Er. And what about the penalty for clicking before the question's been read, eh? I'm sorry but a man with parkinsons clicking randomly couldn't win consistentlu like KEN DOES.
Ok you slimy little piece of Troll-shit, listen up. This is News, because it's on/. Right? News for Nerds, pigfucker. It's news because/. says it is, dumbass. Our little Kenny is going on to bigger things than you will ever know AND WE SHOULD SUPPORT HIM!
if by "[sites] they wanted [banned]" you mean *illegal* sites that have been banned I hope not.
Jesus, dude. That is seriously fucked up. I can only assume you live in a jurisdiction where dissident speech is protected, at least to some extent, and as such have no clue how privileged you are. Otherwise I daresay you would not be speaking out in favor of China blocking such content.
I predict 49% of [the] post[s] will be "china is evil they censor"
Well, perhaps that is because this is an important issue that the average reader feels needs to be discussed? But hey, thanks for throwing up a"seriously uninformed pro-censorship argument.
Since you're posting as "mikeb39" and not an AC, I will assume that you're not some kiddy-pr0n4gr3r. But... Here's the story. In some jurisdictions in the united states you might be held accountable for not keeping logs. It might suck, but that's the way it is. Not keeping any logs whatsoever when you are capable of doing so could be considered a "willful destruction of evidence". That might a felony in and of itself.... But I'm not a lawyer anywhere, so what the fuck do I know, hey?
We invented money because you can't compound interest on chickens
Why not? Say I offer to give you three chicks -- two female, one male. In exchange I ask for x% of the unfertilized eggs of the females and their descendants, y% of chicks which hatch descendant of this brood, and z% of the meat of the slaughtered descendants.
How about this, why don't you Californians put together an initiative for the 2006 ballot making the use of Diebold voting machines in CA elections illegal?...just a thought.
I apologize, sir. I read you quoting "Good idea. Let's throw all those big badass hackers into p[rison]". To which you responded: "what he is saying is total frelling bullcrap".
I guess you missed the "No data was actually collected however" part
Huh. That's the same line Washington Mutual (my bank at the time) tried to give me after the kozmo.com breakin of 2000 -- the one where my credit card got canceled without notice (lucky thing my fiance had her plastic on her the night we found out: we were entertaining for business purposes...)
For the record: I don't _know_ it was kozmo who got hacked on that one. All I _know_ is the phone drones said they didn't know who'd been compromised but one of them let slip it was an online vendor. A review of the statement showed it'd been used online with only one online entity. Draw your own conclusions.
OK. It is now Wednesday, and I am making my once-weekly post on meta-discussion. I would like to take a moment to encourage everyone to also make a once-weekly post on meta-discussion until such time as moderators start doing the Right Thing with regard to metadiscussion.
Please, please, please. Mod all of the "MOD PARENT UP!" posts OFFTOPIC. Please, please, please mod all of the "MOD PARENT DOWN" posts OFFTOPIC.
Please, please, please -- if you feel like the poster had a good argument say something along the lines of "Well said, sir!" -- and then back it up with any additional information you feel the poster may have missed.
Please, please, please -- if you feel the poster was mistaken or had a bad argument, then correct them, or logically attack the argument.
Please, please, please -- if you have modpoints today mod the parent post down. If you have modpoints remaining, mod me down as well.
Last off, in an attempt to set a good example: computerme -- please tell me, sir, ma'am, or other, why is it a bad idea to lock up a criminals stealing credit card information? At 9 years total it seems like the "time:cards stolen" ratio is quite reasonable. Why do you feel differently? Would you feel differently if your card was involved?
did anybody ever try to sue Wizards of the Coast when they came out with new Magic the Gathering cards that might have adversely affected the values of older ones
Yes. If memory serves in the mid 90s WoTC released a card (The shivan hatchling?) only at a convention, breaking the value of all of the previously "complete" sets collectors had amassed. Faced with a threatened class-action lawsuit (I don't know if the class was ever certified) they elected to distribute the card through other channels (shrinkwrap with a magazine for one) and dodged the bullet. This is hazy recollection and I was never really a magic-head, so someone who actually knows should chime in and correct me.:)
the richest player tends to have a huge advantage.
That's why we play a covenant game: we can each spend $25/month on boosters and starters from sets that are in print only. We're only allowed to trade inside the group. Keeps the field level...
Which report is saying that's from spammers hitting back? Last I read on netcraft the outages are due to the backbone providers pulling the plug on it.
Also -- have you got the current IP? 213.115.182.123 not 83.241.136.230
Simple. Economics! Spam is an attractive massmarketing tool simply because it it so SO cheap. If it becomes common for sites selling through spamvertising to be protested in these virtual sit-ins then two things happen:
a) Their bandwidth bills go up from all of these bots reloading them, increasing the cost of using spam a LOT.
b) The people who would want to buy their product are discouraged by long pageloads and sporadic outages, decreasing their revenues.
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Er. And what about the penalty for clicking before the question's been read, eh? I'm sorry but a man with parkinsons clicking randomly couldn't win consistentlu like KEN DOES.
Ok you slimy little piece of Troll-shit, listen up. This is News, because it's on /. Right? News for Nerds, pigfucker. It's news because /. says it is, dumbass. Our little Kenny is going on to bigger things than you will ever know AND WE SHOULD SUPPORT HIM!
Pssst. Dumbass. You're not supposed to respond to FP posts at all, let alone AC FPs: it shows up when the rest of us read at +1.
This has been my weak-weekly comment on meta-comments. Please mod "mod parent [up/down]" comments offtopic.
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Thanks anyways -- and thanks for the heads up!
2 seater? Seattle area? Willing to give me a ride?
Jesus, dude. That is seriously fucked up. I can only assume you live in a jurisdiction where dissident speech is protected, at least to some extent, and as such have no clue how privileged you are. Otherwise I daresay you would not be speaking out in favor of China blocking such content.
I predict 49% of [the] post[s] will be "china is evil they censor"
Well, perhaps that is because this is an important issue that the average reader feels needs to be discussed? But hey, thanks for throwing up a"seriously uninformed pro-censorship argument.
Since you're posting as "mikeb39" and not an AC, I will assume that you're not some kiddy-pr0n4gr3r. But... Here's the story. In some jurisdictions in the united states you might be held accountable for not keeping logs. It might suck, but that's the way it is. Not keeping any logs whatsoever when you are capable of doing so could be considered a "willful destruction of evidence". That might a felony in and of itself.... But I'm not a lawyer anywhere, so what the fuck do I know, hey?
Why not? Say I offer to give you three chicks -- two female, one male. In exchange I ask for x% of the unfertilized eggs of the females and their descendants, y% of chicks which hatch descendant of this brood, and z% of the meat of the slaughtered descendants.
One honest question: What game was SMARIO2 before it was branded as such?
How about this, why don't you Californians put together an initiative for the 2006 ballot making the use of Diebold voting machines in CA elections illegal? ...just a thought.
Pssst. You forgot to subtract parity bits. :)
Come to that when is someone going to implement vi in emacs?
I apologize, sir. I read you quoting "Good idea. Let's throw all those big badass hackers into p[rison]". To which you responded: "what he is saying is total frelling bullcrap".
Huh. That's the same line Washington Mutual (my bank at the time) tried to give me after the kozmo.com breakin of 2000 -- the one where my credit card got canceled without notice (lucky thing my fiance had her plastic on her the night we found out: we were entertaining for business purposes...)
For the record: I don't _know_ it was kozmo who got hacked on that one. All I _know_ is the phone drones said they didn't know who'd been compromised but one of them let slip it was an online vendor. A review of the statement showed it'd been used online with only one online entity. Draw your own conclusions.
Please, please, please. Mod all of the "MOD PARENT UP!" posts OFFTOPIC. Please, please, please mod all of the "MOD PARENT DOWN" posts OFFTOPIC.
Please, please, please -- if you feel like the poster had a good argument say something along the lines of "Well said, sir!" -- and then back it up with any additional information you feel the poster may have missed.
Please, please, please -- if you feel the poster was mistaken or had a bad argument, then correct them, or logically attack the argument.
Please, please, please -- if you have modpoints today mod the parent post down. If you have modpoints remaining, mod me down as well.
Last off, in an attempt to set a good example: computerme -- please tell me, sir, ma'am, or other, why is it a bad idea to lock up a criminals stealing credit card information? At 9 years total it seems like the "time:cards stolen" ratio is quite reasonable. Why do you feel differently? Would you feel differently if your card was involved?
Yes. If memory serves in the mid 90s WoTC released a card (The shivan hatchling?) only at a convention, breaking the value of all of the previously "complete" sets collectors had amassed. Faced with a threatened class-action lawsuit (I don't know if the class was ever certified) they elected to distribute the card through other channels (shrinkwrap with a magazine for one) and dodged the bullet. This is hazy recollection and I was never really a magic-head, so someone who actually knows should chime in and correct me. :)
Tell me though -- why does TankSquared give me a "Run time error 92: For loop not initialized" ?
Sorry dude. You're wrong. I'm just finishing up a contract with Microsoft in the sustained engineering group -- building hotfixes for W03 and xp.
Thanks for the sig!
Even better than Twister: Twister on ECSTASY!
That's why we play a covenant game: we can each spend $25/month on boosters and starters from sets that are in print only. We're only allowed to trade inside the group. Keeps the field level...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_widening
Also -- have you got the current IP? 213.115.182.123 not 83.241.136.230
a) Their bandwidth bills go up from all of these bots reloading them, increasing the cost of using spam a LOT.
b) The people who would want to buy their product are discouraged by long pageloads and sporadic outages, decreasing their revenues.