That's true. The callous disregard of the amount of effort their playerbase went to to build that minuscule amount of information tells me they don't care one bit about their users. I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it. I'm saying it's stupid of them to delete that information. Heck, I bet most any website is storing more information about a users browsing habits than blizz needed to store character info.
Say something like submitting your post and post header+md5sum to both FreeNet and Usenet. When you query for forum posts you can get the list from Usenet and from FreeNet, request all the files that are available locally from Usenet, and the rest request from FreeNet. Either the Usenet server or the client could do the submitting.
This has the advantage of leveraging longer retention, filling in missing posts either censored or otherwise, and detecting broken/tampered with posts.
The funny thing is, now their names will be very visible linked to how they sued some anonymous people on the internet.
I think they'll have problems getting jobs as ditch-diggers now, because what employer would want to hire someone that would sue someone else over insults?
No, as above poster said, they expired, there was no agreement breakage.
It's fine with me if they don't have the hard disk space to store my characters, just encrypt them and ship them back to me. All they have to do is encrypt and md5sum the files and email them back to me. When I want to start playing again, I email them back the save files, they check that the md5 matches the list they saved.
Just deleting the results of hundreds of hours of my work makes them negligent. The BnetD/evil DMCA usage was what tipped them into SOB territory.
That plus the fact that they deleted hundreds of my diablo 2 characters is why I have never subscribed to WoW. Play an MMO for the non-add impaired instead.
I'll bite. Redirecting just the servers you have compromised keys for. Redirecting to a proxy to google that includes malware targeting 0-day exploits for IE & Firefox (i.e. that javascript one mentioned a little while back).
Redirecting all traffic to a spam server is not "owned". That was pathetic.
Ground effect applies to airplanes, helicopters and of course hovercraft. I would expect the effect would be much less on this craft given that it has much less surface area than a hovercraft or helicopter. So yeah, get at least 7 times your width up before you claim free flight (which earlier poster said there are videos of).
Can it be done by physically extending out a structure from the handle that would magnetically confine the plasma? - Would absorb/vaporize incoming energy or projectile weapons. - Reduces the amount of power needed to maintain the plasma. - Terminates the beam to a particular length - If both sabers had the same polarity they would tend to bounce of each others magnetic fields.
What you're talking about sounds exactly like the problems web designers are having with HTML. You can't control the look of the page. Web designers go through all sorts of pain and headaches just to get a page to look like they want to (single pixel wide images for spacing for example) when it could have been designed with rigid formatting in mind.
Oh, don't give me that "but the browser decides how it should look" garbage: given enough wiggle room in the specs everyone will design their web browsers in such a way as to make it impossible for a page to look good on all of them.
You laugh, but it seems like my eyes have gotten faster. I used to not care about 60hz refresh rate, but now I can't stand it. Look straight ahead at a CRT monitor running 60 hertz looks like a rapidly flickering/shimmering mess. 70 hz is still annoying b/c my peripheral vision picks it up.
I attribute my increased sensitivity to flicker to playing FPS's.
Oh and when a decent brain-computer interface comes out I'll be getting one installed.
Depends on how you define slavery. Exodus 21: "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
Slavery done as described in the Bible is not immoral. Slavery described in the bible is more akin to indentured servitude. The way slaves were acquired and treated by the United States was unarguably very evil.
Please quote where in the Bible is says that (Hebrew style) slavery is immoral?
It is the hardware and software written under the assumption that it is somehow OK to take more then 1 seconds to either start up or shut down that is the problem.
Why do computers take so long to boot up? Require all add-on cards to self test and report good within 100ms of powerup. Use non-volatile memory to automatically back up ram. Computer software and hardware design just stinks these days... and yes I am an embedded systems engineer.
I wish they would do this randomly at Microsoft and Intel... that and have the computers randomly fail and give bad calculation results. Maybe then we would have fault-tolerant computing and truly robust backup schemes.
The space shuttle computers could then be just normal computers.
The Mosaic law was never to be applied to non-jews. (Well it was applied, but Paul told them to knock it off). To argue otherwise is to misunderstand the transition in the book of Acts.
Yes, everyone old enough to know better IS sentenced to hell. I've accepted that on my own I'm not good enough for heaven, do you think you are? Or are you just hoping that by not believing in God he'll just go away?
God, what an atheist I am.
I got a chuckle out of that one
You say the Bible is fun to read: Read John through some time.
The early few generations of humans lived for hundreds of years (Methusalah and several others lived to be over 1000 years old). Even if Adam had no written language, with human ages of that length the creation story could have been told fourth hand or so to Noah.
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That's true. The callous disregard of the amount of effort their playerbase went to to build that minuscule amount of information tells me they don't care one bit about their users. I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it. I'm saying it's stupid of them to delete that information. Heck, I bet most any website is storing more information about a users browsing habits than blizz needed to store character info.
Is there a way to make Usenet P2P?
Say something like submitting your post and post header+md5sum to both FreeNet and Usenet. When you query for forum posts you can get the list from Usenet and from FreeNet, request all the files that are available locally from Usenet, and the rest request from FreeNet. Either the Usenet server or the client could do the submitting.
This has the advantage of leveraging longer retention, filling in missing posts either censored or otherwise, and detecting broken/tampered with posts.
Shutting down hate speech opens the door to shut down religious speech as offensive.
A free society cannot be harmed by hateful ideas.
Anonymity should be protected, _especially_ for speech.
The funny thing is, now their names will be very visible linked to how they sued some anonymous people on the internet.
I think they'll have problems getting jobs as ditch-diggers now, because what employer would want to hire someone that would sue someone else over insults?
So far as I'm aware, there's no Bittorrent client available for either my iPhone or Blackberry anyway.
Wait, there are no multi-player games for the iphone or blackberry??? what the... Is it closed source or something? And you bought it?
"There is a sucker born every minute, and two to take 'em" - attributed to PT Barnum
No, as above poster said, they expired, there was no agreement breakage.
It's fine with me if they don't have the hard disk space to store my characters, just encrypt them and ship them back to me.
All they have to do is encrypt and md5sum the files and email them back to me. When I want to start playing again, I email them back the save files, they check that the md5 matches the list they saved.
Just deleting the results of hundreds of hours of my work makes them negligent. The BnetD/evil DMCA usage was what tipped them into SOB territory.
Let's not forget that Blizzard was one of the early abusers of the DMCA hammer.
That plus the fact that they deleted hundreds of my diablo 2 characters is why I have never subscribed to WoW. Play an MMO for the non-add impaired instead.
I don't know... I don't think alligators would enjoy eating undead blood-sucking vampires.
Define "owned".
I'll bite.
Redirecting just the servers you have compromised keys for.
Redirecting to a proxy to google that includes malware targeting 0-day exploits for IE & Firefox (i.e. that javascript one mentioned a little while back).
Redirecting all traffic to a spam server is not "owned". That was pathetic.
Ground effect applies to airplanes, helicopters and of course hovercraft.
I would expect the effect would be much less on this craft given that it has much less surface area than a hovercraft or helicopter.
So yeah, get at least 7 times your width up before you claim free flight (which earlier poster said there are videos of).
No, you misunderstood: You use this thing to get to and from your Cessna. The question is, can your Cessna hold an additional 250 lbs that bulky?
The bad thing about trying to take out R4 or any other similar card manufacturer is that they also hit us the homebrew developers :(
Similar fight happened with Blizzard Vs BnetD.
http://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
That + how they deleted your Diablo 2 account after 90 days ticked me off at Blizzard badly enough I never subscribed to WoW.
Can it be done by physically extending out a structure from the handle that would magnetically confine the plasma?
- Would absorb/vaporize incoming energy or projectile weapons.
- Reduces the amount of power needed to maintain the plasma.
- Terminates the beam to a particular length
- If both sabers had the same polarity they would tend to bounce of each others magnetic fields.
What am I missing?
So you say they're grooving their rod.... wait what were they doing?
That joke has jumped the shark.
What you're talking about sounds exactly like the problems web designers are having with HTML. You can't control the look of the page. Web designers go through all sorts of pain and headaches just to get a page to look like they want to (single pixel wide images for spacing for example) when it could have been designed with rigid formatting in mind.
Oh, don't give me that "but the browser decides how it should look" garbage: given enough wiggle room in the specs everyone will design their web browsers in such a way as to make it impossible for a page to look good on all of them.
You laugh, but it seems like my eyes have gotten faster.
I used to not care about 60hz refresh rate, but now I can't stand it. Look straight ahead at a CRT monitor running 60 hertz looks like a rapidly flickering/shimmering mess. 70 hz is still annoying b/c my peripheral vision picks it up.
I attribute my increased sensitivity to flicker to playing FPS's.
Oh and when a decent brain-computer interface comes out I'll be getting one installed.
At $130 that laptop is cheaper than one of the LI-Ion batteries in my Inspiron, and I had 3 of them.
Slavery is immoral.
Depends on how you define slavery.
Exodus 21:
"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
Slavery done as described in the Bible is not immoral. Slavery described in the bible is more akin to indentured servitude.
The way slaves were acquired and treated by the United States was unarguably very evil.
Please quote where in the Bible is says that (Hebrew style) slavery is immoral?
Doing what's good for me at the expense of others? What a concept.
I guess you're saying we're all psychopaths.
It is the hardware and software written under the assumption that it is somehow OK to take more then 1 seconds to either start up or shut down that is the problem.
Why do computers take so long to boot up? Require all add-on cards to self test and report good within 100ms of powerup. Use non-volatile memory to automatically back up ram. Computer software and hardware design just stinks these days... and yes I am an embedded systems engineer.
I wish they would do this randomly at Microsoft and Intel... that and have the computers randomly fail and give bad calculation results. Maybe then we would have fault-tolerant computing and truly robust backup schemes.
The space shuttle computers could then be just normal computers.
Yeah, we all laughed because we were sure he'd get Gitmo'd.
The Mosaic law was never to be applied to non-jews. (Well it was applied, but Paul told them to knock it off). To argue otherwise is to misunderstand the transition in the book of Acts.
Yes, everyone old enough to know better IS sentenced to hell. I've accepted that on my own I'm not good enough for heaven, do you think you are? Or are you just hoping that by not believing in God he'll just go away?
God, what an atheist I am.
I got a chuckle out of that one
You say the Bible is fun to read: Read John through some time.
The early few generations of humans lived for hundreds of years (Methusalah and several others lived to be over 1000 years old). Even if Adam had no written language, with human ages of that length the creation story could have been told fourth hand or so to Noah.