kids' shows. Even Stargate Infinity was targeted for young audiences and aired in a kids' block.
Atlantis first, please.
Gin had greatly improved the atmosphere on there... god forbid anyone on this show can actually be *happy* for a little while. Reminds me of the fail that was Buffy season 6, a contest to see who could get into a more depressing situation. Without her, Eli is like Harper on Andromeda... the genius who ends up forever alone.
I'd counter this with Roswell... a show even more emo than SG:U, and with (what appears to be) a similar target audience, saved by fan pressure (and lots of bottles of Tabasco sauce).
Still, network TV is a different beast than cable...
Time Warner out here just rolled out "extreme" internet, which for $10/month more gave me 30/5 instead of 15/1. This is a fairly recent development, too. Maybe other ISPs have stagnated (even FiOs has no plans to expand into our area), but Time Warner seems to be decent enough.
As I'm fairly certain my city of pop 100,000 is not one of those two cities you are speaking of, so perhaps other places have seen improvement as well?
So you'd favor shutting down one of the greatest advances in technology purely on the grounds that the auxilliary effects would be expensive?
Where did I say that? I'm guessing reading comprehension is not your strong suit. I was simply speculating that there are *a lot* of interests that would rather this technology never see the light of day for that reason, as the expense is astronomical. Think about subway systems, hospitals, college campuses, any corporate office building. Anyone with a vested interest in keeping these places secure would support any initiative that would kill it.
Just look at any non-residential door you see throughout the course of your day: all of those would need a lock upgrade. Otherwise any janitor at these places could start a side business of selling keys to restricted areas in these buildings. A terminated employee would retain access. Wouldn't matter if the blanks are rare or the key chain is welded shut and they have to turn it in at the end of their shift; all someone'd need is the opportunity to take a good enough picture of the key and a little time with some CAD software.
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned this yet. A lot of keys who's primary copy protection is specialized blanks would suddenly become as easy to copy as a standard house key. Sure integrating an electronic component would deter that, but that's many billions of locks that would need to be upgraded. I wouldn't be surprised if this is killed on some shaky legal grounds as it is an opportunity for an easy-out from this problem.
A train is much less of a target though. You can't hijack it and take it anywhere, you can't easily kill all persons aboard. They certainly *could* screen it but at that point a shopping mall or the TSA screening line would become a better target.
Europe and Asia aren't paranoid about their HSR networks (well at least not Asia), why should we be? If screening does happen it would be from inertia; people would be used to getting molested in order to get from A to B quickly, and would feel wrong if that experience was missing from the journey.
Amtrak works too... sometimes it takes a while longer to get from A to B but, you might be able to get away with it for a company trip if it is (1) cheaper than flying and (2) your "dead time" is at least partially outside business hours. Since you get an outlet and are always allowed to use a cell phone, you can get a good chunk of work done while en route.
The solution is simple then: those areas keep the 8-2 system, and pedestrian friendly areas try out the 10-5. Or even just private schools. The statistics that come from this experiment would show whether or not there is a meaningful difference.
If 10-5 is shown to work it would be another incentive to write off middle-of-nowhere developments and move somewhere more pedestrian friendly.
A third option would be to have some before-school activities. Or some exercise first thing in the morning wouldn't be horrible. Or drop 'em off at 8 for a 2 hour free period. Plenty of time to finish up that homework they never started.
Thanks for that, that book has become an interesting read for me. I wish I had mod points.
If you're ever visiting Europe or Japan, you'll get just such an option. Of course, to use it here you're limited to T-Mobile and AT&T, and good luck using the warranty...
Not even, just give their board members "bonuses" of $5k with the implication that it should go to the party of choice...
Unless the total donation from individuals cannot be > $5000.
Not sure how you got troll, but that's actually pretty insightful and applies to many organizations...