This is why it's important to donate to sperm banks. A geek can't get any in person, but they have hope that if they donate to sperm banks, with a full description of the donor's brilliance and intellectual prowess, that someone will choose his sperm. It's easy, painless and free! Don't deny the next generation the geek genes. Go masturbate into a cup today!
At one time I had a clipping of adverts and such in various magazines that I pasted onto the inner cover of a notebook. Always fun reading. My absolute favorite?
Are you tired of being scammed by false ads in magazines? Send $1 to Coalition to Stop False Advertising 1313 Mockingbird Ln Munsterville, TV 12392
I think this project is slightly reminiscent of work done at the Maximegalon Instititue for Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Suprisingly Obvious. Let me save you a little work.
I happen to agree with your definitions. But what we seem to be disagreeing on is the nature of the box.
AT&T has a employee directory, mentioned in the memo, called POST. Corporate directories of this type are typically stored on the corporate Intranet and globally accessable(without username/password authentication) from within the corporate firewall. The Intranets are usually somewhat protected, but crack any box on the Intranet(including Joe Blow's desktop), and you can access this directory. Now, along with your social engineering "rootkit" you publish a list of names of people with job titles like "Network Engineer III" and things like their office phone numbers and such.
For a hypothetical situation, still using the world of Telco, but not necessarially limited ot it. The script goes like this. Call tech support for the company.
"Hello, thank you for calling $CompanyName"
"Hi, this is $TechName. I'm calling from home, got a page about a problem with one of the billing subsytems I support. The number of the person didn't make it into the text page, I'll track them down Monday. I need a CustID for a customer with an 800 number to run some tests on the sytem. Can you look one up for me? Any customer will do."
If the operator doesn't respod with a CustID, then hang up. The business CustIDs can be used to do things like viewing billing info, maybe even modifying it or ordering new service(which could get the hacker a free phone) depending on how web-enabled the business is.
In either case, it's still a basic, follow the steps, type of attack. Much less likely to succeed, but maybe even harder to track.
A script kiddie has NOTHING to do with social engineering! Learn a new buzzword.
I disagree. If you read the memo you'd have seen that the point of these seminars is to produce material that, for lack of a better word, can be used to train people to execute social engineering attacks. A HOWTO of sorts. I can easily make the comparison between such a group of published materials and a rootkit. In both cases the "1337" hacker is just following a script.
Luckily, with humans on both sides there is much more chance for a screwup or someone being caught.
So I think the script kiddies analogy is accurate, in both cases it's someone who would not have been able to design these attacks themselves using how-to kits to comprimise systems. In this case they're carbon-based, not silicon-based, but the analogy is sound.
Why do people do this to me? Get your analogies right!
Your "Imagine a store" analogy is way off base. Let me correct it for you.
Imagine a store with shelves that are a deep fuscia. Now maybe 1% of people in the world wear sunshades that are fuscia-tinted and when they walk into the store they get banged around and can't tell what is where, can't read labels, etc. 99% of people don't have a problem with it, and in fact the shelf color doesn't bother them at all, they just gloss right over it and go about their shopping. There is a shade of shelf coloring that will work with pretty much every type of sunshades currently known to man. This may change when other sunshades come out, but if you invest money in the more expensive, but non-fuscia, color of shelving, your store will be navigable by that additional 1% of people.
Now do you re-build your entire store and all your displays to be sure those people who CHOOSE to wear fuscia-colored sunshades can use it? Or do you tell them to bugger off?
Many people who don't use Microsoft are in that situation by CHOICE. A Microsoft-based PC and IE is almost always a choice when building a home PC or at worst the public Library for minimal cost.
Now say 10% of that 1% are non-Microsoft users by some factor outside their control, maybe they're using someone else's network or PC. Now you're looking at a more expensive infrastructure(coders who know w3c standards vs the average Front Page "coder") just to open your market to 0.1% more people.
This is far different than racial discrimination. A black person and a white person can use the same cash register. A Microsoft user and a non-Microsoft user CAN NOT use the same web interface without careful work on the part of the site designer/coder.
My pet peeve has done it to me again. Supid waste of time to correct other people's analogies, but DAMN I hate sloppy analogies.
Funny, it looked like utter crap on NT4 with Netscape 4.72. Pictures out of line, gaps in the background images, broken links, games didn't load(tried to play the Lego game). Yep, looks like it doesn't work with Netscape 4.72. A valid warning message in this instance, you may be right about their intentions, but in my case they're spot on about the results.
It's way overkill for your small business, and I doubt you could afford it, but Harris has recently started taking orders for it's new 802.11b wireless network cards and access points They're Type 1 encryption, as opposed to FIPS category devices which are Type 3. FIPS level security is for sensitive, but unclassified information, meaning it would be bad, but not devestating if this info was cracked. Type 1 devices are used to protect Classified information, seriously bad juju could happen if the wrong people get this info.
Not only that, they have a price-point about half that of previous Type 1 encryption devices, about 2700 per node as opposed to about 5k per node.
Hope this helps, they have a nice datasheet and brief on the site.
In the film Boromir did not know about Aragorn before he was presented by Legolas at the Council as "descenadant of Isildur, heir of the throne of Gondor". Sure, Boromir knew about existence of such a heir.
As soon as he was told Aragorn was the son of Arathorn, he knew who he was. In the books the kingdom of Gondor didn't even know what happened to Isildur after he left to go back to Arnor.
Honestly, I do not remember Frodo exhibiting any obsession with the ring in the book until much later in the story (time of actually keeping it on himself counts, most probably). May be, slightest sign of it with Bilbo, but nothing more.
He was concerned with losing it when Bombadil was playing with it. After Bombadil made it vanish he was concerned enough with the possiblity of something being wrong with it that he put it on to reassure himself that it was indeed the same ring. He always carried it, just like Bilbo, and often fingered it in his pocket even before he left the Shire.
I believe, Narsil was reforged later and presented to Aragorn by don't-remember-who together with the Gondor's banner, made by Arwen.
Narsil was re-forged and re-named Andruil before the company set out from Rivendell.
I don't remember who exactly was tinkering with the weather on the Caradras (Sauron or Saruman), but it was certainly affected by magic - there is nice scene in the book where Legolas discover that the snowstorm exist on a quite limited space.
This is a bit of a sticky situation. Carahadras in the books is depicted as having a mind of it's own. Either Aragorn or Gimli(IIRC, may have even been Gandalf) remarks "Carahadras was called 'The Cruel' long before Saruman or even Sauron came to Middle-Earth". But alas, the real reason for the freak snowstorm will never be known. The malicious will of the mountain itself, Sauron, or even Saruman could have been responsible. In Tolkien's world, many things had some kind of sentience and a will of their own.
I agree with you on the matter of scene of killing of Sauron. I also think the whole prehistory of the ring would fit better to the point where Gandalf discovers it or to the time of Council (as in the book), but PJ was in position for better judgement:)
In the timeline of the book it takes nearly 17 years for Gandalf to trace the history of the ring after his suspicions are fully awakened at Bilbo's farewell party. Showing that kind of time lapse in a movie would be impractical, but at least they could have left the defeat of Sauron intact. Oh well.
Although it makes no mention of Sauron turning invisible when he wore the Ring, the answer is clearly implied in the Tom Bombadil sequence. Frodo asked Gandalf why Tom didn't turn invisible when HE wore the Ring. Gandalf replied that it was not because Tom had any power over the Ring, but because the Ring had no power over HIM. I would imagine that the Ring would have no power over Sauron either, Sauron being its maker and the source of its power.
Not really. The truth is that the ring allows people to exist in two dimensions at the same time. There is a dimension where dreams are connected, minds co-exist, etc, where Sauron, the Ringwraiths and certain parts of the minds of Elves all dwell. This is the world the Wraiths live in, although they still retain some power in the mortal world. The process of changing from the mortal world to the wraith world is called "fading" and it was Frodo's fate after being stabbed on Weathertop if Elrond had not been able to heal him.
Bombadil was master of himself, the ring was not able to draw him into the wraith world, but for most people it does. The truly powerful wills, such as the Istari and Elf-Lords have, can co-exist in both worlds as Sauron and the Ringwraiths do. With the power of the ring in this alternate dimension they can dominate the will of wearers of the other rings, which also increase the presence of their holder in the wraith dimension.
"The ring gives power to each according to their stature." If you are already a powerful will, you can wield it's power, but only Sauron could wield it to his own ends without it corrupting him because he made it and both he and the ring had the same ends in mind.
Merging the role of Glorfindel and Arwen makes perfect sense when you consider her lineage, and conveys much more Tolkien's sense of the role of women in the struggles of Middle-earth, and the unions of elves and man. It also helps to illuminate the transition of Aragorns character from rootless wanderer to heir of Gondor.
I don't have a problem with leaving out Glorfindel, he was an ancient elf-lord and we wouldn't have had time to explore even a fraction of his character/history in a film. Using Arwen there was fine with me. But, Aragorn was not a rootless wanderer. The Dunedain of the north never forgot their history or heritage, although they were forgotton by the south.
Places where the activity and the feelings were preserved in the movie version even though the characters may have been changed are fine with me. Places where the feelings and activities were changed bug me. I submit the following list:
Aragorn being known to Boromir instead of being unknown.
Frodo doing his damnedst to give away the ring at every opportunity and leaving it in the envelope in the trunk for years. Jackson has done a good job showing everyone's desire for the ring EXCEPT Frodo! Why can't you show us that Frodo was obsessed with it?
Saruman being able to control/influence the weather in the passes over Carahadras.
Not re-forging Narsil, but preserving it as an important legend.
The deus ex machina in the final battle of the Last Alliance of Men and Elves where Isildur makes a wild strike with the shards of Narsil and just happens to chop the ring from Sauron's finger. Damnit, in the book the Last Alliance beat Sauron fair and square, tore down what they could of Barad dur and built watchtowers in Mordor. The ring was cut from his hand after Gil-Galad and Elendil had killed him(well, mostly dead at least).
Ah well. Still it was a pretty good adaptation of a book that I always knew would be really difficult to adapt to a screenplay. I'll watch it again with a less critical eye someday.
This is your first post effort? An almost complete non-sequitor about cube versus sphere?
Come on, there are plenty of dumb things you could have said about this story. Take a crack at the editorial staff. "Well I won't buy a GameCube until SmashBros offers the chance of pitting CowboyNeal against JonKatz, now that's a win-win situation."
Take the high road and say something like "I really wish these gaming machines were more flexible. Such raw power and only channeled into games. I wish more systems were like the Dreamcast that you can run Linux on."
Or you could even go the traditional way and say "First Goat!" or something. Your reply was so unimaginative and pathetic that it's a real shame you got First Post.
Also, hardcore players, rather than being ridiculed, are respected for the in-game power they develop, so there's social pressure to play more, rather than to play moderately.
My god is this true. I'm a relative newbie to Everquest and I'm exploring more than I'm doing pretty much anything else. I've got a bunch of characters around level 10, with my top character at 25, I've been playing since March or so. I've gotten in touch with other players through message boards. When I was expressing dissatisfaction with how slow it is to travel around and the repetition of the mid-levels where it is hard to find a group because many classes can still solo and hard to solo because the monsters gang up on you something awful.
Eventually our arguement came down to me holding this position, this game isn't very fun because you have huge downtime if you're hurt, transportation around the HUGE world of Norrath is a pain in the ass, corpse runs are painful and there are far too many random high-level aggressive NPCs that will gladly pop out from behind rocks(literally!) and knock your block off. The hardcore players said, "Yea, so?" These players are so addicted that my suggestions about how to make the game more interesting were met with the same kind of scorn you'd get if you asked a lifelong-Marlboro man to smoke Camels. This just isn't healty people.
It could be worse - some people turn to alcohol, drugs, or gambling, all much, much, MUCH more destructive than games or work. (except for maybe M:TG - that can do a number on your bank account that can match many drugs)
Spoken like a true addict. And an even bigger irony is that I'm the one calling you on it:)
Sadly I once thought this. For about five years I was right. I have not changed my email address in five years, but I have moved three times(graduated college, moved, got new job, moved again, found sweet house, moved again) and has at least five different ISPs in that time.(Sweet house isn't close enough to a CO for DSL like old rip-off apartment was) I had a forwarding service through mail.com But, they're shutting it down. After five years of having the same email address now I have to update all my contacts, and I know there are some subscriptions I'll lose, or some communications I'll miss no matter how vigilant I am. I simply can't remember everything I've put that address on for five years.
Solaris, their operating system, has few advantages over Linux, nowadays. Frankly, without adding the GNU tools, Solaris is virtually unusable! (And, who's gonna pay $10k for their compiler when GCC does the job?)
Shhhhhhh! Quiet! All you're going to accomplish with crazy talk like that is to get RMS on a tirade about how it should be called GNU/Solaris.
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, and the best part about free range lawyers is that there is virtually no risk of mad lawyer disease.
Enjoy,
Steven
This is why it's important to donate to sperm banks. A geek can't get any in person, but they have hope that if they donate to sperm banks, with a full description of the donor's brilliance and intellectual prowess, that someone will choose his sperm. It's easy, painless and free! Don't deny the next generation the geek genes. Go masturbate into a cup today!
Steven
I still chuckle when I think about it.
Enjoy,
Steven
Coke adds life!
I think we just slashdotted the linux kernel...
Steven
I think this project is slightly reminiscent of work done at the Maximegalon Instititue for Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Suprisingly Obvious. Let me save you a little work.
Here, in a nutshell, is the heart of every EULA.
All your base are belong to us.
Steven
I happen to agree with your definitions. But what we seem to be disagreeing on is the nature of the box.
AT&T has a employee directory, mentioned in the memo, called POST. Corporate directories of this type are typically stored on the corporate Intranet and globally accessable(without username/password authentication) from within the corporate firewall. The Intranets are usually somewhat protected, but crack any box on the Intranet(including Joe Blow's desktop), and you can access this directory. Now, along with your social engineering "rootkit" you publish a list of names of people with job titles like "Network Engineer III" and things like their office phone numbers and such.
For a hypothetical situation, still using the world of Telco, but not necessarially limited ot it. The script goes like this. Call tech support for the company.
"Hello, thank you for calling $CompanyName"
"Hi, this is $TechName. I'm calling from home, got a page about a problem with one of the billing subsytems I support. The number of the person didn't make it into the text page, I'll track them down Monday. I need a CustID for a customer with an 800 number to run some tests on the sytem. Can you look one up for me? Any customer will do."
If the operator doesn't respod with a CustID, then hang up. The business CustIDs can be used to do things like viewing billing info, maybe even modifying it or ordering new service(which could get the hacker a free phone) depending on how web-enabled the business is.
In either case, it's still a basic, follow the steps, type of attack. Much less likely to succeed, but maybe even harder to track.
Steven
Luckily, with humans on both sides there is much more chance for a screwup or someone being caught.
So I think the script kiddies analogy is accurate, in both cases it's someone who would not have been able to design these attacks themselves using how-to kits to comprimise systems. In this case they're carbon-based, not silicon-based, but the analogy is sound.
Steven
Why do people do this to me? Get your analogies right!
Your "Imagine a store" analogy is way off base. Let me correct it for you.
Imagine a store with shelves that are a deep fuscia. Now maybe 1% of people in the world wear sunshades that are fuscia-tinted and when they walk into the store they get banged around and can't tell what is where, can't read labels, etc. 99% of people don't have a problem with it, and in fact the shelf color doesn't bother them at all, they just gloss right over it and go about their shopping. There is a shade of shelf coloring that will work with pretty much every type of sunshades currently known to man. This may change when other sunshades come out, but if you invest money in the more expensive, but non-fuscia, color of shelving, your store will be navigable by that additional 1% of people.
Now do you re-build your entire store and all your displays to be sure those people who CHOOSE to wear fuscia-colored sunshades can use it? Or do you tell them to bugger off?
Many people who don't use Microsoft are in that situation by CHOICE. A Microsoft-based PC and IE is almost always a choice when building a home PC or at worst the public Library for minimal cost.
Now say 10% of that 1% are non-Microsoft users by some factor outside their control, maybe they're using someone else's network or PC. Now you're looking at a more expensive infrastructure(coders who know w3c standards vs the average Front Page "coder") just to open your market to 0.1% more people.
This is far different than racial discrimination. A black person and a white person can use the same cash register. A Microsoft user and a non-Microsoft user CAN NOT use the same web interface without careful work on the part of the site designer/coder.
My pet peeve has done it to me again. Supid waste of time to correct other people's analogies, but DAMN I hate sloppy analogies.
Steven
Funny, it looked like utter crap on NT4 with Netscape 4.72. Pictures out of line, gaps in the background images, broken links, games didn't load(tried to play the Lego game). Yep, looks like it doesn't work with Netscape 4.72. A valid warning message in this instance, you may be right about their intentions, but in my case they're spot on about the results.
Steven
This is a link to the report on http://slashdot.org through the W3C validator.
Interesting.
Steven
d00d! you are 50 1337! That is an uber id34!
$cat BlockedSitesList > Favorites
$w00t!
ksh: w00t!: not found.
$4ll ur pr0n r b3l0ng 2 m3!
ksh: 4ll: not found.
Steven
It's way overkill for your small business, and I doubt you could afford it, but Harris has recently started taking orders for it's new 802.11b wireless network cards and access points They're Type 1 encryption, as opposed to FIPS category devices which are Type 3. FIPS level security is for sensitive, but unclassified information, meaning it would be bad, but not devestating if this info was cracked. Type 1 devices are used to protect Classified information, seriously bad juju could happen if the wrong people get this info.
Not only that, they have a price-point about half that of previous Type 1 encryption devices, about 2700 per node as opposed to about 5k per node.
Hope this helps, they have a nice datasheet and brief on the site.
Steven
can you hop on gnutella and drop me an email with your IP? I love her stuff.
.99 for stuff, but really, how many people will when you can get it for free?
Free(as in beer) > All(nonfree beer) People say they'll pay
Steven
Either the bars you go to are staffed by drunks.. or they make you clean your own glasses.
:p
Either way I'd find a new bar.
Or just remember your wallet the next time you go out. Then maybe they won't make you wash the dishes to pay for your beers
If a contract protects one but not the other, it's not a very good contract for the "not the other" party to enter into.
Sounds very much like every EULA I've ever read.
Steven
In the film Boromir did not know about Aragorn before he was presented by Legolas at the Council as "descenadant of Isildur, heir of the throne of Gondor". Sure, Boromir knew about existence of such a heir.
:)
As soon as he was told Aragorn was the son of Arathorn, he knew who he was. In the books the kingdom of Gondor didn't even know what happened to Isildur after he left to go back to Arnor.
Honestly, I do not remember Frodo exhibiting any obsession with the ring in the book until much later in the story (time of actually keeping it on himself counts, most probably). May be, slightest sign of it with Bilbo, but nothing more.
He was concerned with losing it when Bombadil was playing with it. After Bombadil made it vanish he was concerned enough with the possiblity of something being wrong with it that he put it on to reassure himself that it was indeed the same ring. He always carried it, just like Bilbo, and often fingered it in his pocket even before he left the Shire.
I believe, Narsil was reforged later and presented to Aragorn by don't-remember-who together with the Gondor's banner, made by Arwen.
Narsil was re-forged and re-named Andruil before the company set out from Rivendell.
I don't remember who exactly was tinkering with the weather on the Caradras (Sauron or Saruman), but it was certainly affected by magic - there is nice scene in the book where Legolas discover that the snowstorm exist on a quite limited space.
This is a bit of a sticky situation. Carahadras in the books is depicted as having a mind of it's own. Either Aragorn or Gimli(IIRC, may have even been Gandalf) remarks "Carahadras was called 'The Cruel' long before Saruman or even Sauron came to Middle-Earth". But alas, the real reason for the freak snowstorm will never be known. The malicious will of the mountain itself, Sauron, or even Saruman could have been responsible. In Tolkien's world, many things had some kind of sentience and a will of their own.
I agree with you on the matter of scene of killing of Sauron. I also think the whole prehistory of the ring would fit better to the point where Gandalf discovers it or to the time of Council (as in the book), but PJ was in position for better judgement
In the timeline of the book it takes nearly 17 years for Gandalf to trace the history of the ring after his suspicions are fully awakened at Bilbo's farewell party. Showing that kind of time lapse in a movie would be impractical, but at least they could have left the defeat of Sauron intact. Oh well.
Steven
Although it makes no mention of Sauron turning invisible when he wore the Ring, the answer is clearly implied in the Tom Bombadil sequence. Frodo asked Gandalf why Tom didn't turn invisible when HE wore the Ring. Gandalf replied that it was not because Tom had any power over the Ring, but because the Ring had no power over HIM. I would imagine that the Ring would have no power over Sauron either, Sauron being its maker and the source of its power.
Not really. The truth is that the ring allows people to exist in two dimensions at the same time. There is a dimension where dreams are connected, minds co-exist, etc, where Sauron, the Ringwraiths and certain parts of the minds of Elves all dwell. This is the world the Wraiths live in, although they still retain some power in the mortal world. The process of changing from the mortal world to the wraith world is called "fading" and it was Frodo's fate after being stabbed on Weathertop if Elrond had not been able to heal him.
Bombadil was master of himself, the ring was not able to draw him into the wraith world, but for most people it does. The truly powerful wills, such as the Istari and Elf-Lords have, can co-exist in both worlds as Sauron and the Ringwraiths do. With the power of the ring in this alternate dimension they can dominate the will of wearers of the other rings, which also increase the presence of their holder in the wraith dimension.
"The ring gives power to each according to their stature." If you are already a powerful will, you can wield it's power, but only Sauron could wield it to his own ends without it corrupting him because he made it and both he and the ring had the same ends in mind.
Steven
Merging the role of Glorfindel and Arwen makes perfect sense when you consider her lineage, and conveys much more Tolkien's sense of the role of women in the struggles of Middle-earth, and the unions of elves and man. It also helps to illuminate the transition of Aragorns character from rootless wanderer to heir of Gondor.
I don't have a problem with leaving out Glorfindel, he was an ancient elf-lord and we wouldn't have had time to explore even a fraction of his character/history in a film. Using Arwen there was fine with me. But, Aragorn was not a rootless wanderer. The Dunedain of the north never forgot their history or heritage, although they were forgotton by the south.
Places where the activity and the feelings were preserved in the movie version even though the characters may have been changed are fine with me. Places where the feelings and activities were changed bug me. I submit the following list:
Aragorn being known to Boromir instead of being unknown.
Frodo doing his damnedst to give away the ring at every opportunity and leaving it in the envelope in the trunk for years. Jackson has done a good job showing everyone's desire for the ring EXCEPT Frodo! Why can't you show us that Frodo was obsessed with it?
Saruman being able to control/influence the weather in the passes over Carahadras.
Not re-forging Narsil, but preserving it as an important legend.
The deus ex machina in the final battle of the Last Alliance of Men and Elves where Isildur makes a wild strike with the shards of Narsil and just happens to chop the ring from Sauron's finger. Damnit, in the book the Last Alliance beat Sauron fair and square, tore down what they could of Barad dur and built watchtowers in Mordor. The ring was cut from his hand after Gil-Galad and Elendil had killed him(well, mostly dead at least).
Ah well. Still it was a pretty good adaptation of a book that I always knew would be really difficult to adapt to a screenplay. I'll watch it again with a less critical eye someday.
Steven
Someone showed me Perl and inside a week I was writting (badly but still writting) a message board. It took me weeks, it was horrid but it worked
CmdrTaco? Is that you?
Steven
This is your first post effort? An almost complete non-sequitor about cube versus sphere?
Come on, there are plenty of dumb things you could have said about this story. Take a crack at the editorial staff. "Well I won't buy a GameCube until SmashBros offers the chance of pitting CowboyNeal against JonKatz, now that's a win-win situation."
Take the high road and say something like "I really wish these gaming machines were more flexible. Such raw power and only channeled into games. I wish more systems were like the Dreamcast that you can run Linux on."
Or you could even go the traditional way and say "First Goat!" or something. Your reply was so unimaginative and pathetic that it's a real shame you got First Post.
Steven
Also, hardcore players, rather than being ridiculed, are respected for the in-game power they develop, so there's social pressure to play more, rather than to play moderately.
My god is this true. I'm a relative newbie to Everquest and I'm exploring more than I'm doing pretty much anything else. I've got a bunch of characters around level 10, with my top character at 25, I've been playing since March or so. I've gotten in touch with other players through message boards. When I was expressing dissatisfaction with how slow it is to travel around and the repetition of the mid-levels where it is hard to find a group because many classes can still solo and hard to solo because the monsters gang up on you something awful.
Eventually our arguement came down to me holding this position, this game isn't very fun because you have huge downtime if you're hurt, transportation around the HUGE world of Norrath is a pain in the ass, corpse runs are painful and there are far too many random high-level aggressive NPCs that will gladly pop out from behind rocks(literally!) and knock your block off. The hardcore players said, "Yea, so?" These players are so addicted that my suggestions about how to make the game more interesting were met with the same kind of scorn you'd get if you asked a lifelong-Marlboro man to smoke Camels. This just isn't healty people.
Steven
It could be worse - some people turn to alcohol, drugs, or gambling, all much, much, MUCH more destructive than games or work. (except for maybe M:TG - that can do a number on your bank account that can match many drugs)
:)
Spoken like a true addict. And an even bigger irony is that I'm the one calling you on it
Steven
Sadly I once thought this. For about five years I was right. I have not changed my email address in five years, but I have moved three times(graduated college, moved, got new job, moved again, found sweet house, moved again) and has at least five different ISPs in that time.(Sweet house isn't close enough to a CO for DSL like old rip-off apartment was) I had a forwarding service through mail.com But, they're shutting it down. After five years of having the same email address now I have to update all my contacts, and I know there are some subscriptions I'll lose, or some communications I'll miss no matter how vigilant I am. I simply can't remember everything I've put that address on for five years.
Steven
Shhhhhhh! Quiet! All you're going to accomplish with crazy talk like that is to get RMS on a tirade about how it should be called GNU/Solaris.
Steven