Eve Online works because they have some serious travel time still built in. This is on top of of being deep in 0.0 (i.e. no guards) space that must be traveled in groups or with great care.
Jita, one star system, is often very crowded because it's a hub for the auction house -- you can auction house from anywhere in that region, but the stuff you must pick up from its particular space station. So people conglomerate in Jita.
And, while Eve has a way to issue courier contracts to shlep stuff for you, then you have to wait from hours to days to get it shipped to local. The more cash you wanna hemorrhage, the faster, of course!
Champions Online has "one" server, but they go way out on the instances of common areas. They're typically 50, or 100 for Millenium City, before they're locked out and you must join a different instance. They're still public, just not over-populated.
It would be better to focus on Linux Games for Non-Linux Users. I switched from Mac to PC 15 years ago, stunning my friends, because the PC could do everything the Mac could do that i wanted, i.e. surf, Word, and programming. And the difference? 10x the games.
Games are to PCs what porn is to video. Maybe that would be a better tack to take.
As distasteful as things are, I don't see this as really being a problem, depending on how they define "paid".
People make it seem like they'll have to prove their innocence if they say they like, or hate, some particular product. Not so. At least, it had better not be so.
It's to stop crap like planting people to blog, or invade chat rooms, and so on, who puff up this or that product, either as a paid employee, or as some pseudo-critic getting money.
I wonder if this will affect movie critics, all of whom blog now, but also take the occasional studio-sponsored junket.
"And the Democrats were, themselves, blatantly lying about Health Care." As Abbot and Costello might chime in together at this point, "Third base!"
Hint: It's about the government tracking people. You fight the battle on unsavory things like "Well, my side is doing it, so it's ok," lest it get to places that actually matter. Oh, and in the mentioned case, it does matter.
> "Researchers...hijacked the Mebroot botnet for about a month and used it to study > drive-by downloading...The team, who previously infiltrated the Torpig botnet,
now intends to infiltrate Borg-infested systems by following a Borg cube as it travels Borg territory, under the assumption they'll be ignored indefinitely as a non-threat.
Bingo! People presume to peruse a list of reviews left by customers, not just a hand-picked subset.
Having said that, a simple disclaimer should be sufficient.
Oh, and we should all remember that fraudulent, bad reviews, are also not just possible but common. Legion are the "reviews" of legitimate anti-virus software available on download.com that has "reviews" stating it just installed spyware. Especially trusted things like Ad Aware and so on. Heck, it took me two years to trust Spybot: Search and Destroy because of this.
There are two ways for these SF "headridge of the week" shows to proceed:
1. Your ship goes around from star to star
2. You bring the aliens by you on a choke point.
Most Star Trek is the former, and DSN the latter.
Stargate was a hybrid. Now this is fully #1? What was the "problem" with the Stargate method that needed fixing -- by making it exactly like every other SF show. And, specifically, apparently a clone of Voyager?
It's my understanding Superman can hold a black hole in his hand while simultaneously writing the formula to prove anything on a blackboard with his other hand.
The Hulk, however, could only hold a black hole in his hand.
>> Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality > > welcome our new remote control beetle overlords!
New? Humans have long since mastered controlling other humans with memes -- ideas specialized in creating an internal mental model of reality that drives real-world activity that boosts the spread of the meme.
You didn't think that God actually exists, or that single-payer, socialized medicine, was actually good, right?
I humbly await a downmod driven by the meme defense mechanism inside your brain. By downmodding me, you think you are properly slapping me according to your internal worldview, but you're actually simultaneously attempting to hide criticism of your meme as well as buttress, via defense, your emotional involvement in said meme, which is to say, the internal worldview.
So I humbly await the actual, physical activity to be generated by your body to defend your meme.
> But in its definitions, FOIA makes the mistake of broadly defining 'person' to > include legal entities, like corporations
I thought the entire point of a "corporation" was that it was a quick trick, a hack in our terms, to create a legal entity for business that, magically, was suddenly beholden to all the laws a person was. Hence the name "corp"-oration. The embodyment of an entity.
As such, I wonder why the FOIA law needed to define corporation to begin with, since I thought its definition was basically "a fictional body that binds a company to laws", with the primary benefit being the buck stops here when sued, i.e. limited liability is now old-school as a concept.
Flight, invisibility, sheesh. You'll both long since be rotted away while I'm still having fun.
And the Vatican's "secrets" are just largely already-known writings that show stuff in the Bible as evolving from other sources. Didja know there's a quote floating around from the year 400 AD of some guy whining that these documents must be a clever forge by the Devil just to make it look like the accepted cannon was derivative crap?
> Vernor absolutely has the right to resell his CD, due to a well-known section > of copyright law known as first-sale doctrine [wikipedia.org]. If you legally > possess a copyrighted work, you can resell it, as long as a new copy is not > created. I don't think this case will last very long.
That's only accurate if he bought the CDs. If he only bought a license, and here's a nice box with some CDs with the software on it, that's another issue.
Of course, that's fine print. There's still the "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck" issue.
Well, it walks like a duck -- you buy it in the store.
But if it's a license, you shuold be able to decline the license, uninstall it (if you can get that far), and return it to the store for your money back, even with opened CD cases (depending on where the license acceptance "takes effect", so to speak, i.e. where the sticker that says "by ripping this, you accept the license." And the license would probably have to be accessible outside that sticker.
> The Reg's earlier story says, "Rocky Mountain Bank had asked to court to keep its suit > under seal, hoping to avoid panic among its customers and a 'surge of inquiry'
"Yeah," said the bank's press agent, "No need to make a federal case out of...ahhh...nevermind."
Well, when people noticed that price discrepancies between listed price on the shelves, and actual scanned price, was 90% in favor of the store, that was enough statistical evidence to engender laws making the store pay 10x the error price difference.
In this case, "random" error means inaccuracies, which are nevertheless usually tagged with, "and therefore you should buy the expensive one". Stupidity or not, laws would focus the attention of the stores to clean up their act, malicious or stupid.
Well, being nerds, the Geek Squad didn't have too much success in the usual department for house-visiting "delivery boys", if you know what I mean. So might as well steal stuff, I guess.
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Eve Online works because they have some serious travel time still built in. This is on top of of being deep in 0.0 (i.e. no guards) space that must be traveled in groups or with great care.
Jita, one star system, is often very crowded because it's a hub for the auction house -- you can auction house from anywhere in that region, but the stuff you must pick up from its particular space station. So people conglomerate in Jita.
And, while Eve has a way to issue courier contracts to shlep stuff for you, then you have to wait from hours to days to get it shipped to local. The more cash you wanna hemorrhage, the faster, of course!
Champions Online has "one" server, but they go way out on the instances of common areas. They're typically 50, or 100 for Millenium City, before they're locked out and you must join a different instance. They're still public, just not over-populated.
Speaking of Windows...
> Linux Games For Non-Gamers?
It would be better to focus on Linux Games for Non-Linux Users. I switched from Mac to PC 15 years ago, stunning my friends, because the PC could do everything the Mac could do that i wanted, i.e. surf, Word, and programming. And the difference? 10x the games.
Games are to PCs what porn is to video. Maybe that would be a better tack to take.
Still, what part of "follow the money" is lost on the police investigating things like this? Somebody's getting a check for all these clicks.
I'm glad Doctorow had the spine to stand up to this. I really couldn't stomach another battle of talking heads.
Wassamatter, Microsoft? 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes ain't enough for anybody anymore?
Construction of the cannon ain't helping the situation any!
As mentioned, that wasn't the issue -- it was the sharing of the data itself that was, presumably regardless of how he got it.
As distasteful as things are, I don't see this as really being a problem, depending on how they define "paid".
People make it seem like they'll have to prove their innocence if they say they like, or hate, some particular product. Not so. At least, it had better not be so.
It's to stop crap like planting people to blog, or invade chat rooms, and so on, who puff up this or that product, either as a paid employee, or as some pseudo-critic getting money.
I wonder if this will affect movie critics, all of whom blog now, but also take the occasional studio-sponsored junket.
"And the Democrats were, themselves, blatantly lying about Health Care." As Abbot and Costello might chime in together at this point, "Third base!"
Hint: It's about the government tracking people. You fight the battle on unsavory things like "Well, my side is doing it, so it's ok," lest it get to places that actually matter. Oh, and in the mentioned case, it does matter.
> "Researchers...hijacked the Mebroot botnet for about a month and used it to study
> drive-by downloading...The team, who previously infiltrated the Torpig botnet,
now intends to infiltrate Borg-infested systems by following a Borg cube as it travels Borg territory, under the assumption they'll be ignored indefinitely as a non-threat.
> They are misrepresenting the site
Bingo! People presume to peruse a list of reviews left by customers, not just a hand-picked subset.
Having said that, a simple disclaimer should be sufficient.
Oh, and we should all remember that fraudulent, bad reviews, are also not just possible but common. Legion are the "reviews" of legitimate anti-virus software available on download.com that has "reviews" stating it just installed spyware. Especially trusted things like Ad Aware and so on. Heck, it took me two years to trust Spybot: Search and Destroy because of this.
Or a peach. Why not a peach? Apples aren't very wooly at all! >:-(
There are two ways for these SF "headridge of the week" shows to proceed:
1. Your ship goes around from star to star
2. You bring the aliens by you on a choke point.
Most Star Trek is the former, and DSN the latter.
Stargate was a hybrid. Now this is fully #1? What was the "problem" with the Stargate method that needed fixing -- by making it exactly like every other SF show. And, specifically, apparently a clone of Voyager?
> This will be another nail in the 32bit coffin.
Not quite enough of a nail, if Microsoft is still selling the 32-bit OS event though it forbids machines that require it anymore.
It's my understanding Superman can hold a black hole in his hand while simultaneously writing the formula to prove anything on a blackboard with his other hand.
The Hulk, however, could only hold a black hole in his hand.
>> Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
>
> welcome our new remote control beetle overlords!
New? Humans have long since mastered controlling other humans with memes -- ideas specialized in creating an internal mental model of reality that drives real-world activity that boosts the spread of the meme.
You didn't think that God actually exists, or that single-payer, socialized medicine, was actually good, right?
I humbly await a downmod driven by the meme defense mechanism inside your brain. By downmodding me, you think you are properly slapping me according to your internal worldview, but you're actually simultaneously attempting to hide criticism of your meme as well as buttress, via defense, your emotional involvement in said meme, which is to say, the internal worldview.
So I humbly await the actual, physical activity to be generated by your body to defend your meme.
True, but...
> But in its definitions, FOIA makes the mistake of broadly defining 'person' to
> include legal entities, like corporations
I thought the entire point of a "corporation" was that it was a quick trick, a hack in our terms, to create a legal entity for business that, magically, was suddenly beholden to all the laws a person was. Hence the name "corp"-oration. The embodyment of an entity.
As such, I wonder why the FOIA law needed to define corporation to begin with, since I thought its definition was basically "a fictional body that binds a company to laws", with the primary benefit being the buck stops here when sued, i.e. limited liability is now old-school as a concept.
Both your humorous comment and your .sig are of equal comedic quality!
Flight, invisibility, sheesh. You'll both long since be rotted away while I'm still having fun.
And the Vatican's "secrets" are just largely already-known writings that show stuff in the Bible as evolving from other sources. Didja know there's a quote floating around from the year 400 AD of some guy whining that these documents must be a clever forge by the Devil just to make it look like the accepted cannon was derivative crap?
> Vernor absolutely has the right to resell his CD, due to a well-known section
> of copyright law known as first-sale doctrine [wikipedia.org]. If you legally
> possess a copyrighted work, you can resell it, as long as a new copy is not
> created. I don't think this case will last very long.
That's only accurate if he bought the CDs. If he only bought a license, and here's a nice box with some CDs with the software on it, that's another issue.
Of course, that's fine print. There's still the "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck" issue.
Well, it walks like a duck -- you buy it in the store.
But if it's a license, you shuold be able to decline the license, uninstall it (if you can get that far), and return it to the store for your money back, even with opened CD cases (depending on where the license acceptance "takes effect", so to speak, i.e. where the sticker that says "by ripping this, you accept the license." And the license would probably have to be accessible outside that sticker.
> The Reg's earlier story says, "Rocky Mountain Bank had asked to court to keep its suit
> under seal, hoping to avoid panic among its customers and a 'surge of inquiry'
"Yeah," said the bank's press agent, "No need to make a federal case out of...ahhh...nevermind."
HOLD ON A SEC!
The best salesman gets promoted to Geek Squad? I.e. the guy with the 18 (well, 12) CHA gets put onto the 18 (well, 12) INT team?
Only true Geeks would know why this is wrong! So very, very wrong! >:-(
> Government is basically the same
Thank you! Saved me from having to make a wry, sarcastic response to what, at first glance, seemed like Standard Capitalism Hatred 101.
Well, when people noticed that price discrepancies between listed price on the shelves, and actual scanned price, was 90% in favor of the store, that was enough statistical evidence to engender laws making the store pay 10x the error price difference.
In this case, "random" error means inaccuracies, which are nevertheless usually tagged with, "and therefore you should buy the expensive one". Stupidity or not, laws would focus the attention of the stores to clean up their act, malicious or stupid.
Well, being nerds, the Geek Squad didn't have too much success in the usual department for house-visiting "delivery boys", if you know what I mean. So might as well steal stuff, I guess.