when the alarm goes off at Macy's, the implication is that you may be a thief. When the alarm goes off at JFK International airport, the implication is that you may be a terrorist. Somehow I bet you'll get a slightly different reaction, eh?
...when the alternative is 'not being able to hear' or even better, 'death'. Doc tells me I can die or he can stick a gizmo in my chest? Call the doohickey what you like, I say 'really neat' is Understatement of the Month.
As a matter of comparison, my Windows 2000 box has no such vulnerability. The first time I went to Windows Update, I checked the box that said "always trust content from Microsoft Corporation." Therefore, only Microsoft's real certificate will be accepted by my machine. Even if the FBI forces Verisign to issue an impostor certificate, it will be detected and thwarted
I applaud your investigation of the security flaws inherent in package updating, but do you really trust Microsoft to not cooperate with the FBI (i.e. provide a 'genuine' Microsoft certificate) in exchange for more federally-redeemable Brownie Points?
I second that - I saw Planescape: Torment in the bargain bin at Fry's a couple weeks ago and it made me almost fail a Circuits midterm.
It was in dual-jewelcase packaging with some other game (Anyone heard of "Soulbringer"? Looks stupid...) for $12.99, I think. Torment is definately more of a plot and character RPG (one million words total, according to the IGN interview, crazy) than a hack-and-slash; trust me, you're better off spending more points on Int-Wis-Cha than Str-Dex-Con. And the game world is exactly how Planescape should be. Without spoiling anything, the game includes areas of Sigil, the Outlands, and 3 other planes (don't want to name them and give anything away, hehe) and I can think of representatives of at least 8 of the Planescape factions in the game, some of which you can join.
The sound is nothing exciting. The characters (2D) aren't quite as smoothly animated as we expect these days, with only 8 angles of view, but damn are they beautiful. Spell effects are very well-animated, and the high-level spells are awesome; some of them have Final Fantasy-style cutscenes before casting, although none reaching the tedious 2 minute+ length of some of those giant summons. Honestly, though, I only got to a level to be able to cast 8th and 9th level spells because I snagged a huge exp boost right before the final boss, it seems kind of silly that they had them in there.
Anyway, I can't possibly recommend Torment strongly enough to anybody who wants an RPG with depth and emotion instead of massive hack-and-slash interrupted by the occaisional trip to town to sell ph4+ 1007.
"Did you know that President Bush repealed a law last year that outlawed the hunting and execution of terrorist leaders? I will be watching to see what happens."
That would be quite a feat, since it means that President Bush has not only invented a time machine and made himself the President a couple months early, but also managed to remove legislative capabilites from Congress and vest them in himself.
We had the "In the Light" club, though. They used to pray around the flagpole on Wednesday mornings. One day, while they were doing their thing, a bunch of my friends and I went to a garbage can located on a hill near the flagpole and stood around it reciting passages from The Myth of Sisyphus and other fine works. The principal came out and made us stop because it was 'offensive' to other groups. Go figure.
I think what you mean to say is, "Nintendo got screwed because they made it hard for 3rd party developers to come anywhere near a development kit."
Sony 0wn3d them in this department by releasing Yaroze units to anybody and his brother for what, 100k yen? Not to mention, Nintendo has always tried to shove the idea into consumers' heads that NINTENDO IS GOD. WE MAKE SYSTEM. WE MAKE GAME. YOU WILL BUY NOW. OTHER DEVELOPER IS IRRELEVANT.
Sony didn't mind people associating Playstation with 'mascots' from other companies, such as Cloud (Final Fantasy 7) and Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid). Nintendo wants you to see that big N, and say, "It's a me, Mario!" (Or, more recently, "Pika?")
Anyway, the point is that Sony has been MUCH more supportive of 3rd party developers, both in terms of developing games and branding, than Nintendo has. But hey, they've still got four bullets left, and there are plenty more places to shoot themselves.
I seem to remember that the UK expanded its territorial waters a bit, sometime after Sealand was claimed and became a sovereign nation. The net effect is that Sealand is still not part of the UK, but anyone who wants to attack Sealand is going to have to mess with the British first. Unless of course it's the British doing the attacking. Further information on this topic may be found here.
...but all the pot hookups at my high school did "first one's free." Of course, that's quite a bit different from street dealers, who don't have personal relationships with new customers. I guess it was more of a friendly courtesy kind of thing than a shrewd, calculating business move; I seem to remember that they did tend to offer better deals to regular customers rather than gouging the poor souls 'addicted' to weed.
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The legacy of the techno-outsider culture, such games have been partly supplanted by flashier entertainment systems from Nintendo and Sega, and technologically-sophisticated games like "Seaman."
...could make playing with semen sound like fun. Further information on this topic may be found here.
Just so you know, the head of the patent office was being sarcastic when he said that. He was pleading to Congress to not cut funding of the Office, and he said something along the lines of "Well, I guess it's OK, since everything's already been invented that CAN be invented, eh?"r
It's much the same as the way the head of GM said "What's good for America is good for General Motors," but everybody reverses those clauses.
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R2: Hello, meesa Jar2D2! Since every other character in Star Wars these days be doin' racist impressions, meesa gonna do some racist impressions too! Bleep bloo fleebleoob! Get it? Meesa making fun of UNIX system! Doo dop beeeeep! Hah hah, Windows 2k bleeps freeble goit!
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...by entering a new market, Microsoft is now a competitor. After a while in the Internet Appliance Chip market, they 'suddenly realize' that they have all this manufacturing capability, and decide that making PC CPUs, motherboards, etc. would be an interesting market. The result is the follow BSOD:
Your Microsoft{tm} Motherboard has detected a virus attempting to load itself into system memory. The process in question, Red_Hat_Linux_v6.2, will be terminated immediately.
If you have any information which could be useful to Microsoft in its attempt to sue the individual or individuals responsible for distribution of this virus, such as the name of a store not complying with the Microsoft's voluntary "WIN-only or Die" sales promotion, please contact us immediately by sending email to theman@microsoft.com
...Every time _I_ want to steal something, I make sure to go to www.mapquest.com to get directions.
After all, they're fast! Much faster than highlighting a triple-A map, and those are out of date sometimes. Also, mapquest.com always gets me the fastest escape route, which helps me evade capture if I set off any alarms by accident. Their maps fit on a single page, so they don't block my rearview like a big fold-out.
Plus, if I get the number wrong, Mapquest.com helps me determine the correct address! They're active accomplices!
Maybe the key to knowing candidates in the personal sense is knowing them in the Biblical sense. I mean, Washington, D.C. is full of *ahem* houses of ill repute, right?
I'd bet my bottom dollar that some of those ladies would be able to describe a candidate's personality fairly well, even given their limited experience.
"Man, when that McCain says he's going to control Congress, he means he is going to _control_ Congress!"
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else see this as not really being an issue of censorship?
It's not like this guy is going to go door-to-door shutting down goatpr0n servers to stop the junior high kiddies from looking at it - he's going to make a little tiny snip that makes it so his customers can't get off at the laundromat.
A lot of people have been saying he should stick to his guns as 'a matter of principle', regardless of technical issues - even if he had a perfect filter, they say, that could stop 100% of pr0n and 0% of legitimate contact, it's a 'freedom of speech' issue.
Last time I checked, private citizens and companies had the right of free speech, but they also have to right to ignore goatse.cx excercising THEIR free speech.
No one is being 'censored' here. Goatse.cx is still free to post all the pictures they want.
Anyone else find that highly bizarre? Apparently, under the Audio Home Recording Act, 'digital recordings' are protected but computers are not 'digital audio recording' devices. Furthermore, Diamond managed to beat RIAA by PT Barnuming the court into believing that mp3s are NOT "digital musical recordings".
RIAA now claims that, because mp3s are not "digital musical recordings", the AHRA does not protect mp3.
mp3 is obviously digital, or it couldn't be stored as bits on a CD. So, if mp3s aren't "musical recordings", how is the copyright being violated?
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Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a .97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates .99 probability.
.97 probability of the containing email being plans for Saturday night!
Poor guy. Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a
when the alarm goes off at Macy's, the implication is that you may be a thief. When the alarm goes off at JFK International airport, the implication is that you may be a terrorist. Somehow I bet you'll get a slightly different reaction, eh?
...when the alternative is 'not being able to hear' or even better, 'death'. Doc tells me I can die or he can stick a gizmo in my chest? Call the doohickey what you like, I say 'really neat' is Understatement of the Month.
As a matter of comparison, my Windows 2000 box has no such vulnerability. The first time I went to Windows Update, I checked the box that said "always trust content from Microsoft Corporation." Therefore, only Microsoft's real certificate will be accepted by my machine. Even if the FBI forces Verisign to issue an impostor certificate, it will be detected and thwarted
I applaud your investigation of the security flaws inherent in package updating, but do you really trust Microsoft to not cooperate with the FBI (i.e. provide a 'genuine' Microsoft certificate) in exchange for more federally-redeemable Brownie Points?
I second that - I saw Planescape: Torment in the bargain bin at Fry's a couple weeks ago and it made me almost fail a Circuits midterm.
It was in dual-jewelcase packaging with some other game (Anyone heard of "Soulbringer"? Looks stupid...) for $12.99, I think. Torment is definately more of a plot and character RPG (one million words total, according to the IGN interview, crazy) than a hack-and-slash; trust me, you're better off spending more points on Int-Wis-Cha than Str-Dex-Con. And the game world is exactly how Planescape should be. Without spoiling anything, the game includes areas of Sigil, the Outlands, and 3 other planes (don't want to name them and give anything away, hehe) and I can think of representatives of at least 8 of the Planescape factions in the game, some of which you can join.
The sound is nothing exciting. The characters (2D) aren't quite as smoothly animated as we expect these days, with only 8 angles of view, but damn are they beautiful. Spell effects are very well-animated, and the high-level spells are awesome; some of them have Final Fantasy-style cutscenes before casting, although none reaching the tedious 2 minute+ length of some of those giant summons. Honestly, though, I only got to a level to be able to cast 8th and 9th level spells because I snagged a huge exp boost right before the final boss, it seems kind of silly that they had them in there.
Anyway, I can't possibly recommend Torment strongly enough to anybody who wants an RPG with depth and emotion instead of massive hack-and-slash interrupted by the occaisional trip to town to sell ph4+ 1007.
"Did you know that President Bush repealed a law last year that outlawed the hunting and execution of terrorist leaders? I will be watching to see what happens."
That would be quite a feat, since it means that President Bush has not only invented a time machine and made himself the President a couple months early, but also managed to remove legislative capabilites from Congress and vest them in himself.
We had the "In the Light" club, though. They used to pray around the flagpole on Wednesday mornings. One day, while they were doing their thing, a bunch of my friends and I went to a garbage can located on a hill near the flagpole and stood around it reciting passages from The Myth of Sisyphus and other fine works. The principal came out and made us stop because it was 'offensive' to other groups. Go figure.
I think what you mean to say is, "Nintendo got screwed because they made it hard for 3rd party developers to come anywhere near a development kit."
Sony 0wn3d them in this department by releasing Yaroze units to anybody and his brother for what, 100k yen? Not to mention, Nintendo has always tried to shove the idea into consumers' heads that NINTENDO IS GOD. WE MAKE SYSTEM. WE MAKE GAME. YOU WILL BUY NOW. OTHER DEVELOPER IS IRRELEVANT.
Sony didn't mind people associating Playstation with 'mascots' from other companies, such as Cloud (Final Fantasy 7) and Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid). Nintendo wants you to see that big N, and say, "It's a me, Mario!" (Or, more recently, "Pika?")
Anyway, the point is that Sony has been MUCH more supportive of 3rd party developers, both in terms of developing games and branding, than Nintendo has. But hey, they've still got four bullets left, and there are plenty more places to shoot themselves.
I seem to remember that the UK expanded its territorial waters a bit, sometime after Sealand was claimed and became a sovereign nation. The net effect is that Sealand is still not part of the UK, but anyone who wants to attack Sealand is going to have to mess with the British first. Unless of course it's the British doing the attacking.
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they don't know meaning
but script kiddies do rejoice
more cracked boxes
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opening wallet
plastic sweeps, it yet too young
lara croft denied
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opening wallet plastic sweeps, is yet too young lara croft denied 88
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...but all the pot hookups at my high school did "first one's free." Of course, that's quite a bit different from street dealers, who don't have personal relationships with new customers. I guess it was more of a friendly courtesy kind of thing than a shrewd, calculating business move; I seem to remember that they did tend to offer better deals to regular customers rather than gouging the poor souls 'addicted' to weed.
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Further information on this topic may be found here.
The legacy of the techno-outsider culture, such games have been partly supplanted by flashier entertainment systems from Nintendo and Sega, and technologically-sophisticated games like "Seaman."
...could make playing with semen sound like fun.
Further information on this topic may be found here.
Just so you know, the head of the patent office was being sarcastic when he said that. He was pleading to Congress to not cut funding of the Office, and he said something along the lines of "Well, I guess it's OK, since everything's already been invented that CAN be invented, eh?"r It's much the same as the way the head of GM said "What's good for America is good for General Motors," but everybody reverses those clauses. 88
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old machines on show,
like anyone gives a shit.
Slashdot wastes bandwidth.
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Enter CGI
R2: Hello, meesa Jar2D2! Since every other character in Star Wars these days be doin' racist impressions, meesa gonna do some racist impressions too! Bleep bloo fleebleoob! Get it? Meesa making fun of UNIX system! Doo dop beeeeep! Hah hah, Windows 2k bleeps freeble goit!
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Further information on this topic may be found here.
...by entering a new market, Microsoft is now a competitor. After a while in the Internet Appliance Chip market, they 'suddenly realize' that they have all this manufacturing capability, and decide that making PC CPUs, motherboards, etc. would be an interesting market. The result is the follow BSOD:
Your Microsoft{tm} Motherboard has detected a virus attempting to load itself into system memory. The process in question, Red_Hat_Linux_v6.2, will be terminated immediately.
If you have any information which could be useful to Microsoft in its attempt to sue the individual or individuals responsible for distribution of this virus, such as the name of a store not complying with the Microsoft's voluntary "WIN-only or Die" sales promotion, please contact us immediately by sending email to theman@microsoft.com
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...Every time _I_ want to steal something, I make sure to go to www.mapquest.com to get directions.
After all, they're fast! Much faster than highlighting a triple-A map, and those are out of date sometimes. Also, mapquest.com always gets me the fastest escape route, which helps me evade capture if I set off any alarms by accident. Their maps fit on a single page, so they don't block my rearview like a big fold-out.
Plus, if I get the number wrong, Mapquest.com helps me determine the correct address! They're active accomplices!
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Maybe the key to knowing candidates in the personal sense is knowing them in the Biblical sense. I mean, Washington, D.C. is full of *ahem* houses of ill repute, right?
I'd bet my bottom dollar that some of those ladies would be able to describe a candidate's personality fairly well, even given their limited experience.
"Man, when that McCain says he's going to control Congress, he means he is going to _control_ Congress!"
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Actually, Bush isn't the tallest. I'm not sure about the little guys, but Gore is much taller than Bush.
Bush may *appear* taller, but only because he chooses his camera angles carefully.
I expect Gore's ranking to rise after televised debates start, even if he somehow manages to make himself sound less intelligent than Dubbya.
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Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else see this as not really being an issue of censorship?
It's not like this guy is going to go door-to-door shutting down goatpr0n servers to stop the junior high kiddies from looking at it - he's going to make a little tiny snip that makes it so his customers can't get off at the laundromat.
A lot of people have been saying he should stick to his guns as 'a matter of principle', regardless of technical issues - even if he had a perfect filter, they say, that could stop 100% of pr0n and 0% of legitimate contact, it's a 'freedom of speech' issue.
Last time I checked, private citizens and companies had the right of free speech, but they also have to right to ignore goatse.cx excercising THEIR free speech.
No one is being 'censored' here. Goatse.cx is still free to post all the pictures they want.
rk
Anyone else find that highly bizarre? Apparently, under the Audio Home Recording Act, 'digital recordings' are protected but computers are not 'digital audio recording' devices. Furthermore, Diamond managed to beat RIAA by PT Barnuming the court into believing that mp3s are NOT "digital musical recordings".
RIAA now claims that, because mp3s are not "digital musical recordings", the AHRA does not protect mp3.
mp3 is obviously digital, or it couldn't be stored as bits on a CD. So, if mp3s aren't "musical recordings", how is the copyright being violated?
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