> The so called exploit was in fact an error on ArenaNet's side, > leaving weapons at a low price from some vendors. Players > saw this and started making profits buying and selling the items
In EQ, people on the public test server (which exercises changes coming down the river on an industrial scale) saw the vendor price for some crafting pattern go way up. Well, if the sell price goes up, so does the buy price, even if it is just a ridiculously small fraction.
So off to the live servers they go and load up every backpack and bank slot with stacks of these patterns. Update happens, bam! 5000 plat in the bank. At that early point in the game it was mildly godlike.
I still recall the community letter bleating about [Mort Goldman voice on] how awful, just awful, you players are.
My brother used to work summers fixing lawn mowers for Sears. He was forced to join the Teamsters (fell under delivery, I guess).
The masthead for his monthly Teamsters newsletter looked like the dramatis personae for a mob movie. There were like 15 names, and every single one was Italian with a nickname in quotes in the middle. Crap like "The Knife" aand "Lefty".
If running for union leadership was a class in an MMO, the character creation sheet would have a line for "Enter nickname here. This is your mob handle and will show up in double quotes over your head between your first and last name."
Submitted for your serious consideration: For years I've been harping on this. How many lives will be lost delaying this drug 1 year, much less 3-5?
How many would be lost introducing a bad drug prematurely?
Of course, the former millions a year don't show up in front of the cameras as well as a politician with the latter and some (admittedly) horriffic sob stories.
There are gigatons of snake oil fraud to root out. Still, nobody runs the relative numbers of fraud deaths vs. deaths due to delays proving things work to government agencies.
Yes huge tax breaks attract business. Why does nobody wonder if they shouldn't be that huge to begin with?
Nor do they wonder about the foolish logical conclusion: That high-tax government should rule the entire planet so there is no escape from high taxes and government doesn't have to play that game.
I remember when the mice study came out. "Mice live 50% longer! You might live to 150!" and the guy, bald IIRC, started himself on a lo-cal diet.
Mice lived 3 years instead of 2. Did it greatly extend their lives, or did it just add a year? Now we know.
That researcher must have gotten scared when it turned out underweight people had shorter lives than normal, and normal had shorter lives than overweight (but not obese).
Then there was the other scientist who went on the Twinkie and Cheeseburger diet, but half-calorie, and his BP, blood sugar, blood lipids, and so on all went down to normal.
Food is chemicals is drugs. You wanna take tiny pills to compensate for pills the size of hamburgers and plates of spaghetti.
This. Also write down other software installed and any registration codes to make it all marginally less a pain in the ass. Most will show IDs on the about box or some licensing/registration menu item.
I haven't had to reinstall the OS of my new Win7 comp, a couple of years old, but I switched to Chrome as IE was dead center as a hacker target.
We should've known. The first one didn't come by gmail but did have an auto-inserted corporate disclaimer:
This email should considered the employee's personal opinion and should not be construed as the opinion of McDonald's corporation or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
It's hard to believe this is the same country where someone said this:
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.*We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender*,
I forget the exact stats but you have about a 50-50 chance of dying by accident in 20,000 years, something in that ballpark.
So even careful living and good, automatic systems that can save you from everything this side of a disintegrator ray gun or steam roller probably won't get you beyond a few million years.
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> The so called exploit was in fact an error on ArenaNet's side,
> leaving weapons at a low price from some vendors. Players
> saw this and started making profits buying and selling the items
In EQ, people on the public test server (which exercises changes coming down the river on an industrial scale) saw the vendor price for some crafting pattern go way up. Well, if the sell price goes up, so does the buy price, even if it is just a ridiculously small fraction.
So off to the live servers they go and load up every backpack and bank slot with stacks of these patterns. Update happens, bam! 5000 plat in the bank. At that early point in the game it was mildly godlike.
I still recall the community letter bleating about [Mort Goldman voice on] how awful, just awful, you players are.
My brother used to work summers fixing lawn mowers for Sears. He was forced to join the Teamsters (fell under delivery, I guess).
The masthead for his monthly Teamsters newsletter looked like the dramatis personae for a mob movie. There were like 15 names, and every single one was Italian with a nickname in quotes in the middle. Crap like "The Knife" aand "Lefty".
If running for union leadership was a class in an MMO, the character creation sheet would have a line for "Enter nickname here. This is your mob handle and will show up in double quotes over your head between your first and last name."
Submitted for your serious consideration: For years I've been harping on this. How many lives will be lost delaying this drug 1 year, much less 3-5?
How many would be lost introducing a bad drug prematurely?
Of course, the former millions a year don't show up in front of the cameras as well as a politician with the latter and some (admittedly) horriffic sob stories.
There are gigatons of snake oil fraud to root out. Still, nobody runs the relative numbers of fraud deaths vs. deaths due to delays proving things work to government agencies.
War is objectionable. Apple doesn't want US citizens to watch what the US does in war?
"Variety is the spice of life."
Wait, this is Slashdot. Sorry. Ok, it's a reference to human sexuality and how different chicks are endlessly intriguing.
So it's like being in prison and dropping your soap and being unable to grab the damned thing...just keeps slipping and squirting away...
Wait, that analogy is flawed. You might not notice it if your computer is abused.
> by seeding its connected software services across all platforms
Cloud needs mist.
Yes huge tax breaks attract business. Why does nobody wonder if they shouldn't be that huge to begin with?
Nor do they wonder about the foolish logical conclusion: That high-tax government should rule the entire planet so there is no escape from high taxes and government doesn't have to play that game.
Wee bots to help babies, nice. Can never start potty training too early.
I remember when the mice study came out. "Mice live 50% longer! You might live to 150!" and the guy, bald IIRC, started himself on a lo-cal diet.
Mice lived 3 years instead of 2. Did it greatly extend their lives, or did it just add a year? Now we know.
That researcher must have gotten scared when it turned out underweight people had shorter lives than normal, and normal had shorter lives than overweight (but not obese).
Then there was the other scientist who went on the Twinkie and Cheeseburger diet, but half-calorie, and his BP, blood sugar, blood lipids, and so on all went down to normal.
Food is chemicals is drugs. You wanna take tiny pills to compensate for pills the size of hamburgers and plates of spaghetti.
It's gonna take about 30 minutes for those words to get to Mars to be relayed back to Earth.
"Focus the population's attention on some external group so they don't focus on what a shitty ruler you are."
You young punks need to feel the context of the Cold War and the origin of the "In Soviet Russia" joke from Yakov Smirnoff.
Now git erffa my lern!
> Anybody remember how many floppies Win95 took?
Yes, actually. It was so bad Microsoft actually started selling 80 MB drives with it pre-installed.
Damn straight it is lifesaving. Did you look at the map's color legend?
Less intense is light green at 12 dBZ, up through deep, dark red at a whopping 64+ Dragon Ball Zs.
I don't know where Super Saiyan 5 is, but it looks off the low green end. This thing will FUCK YOU UP. I seen it on TV!
"Michigan State is the national champ party school? Not on my watch!"
>and are less likely to waste time surfing the Web
You obviously haven't heard of the phenomenon of "pair surfing".
This. Also write down other software installed and any registration codes to make it all marginally less a pain in the ass. Most will show IDs on the about box or some licensing/registration menu item.
I haven't had to reinstall the OS of my new Win7 comp, a couple of years old, but I switched to Chrome as IE was dead center as a hacker target.
We should've known. The first one didn't come by gmail but did have an auto-inserted corporate disclaimer:
This email should considered the employee's personal opinion and should not be construed as the opinion of McDonald's corporation or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
It's hard to believe this is the same country where someone said this:
"Odious apparatus..."
Thank you! This is actually hard to find using Google. Type in "hurricane Isaac" and started scrolling down.
Nope...nope...nope..."Robert Reich: George W. Bush As Hurricane Isaac", looked for the -1 troll button but was on the wrong site.
Good. Sign him up. We need somebody on Earth who can scare the shit out of Thanos in the deeper-is-more-badass category.
I forget the exact stats but you have about a 50-50 chance of dying by accident in 20,000 years, something in that ballpark.
So even careful living and good, automatic systems that can save you from everything this side of a disintegrator ray gun or steam roller probably won't get you beyond a few million years.
Wait, wait! I mean give me a strong, healthy body that looks like Taylor Swift that gets a boner easily...
I don't know if I wanna live a million years or even a thousand.
I do know 70 years is way to damned short. I'm 46 and already have health issues and discomfort. Fuck that shit.
Gimme a strong, healthy body that gets a boner easily and come back and ask again in 500 years.
As usual, sexual activity will drive innovation of spelunking robots.