A good security researcher would hopefully just paste in the link with one of the unique IDs that it came with in the honeypots/reports. Not exactly an insurmountable obstacle, this.
No, that's a myth. Check out theory's dominionstrategy blog. He once analyzed a degenerate version of Dominion with just cash and VP, and showed that a strategy that pays attention to the opponent beats the "optimal" solo strategy some 80% of the time.
From a theme gamer perspective, maybe you can say you don't feel like you are interacting. If you play at a low level (say 10 on isotropic) maybe it's even true that you are playing "solo". But at the level we talk about here, the level of e.g. basic tournament magic players, it should be easy to appreciate the interaction of Dominion.
I'm a big fan of Dominion, and I never figured out why the Magic players messed around with mulligans etc. instead of a simple "draw n + m, discard m" mechanic. Or even a "draw n + m, put m back on deck in any order".
But still, on a high level I think you're slightly more likely to be screwed by early bad luck in a Dominion game than in a Magic game. You have to play multiple rounds to really decide who's best with both games.
With Magic as it used to be, that was more or less true. Today, competitions are usually held with this years' series, sets released the same year only. And/or they are drafting games of various sorts, where players build their decks as the first phase of the game.
Even in the less restricted events, more likely to be for fun than for prizes, they are careful to disallow the most overpowered cards. That inevitably means older cards (learning from their best players, WotC have gained a better understanding of strategies and balance in the game).
Come on. I haven''t play Magic since 1997, but I know this. You should, too.
I would love to see the prosecutors to be disbard for inappropriate behavior that turned what was otherwise a minor of offence into something that was treated as was worse than murder. I would love to have the prosecutors and judge interviewed to understand why they had such a large axe to grind.
In the current political climate, that isn't going to happen. They couldn't explain it coherently either. In a politicized judicial system, you do what you think the political authorities will approve of as a matter of course, to advance your career. It's not the first time for Carmen Ortiz, and she's already being suggested as a candidate for the senate or a governorship.
Fine, we won't hold the prosecutor responsible for killing Aaron. However, she did want to lock him up in a violent prison for some 30 years for taking something the offended party (JSTOR) had decided not to care about.That's really not much better.
And for what? Unless she supplies something that can explain the extreme overreaction better, I will assume it was to curry favor in the US political system, in particular the Democratic party. It's not as if we haven't seen such behavior before, in the US and other countries.
The problem is that he ran into a careerist prosecutor. To be a former prosecutor with a record of being touch on cybercrime, especially anything related to "information activists" (think Julian Assange), is a big red loyalty star in the party book, and this prosecutor was (is) running for office. Aaron's earlier stunt with the legal database PACER was also completely legal, yet pissed off many in the US legal establishment.
Not all lawyers are created equal. O.J. Simpson could afford a team of star lawyers, one would have to be pretty naïve to think it didn't matter. One would have to be similarly naïve to think it didn't matter that Aaron was a prize target for a powerful Democratic party apparatchik.
Unfortunately for Aaron, he wasn't as rich as O.J. (It's well known he'd given away a lot of the money he made on the reddit sale to charity). He really wasn't prepared to fight on the terms of this corrupt system. Something the prosecutor exploited grossly in the plea bargain, of course - a great example of how plea bargains corrupt justice.
If he hadn't been a high-profile target of a high-ambition prosecutor eager to score political points, charges would have been dropped the moment JSTOR asked for it.
The whole point of this exercise, from Google's point of view, was to intimidate the monopolies into providing real connectivity. They don't want to be in the ISP business, but they also aren't going to sit idly by when those monopolies choke progress with high prices and poor bandwidth.
Reminder: Addiction treatment is no substitute for a policy to prevent addiction in the first place. Addiction treatment is extremely expensive, and of limited use. It rarely works and recidivism rates are high. It is essentially emergency medicine. This goes whether the addiction is to a substance or an activity.
Taxation is also just prohibition light. Any negative consequence from outlawing an activity/substance, you also get with taxation, although probably at a somewhat lower level (see also: garlic smuggling in Europe). People who believe "prohibition never works!" (which, by the way, is a silly thing to believe) cannot honestly promote taxation as an alternative.
Which one was that, Mike? I see many, but not one that has consistently ruled the world. Right now the "inflation must be avoided at any costs" school has a lot of influence, and is responsible for a lot of the damage it seems.
You don't belong to that school, you're further out in the "inflation must be avoided at any costs, deflation isn't a problem" camp, which I didn't even know existed. But sure, go ahead and think you prove anything with your microcurrency.
The US dollar is backed by trust in the US government. Trust that they will accept tax payments in it, trust that they won't just suddenly print a lot of it for no reason, trust that they will honor their debts in it, etc.
If it was backed by gold, what would gold be backed by? Gold is just adding another turtle to the system (turtles all the way down, you know)... sooner or later it's backed by some sort of trust (or, if we keep the metaphor, just hanging there in space).
You could try asking some nonsense, like "Well, can you set up a reverse BIND lookup array on it?" Just to separate those who padded their resume with something they worked on ages ago, from those who're just making it up out of whole cloth.
there's the whole religious crusade some people have against closed source, particularly with regards to drivers.
There's also the obsession NVidia has to keep their drivers closed at any price. It's really unreasonable: They aren't selling them, they have the rights to it, and they won't give away any trade secrets by doing it (the latter two having been established pretty convincingly through a loong history of internet arguments). In addition, the kernel folks, who aren't Free Software fanatics by any means, are understandably annoyed at the risks and burdens that binary blob places on them.
Hopefully, with at least one NVidia-based Linux console coming out and Steam getting in, they'll reconsider that old, bad decision.
If you need to calibrate a thermometer you just made (and don't have a known good thermometer to do it against) freezing and boiling water is a lot easier than messing around with liquid nitrogen.
This is also a decentralized solution. Someone far from France, where they came up with this stuff, can do an experiment and get the same results, to an (at the time) acceptable degree of precision. The kilogram was likewise initially defined in terms of an experiment with water - but there they pretty quickly decided that wasn't accurate enough, and stored a "standard kilogram" in a vault for many years.
There's plenty of interest in both computer go and computer chess. Even generalized game playing is having a bit of a revival (since the discovery of Monte Carlo techniques, which made a lot more games accessible to AI).
That's just Christian Freeling's opinion. Some of the games designed by Ludi (Cameron Browne's game designing program) became quite popular as new abstract games go.
The real challenge, both when considering human-made and AI-made games, is filtering out the bad ideas, not coming up with new ones. Unfortunately many abstract game designer leave that part mostly to players.
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A good security researcher would hopefully just paste in the link with one of the unique IDs that it came with in the honeypots/reports. Not exactly an insurmountable obstacle, this.
No, that's a myth. Check out theory's dominionstrategy blog. He once analyzed a degenerate version of Dominion with just cash and VP, and showed that a strategy that pays attention to the opponent beats the "optimal" solo strategy some 80% of the time.
From a theme gamer perspective, maybe you can say you don't feel like you are interacting. If you play at a low level (say 10 on isotropic) maybe it's even true that you are playing "solo". But at the level we talk about here, the level of e.g. basic tournament magic players, it should be easy to appreciate the interaction of Dominion.
I'm a big fan of Dominion, and I never figured out why the Magic players messed around with mulligans etc. instead of a simple "draw n + m, discard m" mechanic. Or even a "draw n + m, put m back on deck in any order".
But still, on a high level I think you're slightly more likely to be screwed by early bad luck in a Dominion game than in a Magic game. You have to play multiple rounds to really decide who's best with both games.
With Magic as it used to be, that was more or less true. Today, competitions are usually held with this years' series, sets released the same year only. And/or they are drafting games of various sorts, where players build their decks as the first phase of the game.
Even in the less restricted events, more likely to be for fun than for prizes, they are careful to disallow the most overpowered cards. That inevitably means older cards (learning from their best players, WotC have gained a better understanding of strategies and balance in the game).
Come on. I haven''t play Magic since 1997, but I know this. You should, too.
This is just about dialog options to NPCs, right?
Or is SW:TOR like one of those children's MMOs where you can only choose from a preset number of dialog options when engaging other players?
It was surprisingly hard to ascertain from the wikipedia page.
In the current political climate, that isn't going to happen. They couldn't explain it coherently either. In a politicized judicial system, you do what you think the political authorities will approve of as a matter of course, to advance your career. It's not the first time for Carmen Ortiz, and she's already being suggested as a candidate for the senate or a governorship.
Fine, we won't hold the prosecutor responsible for killing Aaron. However, she did want to lock him up in a violent prison for some 30 years for taking something the offended party (JSTOR) had decided not to care about.That's really not much better.
And for what? Unless she supplies something that can explain the extreme overreaction better, I will assume it was to curry favor in the US political system, in particular the Democratic party. It's not as if we haven't seen such behavior before, in the US and other countries.
The problem is that he ran into a careerist prosecutor. To be a former prosecutor with a record of being touch on cybercrime, especially anything related to "information activists" (think Julian Assange), is a big red loyalty star in the party book, and this prosecutor was (is) running for office. Aaron's earlier stunt with the legal database PACER was also completely legal, yet pissed off many in the US legal establishment.
Not all lawyers are created equal. O.J. Simpson could afford a team of star lawyers, one would have to be pretty naïve to think it didn't matter. One would have to be similarly naïve to think it didn't matter that Aaron was a prize target for a powerful Democratic party apparatchik.
Unfortunately for Aaron, he wasn't as rich as O.J. (It's well known he'd given away a lot of the money he made on the reddit sale to charity). He really wasn't prepared to fight on the terms of this corrupt system. Something the prosecutor exploited grossly in the plea bargain, of course - a great example of how plea bargains corrupt justice.
If he hadn't been a high-profile target of a high-ambition prosecutor eager to score political points, charges would have been dropped the moment JSTOR asked for it.
The whole point of this exercise, from Google's point of view, was to intimidate the monopolies into providing real connectivity. They don't want to be in the ISP business, but they also aren't going to sit idly by when those monopolies choke progress with high prices and poor bandwidth.
Reminder: Addiction treatment is no substitute for a policy to prevent addiction in the first place. Addiction treatment is extremely expensive, and of limited use. It rarely works and recidivism rates are high. It is essentially emergency medicine. This goes whether the addiction is to a substance or an activity.
Taxation is also just prohibition light. Any negative consequence from outlawing an activity/substance, you also get with taxation, although probably at a somewhat lower level (see also: garlic smuggling in Europe). People who believe "prohibition never works!" (which, by the way, is a silly thing to believe) cannot honestly promote taxation as an alternative.
Which one was that, Mike? I see many, but not one that has consistently ruled the world. Right now the "inflation must be avoided at any costs" school has a lot of influence, and is responsible for a lot of the damage it seems.
You don't belong to that school, you're further out in the "inflation must be avoided at any costs, deflation isn't a problem" camp, which I didn't even know existed. But sure, go ahead and think you prove anything with your microcurrency.
The US dollar is backed by trust in the US government. Trust that they will accept tax payments in it, trust that they won't just suddenly print a lot of it for no reason, trust that they will honor their debts in it, etc.
If it was backed by gold, what would gold be backed by? Gold is just adding another turtle to the system (turtles all the way down, you know)... sooner or later it's backed by some sort of trust (or, if we keep the metaphor, just hanging there in space).
You could try asking some nonsense, like "Well, can you set up a reverse BIND lookup array on it?" Just to separate those who padded their resume with something they worked on ages ago, from those who're just making it up out of whole cloth.
There's supposed to be a programmer on the hiring side of the table too. They should know that you have to be precise.
I believe you, since you write Javascript as Java script.
This does seem like it could work if you live in Kansas city, though.
The key point is "to an acceptable degree of accuracy at the time".
There's also the obsession NVidia has to keep their drivers closed at any price. It's really unreasonable: They aren't selling them, they have the rights to it, and they won't give away any trade secrets by doing it (the latter two having been established pretty convincingly through a loong history of internet arguments). In addition, the kernel folks, who aren't Free Software fanatics by any means, are understandably annoyed at the risks and burdens that binary blob places on them.
Hopefully, with at least one NVidia-based Linux console coming out and Steam getting in, they'll reconsider that old, bad decision.
The whole point of metric is that your mileage does not vary.
If you need to calibrate a thermometer you just made (and don't have a known good thermometer to do it against) freezing and boiling water is a lot easier than messing around with liquid nitrogen.
This is also a decentralized solution. Someone far from France, where they came up with this stuff, can do an experiment and get the same results, to an (at the time) acceptable degree of precision. The kilogram was likewise initially defined in terms of an experiment with water - but there they pretty quickly decided that wasn't accurate enough, and stored a "standard kilogram" in a vault for many years.
I suppose we are all procedurally generated, so that shouldn't be a problem.
There's plenty of interest in both computer go and computer chess. Even generalized game playing is having a bit of a revival (since the discovery of Monte Carlo techniques, which made a lot more games accessible to AI).
That's just Christian Freeling's opinion. Some of the games designed by Ludi (Cameron Browne's game designing program) became quite popular as new abstract games go.
The real challenge, both when considering human-made and AI-made games, is filtering out the bad ideas, not coming up with new ones. Unfortunately many abstract game designer leave that part mostly to players.
Or "other people non-survival" weapon.
Only 8% of Americans live in cities larger than 1 million inhabitants. Larger parts of your nation live in smaller cities than you might expect.