Sage advice from Forbes on what to do about those evil bloggers:
BASH BACK. If you get attacked, dig up dirt on your assailant and feed it to sympathetic bloggers. Discredit him.
ATTACK THE HOST. Find some copyrighted text that a blogger has lifted from your Web site and threaten to sue his Internet service provider under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That may prompt the ISP to shut him down. Or threaten to drag the host into a defamation suit against the blogger. The host isn't liable but may skip the hassle and cut off the blogger's access anyway. Also:Subpoena the host company, demanding the blogger's name or Internet address.
SUE THE BLOGGER. If all else fails, you can sue your attacker for defamation, at the risk of getting mocked. You will have to chase him for years to collect damages. Settle for a court order forcing him to take down his material.
This whole article is absurd. We're talking about a sharp decline in the stock of ONE online poker company. I work in the online poker industry as a programmer. PartyPoker wasn't even very big as of three years ago, when Paradise Poker was king. PartyPoker got to where they are today through sheer marketing skill. Their software simply wasn't very good, but it didn't matter since they had an incredible marketing department. And once they had enough players, they could play catch-up in the software department. And lets not even start talking about their outsourced customer support reps from India who didn't know the first thing about poker.
Perhaps PartyPoker has just reached the limit of what their marketing can do. Another online poker site can (and probably will) figure out a way to one-up them. PokerStars in particular has been nipping at their heels for awhile now, with superior software and customer service. Believe me, the poker craze has not peaked yet. Online poker fuels growth in casino cardrooms. And vice versa. Keep in mind that just this past July, the World Series of Poker had 5,661 entries (with a $10,000 buy-in each). A year before there were 2,576 entries. A year before that there were 839 entries. It's an explosion of growth, and more companies than just PartyPoker will be involved in it.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know if iris recognition is defeated by contact lenses? I'm guessing that normal corrective lenses might be OK, but I have difficulty imagining iris recognition working through lenses that modify the color of eyes and other such. Will airport security be demanding that people remove their contact lenses prior to the security screening next?
I don't believe that is the case, as in general the documentation DOES exist already. It's just that you can only get it if you're from an important company (e.g. Microsoft) and sign an NDA for access.
You've already created an account with that CD key. You use the same account you created before your hard drive crashed. Now if Blizzard's hard drives crash, you might have other problems...:-)
This whole post is utterly ridiculous. The whole point of the CD key is to enforce the fact that one retail copy of WoW is sold per online account. Each account needs its own unique CD key. If you can use that code more than once, then nobody needs to buy retail copies anymore since everyone can just pass around the same CD key. I really can't fathom how someone can not understand that.
Believe it or not...:-) I've personally been a reader of alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror for something like 12 years now. During that time the WWW was created, many mailing lists have come and gone, various message boards/Yahoo groups/etc. came and went, but the Usenet group alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror has stuck around like the plague. I actually created my own web-based portal for it to make it easier for new people to join:
Usenet groups stick around because people can access them in so many different ways and because it's a common ground that can be "packaged" by people but will not die whenever those fancy portals happen to go away.
Yes, it's extremely odd that there is no "end game" present as yet at level 20. They should definitely have included an instanced dungeon for the Great Big Fluffy Bunny of DOOM.:-p
That's the whole point of the site, I believe. They're NOT your standard Playboy bunnies with fake perky boobs and blonde hair. They're people that you might actually know, if you lived in the same area.
The solution here seems pretty simple to me, drop the "Theater" from their name like they apparently dropped "3000" even earlier. Their web site is actually MrSinus.com, and it already refers to them primarily as "Mr. Sinus". I see no reason why that name would offend anyone affiliated with MST3K. Note that I am an Austinite, though I have only seen these guys perform once (Xanadu - shown in the parking lot of a skating rink with Michael Beck there in person and free roller skating after the movie).
The mistake we made was in giving negative reviews of the book that only talked about the domain name thing. What really needs to happen would be more one star reviews like the following I just spotted there:
This book royally sucks, August 5, 2004
A Kid's Review It is poorly written, contradictive, boring in all passages, and written by someone with a sick pendant for the perverse. I have seen better pieces of the litterature in the weekly "Garfield"-strip... and comparing this book to said comic, is even a disservice to Jim Davis!
In other words, stay away from this book, it's hardly worth the paper it's printed on.
I haven't used anything other than a Microsoft Natural Keyboard (of one variant or another) for about... mmm... eight years or so. As far as I recall I had issues with maybe one letter being on the "wrong" side of the keyboard as far as my hands were concerned. I just put up with it for awhile, and it seemed perfectly normal within a couple of months.
Last time I was tested, I was at around 105 wpm with 99% accuracy. That's just a byproduct of using computers day in and day out for years though, and not a result of any typing class. I gradually developed my own touch typing system, I guess.
It's simple, get her addicted too. Think of MMORPGs as an infection. My best friend bought me Dark Age of Camelot to play with him, then I bought it for my father for Christmas, then my girlfriend decided to give it a try, then she got a couple of her friends to play it with her, etc. Seriously, I was/am a fairly hardcore Dark Age of Camelot player. My significant other was less than amused by this behavior, right up until the point when she decided to give it a try and got just as addicted to it. The family that plays together stays together, and all that. At times, I've played with my girlfriend, my best friend, and my father online all at the same time.
Don't play, but feeling the effects nonetheless
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I don't play poker myself, but I do work for PokerPages and dear god has the site traffic exploded in the past few days. We've done nothing thus far this week but set up new servers and try to bounce load around among them, as the traffic to find news about the WSOP skyrocketed this week. While the size of the WSOP field itself multiplied by three this year, the number of people trying to follow their favorite players in the WSOP has gone up siginificantly more.
What's interesting this year is how most of the pros are going out relatively early, while online qualifiers are quietly making their way through the field. The star of last year's WSOP was Chris Moneymaker, who won his $10000 entry through a satellite tournament on PokerStars. His story must have tripled the traffic to that site overnight last year. Now every online poker site in existence wants to duplicate that, in some cases by sending 300 some players to the main event.
Actually I used to buy nothing but nVidia GeForce type cards. I scoffed at the very idea of buying an ATI, right until the point when ATI surpassed nVidia and left them in the dust so to speak. Now I buy ATI Radeons and laugh at the very idea of buying an nVidia (especially cards that take two slots, have a giant exhaust fan, requires two power connectors, or want me to upgrade my power supply).
Hmmm, I had actually kind of wondered why Infowars.com was spraypainted onto the cliff face near the 620 bridge in Austin. Not enough to actually check though of course since that'd just be supporting someone using grafitti to promote their damn web site. What a class act.
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Sage advice from Forbes on what to do about those evil bloggers:
BASH BACK. If you get attacked, dig up dirt on your assailant and feed it to sympathetic bloggers. Discredit him.
ATTACK THE HOST. Find some copyrighted text that a blogger has lifted from your Web site and threaten to sue his Internet service provider under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That may prompt the ISP to shut him down. Or threaten to drag the host into a defamation suit against the blogger. The host isn't liable but may skip the hassle and cut off the blogger's access anyway. Also:Subpoena the host company, demanding the blogger's name or Internet address.
SUE THE BLOGGER. If all else fails, you can sue your attacker for defamation, at the risk of getting mocked. You will have to chase him for years to collect damages. Settle for a court order forcing him to take down his material.
This whole article is absurd. We're talking about a sharp decline in the stock of ONE online poker company. I work in the online poker industry as a programmer. PartyPoker wasn't even very big as of three years ago, when Paradise Poker was king. PartyPoker got to where they are today through sheer marketing skill. Their software simply wasn't very good, but it didn't matter since they had an incredible marketing department. And once they had enough players, they could play catch-up in the software department. And lets not even start talking about their outsourced customer support reps from India who didn't know the first thing about poker.
Perhaps PartyPoker has just reached the limit of what their marketing can do. Another online poker site can (and probably will) figure out a way to one-up them. PokerStars in particular has been nipping at their heels for awhile now, with superior software and customer service. Believe me, the poker craze has not peaked yet. Online poker fuels growth in casino cardrooms. And vice versa. Keep in mind that just this past July, the World Series of Poker had 5,661 entries (with a $10,000 buy-in each). A year before there were 2,576 entries. A year before that there were 839 entries. It's an explosion of growth, and more companies than just PartyPoker will be involved in it.
Administering meds? IVs? Enemas? Who you gonna call?
Crapbusters? *ducks and runs*
I actually sat through a Flash animation because I was wondering what the heck they did. And... I still don't know.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know if iris recognition is defeated by contact lenses? I'm guessing that normal corrective lenses might be OK, but I have difficulty imagining iris recognition working through lenses that modify the color of eyes and other such. Will airport security be demanding that people remove their contact lenses prior to the security screening next?
I don't believe that is the case, as in general the documentation DOES exist already. It's just that you can only get it if you're from an important company (e.g. Microsoft) and sign an NDA for access.
Because I just spent ten minutes or so with Groklaw trying to figure out what this Slashdot article meant, and I still have no idea.
You've already created an account with that CD key. You use the same account you created before your hard drive crashed. Now if Blizzard's hard drives crash, you might have other problems... :-)
This whole post is utterly ridiculous. The whole point of the CD key is to enforce the fact that one retail copy of WoW is sold per online account. Each account needs its own unique CD key. If you can use that code more than once, then nobody needs to buy retail copies anymore since everyone can just pass around the same CD key. I really can't fathom how someone can not understand that.
Believe it or not...:-) I've personally been a reader of alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror for something like 12 years now. During that time the WWW was created, many mailing lists have come and gone, various message boards/Yahoo groups/etc. came and went, but the Usenet group alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror has stuck around like the plague. I actually created my own web-based portal for it to make it easier for new people to join:
RockyNewsgroup.org
Most Usenet groups aren't lucky enough to have dedicated web portals for that group, but I do know there are others:
RecPoker.com
Usenet groups stick around because people can access them in so many different ways and because it's a common ground that can be "packaged" by people but will not die whenever those fancy portals happen to go away.
The first sponsored link I saw with the Google search for "geico" was this:
It's Only Me, Dave Pell
I'm taking advantage of a popular
case instead of earning my traffic.
Cute. So cute I felt compelled to click on the ad once just because I knew he'd get billed for it by Google at the end of the month.
The first sponsored link I saw with the Google search for "geico" was this:
It's Only Me, Dave Pell
I'm taking advantage of a popular
case instead of earning my traffic.
Cute. So cute I felt compelled to click on the ad once just because I knew he'd get billed for it by Google at the end of the month.
Yes, it's extremely odd that there is no "end game" present as yet at level 20. They should definitely have included an instanced dungeon for the Great Big Fluffy Bunny of DOOM. :-p
That's the whole point of the site, I believe. They're NOT your standard Playboy bunnies with fake perky boobs and blonde hair. They're people that you might actually know, if you lived in the same area.
The solution here seems pretty simple to me, drop the "Theater" from their name like they apparently dropped "3000" even earlier. Their web site is actually MrSinus.com, and it already refers to them primarily as "Mr. Sinus". I see no reason why that name would offend anyone affiliated with MST3K. Note that I am an Austinite, though I have only seen these guys perform once (Xanadu - shown in the parking lot of a skating rink with Michael Beck there in person and free roller skating after the movie).
Mine? Gah! Thank goodness I don't write like that, I just copy and pasted someone else's...:-)
The mistake we made was in giving negative reviews of the book that only talked about the domain name thing. What really needs to happen would be more one star reviews like the following I just spotted there:
This book royally sucks, August 5, 2004
A Kid's Review
It is poorly written, contradictive, boring in all passages, and written by someone with a sick pendant for the perverse. I have seen better pieces of the litterature in the weekly "Garfield"-strip... and comparing this book to said comic, is even a disservice to Jim Davis!
In other words, stay away from this book, it's hardly worth the paper it's printed on.
Excellent idea. Consider it done.
I haven't used anything other than a Microsoft Natural Keyboard (of one variant or another) for about... mmm... eight years or so. As far as I recall I had issues with maybe one letter being on the "wrong" side of the keyboard as far as my hands were concerned. I just put up with it for awhile, and it seemed perfectly normal within a couple of months.
Last time I was tested, I was at around 105 wpm with 99% accuracy. That's just a byproduct of using computers day in and day out for years though, and not a result of any typing class. I gradually developed my own touch typing system, I guess.
PROJECT: DENNY'S
THE MISSION: To visit every Denny's restaurant in the world (or at least as many as possible), getting lots of free stuff along the way.
THE VEHICLE: Das Büs, the Infamous Love Den of Steel. Tho', as it is currently "on sabbatical", Der Satürn will take its place.
It's simple, get her addicted too. Think of MMORPGs as an infection. My best friend bought me Dark Age of Camelot to play with him, then I bought it for my father for Christmas, then my girlfriend decided to give it a try, then she got a couple of her friends to play it with her, etc. Seriously, I was/am a fairly hardcore Dark Age of Camelot player. My significant other was less than amused by this behavior, right up until the point when she decided to give it a try and got just as addicted to it. The family that plays together stays together, and all that. At times, I've played with my girlfriend, my best friend, and my father online all at the same time.
I don't play poker myself, but I do work for PokerPages and dear god has the site traffic exploded in the past few days. We've done nothing thus far this week but set up new servers and try to bounce load around among them, as the traffic to find news about the WSOP skyrocketed this week. While the size of the WSOP field itself multiplied by three this year, the number of people trying to follow their favorite players in the WSOP has gone up siginificantly more.
What's interesting this year is how most of the pros are going out relatively early, while online qualifiers are quietly making their way through the field. The star of last year's WSOP was Chris Moneymaker, who won his $10000 entry through a satellite tournament on PokerStars. His story must have tripled the traffic to that site overnight last year. Now every online poker site in existence wants to duplicate that, in some cases by sending 300 some players to the main event.
Actually I used to buy nothing but nVidia GeForce type cards. I scoffed at the very idea of buying an ATI, right until the point when ATI surpassed nVidia and left them in the dust so to speak. Now I buy ATI Radeons and laugh at the very idea of buying an nVidia (especially cards that take two slots, have a giant exhaust fan, requires two power connectors, or want me to upgrade my power supply).
Hmmm, I had actually kind of wondered why Infowars.com was spraypainted onto the cliff face near the 620 bridge in Austin. Not enough to actually check though of course since that'd just be supporting someone using grafitti to promote their damn web site. What a class act.