you mind sending me an address list of all those who sign up for your service? i would really like their address.
No, seriously, send to me. I want their legitimate address(email & home), after all they have mine.
I wonder if the public ever got their hands on that charge-list it could then be turned to every non yahoo & aol ISP's blacklist. Heh.
Does this mean if AOL & Yahoo are charging these spammers to send emails through that they will send with a legitimate return address? Or are they just going with the classic "oh don't bother emailing us back, just visit this website" route?
Some company(anything like the BSA?) is praising cops busting people.
This reminds me of(in Clerks) when Randall kicked out some customer out of the video store and Jay goes "YEAH!@#". Ie he contributed absolutely nothing. Rhetorical!
If there was a choice between a free online game server which is run off of some 19 year old's cable modem for free(which doesn't cut it) compared to a pay server that is fast, relatively closeby and stocked with loads of players, I'll pay.
I remember the overwhelming nightmare it was on Counterstrike waiting for AGES to refresh a server list, and only being able to connect to 2 or 3 of them. You would get every single excuse handed to you to not be able to join/play. Forget that. If I pay, I want to get on, hold the problems.
Was when that disaster known as Winamp TV came out. Porn site operators found out rather quickly you could incorporate pop-up ads when you connect to their streams. A simple preference change stopped this.
It was a blatant Mortal Kombat ripoff. But it is oh so bad it's good. You play a round if it and can easily count the similiarities to it and MK, but it copies it badly.
You bring up an interesting point in your humor. If you are paying for the top tier service and try to connect to a dog-slow website, there are 2 possibilities. 1. Your ISP is getting hammered 2. The website doesn't have enough bandwidth.
If it's #1, I would want my money back. If it was #2, call and bitch to tech support just to see what their excuse would be. After all, I am paying for a premium service here!
if my cable channels go out, they have to fix it. Doesn't work that way with the web.
If the tiered Internet does become a reality, I hope a huge grassroots effort happens.
It would roll the Internet back to 1995, but with oh so much more wisdom. A nice mesh network(or however it's implemented) with NO ad banners or spam.
We would be happy with a seperate underground internet in the sewers while others would be paying a pricey Compu$erve like model in their Silver, Gold & Platinum over-commercialized ad & spam ridden networks*. Think of Demolition Man, but over computer networks.
* If I were to pay for a tiered internet, does that mean spam would disappear? After all, I'm not going to pay for it, nor malware, etc.
Don't forget RSS feeds of air pollution. Actually, residents in Cali could benefit from that. Check your rSS feed in your google home page, air quality bad, buses are free!
I thought it was because, many moons ago, they used to call my home number on an almost weekly basis asking me if I wanted to subscribe. This was before the DNC list. I asked them to remove me, and they said it was some random dialer thing that they couldn't blacklist numbers or something.
1. Excellent concept 2. Excellent database of obscure music artists. Any name I threw at them, there was an entry for it. I even uploaded some album pics 3. Friendly community
and now the bad.
1. The last.fm player is horrible. Horrible usability, and often I just get nothing for music. Can't use it at work. Prior buggy version muted itself unless you gave it exclusive focus. 2. The audioscrobbler plug-in often refuses to handshake. 3. The combination of both is a bit obfuscated. 4. You see just how badly tagged Mp3s across the world are. You often find the wrong tracks, or 20 similarly-named tracks of the same song for an artist. Not last.fm's fault, but it would be nice someday to fuzzy logic them together. 5. A bit bureaucratic in getting artist images uploaded. If it's an unpopular artist, it will never get the # of votes needed to surface.
Turn ALL friends-only and private entries public, so everyone can see them. Thus rendering the "piggybackers*" obsolete, all the knives in each others backs will be totally revealed. Know those negative things you said in private about your boyfriend that he didn't know about? He would know now....and watch armageddon happen with a bunch of moody 19 year olds.:)
I wonder if they were banking having Liberty City Stories being their next cash cow(like GTA3 on up did), but fell way short of expectations.
It's understandable. They latched onto a next-gen portable(PSP) thinking it would sell like hotcakes, but it didn't. Not so much the fault of the game itself, but moreso the PSP itself not doing so well.
If I were them, I would have hired the multi-theft-auto developers full-time and make some sort of MMORPG stat to milk out the last of the GTA franchise. A multi player GTA would be more fun than LCS.
But doesn't applying the patch/hack/whatever to access said "Hot Coffee" in violation of the DCMA?
Or is the DCMA conveniently forgotten since there's huge bucks to go after here?
I still am astounded how much hoopla this one little minigame in a game has received. If this game sold poorly, nobody would care. No ambulance-chasing lawyers would get any millions out of it.
Don't worry, this is Slashdot. Use of of obscure acronyms without any definition to them in stories are 100% common. It is assumed you know linux front to back. I can only imagine it being worse in the Games section.
You are right with KillKreek aka Stevie Case. She, being this great Quake player, broke the gamer gender barrier, then completely screwed it up once the fame(&silicone) got to her. Sad, really.
You have a legal obligation to finish what you started.
And what if I stop my car, assess the situation, and realize the fact if I try to save the hapless person it could put my life and danger and get ME killed?'
Screw all stupid liability laws, that's when I would just dial 911.
Nice that they're finally doing something defining with the console.
Forget that, how about affordable games? You don't need to do something "new", just have a baseline of affordability. Jeesh!
I gladly traded away my PSP for a DS + 2 games. I find myself playing Mario Kart(networked or solo) during boring TV shows for a quick race fix. Now I just need to find some good puzzle games.
...in Tetris. Before you could play, you had to watch this little movie sequence on how the square-shaped Tetris pieces were taking over the land of Tetrisania and were oppressing the T-shaped pieces. Then you ran into the L-shaped pieces and their back story.
It's only going to get worse when the Tetris MMORPG is released. You have to talk to the RED L-shaped piece to go on a quest to defeat the evil 4-blocks-in-a-line monster, but get a magic item from the zig-zag piece first.
If you have mario kart DS, please sign on. I wanna play someone. Each time i try to connect via worldwide, I don't find anyone. I only raced one person once. Twas fun, but was never able to do it again.
Perhaps they figured they could beat the PSP since, well, it's pricey as all hell and there were the constant firmware wars aginst the developers/hackers.
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And then that person can sell/trade off that unused UMD and maybe get a bit of money back.
hey Aol & Yahoo,
you mind sending me an address list of all those who sign up for your service? i would really like their address.
No, seriously, send to me. I want their legitimate address(email & home), after all they have mine.
I wonder if the public ever got their hands on that charge-list it could then be turned to every non yahoo & aol ISP's blacklist. Heh.
Does this mean if AOL & Yahoo are charging these spammers to send emails through that they will send with a legitimate return address? Or are they just going with the classic "oh don't bother emailing us back, just visit this website" route?
Some company(anything like the BSA?) is praising cops busting people.
This reminds me of(in Clerks) when Randall kicked out some customer out of the video store and Jay goes "YEAH!@#". Ie he contributed absolutely nothing. Rhetorical!
If there was a choice between a free online game server which is run off of some 19 year old's cable modem for free(which doesn't cut it) compared to a pay server that is fast, relatively closeby and stocked with loads of players, I'll pay.
I remember the overwhelming nightmare it was on Counterstrike waiting for AGES to refresh a server list, and only being able to connect to 2 or 3 of them. You would get every single excuse handed to you to not be able to join/play. Forget that. If I pay, I want to get on, hold the problems.
Was when that disaster known as Winamp TV came out. Porn site operators found out rather quickly you could incorporate pop-up ads when you connect to their streams. A simple preference change stopped this.
It was a blatant Mortal Kombat ripoff. But it is oh so bad it's good. You play a round if it and can easily count the similiarities to it and MK, but it copies it badly.
I can't even remember the last time I saw a HUD shown in screenshots of any games on high-profile gaming websites.
Of course, the screenshots they show usually are 10 times better than what you actually get when you buy the game.
You bring up an interesting point in your humor.
If you are paying for the top tier service and try to connect to a dog-slow website, there are 2 possibilities.
1. Your ISP is getting hammered
2. The website doesn't have enough bandwidth.
If it's #1, I would want my money back. If it was #2, call and bitch to tech support just to see what their excuse would be. After all, I am paying for a premium service here!
if my cable channels go out, they have to fix it. Doesn't work that way with the web.
If the tiered Internet does become a reality, I hope a huge grassroots effort happens.
It would roll the Internet back to 1995, but with oh so much more wisdom. A nice mesh network(or however it's implemented) with NO ad banners or spam.
We would be happy with a seperate underground internet in the sewers while others would be paying a pricey Compu$erve like model in their Silver, Gold & Platinum over-commercialized ad & spam ridden networks*. Think of Demolition Man, but over computer networks.
* If I were to pay for a tiered internet, does that mean spam would disappear? After all, I'm not going to pay for it, nor malware, etc.
Don't forget RSS feeds of air pollution. Actually, residents in Cali could benefit from that. Check your rSS feed in your google home page, air quality bad, buses are free!
I thought it was because, many moons ago, they used to call my home number on an almost weekly basis asking me if I wanted to subscribe. This was before the DNC list. I asked them to remove me, and they said it was some random dialer thing that they couldn't blacklist numbers or something.
It was for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
So that's 2 strikes.
5. A bit bureaucratic in getting artist images uploaded. If it's an unpopular artist, it will never get the # of votes needed to surface.
haven't tried this yet, but maybe you can suggest better mechanism at their forums ?
I discussed it on the forum, but no consensus. One suggestion was to ask a moderator to final approve it, but that would still be a pain in the butt.
1. Excellent concept
2. Excellent database of obscure music artists. Any name I threw at them, there was an entry for it. I even uploaded some album pics
3. Friendly community
and now the bad.
1. The last.fm player is horrible. Horrible usability, and often I just get nothing for music. Can't use it at work. Prior buggy version muted itself unless you gave it exclusive focus.
2. The audioscrobbler plug-in often refuses to handshake.
3. The combination of both is a bit obfuscated.
4. You see just how badly tagged Mp3s across the world are. You often find the wrong tracks, or 20 similarly-named tracks of the same song for an artist. Not last.fm's fault, but it would be nice someday to fuzzy logic them together.
5. A bit bureaucratic in getting artist images uploaded. If it's an unpopular artist, it will never get the # of votes needed to surface.
Turn ALL friends-only and private entries public, so everyone can see them. Thus rendering the "piggybackers*" obsolete, all the knives in each others backs will be totally revealed. Know those negative things you said in private about your boyfriend that he didn't know about? He would know now. ...and watch armageddon happen with a bunch of moody 19 year olds. :)
....have any effect on it?
I wonder if they were banking having Liberty City Stories being their next cash cow(like GTA3 on up did), but fell way short of expectations.
It's understandable. They latched onto a next-gen portable(PSP) thinking it would sell like hotcakes, but it didn't. Not so much the fault of the game itself, but moreso the PSP itself not doing so well.
If I were them, I would have hired the multi-theft-auto developers full-time and make some sort of MMORPG stat to milk out the last of the GTA franchise. A multi player GTA would be more fun than LCS.
But doesn't applying the patch/hack/whatever to access said "Hot Coffee" in violation of the DCMA?
Or is the DCMA conveniently forgotten since there's huge bucks to go after here?
I still am astounded how much hoopla this one little minigame in a game has received. If this game sold poorly, nobody would care. No ambulance-chasing lawyers would get any millions out of it.
Don't worry, this is Slashdot. Use of of obscure acronyms without any definition to them in stories are 100% common. It is assumed you know linux front to back. I can only imagine it being worse in the Games section.
You are right with KillKreek aka Stevie Case. She, being this great Quake player, broke the gamer gender barrier, then completely screwed it up once the fame(&silicone) got to her. Sad, really.
You have a legal obligation to finish what you started.
And what if I stop my car, assess the situation, and realize the fact if I try to save the hapless person it could put my life and danger and get ME killed?'
Screw all stupid liability laws, that's when I would just dial 911.
Nice that they're finally doing something defining with the console.
Forget that, how about affordable games? You don't need to do something "new", just have a baseline of affordability. Jeesh!
I gladly traded away my PSP for a DS + 2 games. I find myself playing Mario Kart(networked or solo) during boring TV shows for a quick race fix. Now I just need to find some good puzzle games.
Forget SETI@home, just turn off your computer at the end of the day if there's nothing needed to be done on it.
Simple to do!
...in Tetris. Before you could play, you had to watch this little movie sequence on how the square-shaped Tetris pieces were taking over the land of Tetrisania and were oppressing the T-shaped pieces. Then you ran into the L-shaped pieces and their back story.
It's only going to get worse when the Tetris MMORPG is released. You have to talk to the RED L-shaped piece to go on a quest to defeat the evil 4-blocks-in-a-line monster, but get a magic item from the zig-zag piece first.
The shortest in-game movie sequences? pac man.
If you have mario kart DS, please sign on. I wanna play someone. Each time i try to connect via worldwide, I don't find anyone. I only raced one person once. Twas fun, but was never able to do it again.
Perhaps they figured they could beat the PSP since, well, it's pricey as all hell and there were the constant firmware wars aginst the developers/hackers.
There's surely a buttload of content to work off of. All the races from all the tv shows & movies, and the books.
Just think of the fun playing as The Dominion, laying destruction to everything in your path.