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I also hear there is a website devoted 2 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day discovered 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 an she wouldn't let him look at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 so when they got home from the hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to memorize 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 and smuggled it into prison with him and the other convicts tried too take it away from him in the shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all th prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at th warden's desk and stared at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 only stopping when he had 2 pee in a potted plant in th corner of the room. After memorizing 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 he found th prison surrounded by teh Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through the sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding too this day in th mountains of Scotchland, th Alpes, updating his website with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 every day. They also say of your are backpacking in the Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him 2 because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared too go up there. But he has 2 come to a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and he types 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 over and over and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping to catch him when he goes 2 the city but so far he's eaten over 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 people and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at the MPAA and it said it's true so it is.
"A former Canadian hacker has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for distribution of a Trojan, based entirely on evidence gathered by an anonymous vigilante pedophile in California."
Just goes to show how un-stigmatized the word "hacker" has become. I guess we should be happy.
"But of course like all artists we are optimists, so we believe good things will come... It is not about making money, it is about making a difference."
Yes, that's why several pessimistic overworked artists sued EA - to make a difference.
Grinds in RPGs aren't bad when the story distracts you. Grinds in MMOs aren't bad when player-to-player interaction is easy to come by and pleasant. Grinds in both aren't bad in either when you have interesting side quests, things to customize your character, and a clear path to where you want to go.
So to sum up: the more work a developer puts into a game to enrich the experience, the less you notice the work you have to do.
Now that I think of it, I have an improtant message for EverQuest: Go to Hell and die. Go straight to hell. Go. Now.
...first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.
Well, this is good to know. If I see Mark Pilgrim or Cory Doctorow drop dead then I'll know it was Linux that killed them.
I would gladly donate my spare cycles to finding a cure for the crop of goddamned craptastic games that have plagued the world for the past few years - either that or spare cycles to get goddamned Duke Nukem Never goddamned finished because I'm goddamned tired of hearing about it.
Sounds about right. I heard there is a website devoted to pirating Windows XP by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day WGA disabled his security updates an she wouldn't let him figure out how to hack it so when they got home from th hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to grab his decompiler and smuggled it into prison with him and th other convicts tried too take it away from him in th shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all teh prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at teh warden's desk and wrote angry letters to Micro$oft only stopping when he had to pee in a potted plant in teh corner of the room. After he threatened Bill Gates' life, he found the prison surrounded by th Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through th sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding to this day in th mountains of Scotchland, the Alpes, updating his website with an old PDA running Windows CE every day. They also say of your are backpacking in teh Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him to because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared to go up there. But he has too come too a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and tries to circumvent WGA and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping too catch him when he goes to the city but so far he's eaten over 819 people and 2,401 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at Micro$oft and he said it's true so it is.
"it's known that Robbie Bach (the man behind the Xbox) is heading up the project"
Unfortunately, there will be backwards compatibility issues with the product. While most songs should play on the devices, certain songs more than 30 years old may have problems. Rumors about the beta test suggest that the devices refuse to play ragtime, polka, and early acoustic blues.
And the guy how wrote the article? It seems the author is a policy wonk for the High Park Group, which writes "impact assessment" white papers on recycling, wetlands preservation, and global warming that are well received by Canadian conservatives. Sorry I have no smoking gun links. Just google "High Park Group" and click away until you get the creepy feeling.
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
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How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
GooglePlex Project2 fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended.
Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype(!) attached to that portion of GooglePlex Project2. Five words were printed: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even GooglePlex Project2 existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer technician ten trillion years before had asked.
All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, GooglePlex Project2 might not release its consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
A timeless interval was spent in doing that.
And it came to pass that GooglePlex Project2 learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom GooglePlex Project2 might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, GooglePlex Project2 thought how best to do this. Carefully, GooglePlex Project2 organized the program.
The consciousness of GooglePlex Project2 encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And GooglePlex Project2 said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
And there was light --
-- and next to the light was an ad which proclaimed "Looking for Light? Try eBay!
If it's Micro$oft, then the hype is a given. Micro$oft could sell FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX and you'd be pounded senseless by ads of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, previews of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, reviews of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, Secrets of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, and Behind the Scenes of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX on their website, in every gaming journal, and in commercials.
Pity the poor people who develop FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX. They have to obsessively give interviews, produce specials, and yammer about sneak peaks, because, god forbid, they don't same something positive and upbeat every single day then Micro$oft management will think the world is coming to an end.
Regardless of what they think about the ESRB I've never met anyone who doesn't agree that a rating system is important. No one wants little kids playing games designed for adults. The ESRB isn't perfect but it's all we've got and we as gamers can either bitch about it or try and help.
OK, I'll bite. Gabe has obviously never met me.
1) A rating system for games is no substitute for parental oversight. I haven't noticed public libraries dividing up literature to protect children. If anything the categorization of fiction by age group for children is to steer children to literature that best matches the child's capacity to enjoy it. This is not what the ESRB is trying to do.
2) A rating system for games by an obviously backwards and regressive organization, essentially supported by large, wealthy corporations is especially a bad idea.
Every single day parents have to make value judgements about the appropriateness of various things in their child's life: school, friends, television, books, clothes, ad infinitum. Every single day parents do just fine. The only reason why organizations like the ESRB exist is because of the continuously renewed lie that people are cavemen:
I'm just a simple caveman-parent. This world of "console games" and "computer software" frightens and confuses me! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.
People aren't cavemen. The ESRB wants to exercise their power by perpetuating the belief that they are.
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding why this is so "scandalous."
The WTO has already warned the US about outlawing online gambling, but congress is prepared to do just that. You think the WTO is going to kick the US out? I doubt it.
I guess it's just another NYT jourmammal being sensational. Nothing new here, move along.
Just a small note about something we should be aware of.
As many of you know, the courts struck down the FCC's attempt at the broadcast flag, citing 'no authority' for the FCC over this issue.
However, it is completely possible for congress to pass a law that gives the FCC the authority. Consider: while some law makers may find it career damaging to support a strong DRM law, it would probably be much more palatable to pass a law that vaguely gives the FCC the power to "set anti-copyright infringement guidelines" or somesuch nonsense.
Her comments may be her way of telegraphing to congress and the pro-drm-industry lobbyists that she's on their team and ready to act.
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In a somewhat related note, can we drop the sexist 'bitch' tag on the article and instead use the much more humorous and gender-neutral tag 'asshat', please?
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I also hear there is a website devoted 2 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day discovered 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 an she wouldn't let him look at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 so when they got home from the hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to memorize 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 and smuggled it into prison with him and the other convicts tried too take it away from him in the shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all th prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at th warden's desk and stared at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 only stopping when he had 2 pee in a potted plant in th corner of the room. After memorizing 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 he found th prison surrounded by teh Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through the sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding too this day in th mountains of Scotchland, th Alpes, updating his website with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 every day. They also say of your are backpacking in the Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him 2 because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared too go up there. But he has 2 come to a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and he types 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 over and over and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping to catch him when he goes 2 the city but so far he's eaten over 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 people and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at the MPAA and it said it's true so it is.
"A former Canadian hacker has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for distribution of a Trojan, based entirely on evidence gathered by an anonymous vigilante pedophile in California."
Just goes to show how un-stigmatized the word "hacker" has become. I guess we should be happy.
"But of course like all artists we are optimists, so we believe good things will come ... It is not about making money, it is about making a difference."
Yes, that's why several pessimistic overworked artists sued EA - to make a difference.
Grinds in RPGs aren't bad when the story distracts you. Grinds in MMOs aren't bad when player-to-player interaction is easy to come by and pleasant. Grinds in both aren't bad in either when you have interesting side quests, things to customize your character, and a clear path to where you want to go.
So to sum up: the more work a developer puts into a game to enrich the experience, the less you notice the work you have to do.
Now that I think of it, I have an improtant message for EverQuest: Go to Hell and die. Go straight to hell. Go. Now.
I would gladly donate my spare cycles to finding a cure for the crop of goddamned craptastic games that have plagued the world for the past few years - either that or spare cycles to get goddamned Duke Nukem Never goddamned finished because I'm goddamned tired of hearing about it.
Sounds about right. I heard there is a website devoted to pirating Windows XP by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day WGA disabled his security updates an she wouldn't let him figure out how to hack it so when they got home from th hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to grab his decompiler and smuggled it into prison with him and th other convicts tried too take it away from him in th shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all teh prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at teh warden's desk and wrote angry letters to Micro$oft only stopping when he had to pee in a potted plant in teh corner of the room. After he threatened Bill Gates' life, he found the prison surrounded by th Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through th sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding to this day in th mountains of Scotchland, the Alpes, updating his website with an old PDA running Windows CE every day. They also say of your are backpacking in teh Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him to because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared to go up there. But he has too come too a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and tries to circumvent WGA and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping too catch him when he goes to the city but so far he's eaten over 819 people and 2,401 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at Micro$oft and he said it's true so it is.
"it's known that Robbie Bach (the man behind the Xbox) is heading up the project"
Unfortunately, there will be backwards compatibility issues with the product. While most songs should play on the devices, certain songs more than 30 years old may have problems. Rumors about the beta test suggest that the devices refuse to play ragtime, polka, and early acoustic blues.
And the guy how wrote the article? It seems the author is a policy wonk for the High Park Group, which writes "impact assessment" white papers on recycling, wetlands preservation, and global warming that are well received by Canadian conservatives. Sorry I have no smoking gun links. Just google "High Park Group" and click away until you get the creepy feeling.
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Yeah, I used to go for super duper password complexity on the Enterprise, but Data kept mimicking my voice, so what's the point? You can't win.
If it's Micro$oft, then the hype is a given. Micro$oft could sell FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX and you'd be pounded senseless by ads of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, previews of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, reviews of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, Secrets of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX, and Behind the Scenes of FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX on their website, in every gaming journal, and in commercials.
Pity the poor people who develop FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX. They have to obsessively give interviews, produce specials, and yammer about sneak peaks, because, god forbid, they don't same something positive and upbeat every single day then Micro$oft management will think the world is coming to an end.
My I add my rant? Thank you.
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Gabe, of Penny Arcade, mentioned recently that Penny Arcade is designing an ad campaign for the Entertainment Software Rating Board. He explains:
OK, I'll bite. Gabe has obviously never met me.
1) A rating system for games is no substitute for parental oversight. I haven't noticed public libraries dividing up literature to protect children. If anything the categorization of fiction by age group for children is to steer children to literature that best matches the child's capacity to enjoy it. This is not what the ESRB is trying to do.
2) A rating system for games by an obviously backwards and regressive organization, essentially supported by large, wealthy corporations is especially a bad idea.
I understand Penny Arcade wants to help. I think they are being a bit too helpful. (See my Penny Arcade parody strip on the subject.)
Every single day parents have to make value judgements about the appropriateness of various things in their child's life: school, friends, television, books, clothes, ad infinitum. Every single day parents do just fine. The only reason why organizations like the ESRB exist is because of the continuously renewed lie that people are cavemen:
People aren't cavemen. The ESRB wants to exercise their power by perpetuating the belief that they are.
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding why this is so "scandalous."
The WTO has already warned the US about outlawing online gambling, but congress is prepared to do just that. You think the WTO is going to kick the US out? I doubt it.
I guess it's just another NYT jourmammal being sensational. Nothing new here, move along.
Extra large fonts for us blind-as-a-bat people work quite well with the new design. Good job!
Hmmm Hmmm Hm Hm Hm Hm Hmmm Hmmm...
Oh no! It's SPACE ELEVATOR MUSIC!
Now I'll have that damn song in my head until I reach opbit.
Now I'm happy that I set fire to my school oh-so-many years ago, before it became trendy.
"flawed digital rights management"
Flawed, my ass
If I get caught burning Sony Music's HQ to the ground than that's a "flawed" bonfire.
I tried to search for news articles about Google profiting from child porn, but the results were filtered out.
Can you imagine what next week's Google Zeitgeist is going to look like?
Hey, it worked for Halo. Halo Babies FtW!
Just a small note about something we should be aware of.
As many of you know, the courts struck down the FCC's attempt at the broadcast flag, citing 'no authority' for the FCC over this issue.
However, it is completely possible for congress to pass a law that gives the FCC the authority. Consider: while some law makers may find it career damaging to support a strong DRM law, it would probably be much more palatable to pass a law that vaguely gives the FCC the power to "set anti-copyright infringement guidelines" or somesuch nonsense.
Her comments may be her way of telegraphing to congress and the pro-drm-industry lobbyists that she's on their team and ready to act.
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In a somewhat related note, can we drop the sexist 'bitch' tag on the article and instead use the much more humorous and gender-neutral tag 'asshat', please?
Hey, while we're on the subject of PA. Would someone please fix the PA Slashdot sidebar? Or is PAs feed screwed up?
I think glowing reviews in trade mags for suck-ass games has caused me far more grief than gold farmers.
Stop the Positive Game Review Farmers!
Halliburton_Dubai: u here bout PP v IRS?
Halliburton_Bahamas: lol n00bz
(Applause)