And may the twisting nether have mercy on any new alliance warlocks trying to do their quest in the Barrens.
Considering that Barrens is getting a complete makeover, I'm sure something is planned to replace it. Likewise with the Druid shapeshifter quest in the soon to be flooded Darkshore.
Come to think of it though, this may be part of Blizzard's Evil Plan(tm) to get people to renew old accounts. If the Barrens is being annihilated, that means we'll never be able to raid Crossroads again. How many people do you suppose will renew their accounts in order to get in those last few raids on Crossroads before the Cataclysm?
People who would have bought a copy will get the full LAN feature pirate version instead.
The people who do that will almost certainly get the banhammer on battle.net. The way they described their planned ratings system along with rated leagues sounds rather cool.
That would appear to be the case, if they want to play against each other. I would imagine that the "family plan" will be something like what they do now for WoW. You cannot share an account with your spouse. You can share an account with your kids. You cannot have more than one instance of an account logged in at the same time.
That would force people to be responsible for their actions. I think posting real names would also fix all the crap my son gets himself into on line. He would know that he can't get away with it being 13. His age would be verifiable.
Sigh. It doesn't work that way. I have a fairly unusual spelling for my last name. Even so, when I first Altavistaed my name when it first came online in the mid 1990s I found a minor league hockey goalie and an actor who appeared in Scarface with the same first name/last name spelling.
Today, there are "Steve Baur"s on all the social networking sites. None of them are me - I don't have a single social networking account.
Somebody told me, that if you were to say to a cop "You're an asshole!" you'd be guilty of defamation or whatever the legal term for it is and he'd have legal recourse against you. If, OTOH, you'd say "In my opinion you're an asshole!" you'd be covered under the first Amendment of free speech
Wrong terms. Both you and the person who told you that are stupid, er, I mean in my opinion both you and the person who told you that are stupid. Protected speech or no, telling a policeman that he's an asshole to his face is always an unwise idea, no matter how much of an asshole he is.
I'm rather surprised I've gotten this far down in the discussion and no one has yet mentioned the Streisand effect. I'd never heard of this Cohen person before, but from reading about this case and looking at her picture the word "skank" does seem to apply.
"Expectation of anonymity"? Where did that come from?
You didn't answer that, so I will - the 1st amendment to the constitution. Freedom of the press is well established even when it brings down governments. "Deep Throat" remained a protected identity until it no longer mattered.
Even better, where did the idea come from that there's a "fiduciary duty" to protect anonymity?
That part, I'm not sure about.
If the "blogosphere" is really to be the "new media", it must be afforded the same protections as given to the "old media". Writing under aliases is also an honored tradition.
We're setting very dangerous precedents. Remember the outing of "Patent Troll Tracker" (Cisco IP director Rick Frenkel)?
due largely in part (as Djikstra quipped...) to their poor reinvention of UNIX.
That's a very odd spelling of Henry Spencer.
Is it really acceptable for us to ignore the needs of the average user? Is it really acceptable to blame the victims?
In this case, no. Let Microsoft clean up their own mess. The approach that Microsoft took to the internet in their Microsoft Windows 95 ("ActiveX" and auto executing stuff from across a wire or from removable media) had already been discredited for a decade.
If you really wish to reinvent something, you can at least do a decent job of it.
Also, banks should be on the lookout for things like "he used his ATM card at home yesterday, he's in Eastern Europe today" and react accordingly.
I've had that happen to me s/Eastern Europe/Southeast Asia/ when I was buying my wife a Macbook after a looong plane flight. Most unpleasant, though I appreciated the thought.
Uh, do you live in the US? Every single person everywhere drives 5 MPH over the limit and that's almost always at least 10% over (40 in a 35 is 14% over). I have never known anyone anywhere to get a speeding ticket for 5 over.
Obviously you have never been to, or driven in California (USA). My home town hired its first motorcycle cop explicitly for ticketing things like this.
See if you can find some old ca.driving Usenet archives. That's probably the most central place you can go for details.
How else can you explain an engineering report that lists 120mph as the designed maximum limit for an interstate, and an 85mph recommended limit for travel, but somehow gets signed at 65? The only reason I can conclude why politicians ignore engineers' recommendations is because the politicians view the twenty mph gap as an opportunity - to increase tax revenue.
Something like that. For those of you young'uns who don't remember Dick, his administration flooded TV with advertisements that said "55 saves lives", then violated the 10th amendment to force states to comply with it.
Lowered speed limits had *nothing* to do with fuel efficiency. And for those of you who think that is the case... get off my lawn!
And since our lazy leaders, who don't even bother to read the bills they pass
We could do real reform to the whole system if we sunset every law in effect now and require new laws to be read aloud in full before they are allowed to be voted on. That's supposed to be the law (at least in the Senate)...
You know, from my point of view, all of these world-class athletes are genetic abnormalities. It's a little rich for them to point to the best of themselves and yell "SHE'S the freak!"
I lost all interest in "world class" athletes when FloJo died of a heart attack due to steroid abuse at a young age. She was my hero!
Do you think that we are doing the LONG-TERM future of competitive sports an injustice by not just completely removing gender segregation entirely from sports and finding a more fair type of skill stratification based on actual strength and endurance testing rather than naive and sometimes incorrect gender/chromosome-based assumptions?
I think segregation in sports *is* doing women a disservice. Competition Is Good. I could beat all the female track & field high school records when I was a Sophomore and by my Senior year, I could not.
I know from marriage that women are extremely competitive. Perhaps they should be given a chance.
I read that. Congrats on getting it modded up despite the muddled wording. I suppose I should do the OB: I want some of whatever that moderator was smoking.
Or maybe I should just ask you because revenue (unprefixed) and profit are the same. "Revenue" does not imply "gross revenue" which is, of course, vastly different than profit.
They dropped (maybe) 2% of gross revenue by banhammering those accounts. They are likely to recover far more than that with increased revenue from players continuing and (re)joining.
But if $10 is a problem for an OS, cost of a machine is kind-of a problem as well. Do you have information how the Chinese people cope with machine costs?
Sorry, no. I presume China is like most 3rd world nations - a tiny elite, tiny middle class and everyone else poor. The time that I was in Beijing was abnormal - it was about a week before the Olympic Committee came to award them with the most recent summer Olympics, and there were thousands of worker bees everywhere picking up garbage and stuff.
I can only guess that we were trying to do better than Red Flag. Of course, Turbolinux was also making lots of mistakes then. They seem to be doing better now that they have gone back to their roots, though I have lost all back channel contacts there.
I'm not really sure if I am right or wrong versus the professional usage you are talking about
I am sure. Your usage is fine. "Revenue" and "Profit" are interchangeable. Technically you would want to say "Net Revenue of expenses", but the distinction only matters to wankers.
The guy flaming you is confused about "Gross Revenue", which is a different beastie entirely.
(And yes, I have all the educational requirements for CPA).
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And may the twisting nether have mercy on any new alliance warlocks trying to do their quest in the Barrens.
Considering that Barrens is getting a complete makeover, I'm sure something is planned to replace it. Likewise with the Druid shapeshifter quest in the soon to be flooded Darkshore.
Come to think of it though, this may be part of Blizzard's Evil Plan(tm) to get people to renew old accounts. If the Barrens is being annihilated, that means we'll never be able to raid Crossroads again. How many people do you suppose will renew their accounts in order to get in those last few raids on Crossroads before the Cataclysm?
That would be Astranaar or Crossroads, except that Crossroads is right in the crosshairs of the Barrens zone split up.
If each person doesn't need their own copy of the game, why do they need their own account?
You log into the game with your account. Only one login at a time per account is allowed.
People who would have bought a copy will get the full LAN feature pirate version instead.
The people who do that will almost certainly get the banhammer on battle.net. The way they described their planned ratings system along with rated leagues sounds rather cool.
That would appear to be the case, if they want to play against each other. I would imagine that the "family plan" will be something like what they do now for WoW. You cannot share an account with your spouse. You can share an account with your kids. You cannot have more than one instance of an account logged in at the same time.
Gamers who breed may be rare, but we do exist.
my point was simply that she's spouting legal terms without knowing what they mean.
True, but not very interesting. People have been doing that on public forums since before there was an internet.
Obviously you have never heard of the Tijuana Institute of Technology http://www.hafsamx.org/ifsa2007/index_files/Page629.htm
That would force people to be responsible for their actions. I think posting real names would also fix all the crap my son gets himself into on line. He would know that he can't get away with it being 13. His age would be verifiable.
Sigh. It doesn't work that way. I have a fairly unusual spelling for my last name. Even so, when I first Altavistaed my name when it first came online in the mid 1990s I found a minor league hockey goalie and an actor who appeared in Scarface with the same first name/last name spelling.
Today, there are "Steve Baur"s on all the social networking sites. None of them are me - I don't have a single social networking account.
Also, read this - http://www.elliott.org/blog/tsa-nabs-another-five-year-old-security-threat/
Somebody told me, that if you were to say to a cop "You're an asshole!" you'd be guilty of
defamation or whatever the legal term for it is and he'd have legal recourse against you. If, OTOH, you'd say "In my opinion you're an asshole!" you'd be covered under the first Amendment of free speech
Wrong terms. Both you and the person who told you that are stupid, er, I mean in my opinion both you and the person who told you that are stupid. Protected speech or no, telling a policeman that he's an asshole to his face is always an unwise idea, no matter how much of an asshole he is.
I'm rather surprised I've gotten this far down in the discussion and no one has yet mentioned the Streisand effect. I'd never heard of this Cohen person before, but from reading about this case and looking at her picture the word "skank" does seem to apply.
"Expectation of anonymity"? Where did that come from?
You didn't answer that, so I will - the 1st amendment to the constitution. Freedom of the press is well established even when it brings down governments. "Deep Throat" remained a protected identity until it no longer mattered.
Even better, where did the idea come from that there's a "fiduciary duty" to protect anonymity?
That part, I'm not sure about.
If the "blogosphere" is really to be the "new media", it must be afforded the same protections as given to the "old media". Writing under aliases is also an honored tradition.
We're setting very dangerous precedents. Remember the outing of "Patent Troll Tracker" (Cisco IP director Rick Frenkel)?
due largely in part (as Djikstra quipped...) to their poor reinvention of UNIX.
That's a very odd spelling of Henry Spencer.
Is it really acceptable for us to ignore the needs of the average user? Is it really acceptable to blame the victims?
In this case, no. Let Microsoft clean up their own mess. The approach that Microsoft took to the internet in their Microsoft Windows 95 ("ActiveX" and auto executing stuff from across a wire or from removable media) had already been discredited for a decade.
If you really wish to reinvent something, you can at least do a decent job of it.
Also, banks should be on the lookout for things like "he used his ATM card at home yesterday, he's in Eastern Europe today" and react accordingly.
I've had that happen to me s/Eastern Europe/Southeast Asia/ when I was buying my wife a Macbook after a looong plane flight. Most unpleasant, though I appreciated the thought.
*All* of the TV ads in 1973 related to that law were "55 saves lives" ones.
Uh, do you live in the US? Every single person everywhere drives 5 MPH over the limit and that's almost always at least 10% over (40 in a 35 is 14% over). I have never known anyone anywhere to get a speeding ticket for 5 over.
Obviously you have never been to, or driven in California (USA). My home town hired its first motorcycle cop explicitly for ticketing things like this.
See if you can find some old ca.driving Usenet archives. That's probably the most central place you can go for details.
The speed limit was set to 55mph in the mid-70s to conserve oil.
It was set there by Dick Nixon right after the election. Even the idiots at Wikipedia got it right.
And it was sold as "55 saves lives", not as a consumption reduction measure.
Get off my lawn!
(Barry-O's spiritual forefather was Dick Nixon, not Jimmy Carter)
How else can you explain an engineering report that lists 120mph as the designed maximum limit for an interstate, and an 85mph recommended limit for travel, but somehow gets signed at 65? The only reason I can conclude why politicians ignore engineers' recommendations is because the politicians view the twenty mph gap as an opportunity - to increase tax revenue.
Something like that. For those of you young'uns who don't remember Dick, his administration flooded TV with advertisements that said "55 saves lives", then violated the 10th amendment to force states to comply with it.
Lowered speed limits had *nothing* to do with fuel efficiency. And for those of you who think that is the case ... get off my lawn!
And since our lazy leaders, who don't even bother to read the bills they pass
We could do real reform to the whole system if we sunset every law in effect now and require new laws to be read aloud in full before they are allowed to be voted on. That's supposed to be the law (at least in the Senate) ...
Try something more appropriate like Sports Illustrated (which is what I read). http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=womenshistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2Folympics%2Ffeatures%2Fjoyner%2Fflojo_noden.html
FloJo was my hero!
You know, from my point of view, all of these world-class athletes are genetic abnormalities. It's a little rich for them to point to the best of themselves and yell "SHE'S the freak!"
I lost all interest in "world class" athletes when FloJo died of a heart attack due to steroid abuse at a young age. She was my hero!
Do you think that we are doing the LONG-TERM future of competitive sports an injustice by not just completely removing gender segregation entirely from sports and finding a more fair type of skill stratification based on actual strength and endurance testing rather than naive and sometimes incorrect gender/chromosome-based assumptions?
I'm not the tranny AC, but I have an answer for that, writing as someone who lived through the early days of Title IX http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/aboutRE.html
I think segregation in sports *is* doing women a disservice. Competition Is Good. I could beat all the female track & field high school records when I was a Sophomore and by my Senior year, I could not.
I know from marriage that women are extremely competitive. Perhaps they should be given a chance.
I'm curious what the Slashdot community thinks: what can be considered proof of someone being male or female?
I trust I am speaking for the whole /. community. How should we know? Is there life outside Mother's basement?
And, oh yes, what's a female?
I read that. Congrats on getting it modded up despite the muddled wording. I suppose I should do the OB: I want some of whatever that moderator was smoking.
Or maybe I should just ask you because revenue (unprefixed) and profit are the same. "Revenue" does not imply "gross revenue" which is, of course, vastly different than profit.
They dropped (maybe) 2% of gross revenue by banhammering those accounts. They are likely to recover far more than that with increased revenue from players continuing and (re)joining.
But if $10 is a problem for an OS, cost of a machine is kind-of a problem as well. Do you have information how the Chinese people cope with machine costs?
Sorry, no. I presume China is like most 3rd world nations - a tiny elite, tiny middle class and everyone else poor. The time that I was in Beijing was abnormal - it was about a week before the Olympic Committee came to award them with the most recent summer Olympics, and there were thousands of worker bees everywhere picking up garbage and stuff.
I can only guess that we were trying to do better than Red Flag. Of course, Turbolinux was also making lots of mistakes then. They seem to be doing better now that they have gone back to their roots, though I have lost all back channel contacts there.
On the other hand, such moves might attract other non-cheating players, or keep the current non-cheating ones playing for longer time.
That sounds about right and I presume that's what they're counting on.
There was the same vocal (tiny) minority when Blizzard came down hard on mmo glider.
Nobody enjoys playing against cheaters.
I'm not really sure if I am right or wrong versus the professional usage you are talking about
I am sure. Your usage is fine. "Revenue" and "Profit" are interchangeable. Technically you would want to say "Net Revenue of expenses", but the distinction only matters to wankers.
The guy flaming you is confused about "Gross Revenue", which is a different beastie entirely.
(And yes, I have all the educational requirements for CPA).