The problem is that you are saying there is a line that gets crossed by the "public figure" making them fair game. Where is the lane? It's a fair question. Who isn't a public figure? If you smiled for a picture you're "modeling" and if that picture ends-up on Facebook are you fair game?
EVERYONE is a public figure.
Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, is a public figure.
Late retired Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Rober J. Quinn was a public figure.
My father was Quinn's right hand man... Is HE a public figure?
My father also helped organize the Chicago Firefighter strike of '78... we had hundreds of firemen in our house on any given night; does THAT make him a public figure?
What about the other firemen that were at my house? They're public servents, doesn't that make them public figures?
I was in a few plays and musicals in college, does that make ME a public figure? (or gay? no, definitely not gay!)
What about anyone who posts in a public forum? Are THEY public figures?
Are you catching my drift?
If it's not going to be a part of the OS itself, make it a part of the browser. Firefox could "reclaim the heart of the people" by adding this as a part of browser security. By default, the browser should encrypt all personal data, such as passwords and even file/URL history. Add a small option as a menu item in Tools/Privacy/Encryption/Personal History and allow you to create as large a file as you want (password protected of course) and use the browser to save to/browse the file.
This tool should also use a form of "hidden volumes" like truecrypt and it should save in the browser history folder, but give you the option to create it anywhere you want.
If 25%-plus of the population has it installed, it becomes much less suspicious.
Hell, if MS put it in IE 8.1 it would possibly even win-over the geek crowd.
I personally find Engadget to be my third visited site, daily; and I check it at night before bed as well. Their most obvious competitor is Gizmodo, which I'll check maybe twice a week. Both blogs are written with a tongue-in-cheek, sometimes actually funny, style; but Giz is pretty hard on the eyes. Engadget is actually probably the easiest, of my regularly visited sites, to read.
I don't want to miss out on that announcement that the next netbook in the pipeline gets 40hrs battery life on a 8-cell ARM chip with 512MB NV9600 dedicated. =)
That Engadget ends up on/. about twice a day is simply because they have the best coverage and deliver it well.
As a side note... the only time I can bare to watch Jimmy Falon(sp) is when he has on "what's his name" from Engadget...
OK, here's a part of my past I'd rather forget:
I was a waiter at TGIFridays in '97-'98. I had worked there for a year when a new manager came on duty, I'm 5'10", he's 6'4" and the first day I worked with him he "choked" me to the point where I fell on my knees in front of him in a particularly unnerving way. He had a fairly creepy smile on his face while this was happening. This was a "joke" you see? It was supposed to somehow be funny. I was "lovingly" abused as a child (by a Chicago cop, no less), and I didn't appreciate the "joke". I told the General Manager about it, including my own abuse, as if he'd somehow understand. I was told that they'd keep an eye on it and if anything else happened with this manager, that I should let the GM know.
This manager continued to be an idiot, and completely inappropriate; but not in a way that would cost him his job.
A few months later I left TGIF to work at my first DOTcom, a short-lived PeaPod competitor called OnCart(later changed to ShoppersExpress). Within about 8 months they closed their doors for good and it was back to waiting tables... at Fridays(mental images of Chad Lowe giving you the finger are common)...
Within ONE week this old nemesis of mine, the manager "Jeff", came walking-up to me on a Saturday lunch. I was at the POS entering an order when he said "Hey Bobby, let me show you what's been going on since you've been gone" and proceeds to punch me in the nuts. In the middle of the restaurant, in the middle of lunch. (apparently punching each other in the nuts is a joke)
I immediately yelled "What the FUCK?!" and had to go into the bathroom to puke. I went to the doctor and had a fucking lump on my nuts from where he hit me. Considering the history, and his creepy closet issues, this was set to be the first male v male sexual harrasment suit in IL. I never followed through with the suit, but i should have.
I know I've omitted several points, making this less than cohesive; but what happened shouldn't have, and there should have been a court decision to compensate me for my loss (couldn't work there anymore).
I agree 100% and will add a bit more:
If I were to develop a game, it would require logging into a central server to play. Plain and simple it's (currently) the ONLY way to cut down on warez/pirates in today's age. To develop a single-player "style" game, I'd still include online components to make a game that is dynamic and changes each time you play it. Spore did this to a degree that I would take even further. Use entropy pools of data from other online players to change the way the AI reacts in certain scenarios in the game, for example. Perhaps let players play the "boss" against other "single-players" after beating the game in hard mode (against other players playing the bosses, devs initially).
There are definately ways to do it. There are definately ways to hijack other people's accounts too, which is something you'd have to have active measures against; but again, forcing players to login for content is the only current way to combat game piracy.
As a longtime NX user, this will be very well received. I feel like I'm one of a couple dozen NX users, however, meaning that I think this will go largely unnoticed by mainstream users. The non-proprietary NX-server packages are very non-trivial to install and all attempts thus far at a completed server setup have remained inadequate and completely fly-by-night/unmaintained. I hope people start to use this more and thus perhaps even push the technology farther.
Once again I think this is an area where Guild Wars does well. There is a lvl20 cap on all players. The game mechanics become very important, it's all basically rock, paper, scissors. Everything has a counter. It makes for a much "tighter" pvp game if that makes any sense. Basically all you have is what's on your bar, and it's only eight skills max, and in pvp you want one of those skills to be resurrection signet. It becomes a game of how much power you can pack into those by "chaining" them together. There's no changing armor in pvp, no potions or elixers to boost your health; those have to be fit into your skillbar as well.
I think it's a fine balance that takes so much of the grind out of the game, at that point it's all up to how you like to play, and GW gives you tons of options there through different ways to pvp, pve, and in some circumstances pva(all).
I've always had issues with the armor not looking right in wine, I switched from ATI to the 9500 for that reason alone. Now the armor shows correctly, but it's still too slow to be playable.
Obviously, this machine is a few years old and not comparable to more "modern" hardware, but it's what I have.
Plus, I mostly just go to Random Arenas... it's always crowded there:)
Maybe we can finally game in a VM?
Try it. I get about 12fps in Guild Wars on a 3.4G p4 with 2GB ram and a 512MB nvidia 9500.
Yeah 15 frames per second. Guild Wars runs perfect on half this hardware on Windows.
Unfortunately Wine has quite a performance hit on this machine as well, so I'm still stuck with Windows for GW.
Here I was just wondering what kind of a job I'd need to have in order to need one of these:
http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758
$33 for a GPS blocker/jammer seems like it'd be a lot cheaper than paying tolls.
There are 5 replies above my threshold. All of them are ripping this apart as fancy. He's a 15-year old kid who took a lot of interesting technologies and thought of a way to chain them together to achieve a net benefit. What did you guys do? You're assholes.
Rupert Murdoch has apparently been watching the Kindle closely and has been planning on coming-out with his own version to give away to subscribers of his newspapers. Perhaps Bezos really did have the timing right with the Kindle and it just MAY unseat a large portion of the print periodical industry. Should be interesting to watch, no matter how it works itself out.
No, I think he's refering to side games. Think of perhaps games of chance(card games, anything to "gamble") that allow you to make money for a MMORPG or to buy better guns or even earn points towards downloadable maps/content for FPS or RTS, delivered through flash to your phone, and hooked into your game account.
"If you charge an electric car with a battery capacity of 25 kWh during 8 hours, it needs a power output of 3,125 watts (3.1 kilowatts x 8 hours = 25 kWh).
If you charge the same car in just 20 minutes, you need a power output of 75,000 watts (75 kilowatts x 0.33 hours = 25 kWh).
This corresponds to the energy output of 220 plasma televisions of 340 watts each. This amount of energy is required over a shorter period, but it has to be available.
If you lower the recharging time to 10 minutes, the energy output will be 155,000 watts (155 kilowatts x 0.16 hours = 25 kWh). This equates to 450 plasma televisions. "
Now if you extrapolate that further to 10 seconds it becomes something more like 930,000 watts,
just for ONE car! Imagine what kind of peak power output we'll need our THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of power plants to produce when we plug 200,000 cars into the grid at the same time!
Chris Cornell uses this for the end of "I Am The Highway" (i think that's the name). That's what their talking about when referring to using it in unusual, unanticipated ways.
The reason, according to the snopes article, that the Gores SPEND so much on electricity, is in fact, BECAUSE they try to reduce the carbon footprint of the house with GREEN energy. They would most likely be spending half of what they currently do if they weren't so bent on importing GREEN energy from sources that aren't readily available in the area.
Thanks for playing.
You can definately setup (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/) your own to do it. Or you can use a "commercial" site that already has this configured and ready to go. Check web2mail.com or www4mail.org for more details and instructions. It's simple.
I think there are other implications of this new release as well. A lot of people have been trying to get VBox running as a "portable" usb application. Using this new host-based networking may allow using networking on a usb install without needing admin rights on the host machine.
This might be way cool, and I'm going to attempt it right now.
Does anyone have any links regarding vbox 2.1 on a usb stick?
Funny, I read it as George Carlin. Either one works well though, as I ran through it a second time as Cleese. That then brought to mind Micheal Palin, leading me to think of our great Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. To which I ran to the kitchen, grabbed a dirty soup spoon, and gave myself a lobotomy. Gave meself a labotowhat, what was I saying? Oh yes, George Palin, he was funny I think...
A friend of mine has one, I've ridden it. It's a fantastic machine. I think he said he paid $19k for it. He sold his '86 BMW with a side car to get it. Really, Really amazing bike (do we still call it a 'bike'?)!
Fruit of the poisonous tree applies to the police, not a lone hacker, nor corporate entity. Just an FYI.
On a side note, I'm a Constitutionalist, and would be voting for Senator Dr. Paul, if I were given that chance on the Republican ticket. As it is, I'm voting Obama. Although he clearly does not share most of my Constitutional values; I believe he may be the most important political figurehead of my lifetime.
All of that being said, I dont think Palin did anything illegal with her Yahoo account. She's an idiot separatist and deserves just about everything the "gotcha" media can throw at her; but as other posters pointed-out: it would be illegal for her to use state resources to discuss her Lt Gov's campaign and so forth. Somethings you need to do outside your "official" email for legal reasons.
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As a fan of the Chicago Bears, after watching what happened last night, FUCK YOU!
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The problem is that you are saying there is a line that gets crossed by the "public figure" making them fair game. Where is the lane? It's a fair question. Who isn't a public figure? If you smiled for a picture you're "modeling" and if that picture ends-up on Facebook are you fair game? ... we had hundreds of firemen in our house on any given night; does THAT make him a public figure?
EVERYONE is a public figure.
Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, is a public figure.
Late retired Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Rober J. Quinn was a public figure.
My father was Quinn's right hand man... Is HE a public figure?
My father also helped organize the Chicago Firefighter strike of '78
What about the other firemen that were at my house? They're public servents, doesn't that make them public figures?
I was in a few plays and musicals in college, does that make ME a public figure? (or gay? no, definitely not gay!)
What about anyone who posts in a public forum? Are THEY public figures?
Are you catching my drift?
If it's not going to be a part of the OS itself, make it a part of the browser. Firefox could "reclaim the heart of the people" by adding this as a part of browser security. By default, the browser should encrypt all personal data, such as passwords and even file/URL history. Add a small option as a menu item in Tools/Privacy/Encryption/Personal History and allow you to create as large a file as you want (password protected of course) and use the browser to save to/browse the file.
This tool should also use a form of "hidden volumes" like truecrypt and it should save in the browser history folder, but give you the option to create it anywhere you want.
If 25%-plus of the population has it installed, it becomes much less suspicious.
Hell, if MS put it in IE 8.1 it would possibly even win-over the geek crowd.
I personally find Engadget to be my third visited site, daily; and I check it at night before bed as well. Their most obvious competitor is Gizmodo, which I'll check maybe twice a week. Both blogs are written with a tongue-in-cheek, sometimes actually funny, style; but Giz is pretty hard on the eyes. Engadget is actually probably the easiest, of my regularly visited sites, to read. /. about twice a day is simply because they have the best coverage and deliver it well.
I don't want to miss out on that announcement that the next netbook in the pipeline gets 40hrs battery life on a 8-cell ARM chip with 512MB NV9600 dedicated. =)
That Engadget ends up on
As a side note... the only time I can bare to watch Jimmy Falon(sp) is when he has on "what's his name" from Engadget...
OK, here's a part of my past I'd rather forget:
I was a waiter at TGIFridays in '97-'98. I had worked there for a year when a new manager came on duty, I'm 5'10", he's 6'4" and the first day I worked with him he "choked" me to the point where I fell on my knees in front of him in a particularly unnerving way. He had a fairly creepy smile on his face while this was happening. This was a "joke" you see? It was supposed to somehow be funny. I was "lovingly" abused as a child (by a Chicago cop, no less), and I didn't appreciate the "joke". I told the General Manager about it, including my own abuse, as if he'd somehow understand. I was told that they'd keep an eye on it and if anything else happened with this manager, that I should let the GM know.
This manager continued to be an idiot, and completely inappropriate; but not in a way that would cost him his job.
A few months later I left TGIF to work at my first DOTcom, a short-lived PeaPod competitor called OnCart(later changed to ShoppersExpress). Within about 8 months they closed their doors for good and it was back to waiting tables... at Fridays(mental images of Chad Lowe giving you the finger are common)...
Within ONE week this old nemesis of mine, the manager "Jeff", came walking-up to me on a Saturday lunch. I was at the POS entering an order when he said "Hey Bobby, let me show you what's been going on since you've been gone" and proceeds to punch me in the nuts. In the middle of the restaurant, in the middle of lunch. (apparently punching each other in the nuts is a joke)
I immediately yelled "What the FUCK?!" and had to go into the bathroom to puke. I went to the doctor and had a fucking lump on my nuts from where he hit me. Considering the history, and his creepy closet issues, this was set to be the first male v male sexual harrasment suit in IL. I never followed through with the suit, but i should have.
I know I've omitted several points, making this less than cohesive; but what happened shouldn't have, and there should have been a court decision to compensate me for my loss (couldn't work there anymore).
I agree 100% and will add a bit more:
If I were to develop a game, it would require logging into a central server to play. Plain and simple it's (currently) the ONLY way to cut down on warez/pirates in today's age. To develop a single-player "style" game, I'd still include online components to make a game that is dynamic and changes each time you play it. Spore did this to a degree that I would take even further. Use entropy pools of data from other online players to change the way the AI reacts in certain scenarios in the game, for example. Perhaps let players play the "boss" against other "single-players" after beating the game in hard mode (against other players playing the bosses, devs initially).
There are definately ways to do it. There are definately ways to hijack other people's accounts too, which is something you'd have to have active measures against; but again, forcing players to login for content is the only current way to combat game piracy.
As a longtime NX user, this will be very well received. I feel like I'm one of a couple dozen NX users, however, meaning that I think this will go largely unnoticed by mainstream users. The non-proprietary NX-server packages are very non-trivial to install and all attempts thus far at a completed server setup have remained inadequate and completely fly-by-night/unmaintained. I hope people start to use this more and thus perhaps even push the technology farther.
Once again I think this is an area where Guild Wars does well. There is a lvl20 cap on all players. The game mechanics become very important, it's all basically rock, paper, scissors. Everything has a counter. It makes for a much "tighter" pvp game if that makes any sense. Basically all you have is what's on your bar, and it's only eight skills max, and in pvp you want one of those skills to be resurrection signet. It becomes a game of how much power you can pack into those by "chaining" them together. There's no changing armor in pvp, no potions or elixers to boost your health; those have to be fit into your skillbar as well. I think it's a fine balance that takes so much of the grind out of the game, at that point it's all up to how you like to play, and GW gives you tons of options there through different ways to pvp, pve, and in some circumstances pva(all).
I've always had issues with the armor not looking right in wine, I switched from ATI to the 9500 for that reason alone. Now the armor shows correctly, but it's still too slow to be playable. Obviously, this machine is a few years old and not comparable to more "modern" hardware, but it's what I have. Plus, I mostly just go to Random Arenas... it's always crowded there :)
Maybe we can finally game in a VM? Try it. I get about 12fps in Guild Wars on a 3.4G p4 with 2GB ram and a 512MB nvidia 9500. Yeah 15 frames per second. Guild Wars runs perfect on half this hardware on Windows. Unfortunately Wine has quite a performance hit on this machine as well, so I'm still stuck with Windows for GW.
Here I was just wondering what kind of a job I'd need to have in order to need one of these: http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758 $33 for a GPS blocker/jammer seems like it'd be a lot cheaper than paying tolls.
There are 5 replies above my threshold. All of them are ripping this apart as fancy. He's a 15-year old kid who took a lot of interesting technologies and thought of a way to chain them together to achieve a net benefit. What did you guys do? You're assholes.
Rupert Murdoch has apparently been watching the Kindle closely and has been planning on coming-out with his own version to give away to subscribers of his newspapers. Perhaps Bezos really did have the timing right with the Kindle and it just MAY unseat a large portion of the print periodical industry. Should be interesting to watch, no matter how it works itself out.
No, I think he's refering to side games. Think of perhaps games of chance(card games, anything to "gamble") that allow you to make money for a MMORPG or to buy better guns or even earn points towards downloadable maps/content for FPS or RTS, delivered through flash to your phone, and hooked into your game account.
"If you charge an electric car with a battery capacity of 25 kWh during 8 hours, it needs a power output of 3,125 watts (3.1 kilowatts x 8 hours = 25 kWh). If you charge the same car in just 20 minutes, you need a power output of 75,000 watts (75 kilowatts x 0.33 hours = 25 kWh). This corresponds to the energy output of 220 plasma televisions of 340 watts each. This amount of energy is required over a shorter period, but it has to be available. If you lower the recharging time to 10 minutes, the energy output will be 155,000 watts (155 kilowatts x 0.16 hours = 25 kWh). This equates to 450 plasma televisions. "
Now if you extrapolate that further to 10 seconds it becomes something more like 930,000 watts, just for ONE car! Imagine what kind of peak power output we'll need our THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of power plants to produce when we plug 200,000 cars into the grid at the same time!
Yo Dawg, I heard you like spoilers...
Here ya go!
Chris Cornell uses this for the end of "I Am The Highway" (i think that's the name). That's what their talking about when referring to using it in unusual, unanticipated ways.
Seriously, who didn't see this coming at least four years ago? I'm glad it's finally closer to "official" but really, not a surprise in the slightest.
The reason, according to the snopes article, that the Gores SPEND so much on electricity, is in fact, BECAUSE they try to reduce the carbon footprint of the house with GREEN energy. They would most likely be spending half of what they currently do if they weren't so bent on importing GREEN energy from sources that aren't readily available in the area. Thanks for playing.
You can definately setup (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/) your own to do it. Or you can use a "commercial" site that already has this configured and ready to go. Check web2mail.com or www4mail.org for more details and instructions. It's simple.
I think there are other implications of this new release as well. A lot of people have been trying to get VBox running as a "portable" usb application. Using this new host-based networking may allow using networking on a usb install without needing admin rights on the host machine. This might be way cool, and I'm going to attempt it right now.
Does anyone have any links regarding vbox 2.1 on a usb stick?
Funny, I read it as George Carlin. Either one works well though, as I ran through it a second time as Cleese. That then brought to mind Micheal Palin, leading me to think of our great Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. To which I ran to the kitchen, grabbed a dirty soup spoon, and gave myself a lobotomy. Gave meself a labotowhat, what was I saying? Oh yes, George Palin, he was funny I think...
A friend of mine has one, I've ridden it. It's a fantastic machine. I think he said he paid $19k for it. He sold his '86 BMW with a side car to get it. Really, Really amazing bike (do we still call it a 'bike'?)!
Fruit of the poisonous tree applies to the police, not a lone hacker, nor corporate entity. Just an FYI.
On a side note, I'm a Constitutionalist, and would be voting for Senator Dr. Paul, if I were given that chance on the Republican ticket. As it is, I'm voting Obama. Although he clearly does not share most of my Constitutional values; I believe he may be the most important political figurehead of my lifetime.
All of that being said, I dont think Palin did anything illegal with her Yahoo account. She's an idiot separatist and deserves just about everything the "gotcha" media can throw at her; but as other posters pointed-out: it would be illegal for her to use state resources to discuss her Lt Gov's campaign and so forth. Somethings you need to do outside your "official" email for legal reasons.