I keep leaving wow to do RL things (Enjoy summer, had our first child, studied for certs, etc) and each time I come back. But the interesting thing is that each time I come back wow has a little less hold on me. I can play it and enjoy myself and even participate in the grind, but I can also ignore it for a week or two and be happy doing other things. Wow is a skinner box, we all know this, it uses many psychological tools to keep us playing, but as people break those habits the skinner boxes have less control, and I think all MMO's who employ Skinner boxes and psychological tricks will have a hard time hooking players like wow did when the technique was new. I will buy the new Star Wars mmo, but like every other mmo I have ever played it will probably be played intensely for a few days or weeks and then shelved. At the end of the day nobody polishes their products like Blizzard, and that alone is the reason wow will continue for a very long time.
Scotland Yard isn't investigating "Anonymous". They're investigating the people involved in the DDoS attacks. If you're a member of Anonymous but you don't participate in attacks, you're alright because nobody knows who you are, or that you're even a member of Anonymous.
However, the minute you start attacking, you are immediately identifiable.
"lulz yeah but we r anonymus. we r legionz!!!1 omg for the first time in my life i can actually identify with something. cool! are there any lonely girls here???/"
Protip: When you're on the internet, you are NOT anonymous. Most of Anonymous is just a bunch of teen-angst lemmings who will only join the DDoS effort if somebody puts up a Rapidshare link to the LOIC software. None of them have any kind of initiative to do it themselves.
"i'm not gonna get caught. lulz, i'll use a proxy"
Furthermore, because they're all just angsty, lonely, horny teenagers (and even some 20-somethings), they have no foresight. They have no clue that their IP address can and will identify them in most cases. If they use a proxy, they're just creating a bottleneck, slowing the DDoS effort and providing their target with a single IP to block for mitigation.
"hey man, ip address is just a number, man... i'm not a number!"
None of them realize that your IP address can and will be stripped from logs and submitted to RIRs and ISPs, and they will obtain your subscriber details (more likely your parent's details) through the legal system in your country of origin. An IP address is just a number when taken out of context, but when it's put IN context your IP is your identity on the internet, and it CAN be linked back to the real world.
"Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off of their servers because BUSH... i mean, OBAMA... sent an executive order to Amazon telling them that he would personally torture their mothers if they didn't! OMG! Attack Amazon because they're a business that chooses not to do business with certain people!!!"
The last thing humanity needs is a bunch of angsty teenagers throwing a fit because their favorite website has to change providers. WikiLeaks violated their contract with Amazon. It is a BUSINESS matter. Get the fuck over it, pick up your toys and go to school.
Don't like what I'm saying? Then suppress my freedom of speech and DDoS me. My IP is 127.0.0.1. And I'll even turn off my firewall for you.
With the amount of free wifi sites in every city and the extreme number of unprotected (or under protected) home networks, do you really think the lulz kids are stupid enough to use their own? I can guarantee that they are using school computers, cell phones and public or hacked wifi to do this. The only real issue is that the DDOS is unable to be maintained if you are sitting at a cafe since you have to leave at some point.
So the creative anonymous is simply going to hack their neighbors wifi with a free linux tool and use that. The cops will then go after the neighbor.
I drink the Microsoft coolaid (literally they host meetings with free pizza and sodas) but I hate bing, give me google anyday. I wanted to like bing, but I don't.
I have played around with Linux, but at the end of the day I didn't want to make it my career because it is a giant headache far too often. Because I have spent thousands and thousands of hours learning Microsoft products I will be resistant to deploying Linux in any place that makes my boss money. I haven't spent the time on it, nor do I want to. Life is too short to deploy Linux. I want family time.
Funny, I just read an article that says linux is losing market share. I suppose the sky is falling and my Microsoft certs are worthless now. Any day now people will stop emailing and we will have no use for exchange servers. I have seen less fanatical pentecostal preachers than the linux evangelists.
My first copy of 7 ultimate came from attending a launch party, look for those in your area, I got a snack pack and got to enjoy hanging out with about a thousand other geeks. I would look for "the new efficiency" as part of this. I of course called this "training"
The second copy I got was from this launch party. I plan to have over my geeky buddies to drink heavily and use my new windows 7 (installed and ready to go) laptop to surf via my hdtv and play online poker and try to get banned from them all.
The box had streamers, playing cards, some balloons, about 6 tote bags, a poster, some napkins with windows 7 on them, the signature edition ultimate, a whole bunch of worthless promo crap which I for one will be using for coasters.
My third copy of 7 (home premium only) I will be downloading for $30 since I am a student as well and will be installing it on my wife's old vista machine which causes her fits.
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I keep leaving wow to do RL things (Enjoy summer, had our first child, studied for certs, etc) and each time I come back. But the interesting thing is that each time I come back wow has a little less hold on me. I can play it and enjoy myself and even participate in the grind, but I can also ignore it for a week or two and be happy doing other things. Wow is a skinner box, we all know this, it uses many psychological tools to keep us playing, but as people break those habits the skinner boxes have less control, and I think all MMO's who employ Skinner boxes and psychological tricks will have a hard time hooking players like wow did when the technique was new. I will buy the new Star Wars mmo, but like every other mmo I have ever played it will probably be played intensely for a few days or weeks and then shelved. At the end of the day nobody polishes their products like Blizzard, and that alone is the reason wow will continue for a very long time.
I don't want any flavor of tablet, I wish people would stop trying to sell me one.
Scotland Yard isn't investigating "Anonymous". They're investigating the people involved in the DDoS attacks. If you're a member of Anonymous but you don't participate in attacks, you're alright because nobody knows who you are, or that you're even a member of Anonymous. However, the minute you start attacking, you are immediately identifiable. "lulz yeah but we r anonymus. we r legionz!!!1 omg for the first time in my life i can actually identify with something. cool! are there any lonely girls here???/" Protip: When you're on the internet, you are NOT anonymous. Most of Anonymous is just a bunch of teen-angst lemmings who will only join the DDoS effort if somebody puts up a Rapidshare link to the LOIC software. None of them have any kind of initiative to do it themselves. "i'm not gonna get caught. lulz, i'll use a proxy" Furthermore, because they're all just angsty, lonely, horny teenagers (and even some 20-somethings), they have no foresight. They have no clue that their IP address can and will identify them in most cases. If they use a proxy, they're just creating a bottleneck, slowing the DDoS effort and providing their target with a single IP to block for mitigation. "hey man, ip address is just a number, man... i'm not a number!" None of them realize that your IP address can and will be stripped from logs and submitted to RIRs and ISPs, and they will obtain your subscriber details (more likely your parent's details) through the legal system in your country of origin. An IP address is just a number when taken out of context, but when it's put IN context your IP is your identity on the internet, and it CAN be linked back to the real world. "Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off of their servers because BUSH... i mean, OBAMA... sent an executive order to Amazon telling them that he would personally torture their mothers if they didn't! OMG! Attack Amazon because they're a business that chooses not to do business with certain people!!!" The last thing humanity needs is a bunch of angsty teenagers throwing a fit because their favorite website has to change providers. WikiLeaks violated their contract with Amazon. It is a BUSINESS matter. Get the fuck over it, pick up your toys and go to school. Don't like what I'm saying? Then suppress my freedom of speech and DDoS me. My IP is 127.0.0.1. And I'll even turn off my firewall for you.
With the amount of free wifi sites in every city and the extreme number of unprotected (or under protected) home networks, do you really think the lulz kids are stupid enough to use their own? I can guarantee that they are using school computers, cell phones and public or hacked wifi to do this. The only real issue is that the DDOS is unable to be maintained if you are sitting at a cafe since you have to leave at some point. So the creative anonymous is simply going to hack their neighbors wifi with a free linux tool and use that. The cops will then go after the neighbor.
I drink the Microsoft coolaid (literally they host meetings with free pizza and sodas) but I hate bing, give me google anyday. I wanted to like bing, but I don't.
I had to turn my dice profile off because of the job offers were getting annoying. How is linux treating you?
I have played around with Linux, but at the end of the day I didn't want to make it my career because it is a giant headache far too often. Because I have spent thousands and thousands of hours learning Microsoft products I will be resistant to deploying Linux in any place that makes my boss money. I haven't spent the time on it, nor do I want to. Life is too short to deploy Linux. I want family time.
And by deploying linux do they mean android phones, because honestly the last thing I want in my org is a linux server.
Funny, I just read an article that says linux is losing market share. I suppose the sky is falling and my Microsoft certs are worthless now. Any day now people will stop emailing and we will have no use for exchange servers. I have seen less fanatical pentecostal preachers than the linux evangelists.
My first copy of 7 ultimate came from attending a launch party, look for those in your area, I got a snack pack and got to enjoy hanging out with about a thousand other geeks. I would look for "the new efficiency" as part of this. I of course called this "training" The second copy I got was from this launch party. I plan to have over my geeky buddies to drink heavily and use my new windows 7 (installed and ready to go) laptop to surf via my hdtv and play online poker and try to get banned from them all. The box had streamers, playing cards, some balloons, about 6 tote bags, a poster, some napkins with windows 7 on them, the signature edition ultimate, a whole bunch of worthless promo crap which I for one will be using for coasters. My third copy of 7 (home premium only) I will be downloading for $30 since I am a student as well and will be installing it on my wife's old vista machine which causes her fits.