The same feature was offered on MBNA cards as well, and afaik is still there post-acquisition (by BoA). I think Discover has virtual numbers too, and probably AmEx should also be having something similar.
The unfortunate part is that there are some caveats to the 'one time use only', or atleast in MBNA's case there were stories of people who got charged on the number months after their initial purchase - unfortunately I don't really remember much about that, never used them much myself anyway.
There is already a robots.txt equivalent for houses, I believe its called a 'wall' - earlier some of the Street View images were being taken from a height above most walls but iirc there was some protest and Google lowered them so that the cameras can't accidentally peek over fences etc.
I don't see why an address shouldn't be searchable via maps (of any kind). Hmm - it would be interesting to know if people consider an address to be 'owned' by the house owner as well, or a public label (like lat/long coords etc.) which just happens to be related to your private property.
Give players the option of being members of either of the two alliances of nations, or of being independent.
Anarchy Online does this, afaik it was originally a 'temporary' state of being neutral until you decided what faction you wished to join. Except that a *lot* of players prefer the lesser restrictions and are willing to give up faction-specific gear and bonuses for that, so now being neutral is actually kind of a 3rd faction by itself.
Imho its a good example of the player base actually changing game dynamics and making things more interesting than a 1v1 conflict. Politically, neutrals are either 'tired of the conflict' or don't take sides between Omni-Tek (megacorp) and the Clans (armed resistance). It is also good for someone who wants to mostly PvE and can easily get into teams with either side.
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The same feature was offered on MBNA cards as well, and afaik is still there post-acquisition (by BoA). I think Discover has virtual numbers too, and probably AmEx should also be having something similar.
The unfortunate part is that there are some caveats to the 'one time use only', or atleast in MBNA's case there were stories of people who got charged on the number months after their initial purchase - unfortunately I don't really remember much about that, never used them much myself anyway.
they're opening up all those emails from disposed Nigerian dictators.
The emails are usually from deposed dictators, though I agree that in some cases disposing of them may be a better solution ;)
There is already a robots.txt equivalent for houses, I believe its called a 'wall' - earlier some of the Street View images were being taken from a height above most walls but iirc there was some protest and Google lowered them so that the cameras can't accidentally peek over fences etc.
I don't see why an address shouldn't be searchable via maps (of any kind). Hmm - it would be interesting to know if people consider an address to be 'owned' by the house owner as well, or a public label (like lat/long coords etc.) which just happens to be related to your private property.
Give players the option of being members of either of the two alliances of nations, or of being independent.
Anarchy Online does this, afaik it was originally a 'temporary' state of being neutral until you decided what faction you wished to join. Except that a *lot* of players prefer the lesser restrictions and are willing to give up faction-specific gear and bonuses for that, so now being neutral is actually kind of a 3rd faction by itself.
Imho its a good example of the player base actually changing game dynamics and making things more interesting than a 1v1 conflict. Politically, neutrals are either 'tired of the conflict' or don't take sides between Omni-Tek (megacorp) and the Clans (armed resistance). It is also good for someone who wants to mostly PvE and can easily get into teams with either side.
Documentation writer for all those open source projects out there? *Someone* has to make a start with that you know!
What happens if you move away from Central Park? ;)