Spammers already have a way around captchas - getting Indians to solve them. I turned the flow of spam off my website for about a month by installing a captcha for registration. Then, I get a few enterprising young businessmen from India solving the captchas and spamming the comments by hand. You can't win.
WD-40 is for metal. Maybe it's just me, but I sort of assumed that Stormtroopers used some sort of futuristic material instead of plain old metal that can get rusty. I think it's more likely that the journalist involved merely thought "armor = rusty" in a supreme leap of mental logic, either that or she's never seen Star Wars and thinks that Stormtroopers are Nazis.
Especially since this isn't even an "Ask Slashdot", it's in the "Linux" category. It's just the editors not reading their own site. "Throw this out there, this should be some red meat for the troops," that sort of thing.
And what's wrong with that? This method is in widely accepted use in academia throughout the world. Many highly accredited people use the method with great success. You can criticize the people, man, but don't criticize the method.
The point of this isn't about the game itself, but rather something that most people know. It's all about brand recognition and sales. Question: do you know how many of the Monopoly sets that are sold are actually played? Answer: who the hell cares? So what if the game mechanics are broken and the winner random. Stunts like this keep the Monopoly name out there, and result in people buying Monopoly sets in stores. They're not too expensive, come in all sorts of customized variants (even for China), and make a craptacular present. If the game sucks, it still doesn't matter because it has fulfilled its function as a gift.
PS you're a dickhead for walking away from a game and saying "play for me". You're supposed to make deals with the other players in Monopoly, that is its only saving grace as a game. I hate game quitters with all my heart.
If the situation were reversed and Sony was bribing a corrupt police force to do their bidding, there would be widespread denounciations. However, since it's the "good" guy bribing the cops to do a raid, then it's A-OK. (Anyone saying that it is the grave responsibility of the Mexican Police to uphold the law as it's written gets tossed out of the nearest window.)
What's with the whole "baby boomers are evil" theme? You seem to have this tirade going on against some sort of enemy. This seems distressing, what with being in a highly kinetic and information-rich world and all.
Because we have no way of knowing if the person has detected the input until there is a neurological response, yes, I'm saying we can't. Please stop playing with big words that you don't understand.
Why does this matter, really? Linux is a server OS, why are they spending any time on useless trivia? Compare the number of working linux boxes used for servers versus desktops, and ask the same question again.
It's something these days, isn't it? How a man can misuse two idioms from horse racing to make a totally different meaning. Not even in the same sentence, but the same clause!
You know, this sort of bigoted elitism is exactly why "creative people" typically find such a frosty reception for their ideas. How dare the great unwashed reject this on scientific grounds!
While I agree that Falun Gong is a total wacky cult (and I have old friends where sadly involved with it), but maybe you should think with a little objectivity calling the media atheist. Calling them collectively atheist is indeed objective. As opposed to what, reporters for the 700 Club? The heartwarming "conversion of the week" series on 60 Minutes?
I mean the one thing that a US presidential candidate must do is prove their love to Jesus. Hey, we were talking about the media - how'd we switch gears to presidential elections all the sudden?
Don't you think if the media were atheist this sort of thing would be questioned a bit more. The one thing that a major political candidate simply can not be is Atheist, polls have pretty much proven that we will get an islamic president before we get an atheist. Yes, that's democracy for you. Still, I don't follow how the presidency has anything to do with the media.
Personally I find the rites of all christianity, and bible stories just as nutty as the Xenu crap. So, your issue is the media isn't atheist enough. Anyway, I remain baffled by the favorable coverage of Falun Gong. It is only the Western media who have this obsession. Other Asian media don't have it, and other countries' English-language media barely mention the F-G. And yet, they're some sort of symbol of freedom and resistance against oppression? I smell projection.
Seriously, wtf is this Western obsession with the Falun Gong? On one hand, you have fundamentalist athiests in charge of Western media who take every opportunity to attack and discredit any religion, much less crazy cults like Scientology or Raëlism. On the other hand, you have those same exact people coming to the defense of Falun Gong! Everyone knows they're nuts, right? To call them the Mormons of China would be too mild, they're more like the Branch Davidians. So, to sum up, we have hardcore athiests getting really offended that an officially atheist government (the best kind!) is cracking down on religion. Strange days, eh?
My own personal explanation for this bizarre behavior is that Westerners actually don't know anything about Falun Gong, and don't care to learn. They are comfortable with the "narrative" that FG=good, China=bad. And as recent events have shown, narratives are more important and cherished than the actual facts on the ground. People get *angry* when their comfortable narratives are revealed to be inaccurate.
This isn't an implementation of RFC1149. *sigh* It even says so in the summary, not even the freaking article. They're just using carrier pigeons as couriers, like they've been used for centuries.
"Since David Waitzman wrote his tongue-in-cheek Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, there have been occasional attempts to actually transmit information via pigeon. Yeah, attempts like the victory at Marathon in 490BC...
People don't buy Apple because they're better computers - the actual computing experience is secondary - nay, tertiary. People are buying a premanufactured personality. That could be you jamming out with the iPhone headphones! That was the genius of Steve Jobs, moving the conversation away from computing and into the nontechnical world of design and fashion. Who cares if the computer works or not! People think I'm cool when I carry one around.
If you don't like a story about a young man who leaves his home planet to fight with a group of rebels against a technically seemingly superior power by tapping into some mythical power, so be it.
Oh, no, I don't dislike it - I've already seen it. Several times. Please, please, please start having some new ideas. I'm utterly sick and tired of the same crap being trotted out year after year. I'd like a movie where I don't know the ending after the first 5 minutes. MMMkay? Thanks!
FTA: "The surprising decision, though, seems to have only increased the bad blood between the two women, who knew each other from Manhattan's fashion scene and reportedly quarreled after Cohen badmouthed Port to her ex-boyfriend."
Seems like there was no actual monetary demand at all. Cohen just wanted to know who called her an 'old hag' and a 'ho' online. Imagine, a person getting so incensed by an anonymous blogger that she sues in court to find out who it is - and wins. If you ask me, Cohen's the one who comes out the worst. It's one thing arguing with idiots on the internet, can there be another level for suing internet people IRL?
I thought that ball lightning had been documented many times: as a source of false UFO sightings.
Inbred Jed: Here's mah photo of tha' UFO! Now you kin pay me tha fifty dollars ya promised on the teevee! Educated professor: No, Jed, that's ball lightning. Jed: Sheeee-oot! Does that mean I don't get tha fitty dollas? Professor: No. Plus, you lose at life. Move to New York City and start a new life if you ever want to be anything but a hick. Jed: Sheee-oot!
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WD-40 is for metal. Maybe it's just me, but I sort of assumed that Stormtroopers used some sort of futuristic material instead of plain old metal that can get rusty. I think it's more likely that the journalist involved merely thought "armor = rusty" in a supreme leap of mental logic, either that or she's never seen Star Wars and thinks that Stormtroopers are Nazis.
Especially since this isn't even an "Ask Slashdot", it's in the "Linux" category. It's just the editors not reading their own site. "Throw this out there, this should be some red meat for the troops," that sort of thing.
And what's wrong with that? This method is in widely accepted use in academia throughout the world. Many highly accredited people use the method with great success. You can criticize the people, man, but don't criticize the method.
PS you're a dickhead for walking away from a game and saying "play for me". You're supposed to make deals with the other players in Monopoly, that is its only saving grace as a game. I hate game quitters with all my heart.
If the situation were reversed and Sony was bribing a corrupt police force to do their bidding, there would be widespread denounciations. However, since it's the "good" guy bribing the cops to do a raid, then it's A-OK. (Anyone saying that it is the grave responsibility of the Mexican Police to uphold the law as it's written gets tossed out of the nearest window.)
Funny, the Ph.D.s at my mom's work constantly send her email hoaxes, chain letters, and worms.
What's with the whole "baby boomers are evil" theme? You seem to have this tirade going on against some sort of enemy. This seems distressing, what with being in a highly kinetic and information-rich world and all.
Because we have no way of knowing if the person has detected the input until there is a neurological response, yes, I'm saying we can't. Please stop playing with big words that you don't understand.
Why does this matter, really? Linux is a server OS, why are they spending any time on useless trivia? Compare the number of working linux boxes used for servers versus desktops, and ask the same question again.
Nethack dreams sure are weird, aren't they?
It's something these days, isn't it? How a man can misuse two idioms from horse racing to make a totally different meaning. Not even in the same sentence, but the same clause!
You know, this sort of bigoted elitism is exactly why "creative people" typically find such a frosty reception for their ideas. How dare the great unwashed reject this on scientific grounds!
Calling them collectively atheist is indeed objective. As opposed to what, reporters for the 700 Club? The heartwarming "conversion of the week" series on 60 Minutes?
I mean the one thing that a US presidential candidate must do is prove their love to Jesus.
Hey, we were talking about the media - how'd we switch gears to presidential elections all the sudden?
Don't you think if the media were atheist this sort of thing would be questioned a bit more. The one thing that a major political candidate simply can not be is Atheist, polls have pretty much proven that we will get an islamic president before we get an atheist.
Yes, that's democracy for you. Still, I don't follow how the presidency has anything to do with the media.
Personally I find the rites of all christianity, and bible stories just as nutty as the Xenu crap.
So, your issue is the media isn't atheist enough. Anyway, I remain baffled by the favorable coverage of Falun Gong. It is only the Western media who have this obsession. Other Asian media don't have it, and other countries' English-language media barely mention the F-G. And yet, they're some sort of symbol of freedom and resistance against oppression? I smell projection.
#1 that is a myth. #2 we're talking about spreading the word to all of Greece, not just Athens. Duhhhh...the Greeks used carrier pigeons...
My own personal explanation for this bizarre behavior is that Westerners actually don't know anything about Falun Gong, and don't care to learn. They are comfortable with the "narrative" that FG=good, China=bad. And as recent events have shown, narratives are more important and cherished than the actual facts on the ground. People get *angry* when their comfortable narratives are revealed to be inaccurate.
"Since David Waitzman wrote his tongue-in-cheek Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, there have been occasional attempts to actually transmit information via pigeon.
Yeah, attempts like the victory at Marathon in 490BC...
This is different from a computer bought at Fry's how, exactly? How do you know it was made in Taiwan? It's just a sticker.
Hmm...having read NASA engineers' writing, I can safely say that education has no correlation with ability to express oneself in the written word.
This type of argument is by no means invariably fallacious.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
People don't buy Apple because they're better computers - the actual computing experience is secondary - nay, tertiary. People are buying a premanufactured personality. That could be you jamming out with the iPhone headphones! That was the genius of Steve Jobs, moving the conversation away from computing and into the nontechnical world of design and fashion. Who cares if the computer works or not! People think I'm cool when I carry one around.
Oh, no, I don't dislike it - I've already seen it. Several times. Please, please, please start having some new ideas. I'm utterly sick and tired of the same crap being trotted out year after year. I'd like a movie where I don't know the ending after the first 5 minutes. MMMkay? Thanks!
Seems like there was no actual monetary demand at all. Cohen just wanted to know who called her an 'old hag' and a 'ho' online. Imagine, a person getting so incensed by an anonymous blogger that she sues in court to find out who it is - and wins. If you ask me, Cohen's the one who comes out the worst. It's one thing arguing with idiots on the internet, can there be another level for suing internet people IRL?
Inbred Jed: Here's mah photo of tha' UFO! Now you kin pay me tha fifty dollars ya promised on the teevee!
Educated professor: No, Jed, that's ball lightning.
Jed: Sheeee-oot! Does that mean I don't get tha fitty dollas?
Professor: No. Plus, you lose at life. Move to New York City and start a new life if you ever want to be anything but a hick.
Jed: Sheee-oot!