I heard that one time, one guy even wrote some code in Emacs. Based on what the people that I work with use it for though, I'm not giving that story much credence.
The news here isn't that some incompetent set up their systems, nor that they were cracked. The news is that they've responded openly and meaningfully, without trying to deny it or play down the scale of what happened. I wouldn't be hurrying to sign up to their service because of it, but it certainly doesn't bias me against them. Honesty and integrity are rare enough qualities in corporations that we should applaud them when they claw their way past the lawyers and PR weasels.
We all seem to be accepting the description of this thing as an "mp3 player". I'll bet you an PS3 to a Wii that it'll only store and play (and "loan") wma.
Hello, I'm a straight single guy of ($YOUR_AGE + 1) with a Vin Diesel body and my own billion dollar company that recycles used up lawyers and turns them into mittens for orphans. My hobbies include discussing feelings for hours at an end, and re-arranging furniture. Let's exchange pictures. You go first.
If you really want to help, pay a lawyer to send Blizzard a nastygram in his mother's name saying that he's underage and suffering from addiction, and they need to cut his account off.
If you're too cheap and lazy to do that, then install one of the dozens of busted hacks available on his machine, and Blizzard will ban him for you.
Jeeesus, just find her a man, already. A 300lb trucker, who will whale the hell out of the kid on the one night a week that he stays over. You can find a suitable candidate by pretending to be a 13 year old Asian girl in #truckers-n-teens on IRC. Do we have to think of everything for you?
Oh, great, I thought I was addicted to cocaine, but as it has no physiological withdrawal effects, I guess I'm just a victim of society, or whatever your point was.
Anyway... do you want to party? Just ten dollar, baby.
Your theory is neat, but you've forgotten how it works in practice. Blizzard don't pay for more server time or bandwidth; they just let the servers crash, or lag to a stacatto death, or leave people sitting in queues for hours. As a double-whammy, that very neatly takes care of the problem of them running through the content too fast as well. Now, given that's the actual situation with WoW, who is it that keeps paying month after month for that shoddy service? Enthusiasts, or addicts?
Well, the Liebertarian Party will be looking for funding. Joe's pissing and moaning and sucking up to (or off) Bush to the contrary, his voting record was staunchly with the DLC, so he's honest enough to stay bought.
That's a joke, right? Most everybody who will vote for Lamont in November has just turned out to do so, and it's not nearly enough. The RNC will keep their own stalking horse candidate in the game purely to put his voice on character assassinations of Country Club Lamont, while giving their real money to Joe. Lieberman is a lock to walk it in November, and he won't have to tail on to the DLC line at the last second any more. Kos just gifted Connecticut to the Republican party. Splendid work, absolutely stellar.
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I heard that one time, one guy even wrote some code in Emacs. Based on what the people that I work with use it for though, I'm not giving that story much credence.
How many hours salary is that? It should pay for itself within a couple of days.
Well said. And that's why I call myself a computer programmer, not a software engineer.
The news here isn't that some incompetent set up their systems, nor that they were cracked. The news is that they've responded openly and meaningfully, without trying to deny it or play down the scale of what happened. I wouldn't be hurrying to sign up to their service because of it, but it certainly doesn't bias me against them. Honesty and integrity are rare enough qualities in corporations that we should applaud them when they claw their way past the lawyers and PR weasels.
I refer you to the game of the South Park episode Cripple Fight.
Today.
Gigantic crabs give me the shivers.
They were probably just ticketing the dealers' Cadillacs. Hit them in the pocket, it's the best way.
"guilty beyond reasonable doubt"
And the relevance to a civil case would be?
I hear a lot of investors are looking to get out of SCO and into something with a more credible business plan.
Oh, you're assuming that I play WoW. You have me confused with an addict.
Mother, may I?
Substances are addicting, people are addictive.
And if you're a really smart bidder, you tender to do what they initially specify for $5, then charge a million $ per change.
We all seem to be accepting the description of this thing as an "mp3 player". I'll bet you an PS3 to a Wii that it'll only store and play (and "loan") wma.
It's always the computer's fault, isn't it, Seymour?
Hello, I'm a straight single guy of ($YOUR_AGE + 1) with a Vin Diesel body and my own billion dollar company that recycles used up lawyers and turns them into mittens for orphans. My hobbies include discussing feelings for hours at an end, and re-arranging furniture. Let's exchange pictures. You go first.
If you really want to help, pay a lawyer to send Blizzard a nastygram in his mother's name saying that he's underage and suffering from addiction, and they need to cut his account off.
If you're too cheap and lazy to do that, then install one of the dozens of busted hacks available on his machine, and Blizzard will ban him for you.
Are we done now?
Jeeesus, just find her a man, already. A 300lb trucker, who will whale the hell out of the kid on the one night a week that he stays over. You can find a suitable candidate by pretending to be a 13 year old Asian girl in #truckers-n-teens on IRC. Do we have to think of everything for you?
Oh, great, I thought I was addicted to cocaine, but as it has no physiological withdrawal effects, I guess I'm just a victim of society, or whatever your point was.
Anyway... do you want to party? Just ten dollar, baby.
Your theory is neat, but you've forgotten how it works in practice. Blizzard don't pay for more server time or bandwidth; they just let the servers crash, or lag to a stacatto death, or leave people sitting in queues for hours. As a double-whammy, that very neatly takes care of the problem of them running through the content too fast as well. Now, given that's the actual situation with WoW, who is it that keeps paying month after month for that shoddy service? Enthusiasts, or addicts?
But I can never decide whether to vote for Tweedle Dum, or Tweedle Dee.
Well, the Liebertarian Party will be looking for funding. Joe's pissing and moaning and sucking up to (or off) Bush to the contrary, his voting record was staunchly with the DLC, so he's honest enough to stay bought.
That's a joke, right? Most everybody who will vote for Lamont in November has just turned out to do so, and it's not nearly enough. The RNC will keep their own stalking horse candidate in the game purely to put his voice on character assassinations of Country Club Lamont, while giving their real money to Joe. Lieberman is a lock to walk it in November, and he won't have to tail on to the DLC line at the last second any more. Kos just gifted Connecticut to the Republican party. Splendid work, absolutely stellar.