Especially one who can make up the game as they go along instead of strictly following "the path" one is *supposed* to be following. Many a night we'd never actually get around to the campaign, because we decided to get drunk at the bar and rearrange the trees and shrubberies in town in our drunken 18S stupors.
He wouldn't even let us play some of the campaigns after we did that because he said we'd been banished from the village for our behaviour.:D
And it's a tactic used daily against cannabis patients across the US and Canada. Harass, arrest, charge, detain, restrict under bail, and let you stew for months before they drop the charges after you've spent thousands on a lawyer.
They could have seized his electronics, arrested him, hauled his ass down town, and tossed him in a cell.
Then they can make him wait to see a judge to set bail, throw him back into lockup while he arranges bail, and hold on to his electronics for investigation while he's released with some nice restrictive bail conditions like not being allowed to possess any electronic devices capable of recording video or being within 300 feet of a theatre (including cell phones.)
While he's under restrictions, they can keep his electronics in an evidence locker for a few weeks or a couple of months until someone gets around to checking their contents, at which point they'll relent and drop the charges.
You want to be a glasshole and point a camera at the screen, being a smart ass out to test your "rights"?
Fine. But don't be surprised if law enforcement decides to be an asshole right back.
It is, however, sufficient grounds for an investigation. It is grounds for being harassed. It is even grounds for being arrested, dragged down town, and held until you can get a lawyer, with the case dragged out for months if they want to be assholes.
The most appealing thing about the Wii was the group games. I've never seen a U with more than one controller.
What Nintendo *should* have done is update the graphics engine, boost the memory, improve the accuracy of their motion sensors, and kept a low-ball price with a focus on entertaining the whole family instead of just one player.
By "update the graphics engine" I don't just mean the horsepower, but the use of that engine. Wii baseball was such a pathetic example of graphics on a modern console it was scary. You could have done that game with a Radeon 256 chipset, and had horsepower to spare.
Graphics quality may not be the be-all and end-all of gaming fun, but there is a certain minimum standard below which games don't look cartoonish, but laughable. Baseball was one of them.
When idle and not receiving requests, tools like web servers and databases consume virtually no CPU on a Windows box.
You can even game on a box that's running a PHP server and a database engine or few, provided you have enough RAM to prevent thrashing and swapping.
You don't need to futz around with virtual environments or any of the rest of it. After the installers place their icons on all the accounts, just remove them from the desktops where you don't need those tools. Or ignore the extra icons -- they won't hurt anything just sitting there.
My Windows boxen have been multi-purpose for years, including audio encoding, video editing/transcoding, gaming, and software development. I've never had a problem, provided they had enough RAM.
But certain information is already publicly published, like your address in the online phone books. So why should it be a "big deal" if it gets stolen from some corporate database when the phone company is already publishing it for anyone to scrape? That's the other half of my point: we need to stop worrying about "private" data that is published. Theft of such data should be a non-issue.
Umm. Yeah. We're saying the same thing: I was simply proposing that putting out the public keys as identifiers was the way to do things. "Signing" the private key is the verification.
Eventually we're just going to have to face the fact that there is no data privacy anymore, whether accidental or intentional. Rather than hiding information through obscurity and security, some day I foresee global systems that have the "official" data publicly available, including the public keys used to identify people when they access their information services.
So the onus will be on retailers and others to have the user log in with their private key to identify themselves, rather than presenting a pin card with a weak identifier. Much though I loath to admit it, smart devices are going to take over for smart cards in due time, simply because you'll need to have some sort of carrier and key system for those private keys.
Not that we've ever really had that much privacy in the first place -- anything but a social insurance number/social security number has always been fair game for corporations and organizations to use as an identifier. Here in Saskatchewan, our health card numbers are heavily abused by just about everybody as an identifier, because they're allowed to use that id by law, and because it's an id that everyone has, even underage children.
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A good dungeon master makes all the difference.
Especially one who can make up the game as they go along instead of strictly following "the path" one is *supposed* to be following. Many a night we'd never actually get around to the campaign, because we decided to get drunk at the bar and rearrange the trees and shrubberies in town in our drunken 18S stupors.
He wouldn't even let us play some of the campaigns after we did that because he said we'd been banished from the village for our behaviour. :D
One problem. He's gaming his profile to do it.
That means when he does meet these women, he's not who they expected. Guaranteed waste of time.
As can be seen by him going on dozens and dozens of dates.
If you're going to put on a mask and a false facade, don't be surprised if people decide they don't like the real you: a con artist and a liar.
Software development and management services are their big bread and butter nowadays, not hardware.
Obviously you need to learn COBOL and FORTRAN. Like 'C', they will never go away. :)
Of course the consumer will get screwed. Car companies aren't in it to lose money.
Furthermore, they can hitch a ride on anyone who visits your house. You don't have to be a dumpster-diver to get them.
I've had them. They're a major pain in the ass to get rid of when you can't afford the heat treatments.
But what are you going to do? Seal yourself off and never allow any company over?
Even then, your neighbour in the apartment building can get an infestation, and they do wander the halls.
Did I say it was acceptable? No.
But is it legal? Yes.
And it's a tactic used daily against cannabis patients across the US and Canada. Harass, arrest, charge, detain, restrict under bail, and let you stew for months before they drop the charges after you've spent thousands on a lawyer.
I say again: He got off easy.
He got off easy.
They could have seized his electronics, arrested him, hauled his ass down town, and tossed him in a cell.
Then they can make him wait to see a judge to set bail, throw him back into lockup while he arranges bail, and hold on to his electronics for investigation while he's released with some nice restrictive bail conditions like not being allowed to possess any electronic devices capable of recording video or being within 300 feet of a theatre (including cell phones.)
While he's under restrictions, they can keep his electronics in an evidence locker for a few weeks or a couple of months until someone gets around to checking their contents, at which point they'll relent and drop the charges.
You want to be a glasshole and point a camera at the screen, being a smart ass out to test your "rights"?
Fine. But don't be surprised if law enforcement decides to be an asshole right back.
It is, however, sufficient grounds for an investigation. It is grounds for being harassed. It is even grounds for being arrested, dragged down town, and held until you can get a lawyer, with the case dragged out for months if they want to be assholes.
This.
Anyone who sits in a theatre with a camera pointed at the screen is begging to be harassed.
You're sitting in a theatre with a camera pointed at the screen, glasshole.
This.
The most appealing thing about the Wii was the group games. I've never seen a U with more than one controller.
What Nintendo *should* have done is update the graphics engine, boost the memory, improve the accuracy of their motion sensors, and kept a low-ball price with a focus on entertaining the whole family instead of just one player.
By "update the graphics engine" I don't just mean the horsepower, but the use of that engine. Wii baseball was such a pathetic example of graphics on a modern console it was scary. You could have done that game with a Radeon 256 chipset, and had horsepower to spare.
Graphics quality may not be the be-all and end-all of gaming fun, but there is a certain minimum standard below which games don't look cartoonish, but laughable. Baseball was one of them.
A mass media piece of crap produced by a team of sound engineers, choreographers, and writers that will be forgotten within 5 years.
Second place: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", written by one man and performed by the band alone.
Because no one is eating the Syrians.
But virtually 100% of the people using the phrase "mission critical" are the ones who approve your paycheques and thereby determine your priorities.
You have no idea what share of SaskTel's customers are as rural as this provider's.
There are only a little over 1,000,000 people in the entire province.
The largest cities aren't even 300,000 people -- and there are only two that big.
To be called a "city" here, you only need 5,000 people.
In other words, most of SaskTel's customers would be considered "rural" by US providers.
It's the first price increase in over 5 years.
SaskTel serves all of Saskatchewan with DSL, both rural and urban.
Our prices have gone up due to increased costs, too, as of this month.
It's now $50/month instead of $45/month for an unlimited use 6 megabit download link.
When idle and not receiving requests, tools like web servers and databases consume virtually no CPU on a Windows box.
You can even game on a box that's running a PHP server and a database engine or few, provided you have enough RAM to prevent thrashing and swapping.
You don't need to futz around with virtual environments or any of the rest of it. After the installers place their icons on all the accounts, just remove them from the desktops where you don't need those tools. Or ignore the extra icons -- they won't hurt anything just sitting there.
My Windows boxen have been multi-purpose for years, including audio encoding, video editing/transcoding, gaming, and software development. I've never had a problem, provided they had enough RAM.
One sheep's "blasphemy" is another man's truth.
Government and law should stay the hell out of religious debates.
But certain information is already publicly published, like your address in the online phone books. So why should it be a "big deal" if it gets stolen from some corporate database when the phone company is already publishing it for anyone to scrape? That's the other half of my point: we need to stop worrying about "private" data that is published. Theft of such data should be a non-issue.
Umm. Yeah. We're saying the same thing: I was simply proposing that putting out the public keys as identifiers was the way to do things. "Signing" the private key is the verification.
Eventually we're just going to have to face the fact that there is no data privacy anymore, whether accidental or intentional. Rather than hiding information through obscurity and security, some day I foresee global systems that have the "official" data publicly available, including the public keys used to identify people when they access their information services.
So the onus will be on retailers and others to have the user log in with their private key to identify themselves, rather than presenting a pin card with a weak identifier. Much though I loath to admit it, smart devices are going to take over for smart cards in due time, simply because you'll need to have some sort of carrier and key system for those private keys.
Not that we've ever really had that much privacy in the first place -- anything but a social insurance number/social security number has always been fair game for corporations and organizations to use as an identifier. Here in Saskatchewan, our health card numbers are heavily abused by just about everybody as an identifier, because they're allowed to use that id by law, and because it's an id that everyone has, even underage children.
Actually, my laser printer does have a hot roller that presses/fuses the ink to the paper, so it is, technically, a printing press.
You inkjet slackards are in trouble, though. :P
So if you do charity work it's not professional?