Actually, I'm not sure I believe me either now. I was going by Sergey Brin's plain speaking apology. But now I read Schmidt and Page dissembling with the "no harm, no foul" line, I'm beginning to suspect that Evil was a'brewing, and that Brin was just out of the loop.
Yes, I do. Their simple "we screwed up, we're sorry, we didn't do anything with the data and we're deleting it" is the correct response if that's the truth, and the wrong one if there were any damaging allegations about Doing Evil about to come out. If they had been up to shenanigans then they'd be in pre-emptive damage limitation mode just now, blowing smoke over what privacy really means.
Mind you, if you want to see something Machiavellian in their behaviour, notice how they've shifted the framing of the privacy debate. Now the story isn't about whether it's ethical to harvest SSIDs and MAC addresses, it's about the ethics of harvesting actual data.
This is why Attorney General is the most powerful office in any State. Forget the State legislature, forget Governor: he who controls the prosecutions runs the show.
OK, I'll accept that this Whingers' Council has (non paid, remote) Departmental status in CCP. A Department with exactly as much real influence on game development as the Janitorial Department.
Note carefully: the onus is on CCP to prove me wrong.
A bunch of arrogant entitled Haaaarvard douches get butt-humped by the biggest douche amongst them, then spend the rest of their natural lives giving all of their money to lawyers until none of them have anything except crack habits and an autobiography in the bargain bin.
I mean, you can't buy entertainment like this. It's win-win, especially if they all lose.
You don't support a broken system by trying to use it yourself. You just ignore it.
If Carruthers believes that geekgirl should be in common usage, then she should just keep on using it, encouraging others to use it, and laugh off Cross and her silly demands until she gets over herself and realises that her opportunity to assert ownership of that trademark was 1995, not 2010.
So, there's a "none of the above" option in the voting process, is there? If not, then the lack of mandate is as likely to reflect objection rather than apathy.
This is just the Student President scam. Let the children elect a representative, give them a neat title and even let them sit at the table with the grown ups. Heck, use them as your mouthpiece, and ask them to canvas their constituents if you like. But you don't have to actually listen to them. Why would you? They're just an annoying selfish greedy know-nothing kid, representing a group of annoying selfish greedy know-nothing kids. All they're there for is to act as a buffer to keep the baying and howling at a tolerable distance.
I've seen this faux consultation happen in other games through the years - Netrek, Navy Field - and here's the skinny: he who controls the server rules the universe.
Can this EVE council actually modify the server source? Can they even see it? No, of course not, because they're not really grown ups, or worthy of trust.
After Lineage 2 sank under the groaning weight of bots and hackers, didn't you pledge to deal with that issue from day 1 in Aion with a dedicated bot/hack hunting team? How'd that play out for you?
Oh, and how about the the promises about cracking down on egregious gold farming, and the blatant market in bot-grinded accounts? Got all that sorted did you? Like you said you would?
Correct. It's just PR to keep John Bombemall and Jane Fretsalot happy. If a President (any President) just reduced the nuclear arsenal, John might think he was a pussweed and Jane might think he wasn't protecting her children. I mean, they think that anyway but they might be annoyed enough to donate to the Other Guy.
But if the President announce that we have a Missile Shield that keeps us safe, then he's a studly manly-man, and he's Thinking of the Children. Even if there's strategic no connection at all between a Missile Defence and a Missile Offence, John and Jane don't know that.
So it really doesn't matter if the Missile Shield works or not, or even if it exists. The President might as well hold up a shiny rock and say that it keeps missiles away, or declare that Chuck Norris has been hired to roundhouse kick incoming missiles right back to Elbonia. Whatever pacifies John and Jane enough to let him cut the nuclear arsenal down from super-mega-overkill to just regular-mega-overkill is a good thing. The ends in this case do justify the means.
It's worth considering that for many people, Facebook is their internets. Facebook has achieved what AOL could never do - build a garden so compelling that people never wonder what's outside the wall.
Cherry picking bad kdawson articles is a non sequitur. A better analogy would be that his good articles are like needles in a haystack. A haystack made of raw sewage. With hand grenades in it.
Yup, I read that discussion with interest. Apparently the "tarballs" are actually globs of nano-sized Black Helicopters created under the Majestic-12 program at Area 51 by Haliburton on orders from the Tea Party and their New World Order masters, the Lizard Man Kings of the Houses of Saud and Bush.
Admittedly I kind of skimmed the comments, and in fact I wasn't sure that was the tarballs article - it could have been any DailyKos story.
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Actually, I'm not sure I believe me either now. I was going by Sergey Brin's plain speaking apology. But now I read Schmidt and Page dissembling with the "no harm, no foul" line, I'm beginning to suspect that Evil was a'brewing, and that Brin was just out of the loop.
Yes, I do. Their simple "we screwed up, we're sorry, we didn't do anything with the data and we're deleting it" is the correct response if that's the truth, and the wrong one if there were any damaging allegations about Doing Evil about to come out. If they had been up to shenanigans then they'd be in pre-emptive damage limitation mode just now, blowing smoke over what privacy really means.
Mind you, if you want to see something Machiavellian in their behaviour, notice how they've shifted the framing of the privacy debate. Now the story isn't about whether it's ethical to harvest SSIDs and MAC addresses, it's about the ethics of harvesting actual data.
Who's going to prosecute him?
This is why Attorney General is the most powerful office in any State. Forget the State legislature, forget Governor: he who controls the prosecutions runs the show.
OK, I'll accept that this Whingers' Council has (non paid, remote) Departmental status in CCP. A Department with exactly as much real influence on game development as the Janitorial Department.
Note carefully: the onus is on CCP to prove me wrong.
Oh, speak in a language that we can all understand? I meant "draining negative energy"
The lady driving that bus weighs no less than 300 pounds. It's just... I'm sure of it.
A bunch of arrogant entitled Haaaarvard douches get butt-humped by the biggest douche amongst them, then spend the rest of their natural lives giving all of their money to lawyers until none of them have anything except crack habits and an autobiography in the bargain bin.
I mean, you can't buy entertainment like this. It's win-win, especially if they all lose.
You don't support a broken system by trying to use it yourself. You just ignore it.
If Carruthers believes that geekgirl should be in common usage, then she should just keep on using it, encouraging others to use it, and laugh off Cross and her silly demands until she gets over herself and realises that her opportunity to assert ownership of that trademark was 1995, not 2010.
And how do you know that?
If addressing third parties in didactics was good enough for dead Greek dudes, it's good enough for me.
So, there's a "none of the above" option in the voting process, is there? If not, then the lack of mandate is as likely to reflect objection rather than apathy.
Lineage 2. Do you need telling a third time?
This is just the Student President scam. Let the children elect a representative, give them a neat title and even let them sit at the table with the grown ups. Heck, use them as your mouthpiece, and ask them to canvas their constituents if you like. But you don't have to actually listen to them. Why would you? They're just an annoying selfish greedy know-nothing kid, representing a group of annoying selfish greedy know-nothing kids. All they're there for is to act as a buffer to keep the baying and howling at a tolerable distance.
I've seen this faux consultation happen in other games through the years - Netrek, Navy Field - and here's the skinny: he who controls the server rules the universe.
Can this EVE council actually modify the server source? Can they even see it? No, of course not, because they're not really grown ups, or worthy of trust.
Judge them by their access, not their title.
No mention of that, Chris?
After Lineage 2 sank under the groaning weight of bots and hackers, didn't you pledge to deal with that issue from day 1 in Aion with a dedicated bot/hack hunting team? How'd that play out for you?
Oh, and how about the the promises about cracking down on egregious gold farming, and the blatant market in bot-grinded accounts? Got all that sorted did you? Like you said you would?
Speak up Chris, it's all gone a bit quiet.
Bingo. Price drops, ZOMFG SELL!!!! - the "breaker" trips, everyone waits 5 minutes, and since nothing has changed, ZOMFG SELL AGAIN!!!!!11!!!
Maybe it'll give time for actual humans to over-rule the algorithms, but you know, I'm thinking not.
Mmm, I think the commitment there is to use up some stockpiles of obsolescent weapons in order to purchase more from the people who buy Presidents.
Ignorant plebs. That's what they get for not ordering in Japanese, or better yet, Klingon.
I mean... tastes of grandma
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Correct. It's just PR to keep John Bombemall and Jane Fretsalot happy. If a President (any President) just reduced the nuclear arsenal, John might think he was a pussweed and Jane might think he wasn't protecting her children. I mean, they think that anyway but they might be annoyed enough to donate to the Other Guy.
But if the President announce that we have a Missile Shield that keeps us safe, then he's a studly manly-man, and he's Thinking of the Children. Even if there's strategic no connection at all between a Missile Defence and a Missile Offence, John and Jane don't know that.
So it really doesn't matter if the Missile Shield works or not, or even if it exists. The President might as well hold up a shiny rock and say that it keeps missiles away, or declare that Chuck Norris has been hired to roundhouse kick incoming missiles right back to Elbonia. Whatever pacifies John and Jane enough to let him cut the nuclear arsenal down from super-mega-overkill to just regular-mega-overkill is a good thing. The ends in this case do justify the means.
It's worth considering that for many people, Facebook is their internets. Facebook has achieved what AOL could never do - build a garden so compelling that people never wonder what's outside the wall.
Cherry picking bad kdawson articles is a non sequitur. A better analogy would be that his good articles are like needles in a haystack. A haystack made of raw sewage. With hand grenades in it.
Sure, sometimes Uncle Fester looking freaks get to groom Felicia Day, but it's not a pattern.
And some pit bulls are lovely dogs, and Uncle Fester looking freaks do get to groom Felicia Day, but these are statistical aberrations that you shouldn't bet the farm on.
No, wait, she sticks to her own age group. My bad.
Yup, I read that discussion with interest. Apparently the "tarballs" are actually globs of nano-sized Black Helicopters created under the Majestic-12 program at Area 51 by Haliburton on orders from the Tea Party and their New World Order masters, the Lizard Man Kings of the Houses of Saud and Bush.
Admittedly I kind of skimmed the comments, and in fact I wasn't sure that was the tarballs article - it could have been any DailyKos story.