You are the dummy that bases his life around the arbitrary changing of time by another set of dummies, and doesn't have a problem with it. Which is worse?
Am I missing something or isn't Canonical an official company behind Ubuntu? Are they just calling them commercial because they actually charge money for the operating system, or commercial because the guiding company behind it offers commercial support?
At least on my SBC Yahoo account I've been able to do so... you click the button and it creates a fake e-mail address that forwards to your real one and lets you send on behalf of it.. just delete it when you're done.
First, I do not have ANY shaman characters, so I can't attest to whether or not they're overpowered in general. I can say, however, from my point of view (lvl 60 mage), I don't think shaman are INCREDIBLY overpowered. I think the only problem is that they're falling into some of the same melee itemization > caster itemization issue. While they're casters, they're becoming strong melee as well, which gives them a little extra. One on One, there is no harder class to beat than a priest. They're clearly overpowered in 1v1 pvp. They're also overpowered in group pvp, it just isn't obvious at first glance. Do a 10man v 10man and give one side a priest and not the other, see who wins. Druids aren't far behind. While I realize for PvE, it's really cool to see how well a group scales with priests, you need to maintain the balance for pvp. Unfortunately blizzard has let this get to the point that it's so broken it's near impossible to fix. You can't nerf heals, because priests would be useless. You'd have to rebalance the entire game from scratch.
The reason people think your boyfriend is gay has very little to do with the car you drive. On a side note, it would probably be more comfortable if you weren't sitting on his lap while he drives.
This is how they sell their game service, if you don't like it, don't buy it. There are numerous advantages to both the development company and the consumer using this model. Less piracy, less cheaters, more active role of the developer vs producing companies, etc.
I actually noticed this at work today... when i was working on a little scheduler and testing it... if you do anything with unix times on a regular basis you'd have probably seen it coming from a week away!:P
j/k. I'm actually a geek without being a star trek fan, if that's possible, so, sorry, didn't know who you were before the/. post. I did, however, enjoy the story on your site:-) I particularly liked the way you told the story better than the story itself, especially the line about not thinking about hooters girls.
I've long argued for a similar solution for Credit Cards. I want a credit card that is a smart card, has a numeric keypad and a small LCD display. you insert the card into the reader, the reader asks for $X.XX dollars for XYZ, Inc. from the central credit card computing system, which responds to the reader with a unique transaction ID. The Price/Company promptly appears on your screen, you press "YES" or "NO" and key your pin. The unique transaction ID, your secret key (unlcoked from smartcard using pin), $ amount, and billing company ID or name are all MD5'd together ON THE SMARTCARD, and the result is sent to the reader. The reader sends this back to the central credit card computing computers who verify it (they also have your secret key), and voila, you have a transaction that is safe for both sides and fully verified. Seems like the amount of money it would take to roll this out could be recovered in 5 or so years from the amount of credit card fraud it would cut down... but then again, i guess everyone is just doing identity theft and applying for the credit card under someone else's name these days.
Let's not have the whole "is copyright infringement theft" flamewar again, please - just please acknowledge that even among people who do consider copyright infringement to be theft, most people would at least consider the possibility that purchasing one copy of Windows and installing it on two computers is not exactly in the same (im)moral league as bank robbery.
So what you're saying is, listen to me say copyright infringement isn't theft, but PLEASE PLEASE no one else state their side of the issue. I'm not saying I disagree with your or anything, just don't bitch about flamewars if you're the one starting them.
What you, and apparently everyone else is forgetting, is that THE GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH TOOL DOES NOT SAVE THE INFORMATOIN TO YOUR HARDDRIVE. INTERNET EXPLORER AND OTHER APPLICTIONS DO. The problem is not GDS, and not really Internet Explorer either. In fact there really isn't a problem. When you use a public computer, you need to realize just that, it is public. If you wanted to TRY to make it secure, you would need to do a lot more than prevent GDS from being installed. This bad media is just trying to pin all of this on GDS because they were too stupid to figure out how to get to the information prior to GDS. Clueless media, what's new?
Dish networks, to my surprise, does not limit how long you can keep recorded pay-per-view movies, even though they stand to benefit more directly from such a task than TiVo or ReplayTV.
The court ruling was not a blanket protection for anyone writing P2P software. The court ruled that in the case of the P2P clients they were shown, significant legitimate use prevented the creators from being held liable for copyright infringement. Read the fucking ruling before you make comments on it PLEASE.
A new virus is quickly spreading across the internet. Experts say it started at Defcon with a demonstration of a program that allows users to add a secret text to an executable file without altering it's filesize. Apparently the program also attached a message of it's own... don't run programs demonstrated at defcon!
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You are the dummy that bases his life around the arbitrary changing of time by another set of dummies, and doesn't have a problem with it. Which is worse?
Anyone else see the digg-like "slashdot it" box?
Am I missing something or isn't Canonical an official company behind Ubuntu? Are they just calling them commercial because they actually charge money for the operating system, or commercial because the guiding company behind it offers commercial support?
At least on my SBC Yahoo account I've been able to do so... you click the button and it creates a fake e-mail address that forwards to your real one and lets you send on behalf of it.. just delete it when you're done.
so much for that theory :-)
First, I do not have ANY shaman characters, so I can't attest to whether or not they're overpowered in general. I can say, however, from my point of view (lvl 60 mage), I don't think shaman are INCREDIBLY overpowered. I think the only problem is that they're falling into some of the same melee itemization > caster itemization issue. While they're casters, they're becoming strong melee as well, which gives them a little extra. One on One, there is no harder class to beat than a priest. They're clearly overpowered in 1v1 pvp. They're also overpowered in group pvp, it just isn't obvious at first glance. Do a 10man v 10man and give one side a priest and not the other, see who wins. Druids aren't far behind. While I realize for PvE, it's really cool to see how well a group scales with priests, you need to maintain the balance for pvp. Unfortunately blizzard has let this get to the point that it's so broken it's near impossible to fix. You can't nerf heals, because priests would be useless. You'd have to rebalance the entire game from scratch.
The reason people think your boyfriend is gay has very little to do with the car you drive. On a side note, it would probably be more comfortable if you weren't sitting on his lap while he drives.
if wikipedia has officially supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom yet.
This is how they sell their game service, if you don't like it, don't buy it. There are numerous advantages to both the development company and the consumer using this model. Less piracy, less cheaters, more active role of the developer vs producing companies, etc.
Windows is not free, and neither is the support.
I actually noticed this at work today... when i was working on a little scheduler and testing it... if you do anything with unix times on a regular basis you'd have probably seen it coming from a week away! :P
Yes, but what's the probability of that? It's got to be at least 20,103,385,203,288,200,401 to... *BOOM*
This is why SHOULD is defined at the begining of all RFCs :-)
no, they will just prohibit you from running a service like this. Voila, all the phones the company has for accepting incoming calls go bye-bye.
Didn't you used to be an actor?
/. post. I did, however, enjoy the story on your site :-) I particularly liked the way you told the story better than the story itself, especially the line about not thinking about hooters girls.
j/k. I'm actually a geek without being a star trek fan, if that's possible, so, sorry, didn't know who you were before the
all good passwords are changed often, which could be enforced by the smartcard.
I've long argued for a similar solution for Credit Cards. I want a credit card that is a smart card, has a numeric keypad and a small LCD display. you insert the card into the reader, the reader asks for $X.XX dollars for XYZ, Inc. from the central credit card computing system, which responds to the reader with a unique transaction ID. The Price/Company promptly appears on your screen, you press "YES" or "NO" and key your pin. The unique transaction ID, your secret key (unlcoked from smartcard using pin), $ amount, and billing company ID or name are all MD5'd together ON THE SMARTCARD, and the result is sent to the reader. The reader sends this back to the central credit card computing computers who verify it (they also have your secret key), and voila, you have a transaction that is safe for both sides and fully verified. Seems like the amount of money it would take to roll this out could be recovered in 5 or so years from the amount of credit card fraud it would cut down... but then again, i guess everyone is just doing identity theft and applying for the credit card under someone else's name these days.
Photoshop =~ $5.
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Maya =~ $5.
Let's not have the whole "is copyright infringement theft" flamewar again, please - just please acknowledge that even among people who do consider copyright infringement to be theft, most people would at least consider the possibility that purchasing one copy of Windows and installing it on two computers is not exactly in the same (im)moral league as bank robbery.
So what you're saying is, listen to me say copyright infringement isn't theft, but PLEASE PLEASE no one else state their side of the issue.
I'm not saying I disagree with your or anything, just don't bitch about flamewars if you're the one starting them.
What you, and apparently everyone else is forgetting, is that THE GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH TOOL DOES NOT SAVE THE INFORMATOIN TO YOUR HARDDRIVE. INTERNET EXPLORER AND OTHER APPLICTIONS DO. The problem is not GDS, and not really Internet Explorer either. In fact there really isn't a problem. When you use a public computer, you need to realize just that, it is public. If you wanted to TRY to make it secure, you would need to do a lot more than prevent GDS from being installed. This bad media is just trying to pin all of this on GDS because they were too stupid to figure out how to get to the information prior to GDS. Clueless media, what's new?
Dish networks, to my surprise, does not limit how long you can keep recorded pay-per-view movies, even though they stand to benefit more directly from such a task than TiVo or ReplayTV.
I want one.
Absolutely, they were immune from having to filter it because they can't... seeing as it's decentralized.
The court ruling was not a blanket protection for anyone writing P2P software. The court ruled that in the case of the P2P clients they were shown, significant legitimate use prevented the creators from being held liable for copyright infringement. Read the fucking ruling before you make comments on it PLEASE.
A new virus is quickly spreading across the internet. Experts say it started at Defcon with a demonstration of a program that allows users to add a secret text to an executable file without altering it's filesize. Apparently the program also attached a message of it's own... don't run programs demonstrated at defcon!