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Re:What's the single biggest business in the U.S.? on Too Much Corporate Power? · 2000-09-12 23:41 · Score: 1

Quoting from White Wolf Publishing's The Syndicate, a sourcebook for Mage : The Ascension (a game yes, but it makes a valid point...

Making money is all well and good, but it's ultimately a form of myopia. the secret is not found in how much money a person makes, but in what money represents. Wealth is a tangible symbol of man's progress. It's printed right on the face of a dollar : In God We Trust. That god is Man himself, in all his creative and resourceful glory. He trusts so implicitly in the fruits of his mind and hands that he invests pieces of paper and tiny metal disks with his self-worth. It's a good point. Money is a symbol of the vanity inherent to the human species today.

Re:Hmmm... on Want To Work On BioWare's Star Wars Game? · 2000-08-16 11:17 · Score: 1

grok!

Forgot the blasted www in the EverQuest link.

Click here to go to the EQ site. =P

Hmmm... on Want To Work On BioWare's Star Wars Game? · 2000-08-16 11:15 · Score: 1

Are there multiple Star Wars RPG's coming out, or am I missing something?

BioWare is going to be creating a Single/net-Multi Player RPG, I assume (No time to read the links), and Verant Interactive, makers of EverQuest, are making a MMORPG version, which I can't wait for.

Sounds like Lucas has a good revenue stream lined up for the next couple of years... (as if the already released SW games and movies, and t-shirts, etc etc etc didn't already bring him enough cash)

Re:VPN != IP Masquerading / NAT on @Home Stops Allowing VPNs · 2000-08-14 00:23 · Score: 1

It seems as if even Comcast's Tech Support group needs to be clued

It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.

Online banking, online trading, and online purchasing are typically made via SSL connections, not VPNs. Sounds like they're trying to milk money from Joe Whitecollar who needs to connect to his VPN to access files at work.

Re:Researchers need to eat, too on Academe: Technology For Sale · 2000-08-09 23:55 · Score: 1

I would correct you on this point :

A) Capitalism and communism are general catagories of ideologies. Many form sof both have never been tried. The failure of one or more forms of communism does not prove capitalism correct.

Communism is a facet of the Socialist ideology, not an ideology in and of itself.

The real issue... on Looking For Better Linux Customer Support? · 2000-08-09 00:56 · Score: 1

To the comments that say that VA doesn't have to support you because you installed Mandrake, bollocks. They don't have to support the OS or the Software (any OEM really only has to support what they've installed, IMHO), but they do have to support the hardware that they have supplied you. Sending the system back with parts missing and the *same exact problem* was pretty sh*tty, I think.

One question though, did the server boot with Red Hat installed?

Re:..The bigger picture (heh, as if it could be..) on Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbits Epsilon Eridani · 2000-08-03 13:48 · Score: 1

Actually, Jupiter does *kind of* have a surface. After you get so far down in the atmosphere, the pressure forces the gases into liquid form, IIRC. Then again, IANAA (I am not an astronomer).

Obscurity? hmm...okay! on Security Through Obscurity A GOOD Thing? · 2000-07-26 22:50 · Score: 1

I know!

I'll change the admin login on everything to 'nimda', and make all the passwords 64 characters long!

In all seriousness, without real security measures, the real crackers are going to have an easier time of it than the script kiddies.