The fact that he could bring the lawsuit up at all, or the fact that he thought he could WIN.
"I don't want to be the guy that creates any kind of chilling effect on research," Jacobs said.
If I may submit an idea, sir, if you really want to avoid chilling effects on research through this law, perhaps you could bring the challenge to court anyway, and then lose. That would set a precident.
Hell, you wouldn't even have to get a good lawyer. In fact the worse a lawyer you get, the more benficial it'll be in the long run. Think it over? GMFTatsujin
for those who just want to be a dickhead, it's hard to do much other than ban them, since they have little emotionally wrapped up in the game.
Here's something I've been kicking around... instead of banning the player completly, take a tip from the Amish and just shun them for a time.
Or rather -- create and impliment a mechanism by which players may forcably be shunned. I suggest something like this:
The client keeps a list of the top 5-10 other characters that the offending interacts with. These will probably be his buddies in assholitude, or perhaps a character that the player targets for his assholish ways. When the player is offensive, the player becomes mute and dumb to those characters. Anything the player says cannot be heard by them. Any action the player takes has no effect on them.
After a time, the shunning goes away. Here's another fun bit -- other players can set a threshold of interaction, a dial that says "after X many shuns, I will automatically ignore this player." Any action that the player takes will not be felt by those with the interaction threshold set low. Assholes turn into ghosts to people who don't want to deal with assholes.
Remove the social interaction, and you remove the capicity to be an asshole. Everyone else gets to see what happens when you become an asshole -- you still exist but you can have no fun. You become a testimony to what happens when you turn against the society of the game: you lose bragging rights because you cannot brag.
Can this kind of detection see through the fake stylings of a honeypot to appear vulnerable?
I can see the beginnings of an arms race here... NMAP developers racing to accurately identify ports and services, and honeypot developers racing to obscure their "honeypotness" while maintaining believable outputs. Seems like two security methods working at cross-purposes.
The bajillion GeV of energy stat is the amount of energy required to probe Planck-scale events. We'll probably never have a collider that can achieve that kind of power -- at least, not before we can build ringworlds and Dyson spheres.
The same can be said of any Grand Theory of Everything, however. If you're going to probe the limits of the universe, it doesn't matter what theory you cling to - Planck is Planck is Planck.
On the other hand, any sufficiently strong Theory of Everything will not only explain and predict Planck-scale events, but it will also fill in the cracks of existing theory at lower energy scales. Questions like "does a neutrino have mass or not" and "what about those tricky gravitons" will be closer to the realm of what technology can explore, and will hopefully drive new technologies that make the vaunted Planck explorations feasable.
Is that the $100+ OSX version, the $100+ OSX.1 upgrade, or the $100+ OSX.2 upgrade to the upgrade? Or are you waiting for the $100+ OSX.3 upgrade to the upgrade to the upgrade?
One of our users just walked into the IT deperatment, complaining that we should have sent out a notice to everyone to upgrade their Windows XP boxes last night, and why weren't we on the ball with this, why isn't it automated, why didn't we sweep the machines for security issues, blah blah blah.
The answer, of course, is: "Every Wednesday a little icon appears by your clock and says 'New Updates to Windows are Available. Click here to download and install.' Did you click it?"
We get a lot of blank looks, here in IT. GMFTatsujin
I often wonder why it is that the folks who write worms and viruses to attack a site always manage to telegraph their intentions first, by making the infected machines do something obvious and irritating. It draws attention to the fact that the machine has been compromised, and puts the real target site on its guard. Wouldn't a stealthy infection followed by a massive surprise attack be more effective?
I don't know which is worse -- the fact that there are folks who are happy to sacrifice Teh Interweb for the sake of getting at a single site, or the fact that they're SO FUCKING STUPID in the way they do it.
What drives me nuts is calling support and being FORCED through the F-ing script before they'll escalate.
I know you hate this. Everyone hates this. I certainly hate it. I hate having to walk someone through it.
Unfortunately, we in the tech support biz don't have the clear, definitive, undeniable proof that you, you in particular, yes YOU, are not a dumbshit who happens to have picked up the vocabulary from somewhere. It's dumb for a tech to assume you diagnosed and applied the fixes correctly UP UNTIL NOW.
I teach a workshop on using our email client at work. One of the things I show is how to turn on the automatic spellchecker. One day, someone in class piped up complaining that she was a touch-typist for 30 years, could type a jillion words a minute, and hated the spellchecker popping up and telling her no errors were found. Fine, I said, turn the option off and be happy. She did, and we went on.
A few days later, she sent me an email thanking me for something and managed to mis-spell her OWN LAST NAME. Just a typo? Sure. Happens to everyone once in a while? You bet. Still looked like a stupid asshole? Absolutely.
That's not a tech support issue, but I hope it gets the flavor across -- sometimes even when you're sure you're doing it right, you still do the dumb thing anyway.
Most times it's best to start from square one when fixing a problem.
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This is one whopper of a storm.
Seeing as how the flare originated from a section of the Sun's surface several thousand Earth-diameters wide, I'm inclined to agree.
Would any of this technology have caught Rush Limbaugh six months earlier? ...
Not merely being snarky here. Some drug abuse has already been legalized, which is why there's a pharmacutical lobby in the US congress.
Lookie here, if you can't figure it out from the malformed URL: http://web.lemuria.org/security/WormPropagation.pd f
I want a refund for the Louisiana Purchase, while we're at it. ...
Oh, the reciept? *pats pockets* Let's not get bogged down in trifling details...
Almost like saying, "move your money to a swiss bank account." ... or even, "move your illegal casino 300 feet from the shoreline."
Schools do not exist for invoking discussions. Schools exist to tell kids what to think. YIKES.
Today we have a special: If you're an American citizen and declared an enemy combatant, you could end up as BOTH!
Do not think or depression may occur.
GMFTatsujin
The fact that he could bring the lawsuit up at all, or the fact that he thought he could WIN.
"I don't want to be the guy that creates any kind of chilling effect on research," Jacobs said.
If I may submit an idea, sir, if you really want to avoid chilling effects on research through this law, perhaps you could bring the challenge to court anyway, and then lose. That would set a precident.
Hell, you wouldn't even have to get a good lawyer. In fact the worse a lawyer you get, the more benficial it'll be in the long run. Think it over?
GMFTatsujin
for those who just want to be a dickhead, it's hard to do much other than ban them, since they have little emotionally wrapped up in the game.
Here's something I've been kicking around... instead of banning the player completly, take a tip from the Amish and just shun them for a time.
Or rather -- create and impliment a mechanism by which players may forcably be shunned. I suggest something like this:
The client keeps a list of the top 5-10 other characters that the offending interacts with. These will probably be his buddies in assholitude, or perhaps a character that the player targets for his assholish ways. When the player is offensive, the player becomes mute and dumb to those characters. Anything the player says cannot be heard by them. Any action the player takes has no effect on them.
After a time, the shunning goes away. Here's another fun bit -- other players can set a threshold of interaction, a dial that says "after X many shuns, I will automatically ignore this player." Any action that the player takes will not be felt by those with the interaction threshold set low. Assholes turn into ghosts to people who don't want to deal with assholes.
Remove the social interaction, and you remove the capicity to be an asshole. Everyone else gets to see what happens when you become an asshole -- you still exist but you can have no fun. You become a testimony to what happens when you turn against the society of the game: you lose bragging rights because you cannot brag.
Just a thought.
GMFTatsujin
Portions of the flowchart will also have to be traced at 88 MPH...
Or click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Device Manager, get the properties on the CD drive, and uncheck the "autorun enabled" option...
At least, I recall being able to do that in Win98. WinXP is a different story.
Change "pay for" to "license" and you've got a deal!
Can this kind of detection see through the fake stylings of a honeypot to appear vulnerable?
I can see the beginnings of an arms race here... NMAP developers racing to accurately identify ports and services, and honeypot developers racing to obscure their "honeypotness" while maintaining believable outputs. Seems like two security methods working at cross-purposes.
Just a thought.
GMFTatsujin
The bajillion GeV of energy stat is the amount of energy required to probe Planck-scale events. We'll probably never have a collider that can achieve that kind of power -- at least, not before we can build ringworlds and Dyson spheres.
The same can be said of any Grand Theory of Everything, however. If you're going to probe the limits of the universe, it doesn't matter what theory you cling to - Planck is Planck is Planck.
On the other hand, any sufficiently strong Theory of Everything will not only explain and predict Planck-scale events, but it will also fill in the cracks of existing theory at lower energy scales. Questions like "does a neutrino have mass or not" and "what about those tricky gravitons" will be closer to the realm of what technology can explore, and will hopefully drive new technologies that make the vaunted Planck explorations feasable.
Just a thought.
Employees may not be able to work from home or in the evening for the same reason
You mean my evenings and weekends are ALL MINE AGAIN? Praise be to Microsoft! Where do I sign up?????
They missed the essential step that makes it work. I'm probably violating the DMCA by revealing it, but here goes:
"And then, magic happens. Some math may be involved as well."
Catch me if you can!
100101011 010110101 000101010 1110010101
100010101 010001010 101011010 1001010001
001010101 101010001 010110001 0101010010....
Ha! Having stolen and cracked the software, I never HAD to agree to an EULA. You won't catch me that way, you tricky devil!
1. Cheap.
2. Filling.
3. Readily available everywhere.
4. Fast.
But probably chief among all of these is a combination of low expectations coupled with constant quality. You know it will suck in predictable ways.
Oh. Let's not forget well-marketed.
...who won the Nobel prize in 1974 for his work in discovering quasars at Cambridge University...
You'd think someone would have noticed before then. They were behind the couch the whole time.
Ba-BOOM! Thanks, I'm here all evening.
Cowboy Neal is full of it, whatever it is.
Is that the $100+ OSX version, the $100+ OSX.1 upgrade, or the $100+ OSX.2 upgrade to the upgrade? Or are you waiting for the $100+ OSX.3 upgrade to the upgrade to the upgrade?
Even though I'd love to see a native Linux version, I run it in WINE.
True dat.
One of our users just walked into the IT deperatment, complaining that we should have sent out a notice to everyone to upgrade their Windows XP boxes last night, and why weren't we on the ball with this, why isn't it automated, why didn't we sweep the machines for security issues, blah blah blah.
The answer, of course, is: "Every Wednesday a little icon appears by your clock and says 'New Updates to Windows are Available. Click here to download and install.' Did you click it?"
We get a lot of blank looks, here in IT.
GMFTatsujin
I often wonder why it is that the folks who write worms and viruses to attack a site always manage to telegraph their intentions first, by making the infected machines do something obvious and irritating. It draws attention to the fact that the machine has been compromised, and puts the real target site on its guard. Wouldn't a stealthy infection followed by a massive surprise attack be more effective?
I don't know which is worse -- the fact that there are folks who are happy to sacrifice Teh Interweb for the sake of getting at a single site, or the fact that they're SO FUCKING STUPID in the way they do it.
What drives me nuts is calling support and being FORCED through the F-ing script before they'll escalate.
I know you hate this. Everyone hates this. I certainly hate it. I hate having to walk someone through it.
Unfortunately, we in the tech support biz don't have the clear, definitive, undeniable proof that you, you in particular, yes YOU, are not a dumbshit who happens to have picked up the vocabulary from somewhere. It's dumb for a tech to assume you diagnosed and applied the fixes correctly UP UNTIL NOW.
I teach a workshop on using our email client at work. One of the things I show is how to turn on the automatic spellchecker. One day, someone in class piped up complaining that she was a touch-typist for 30 years, could type a jillion words a minute, and hated the spellchecker popping up and telling her no errors were found. Fine, I said, turn the option off and be happy. She did, and we went on.
A few days later, she sent me an email thanking me for something and managed to mis-spell her OWN LAST NAME. Just a typo? Sure. Happens to everyone once in a while? You bet. Still looked like a stupid asshole? Absolutely.
That's not a tech support issue, but I hope it gets the flavor across -- sometimes even when you're sure you're doing it right, you still do the dumb thing anyway.
Most times it's best to start from square one when fixing a problem.