For years, people here have ridiculed Wikipedia on the notion that anyone can edit it, and edits appear instantly without any checking by another person. Yet now they implement such a system - that's wrong too!
Wrong, only the media, public figures, and other entities that don't understand the internet, web 2.0, the FOSS movement, and the spirit of the internet have been criticizing wikipedia's credibility standards. The whole [citation needed] thing was a reaction to criticism by main-stream press and political figures who can't understand that facts are NOT handed down from 'on high' and that sometimes, the mob can be right if they leave the knowledge to the experts in the field that swoop down and make critical edits to a fleshed out piece, transforming an OK article into a good one.
This is a Bad Move because it has been forced onto wikipedia by external forces and it's own internal cadre of esteemed editors with too much free time such that they protect their article from edits.
If anything, the people here have been criticizing wikipedia for turning away from it's motto of "the free encyclopedia that anybody can edit" towards a more closed model, both from internal and external forces.
Mostly we lament the loss of What Could Have Been and complain when wikipedia bows to traditional media's conform-to-our-paid-for-views mentality.
Locks only keep honest people out of your house. A hoodie + hat or other facial obfuscation = entire purpose of the camera has been defeated. Criminals know how to defeat simple measures, it's what they do. So I would say that probably 1-2% of criminals would be completely deterred from robbing somebody, stealing a car, or whatever, but the rest would just scout out the cameras and not look at them and wear a hoodie to prevent good angle/shot of the face, or simply wear other methods of obscuring their faces.
Why go to a ski resort when you have a sledding hill in your back yard? Why go to a bar when you have beer in your fridge? Why go clubbing when you have beer and a stereo? Why go to a football game when you can watch one on the tv? Why go to the gym when you have heavy things in your house and a road outside your front door? Why go to concerts when you have a cd-player?
If you can't find any social justification for any of the above, you deserve to stay in your parents' basement and only interact with people via voice chat and im clients.
I really really really, for your sake, hope that you don't find yourself on the wrong end of a data theft suit arising from separation from an employer. You'd get 2, maybe 3 hearings if you didn't settle prior to court.
So you're saying that because you would have done the same, he was in the right?
As a professional in the digital forensics field, my professional opinion is that taking stuff and uploading it to a server without a 100% provably complete receipt of the files is the quickest way to lose a lawsuit. Lawyer A says that you uploaded 100 files and can prove that you accessed 1000 files when you were uploading the 100. Unless you can prove that you did absolutely nothing (very very hard to prove), you're pretty much boned. If you had a thumb drive in the system, or the burning software was also accessed on that day, you can come up with 99 reasons why you are innocent, but all it takes is the lawyer to come up with a point you can't disprove and you're boned.
I am not a lawyer, but I have worked very closely with them in the past.
Simply because you don't go 200mph in your car doesn't mean that Lamborghini should stop making fast cars. Simply because you don't need reading glasses doesn't mean that readers should stop being made. Simply because you don't need chemo-therapy doesn't mean that oncologists should change profession.
Go to any major lan party and say that people don't use lan play, because something isn't your cup of tea doesn't mean it is entirely irrelevant.
Stop. Listening. To. Blizzard's. Weak-sauce. Excuses.
Here's the thing, Open source or not, taking it directly from his employer was a bad idea. If you modify a piece of software for in house use and don't distribute it outside, you don't have to distribute the source. If he wanted open source software, i know of a few places where he might find copies. (no links because you should know about google and source forge by now). So, if the source code HAD to have been taken from GS's servers, then it probably had proprietary in house changes which may not be re-licensed under the gpl (the gpl is a distribution license and kicks into effect as soon as GS starts distributing). That might still be theft of in house IP, which is bad.
Anywho, in summary, weak sauce excuses are weak sauce.
Slashdot: The other question that is a constant concern within the fan base of Starcraft is the question of disallowing LAN play. How are you solving problems like making sure this is a valid replacement for LAN plan; security, reliability, speed, or even people playing behind things like NAT routers?
Dustin Browder: These are issues that we continue to address as we go forward. Some of these things we have some plans for, but not all of them. It is something that we definitely plan on working on as we go forward to make sure we have things in place to handle every possible user case out there. We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases â" that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet. We want to make sure we are able to support these legitimate-use cases for LAN play and make it accessible to those users, but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not. These are definitely legitimate concerns, and we're certainly looking to address them.
Translation: Our WoW players say lan play is over-rated, so that's why we're not including it. *facepalm* AN RTS IS NOT AN MMORPG!! RAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGG.
Anywho This is not an excuse for leaving out lan play and does nothing but insult lan parties. If you don't have a modem, you must be crazy and wierd and living in a closet.
Just saying that this reply feels like a massive FUCK YOU to every person who owns multiple star craft 1 keys for use at a lan.
and yet people are gonna pay $29 for this upgrade which has been mentioned as nothing more than patching up the holes and bugs in leopard and bringing it to a tolerable level of usefulness. Go mac users! Fight the machine!
PS, the other ideas copied? Milking a franchise for all it's worth by making arbitrary breaks? EA/Microsoft/Activision. Alienating their customers to prevent piracy? EA/RIAA... and the list goes on, but it's too easy.
not quite. Your bnet account would follow you from home to an internet/gaming cafe for lan play for d2 and sc. I could log in with my account on any system with a valid install (different key from my home system) and pick up where i left off (within reason). This is more like a steam account. In fact, this whole thing is blizzard's attempt to ape steam. Built in IM client? Steam's had it. Built in cross-game Friend's list? Steam's had it. Your account stores your keys? Steam... Really blizzard? Can you STOP COPYING IDEAS? I mean it worked great for WoW (not a single original idea at release, just spit polish), but honestly, you don't need to copy steam. I have steam, i don't need another. Work with valve and use their steam, it works great and will work even better because i know people who play Steam games AND blizzard games, and that would consolidate like 95% of casual pc gamers out there under one IM client/friends list.
But not in avatar yet. Does anybody remember Battlefield Earth? Anybody? That was a bomb on a similar scale and it was in the sci-fi genre. Really, do we need to ask this question? Has Sci-Fi managed this long to go without a bomb? NO!!!! Dumb title/hook. Try again.
Apparently he googled "biggest box office bomb" clicked the article and found the first reference of a movie driving a studio into financial ruin. Bingo! That lead him to Heaven's Gate!
And he felt proud of himself for making a reference that nobody would get.
"I complain on forums about video games that I haven't even played!"
In other news, the internet, James Cameron, and the world at large carries on despite the ramblings of some poor little guy who got beaten in middle school by a crowd of little girls wielding Lisa Frank binders.
Oh wait, my bad! Not the Giants vs. the Jets blasting ratings into the Ionosphere... I thought that the ionosphere remark would be a bit too intellectual for the football fans. They've just become familiar with what stratosphere is or means, metaphorically, wouldn't want to confuse them... Carry on.
You must be new here, when non-Open Source companies are involved, the "Open" usually precedes a few silent vowels and consonants (spaces too) and that if you were a native speaker of the marketing drone language, you would recognize that "Open " (the space is important), when used in the phrase, really expands out to "Open your wallet and pay for your Book" Alliance, (italics mine). Amazing how a little education goes a long way, eh?
Dear Blizzard, as has been mentioned several times above, what will you do if you are faced with a situation like EA had with Spore where the users came out and actively pirated the game to prove a point rather than simply allow the game company to "prevent piracy"? I have seen several places where people are actively looking forward to a pirated and modified/hacked version of SCII that allows lan play. How will you react to that and will you listen to your fan base (your real one and not just the ones who buy your product regardless of what you leave out) when they decide to actively make their voices heard?
You've waited 20 years too long. An old analogue bag phone connecting to an analogue tower can get a passable signal 50-60 miles into the wilderness (read: no-coverage areas) beyond where my razr got a whisper of a signal. Then they took the analogue tower down and I had to rely on other means of radio communication whilst collecting road-side sensor data.
That motorola bag phone weighed more than most laptops nowadays but i think it only dropped calls while going into deep roadway tunnels where the FM radio would stop working or during really nasty lightning storms.
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For years, people here have ridiculed Wikipedia on the notion that anyone can edit it, and edits appear instantly without any checking by another person. Yet now they implement such a system - that's wrong too!
Wrong, only the media, public figures, and other entities that don't understand the internet, web 2.0, the FOSS movement, and the spirit of the internet have been criticizing wikipedia's credibility standards. The whole [citation needed] thing was a reaction to criticism by main-stream press and political figures who can't understand that facts are NOT handed down from 'on high' and that sometimes, the mob can be right if they leave the knowledge to the experts in the field that swoop down and make critical edits to a fleshed out piece, transforming an OK article into a good one.
This is a Bad Move because it has been forced onto wikipedia by external forces and it's own internal cadre of esteemed editors with too much free time such that they protect their article from edits.
If anything, the people here have been criticizing wikipedia for turning away from it's motto of "the free encyclopedia that anybody can edit" towards a more closed model, both from internal and external forces.
Mostly we lament the loss of What Could Have Been and complain when wikipedia bows to traditional media's conform-to-our-paid-for-views mentality.
how long until freecyclopedia.org or some other such domain gets transformed into what wikipedia should have been? My guess? Never.
Suppose you rent a hall from your local elk's club or fire department, what are the odds of them having internet access? Not very, I'm guessing.
Locks only keep honest people out of your house. A hoodie + hat or other facial obfuscation = entire purpose of the camera has been defeated. Criminals know how to defeat simple measures, it's what they do. So I would say that probably 1-2% of criminals would be completely deterred from robbing somebody, stealing a car, or whatever, but the rest would just scout out the cameras and not look at them and wear a hoodie to prevent good angle/shot of the face, or simply wear other methods of obscuring their faces.
Why would you want to go to a lan party?
Why go to a ski resort when you have a sledding hill in your back yard? Why go to a bar when you have beer in your fridge? Why go clubbing when you have beer and a stereo? Why go to a football game when you can watch one on the tv? Why go to the gym when you have heavy things in your house and a road outside your front door? Why go to concerts when you have a cd-player?
If you can't find any social justification for any of the above, you deserve to stay in your parents' basement and only interact with people via voice chat and im clients.
I really really really, for your sake, hope that you don't find yourself on the wrong end of a data theft suit arising from separation from an employer. You'd get 2, maybe 3 hearings if you didn't settle prior to court.
Anywho, in summary, weak sauce excuses are weak sauce.
So you're saying that because you would have done the same, he was in the right?
As a professional in the digital forensics field, my professional opinion is that taking stuff and uploading it to a server without a 100% provably complete receipt of the files is the quickest way to lose a lawsuit. Lawyer A says that you uploaded 100 files and can prove that you accessed 1000 files when you were uploading the 100. Unless you can prove that you did absolutely nothing (very very hard to prove), you're pretty much boned. If you had a thumb drive in the system, or the burning software was also accessed on that day, you can come up with 99 reasons why you are innocent, but all it takes is the lawyer to come up with a point you can't disprove and you're boned.
I am not a lawyer, but I have worked very closely with them in the past.
So what you're saying is that he was in the right because he was impatient?
Simply because you don't go 200mph in your car doesn't mean that Lamborghini should stop making fast cars. Simply because you don't need reading glasses doesn't mean that readers should stop being made. Simply because you don't need chemo-therapy doesn't mean that oncologists should change profession.
Go to any major lan party and say that people don't use lan play, because something isn't your cup of tea doesn't mean it is entirely irrelevant.
Stop. Listening. To. Blizzard's. Weak-sauce. Excuses.
Here's the thing, Open source or not, taking it directly from his employer was a bad idea. If you modify a piece of software for in house use and don't distribute it outside, you don't have to distribute the source. If he wanted open source software, i know of a few places where he might find copies. (no links because you should know about google and source forge by now). So, if the source code HAD to have been taken from GS's servers, then it probably had proprietary in house changes which may not be re-licensed under the gpl (the gpl is a distribution license and kicks into effect as soon as GS starts distributing). That might still be theft of in house IP, which is bad.
Anywho, in summary, weak sauce excuses are weak sauce.
Slashdot: The other question that is a constant concern within the fan base of Starcraft is the question of disallowing LAN play. How are you solving problems like making sure this is a valid replacement for LAN plan; security, reliability, speed, or even people playing behind things like NAT routers?
Dustin Browder: These are issues that we continue to address as we go forward. Some of these things we have some plans for, but not all of them. It is something that we definitely plan on working on as we go forward to make sure we have things in place to handle every possible user case out there. We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases â" that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet. We want to make sure we are able to support these legitimate-use cases for LAN play and make it accessible to those users, but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not. These are definitely legitimate concerns, and we're certainly looking to address them.
Translation: Our WoW players say lan play is over-rated, so that's why we're not including it. *facepalm* AN RTS IS NOT AN MMORPG!! RAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGG.
Anywho This is not an excuse for leaving out lan play and does nothing but insult lan parties. If you don't have a modem, you must be crazy and wierd and living in a closet.
Just saying that this reply feels like a massive FUCK YOU to every person who owns multiple star craft 1 keys for use at a lan.
and yet people are gonna pay $29 for this upgrade which has been mentioned as nothing more than patching up the holes and bugs in leopard and bringing it to a tolerable level of usefulness. Go mac users! Fight the machine!
many people would consider sp2 just as big a change as a "New OS version". Not new to computers, just never bought into apple's marketing.
P.S. From etch to lenny? 100% free and no heart-ache either.
Nope. OS X: It has service packs that you Pay For!
PS, the other ideas copied? Milking a franchise for all it's worth by making arbitrary breaks? EA/Microsoft/Activision. Alienating their customers to prevent piracy? EA/RIAA... and the list goes on, but it's too easy.
not quite. Your bnet account would follow you from home to an internet/gaming cafe for lan play for d2 and sc. I could log in with my account on any system with a valid install (different key from my home system) and pick up where i left off (within reason). This is more like a steam account. In fact, this whole thing is blizzard's attempt to ape steam. Built in IM client? Steam's had it. Built in cross-game Friend's list? Steam's had it. Your account stores your keys? Steam... Really blizzard? Can you STOP COPYING IDEAS? I mean it worked great for WoW (not a single original idea at release, just spit polish), but honestly, you don't need to copy steam. I have steam, i don't need another. Work with valve and use their steam, it works great and will work even better because i know people who play Steam games AND blizzard games, and that would consolidate like 95% of casual pc gamers out there under one IM client/friends list.
But not in avatar yet. Does anybody remember Battlefield Earth? Anybody? That was a bomb on a similar scale and it was in the sci-fi genre. Really, do we need to ask this question? Has Sci-Fi managed this long to go without a bomb? NO!!!! Dumb title/hook. Try again.
Apparently he googled "biggest box office bomb" clicked the article and found the first reference of a movie driving a studio into financial ruin. Bingo! That lead him to Heaven's Gate!
And he felt proud of himself for making a reference that nobody would get.
The End.
>third-rate fantasy masturbatory session for furries and other WoW-playing losers.
Err, you do know youre posting on slashdot, right?
That's why he posted AC.
"I complain on forums about video games that I haven't even played!"
In other news, the internet, James Cameron, and the world at large carries on despite the ramblings of some poor little guy who got beaten in middle school by a crowd of little girls wielding Lisa Frank binders.
Oh wait, my bad! Not the Giants vs. the Jets blasting ratings into the Ionosphere... I thought that the ionosphere remark would be a bit too intellectual for the football fans. They've just become familiar with what stratosphere is or means, metaphorically, wouldn't want to confuse them... Carry on.
You must be new here, when non-Open Source companies are involved, the "Open" usually precedes a few silent vowels and consonants (spaces too) and that if you were a native speaker of the marketing drone language, you would recognize that "Open " (the space is important), when used in the phrase, really expands out to "Open your wallet and pay for your Book" Alliance, (italics mine). Amazing how a little education goes a long way, eh?
Dear Blizzard, as has been mentioned several times above, what will you do if you are faced with a situation like EA had with Spore where the users came out and actively pirated the game to prove a point rather than simply allow the game company to "prevent piracy"? I have seen several places where people are actively looking forward to a pirated and modified/hacked version of SCII that allows lan play. How will you react to that and will you listen to your fan base (your real one and not just the ones who buy your product regardless of what you leave out) when they decide to actively make their voices heard?
You've waited 20 years too long. An old analogue bag phone connecting to an analogue tower can get a passable signal 50-60 miles into the wilderness (read: no-coverage areas) beyond where my razr got a whisper of a signal. Then they took the analogue tower down and I had to rely on other means of radio communication whilst collecting road-side sensor data.
That motorola bag phone weighed more than most laptops nowadays but i think it only dropped calls while going into deep roadway tunnels where the FM radio would stop working or during really nasty lightning storms.